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Show THE FOURTH. The Fourth of July will be along in about a couple of weks. Cannot Salt Lake have a celebration? It is a good thing to pay special honors to that day. It is good for grown people to gather before their country's altars and renew their allegiance; it is good for children to have the fact impressed upon them that it is a noly day. It is the anniversary of the day when the fathers in effect said: "Universe attention! atten-tion! Nation 'bout face! What was done on that first famous Fourth of July was more to the world's poor and oppressed, than any other act since the Christian Era. It was an epoch. Politically to the nations, it was almost what a geological period is to the physical world, and no anniversary of it should be permitted to go by without paying it obtentatious attention. At least the children should be called to the different schoolhouses, to sing in chorus one patriotic song and tiny flags should be given them to wave while they sing. It would be good for the whole people to halt in their work for a little while on that day and raise their voices in song. It would begin beside the cliffs of Maine; it would roll in unbroken chorus across the continent and would not cease until lost amid the booming of the surges that smite the western west-ern coast. It is good to stop and rehearse the story of how on that day a new government was formulated o.n a foundation of liberty and justice, providing in itself a shield to protect man's inalineable rights. It is good, too, to rehearse the story of the price paid to establish that government the sacrifices of Bunker Hill, of Saratoga, of Valley Forge, up to the final glory of Yorktown. It will be a reproach to Utah if the day is permitted to pass without some marked recognition. |