Millard County Chronicle | 1911-04-13 | Page 1 | Trees of Liberty.

Trees of Liberty. The last of the Trees of Liberty, teveral of which were planted In Paris lo commemorste the revolution la IMH, Is no more. The little tree, planted with much ceremony, flour-shed flour-shed and became one of the tallest In Paris. Of later years the Tree of Liberty was only a tree of liberty In heory. for It wss reslly prisoner lurrounded by houses, and these year ifter year have Increased In height, naktng the struggle of the tree the tarder. and death hai been the con-1'ieror. con-1'ieror. The roots, however, spread nd became a danger to a house of !fht stories, so In its attempt to rival be bouse In height the tree was van-ulshed van-ulshed and has fallen to the axe of be tree feller.