| Show ir THE FOURTH OE OB ULY JULY W why hy our nation will never fade r from the peoples of tho parth earth more than a century having elapsed since our eatherd set the foundations of the prout grout republic it is ia competent to weigh compassionately and mth out prejudice tho the issuer involved in the declaration Decla rution of independence the impress impression ioa is an ortone erroneous crus one that the document was waa a blow aimed at any particular government or people incidentally the mother country was made to feel the shock of the crash which succeeded its ita adoptions adoption but its real purpose was to proclaim to the world that man is ia and of a right should bo be free it was the distinct utterance heard board in all the world that liberty is the priceless her atoo of humi humanity mity and that men are capable of themselves independent of kings czars azars and em emperors por during many years too many of our people mistook the movement for liberty they thought it to be eternal enmity against groat britain the latter country but followed the rul ruin I 1 e to fast to that which it had to the ringing protest ot of tho the declaration the only possible was that of the sword the light fight was waa long and gallant on both sides but the god of battles was on tho the side eida ot of tho the colonists fists and tho united states became ono one of tho the nations that shall not fado from tho the nations of tho the earth hat but rancor should shoula h b ivo disappeared with the proclamation of peace the contest was wait for it a principle than which no greater over engaged the thought of man and they who were great enough to enunciate and battle tor for it to victory were too noble that they should transmit to their chil children drea and childre childrens child renn alt children a heritage of ef hato hate it is the savage and somi civilized only who aultin eulth ate ato resent resentment moat as tho the gardener cares for the choicest plants of his collection A people that is ia absolutely free can afford to bo be froe from prejudice and should be magnanimous in spirit the genius of america is liberty the unqualified right of each person to freedom of action and to parti participation cpa in government tho the declaration of independence m waa its a bold document in out it enunciated nhat hat until then was waa purely theoretic philosophers ors had reasoned of gon government erni nent by bo be people and poets had sun eung 0 of a lay day of mans deliverance from kings and nil all other oppressors but no people hai had been beca so bold as aa to put into practice the teachings of gnon git on schools or tho the dreams dreama of the poets old como was a republic but in dano da no being ever under tho the domination of that greatest of all tyrants the army just as our sis sister ter republic france fools its iron heel in this day the nations looked on with a smile as the revolutionary contest was waged they regarded the tha issue as aa determined in advance of tho the fight so bo long depend on ont t upon kings they felt that no nation could bo be established without tho the i intervention atel bention of those imbued with the divine right 11 so the kingly nations have sneered ever since insisting in that a government 0 tho the people aliday and by the people is ia an aa impossibility yet m hile monarchies joerod this nation was born and aa they havo have sneered tho the nation has baa waxed strong until now it is secure though the cho combined forces of the world assail it without malice towards other peoples carefully guarding its ita own rights right 3 lut as aa jealously regardful of tho the rights of other nations nation si ours has haa como come to magnificent growth respected and feared chero not loved by aba other nations of tho the world and thus tho cho declaration of july 4 1776 unlike moat pronouncements of man has fulti Pod infinitely moro than its promise W 11 0 |
