| Show THE EVER GLORIOUS DAY stripped sti dipped of all the extraneous glorification with which the native american inep sandwith and with spread eagle rhetoric banished to other fields it still remains remaina that the fourth of july is a grand glorious and gladsome day it is ia associated with so eo much of immortality that the very w words worda thus connected seem to bear with them a designated charm it has become to co us toe day ot of all days daye the occasion compared with which other occasions become commonplace and their events those of minor consequence in order to approximately estima e what independence day la Is to us ue we have but to cot isider the legacy which those who made it conspicuous hand ed down and the circumstances under which they acquired it there are now more people on the pacific rope lope than were then on the atlantic me aide of the continent all of it that was inhabited by white men then and they were even more scattered and had not so eo good an understanding one part with another as ag we have here besides there were those who preferred peace at the price of continued tyran tyranny py others whose instincts and traditions caused thorn them to revolt at re bellion ard others still who were professedly fes sedly friendly in order that they might more mor a on effectively e 0 ti v e I 1 y op oppose poo e a any ny scheme looking to autonomy while every city of consequence was garrisoned by british soldiers who acted under orders from british governors it would seem as if the odds man to man were enough to discourage any such hope as that the present authority could be overthrown and a new system of government based upon representation and the peoples people js will take its place butchis but this was only a small part of the discourage ment the colonists were not organized there was no coherency in their plans nor for fora a time in their movements they were poorly armed and of skilled and experienced leaders they had none at all while the government had grand armies and ana abundant means to hire others all of whom were perfectly disciplined with trained and tried generals unlimited resources and greatest of all the prestige which is born ot of possession sion and authority backed by the king himself a more potential factor then than since his name was alone a tower of strength because it stood for complete and previously undisputed sway the odds were something awful to contemplate lot let alone to experience in a life and death struggle such odds as no men in any age of the world unless buoyed up and strengthened by a faith which with a just cause and determined hearts make men invincible would have undertaken to cope with the eight years that followed were filled with deeds of hardihood valor and determination in the midst of dis courage ments and sorrows beyond all precedent the struggle of the swiss against austrian iRn usurpation and tyranny grand as it was and glowingly as aa it stands out upon the pages of his tory was only one epoch corresponding in mami magnitude tude with an unceasing succession of such on this soil from 1776 to 1784 Is sell ing devotion was paralleled many times by revolutionary patriots and the gallant struggle of leonidas lie onidas with his bis little band of spartans spartano Spar tans against the persian hordes at the pass of thermo lylse while conceding it to be il 11 anat history has made it had in point of valor loyalty to a cause and disregard of personal danger nothing to place it ahead if even abreast of the mad dash of waynea rugged ragged heroes amid the storm of iron and lead and flame belched forth from stony point up the precipitous heights beights and against the solid ramparts nothing to place it head of a hundred such bloody exploits iu in which the fighters for freedom were the heroes the boon was secure secured ds the tyrants minions were banished from our aref sham the only I 1 erect system of gov eminent ever devised by mail was con stunted in lieu of the feudal UiO equal and oppressive method which exacted our first allegiance the god truth contained io in the declaration that resistance reBin tance to tyranny la Is obedience to god had bad found such an exemplification that the world believed ad by degrees applied it until now a s civilized and enlightened monarchy des not exist except in name representation sen tation equality before the law jaw exclusive power taken from the head bead nation and the people participate ing IDA in all public measures this to 18 what toe the patriots Patr lote did for the WORLD tot but jat they did for us who in all things wd laa the world cannot be measured in IB maims and aad statements cannot be ruca drtad in the poor language ot man at most can but express things of 09 ordinary moment the hardi hard 1 an and d heroism which brought tad te revolutionists together at a tildo when their ovary move cant was watched and themselves are were placed under surveillance and subjected to countless an and outrages outrage og and hold held them till the declaration of independence st at once a bill of indictment and a decree of divorce was signed stands among the records of all which cannot be times as a quality swed staled by repetition nor diminished by age in no part of the republic are the day and the events connected with anti and iriA radiating lating from it more venerated then here in utah in the he first dreary march across acosa forbidding and sterile wastes baates by wild men and wild beasts with hostility to contend with at every footsteps footstep the very elements chanting discouraging discords and with little to eat or wear the pioneers forget not even then to make some observance of the nations birth dav and after the valleys were settled it was was never permitted to come ana depart without such recognition as the people were able to give of late yesra yearn there has been leas lea of demon filtration but not less of cherished remembrance mem brance and upon no day are our citizens expected to be more thoughtful of the source from whence came the liberties which they enjoy it is at once a day of praise of jubilation the glories of the day become more glorious as the children of the people released from involuntary allegiance to foreign despotism become moru more numerous and the institutions which they uphold become more widely respected and take firmer root be bause or of the observance the fo irth of july is a day on which we should not be democrat a s lists or other designations implying political division but just simply american citizens I 1 |
