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Show i SPECIAL MESSAGE TO THE STANDARD. . Yesterday The Standard printed the Declarattion of Independence from a matrix sent out by "The League for the Preservation of American Amer-ican Independence." 1 That wonderful document of human rights is dear to the hearts of all Americans, but let us for a moment consider the aims of the league that sent out the declaration. Written into the proclamation of 1 776 is a scathing denunciation of Great Britain and just at present this league is devoted to keeping alive an enmity for the English, so as to place the American people in opposition to anything supported, advocated or endorsed by the representatives of Great Britain. The underlying purpose is to defeat de-feat the League of Nations. It is 143 years since the colonies were abused by King George, and time has worked great changes. King George and everything he stood for has gone out of the public life of England. Countries, under un-der royal masters, have policies which are good or bad, dependent entirely en-tirely on the mental make up and the souls of those masters. Great Britain today is as far removed from the old tyranny as we are from the slavery that made Tom Moore refer to us as a piebald gentry, half slave, half free. Great Britain has its imperfections; so have we. But Great Britain, as represented by Lloyd George and men of his broad conceptions of Ll right and wrong, is laboring to better the condition of humanity. |