Show 1 A fourth fourth of july speech e 1 one of the youthful readers of the aam ime can sends to the editor of that p paper the following evidently juvenile effort at making an independence oration ile he co commences creditor Mr Editor would like very much to make a fourth of july speech if I 1 could only get fet an audience cant you set me on the editorial stump and let me roe have a talk with my 4 ti cousins yes john step up here take your stand on this three legged stool hold up your head bead face your audience of a hundred thousand girls and boys and out with your speech hear him Il hurrah lurrah for liberty li bertyl three cheers for independence pen dence columbia forever 11 I 1 have a small voice but it is full of my ray heart and it shall come to you like an electric spark falling L on powder who is so dead that his pulse does not beat quicker on this birthday anniversary of the nation if there be one find him out fill his pockets with powder and his hat with gas tie him to a bundle of rockets touch him off and send him up to get a new view and an exalted idea of the glorious land he is now unworthy to inhabit but I 1 leave him to his fate and return to you who do exult as americans should when the seed breaks from its prison in the early year the spring rejoices and men are happy at heart but the if fullness till ness of joy comes when the harvest waves over the field the world rejoiced when in 1776 our forefathers declared their independence it was the young growth of liberty today to day we are reaping the fruits of that spring time and our r joy over flows from swelling hearts this country then was like a farm with here and there a field planted there were scattered villages full of lif life ilfe a and promise but few in number and far between what a crop has bag been raised from that small beginning they had strong roots these noble men that fastened to the soil they were god fearing liberty lovin iovin loving g men pien and from those roots save baye have sprung the blossoms and the fruit of the intelligence the prosperity and happiness of our day they had llad to fight bardhut hard bard bub but they were brave because they were good and what they won we enjoys enjoy I 1 hope the day of fighting with powder an and ball bali b a t has passed in this country at least and that we may always use our ammunition amna amra in hi fire crackers and rockets and big guns as ive vve we do today to day without hurting any body but I 1 tell you my young friends the worlds great battles batties are not over yet weve worse enemies to overcome than our forefathers met on bunker hill ifill saratoga and yorktown ignorance selfishness and vice are working at the foundations of our prosperity like rats gnawing 9 1 off the beams of the building 0 that shelters them every one of us that grows grow s up uneducated or a wrongdoer wrong doer or selfish or mean is cherishing an ebern enemy ay iy of his country ob oalif L if I 1 could today bring out the biggest gun ever mada load it to the ma muzzle muzzie azle with knowledge and aad goodness discharge it into the heads and hearts of those lers of the country is there a boy that give a light or a girl that if necessary give me her new dress for wadding but it cant be done in that way we must meet these enemies book in hand in the school schoolroom room we must shame them out of the land by good examples of truth gen and love we must fig fight our battles hand to hand in our own lives by resisting and overcoming every bad habit and if each will overcome himself then will all have a good time together and ard be able to shout iid ild ildo lio o erty erfy and independence forever i very well done little fellow but ere yoo have grown old enough to become president will probably have learned that the har vest fruits the germs of which were so sown wn by our revolutionary sires have not been gathered yet alid and that since the seedling dg tim the baneful tares of party strife disunion and corruption co have sprung up and nor nov beill being 1 immediately destroyed have put forth their rank and heavy growth until they have well nigh choked the generous plants of that liberty whose benign benin beni benl 0 n influence once diffused a thrill of joy in the hearts of the poor and the op s pressed and caused tyrants to fear and trem be ble on orr their tottering thrones take courage 0 however yoon yonn young b hero the p plants ants of liberty will yet take deeper root anil an d flourish mare more exceedingly t the rank growth of r weeds will soon be eradicated and antl many of the children cf of those god agod fearin fearing liberty loviei loving mento men to together ether eaber mith with ith multitudes of every ev ery land and tongue b who shall come hither to also participate in the if fullness ull uil nehill of the blessings of life liberty and har hap will yet partake of those delicious harreit art ary e at f truus f utts and rejoice |