Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-07-05 | Page 4 | Fight for Them

I FIGHT FOR T.HEM Take time, ripht now. neighbor, to get these Fourth o' .Iul fact straipht and vivid, It s your dav, dedicated to your liberties Right for those liberties lib-erties your personal, individual liberties sny day, Hny minute, at the drop of the hat when anybody high or low, steps on them. That goes whether yon lire a new American, with your second papers just issued, or the great-grandson of a Pilgrim w ho kicked t he j first moss off Plymouth Rock Your "inalienable right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happi-1 ncss," was flunp defiantly in the Teutonic face of an autocratic old profiteer just 44 years ago toda Brave men flung it Brave men' arc needed toda There are other autocrat), profiteers uow, morel Cunning and more tricky than frumpy, frowsy Qeorge the Third, j " at h them, and swat t ! cm. But that wonderful Declaration wasn'l enough So the fathers wrote another piece, to make it plin and solid the constitution They said "We, the PEOPLE in order to secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, to ordain and establish this constitution. The ink was not dr on it before lawyers began to quibble and superior people began to walk all oer the rights of common folks. So, to make it dead sure, the fathers quickly adopted amendments Thev wrote it bold and .straight that our government must never abridge free sped 11, free press, free assembl , that no policeman or deputy sheriff should eer .search your home or drag you from it without due process of law , that no judge, proud or petty should ever sentence you to prison without a fair, public trial. The fathers won THEIR liberty by fighting for it, against hig odds You will have to fight, also, to keep YOUR liherties. Eternal vigilance is the price And it's worth il '. Whenever the lawful rights of any American citizen are violated, YOUR liberties are imperilled. You arc apt to forget this. Rome-limes, Rome-limes, when you think a man deserves just what he gets, when you arc absolutely out of sympathy with the ictim. If an autocrat tramples today on the lawful rights of a friendless man or woman, and gets away with it look out for yourself tomorrow 1 And, most of all, remember that the Stars and Stripes is YOUR flag The man who grabs it from you, or who wraps it about himself, him-self, desecrates it. There's red in it, too the good red blood of strong men who died to hoist it and keep it afloat Be ready, like ihem. to fight for it, then, if you are red-blooded and to fight for all it symbolizes f "life, liherty and the pursuit of happiness " . j I I I I