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Show The Great Anniversary. Another anniversary of the nation's birth has come; another anniversary of that day when the fathers made a new departure; another anniversary anniver-sary of the day which is the date from which the divine right of priests and kings was ignored, when it was decreed that the people should come Into their own and henceforth there should be no obstructions In the paths of men; that the rights of 'life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" happi-ness" should be guaranteed to the men of this republic; the anniversary of that day on which the message was sent to the earth's poor that henceforth they should stand equal in their original or-iginal "privileges with the highest in the land, that every place and every opportunity should be open I to them and that not one oppressive law should restrict any man from doing any legitimate thing. It is the day of days for the world. It carries with it more hopes to the poor than any other day since the Christian era. The work of the fathers was only one hundred and thirty-two ' years ago, only a brief period in the lives of-na-' i tions, but because of that work performed on that day there has been such a ti'ansformation on 3 rtiis continent as was never seen before. The I settlements were but a little fringe on the shore of the Atlantic; now they cover all the grand j area between the seas. The frontier has been i driven away and the temples to liberty, to justice, jus-tice, to religion, to industry, to education and to ' peace fill all the space. At that t ime there were but three millions of people on the continent; now thirty times three million people hailed the dawn this morning, and their songs blend and' I swell like a mighty diapason through all the 1 space between the oceans, and their songs are all of liberty and of peace. It is a holy day in the calendar of the world, and it becomes our nation ever on this anniversary anniver-sary to gather round our country's altars and renew our allegiance to native land, and, as watchmen on the heights, to see that the principles prin-ciples which the fathers established are being still maintained; that the splendor of the past may continue until, when it finally culminates, s all the world shall be free and there shall bo no divinity save the divinity of heart and brain. |