Salt Lake Telegram | 1904-04-12 | Page 4 | Tradition of the Ancient Liberty Bell

TrzCZz c: tl3 '7l-:!:-V Li: rriy. "rillJ 6t Louis school cLiltLea .3,003 Btror are petitioning pe-titioning the city of TLiUSelLia to perdit the alleged al-leged old Liberty bell to be brought to the World's fair, po that they niay gee the historic brazen instrument instru-ment that u supposed to hare heralded to the world thaTa natic i hid been born on the continent. This'ver erahle relic has been carried about the country at various times for many years and looked upon with I atriotic admiration by thousands of peor pie. The e jmtol is a rery good one, but. historic iconoclasts hare torn the tradition that this identical identi-cal bell was used to proclaim the birth of the greatest great-est nation the world erer knew,' to" pieces. It is merely a crocked old bell that has serred as a show pce fcr Philadelphia. Historic accuracy compels the belief that it was merely one out of many bells that were rung on the day when the patriotic Congress Con-gress declared that ''these States are and of right ought to be free and independent." Some are bold enough to assert that no bells were rung on that occasion, but that the delegates, in fear of their lives, kept their declaration under cover for some time. 1 '( v . 1 Still, there should hare been a bell rung, and if this bell was not, it ought to have been, if it was there at the time. In the absence of real historic data on the subject, it is perhaps as well that we accept it as the real thing. Let it come to St Louis, anyhow. MBSMOMWMHSWBHBjapJSJMMMOaVBaolSJHaMaOBBMSSSHOMM