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Show B WHERE THE NATION WAS BORN. Tramc113 's warrnlv congratulating the legislature and G-ov- H Elmcfier upon the passage of the law making it a criminal of- ' Seci mPosu1K penalties for persons to manufacture and sell ex- H Frank uch as torpedoes, giant crackers and like noise-makers with H Prinrour)g America seeks to celebrate the nation's birthday, saj's fl Pittsburg Gazette-Times. Philadelphia is perhaps not alone in H iiis spirit of commendation, but that city is mentioned for the reason H that the Fourth of July as we celebrate it in this country was born Hj i the Quaker town, and may bo regarded as a sort of heirloom to H; the people who Eve on the banks of tho Schuylkill. The legislature H, and governor have done their duty and the question of a "safer" n Fourth is now up to the officers of the law. fl The disposition to eliminate the wholesale slaughter that attends H our annual jubilation is widespread, and emphatic. (Laws of a dras- H tic character have been passed in other states, and municipal restric- H tion of the use of dangerous explosives has increased from year to HU year. Equipped with this new and definite legislation on the subject H it would seem to be an easy matter to put a stop to the carnage, H Philadelphia authorities deolarc that that city has been a great H Hufferer through the modern style of reckless patriotism that kills H and maims each year hundreds of celebrants. From the days when ' the old Liberty hell with its cracked voice furnished the most exciting excit-ing item of the annual celebration to the prcsont noisy bombardment of dangerous explosives is a far cry, indeed, but Philadelphia evidently evi-dently feels inclined, to rejoice in the prospect of .moving backward to thOsc old days. ' |