Show For the Right of Any People to Have Government of Their Own Choosing Independence Day This is the day upon which Americans Americans Ameri Amen cans honor those brave patriots who pledged their lives their fortunes and their sacred honor in the cause of American Ameri Amen can freedom This is the day upon which we remember remember re re- re- re member the great sacrifices Americans have made made again again and again again to to establish establish lish ish the principle that men arc created equal that they have a God-given God right fight to liberty and that governments should derive their powers from the consent of the governed It is the day upon which we remember remember ber that the essence of the American fight against the Great Britain of 1776 was vas a fight for individual and collective freedom against outside intervention and tyranny While Independence day is exclusively f ively an American observance the principles of freedom which it upholds know no national boundaries They are areas areas areas as wide as the extension of the human race in the world The rights our forefathers expounded expounded ex ex- pounded and defended were not just American rights right It was not only Americans Americans Amer Amen who were created equal It was all men The declaration put it exactly exactly ex ex- thus The courageous signers of that declaration would quickly have de- de dared that the rights pertained to Englishmen Eng- Eng Englishmen Englishmen and Frenchmen and Russians as much as to Americans If they had I known that there were such people as Koreans they wo would ld have claimed the same rights for them It is a point which can well be considered considered considered con con- as Americans celebrate this Independence day Through past courageous action we have well the American right to independence ence from outside interference and tyranny tyranny the the right of Americans to have a government which derives its powers from the consent of the gov gov- We Ve are now engaged in an equally courageous action to foster that same right for the people of Southern Korea and of other lands subject subject subject sub sub- to the threat of the imposition of a government not of their own choosing That's what all the shooting is about in Korea the Korea the right of people to choose their own government the government the right of any I people not to have a bunch of Moscow I stooges shoved down their throats by force We Ve Americans fought against that kind of imposition of government by force nearly two centuries ago We Ve are doing exactly the same thing today The stage of action is a bit larger The scene is changed The enemy is different But the cause is the same It is the cause of human inviolability It is the cause of freedom versus slavery And it is every bit as much a cause to which Americans can pledge their lives their fortunes and their sacred honor today rural highways where the bad accidents occur Expanded travel is adding a billion vehicle miles a month to the total of automotive traffic in the nation Constantly Constantly Con Con- increasing traffic m mea means e a n s a steadily increasing accident toll unless we give increased attention to the safety problem It is a project which is of the greatest significance to every state every city and every person who rides or walks on the public roads |