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Show I Is there any nmn on earth or in these blessed United States who can stand up .A.loli$ll mM 8'V0 l0 rort80n for l'10 Ichration of our nation's birth by tho burning of pow- JT Olirtll dr ml Iho accompanying hullabaloo? -j 1 Every blooming patriot thinks ho has tllHy to contribute to the sacred racket. AVhy? I&clcct ono can lo' If ',c lric io-' 10 xvi11 say: "Why, wo'vo always dono it. It's the ' ' proper thing." Blessed old Mothor Prece- By P. EVAN JONES AmiJ , , , 00 wo must be wakened every rcturn- 11 1 " ing Fourth (or fifth or tenth, as the case " may bo) by a lot of inspired idiots who know no better. And they keep at it all day long and "far into the stilly night. Yea, thoy bogin a day or two before to get a good start and keep at it a day or two aftur, so as to "taper oft"' gradually. Do we go into tho celebration of Washington's or Lincoln's birthday by any stioh absurdity? Why don't we? We have ovory whit as much ' reason fo to do, which is none at all. , Wo ought to abolish tho Fourth of July by law I it'sa nuisance. . |