Show I 1 independence dai DAY t amoy a klee khac may unflagging it is hardly necessary for me to enlarge on the reas on 4 and wherefores tho the fourth of july id ia loope looked d upon and held in rue h in m this great glon glori aud and irac country mun I 1 I 1 t dont mean mead utah for freedom isee rus to exist here only in name at least for I 1 poor poor weak backed imbecile mormon but hole on let roe me h haste aate back to te the starting point or I 1 hall become even more prosy aba wont if bhae ie is possible wj belij inor ia or about abo year 1776 a few fe W iseah mere handful in comparison parl sou who had scattered them delves over thirteen stales State sand and bad built themselves schools colleges and churches began to think that they bad had been lo 10 long ug enough t under inder the thumb of an old semi idiotic monarch who ruling despotically over old england thoung that he be could do the same over his american colony it was not good enough after boycotting his most gracious majesty of britain by the way was not washington the pioneer boycotter bo cotter did not the hardy tardy and ave brave people who then inhabited a portion of what is is now called tho the united states declare that they would be bulldozed bull dozed no nt longer by any johnny bull that they would stand no more nonsense but that Ara ireca ca should be free or they would enquire into the reason why and did thoy they not on the fourth of july unfurl the star spangled banner and bid defiance to all tyrants I 1 do not know whether fireworks had been invented at this period but this much is certain the patriotic farmers used with great effect a one barrelled shooter with ft a sanguinary inside which proved a great persuader on the bodies and mind of the scarlet jacket soldiers who had been cent sent to put down the revolutionary fools who only asked to be let alone since that time each succeeding year has found our patriots blazing aw away ay their shekels in the shape of crackers equips and set pieces on the ath of july declaration ecla ration day dav the above abay may not be very elegant nor even strictly ly in accordance with historical fact but is s ia make e the heart 0 of any cowboy swell within bis his expansive annive bosom and declare that the E heroes droes olover of over a hundred years ago deserve all the pow powder demand and fire crackers crac kera that are ireje yearly aily expended ibn the glorious ath in honor of the 69 gall shown by them in their e efforts for independence up then thee with the star spangled banner and twelve months hence hencer may the people be as ready and as eager aye even more so eo as they have shown themselves on this and nod on many previous occasions occasions to do honor to independence day L |