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ARANSAS PASS PROGRESS
f ■ fHOUSANDS of anxious citi-
I^W^I zens kad gathered in the
I 1 streets of Philadelphia where
I M. I con£ress was assembled, for
1 ^ J it was known that the final
I^JaJ vote on the Declaration of
LmotJ Independence "would he taken
that day. Since the hour of the as-
sembly of congress the old bellman
of the Liberty Bell in Independence
Hall had been in the steeple. He had
placed his little grandson at the door
to give him the word when the an-
nouncement should be made. As hour
after hour passed by and no announce-
ment came the old man shook his head
and said sadly, “They will never do
Suddenly a shout came up from be-
low and there stood the little blue-
eyed lad clapping his hands for joy
and shouting, “Ring, grandfather,
ring I”
So the old grandsire swung the big
Iron tongue and the Liberty Bell,
clanging 100 times, sent its brazen
notes throughout the land proclaiming
that the United Colonies were and of
right ought to be free and independ-
ent, and there was a tumult of re-
joicing in the city.
This in effect is the first Fourth of
July, as many an American schoolboy
has been taught it. It reads well and
there Is a thrill in it. But It has one
large fault—it isn’t true. As a matter
of fact there wasn’t any real “Fourth
of July Celebration” at all in 1776.
There couldn’t be, for the reason that
the Declaration of Independence was
a continuing operation that lasted
pretty much the whole summer of
that year. Incidentally, its culmina-
tion was July 2, instead of July 4.
Moreover, it was not until 1777 that
July 4 was fixed upon as “the day we
celebrate.” And it was in 1777 in
Philadelphia that the first Fourth of
July celebration was held.
To get the history of the Declara-
tion of Independence straight, we must
start with the fact that the American
Revolution was not begun for the
achievement of independence. The
American colonists began with the idea
of securing the right guaranteed them
as Englishmen hy Magna Charta, the
Bill of Rights, and their own charters.
The idea of separation and independ-
ence was an afterthought and an out-
growth of the hostilities faced by the
British at Lexington and Concord.
The historic declaration of the citi-
zens of Mecklenburg county, North
Carolina, in May, 1775, was one of the
earliest manifestations of the trend of
public opinion. In January of 1776,
Thomas Paine’s pamphlet “Common.
' Sense” . appeared and gave the move-
ment a tremendous impetus. June 7,
1776, Richard Henry Lee, under in-
structions from Virginia, presented to
the continental congress his famous
resolution which reads:
“Resolved, That these United Colo-
nies are and of right ought to be, free
and independent states; that they are
absolved from all allegiance to the
British Crown, and that all political
connection between them / and the
state of Great Britain is and ought
to be totally dissolved;
“That it is expedient forthwith to
take the most effectual measures for
forming foreign alliances;
“That a plan of confederation be
prepared and transmitted to the res-
pective colonies for their considera-
tion and opprobation.”
Here, in fact, was the Declaration
of .independence in a nutshell. June
8, congress went unto a committee of
whole to consider the resolution. For
various reasons the delegates were not
“Scientific” Legislators
For lack of technical knowledge, leg-
islators are sometimes guilty of pass-
ing measures that are soon found open
to severe criticism and sometimes fail
to accomplish the end which was in-
tended and desired. To overcome this
condition an Australian doctor has
come to the fore with a scientific first
aid for legislators. He suggests that
“royal commissioners of science” be
appointed in each house of the Aus-
gress postponed final consideration for
3 weeks. June 11, congress appointed
a committee of five to draw up the
Declaration of Independence. Lee
would naturally have been made chair-
man, but he had been called home by
the illness of his wife. Thomas Jeffer-
son of Virginia was made chairman
and his colleagues were John Adams
of Massachusetts, Benjamin Franklin
of Pennsylvania, Roger Sherman of
Connecticut and Robert L. Livingston
of New York. The committee in-
structed Jefferson to write out a draft
of the Declaration. Jefferson did so.
The committee made some changes
and Jefferson then made a clean copy.
Congress reassembled July 1, and the
Lee resolution was passed July 2.
How this action was then regarded is
shown by John Adams’ letter to his
wife, in which he said:
“The second day of July, 1776, will
be the most memorable epoch in the
history of America. I am apt to be-
lieve that it will be celebrated by suc-
ceeding generation as the great anni-
versary festival. It ought to be com-
memorated as the day of deliverence
by solemn acts of devotion to God
Almighty. It ought to be solemnized
with pomp and parade, with shows,
games, sports, bells, bonfires, and il-
lumination from one end of this con-
tinent to the other, from this time
forward forevermore.”
Jefferson then presented the report
of the Declaration committee, the docu-
ment now known as the Declaration
of Independence. It was adopted the
afternoon of July 4. John Hancock,
as president of the congress, affixed
his signature. Charles Thompson
countersigned as secretary. It was
then printed and sent off to the sev-
eral colonies. July 15, the clerk was
instructed to prepare the document for
signatures. Properly engrossed, it was
signed by all who were present—50
members. Others signed in Septem-
ber and one member, Colonel McKean,
did not sign until 1781. Seven mem-
bers, for one reason or another, never
did sign it.
Pennsylvania^ being the first colony
to receive its Declaration of Inde-
pendence, was the first formally to
make public the action of congress.
July 8, a general election day in Penn-
sylvania, was chosen as the time. A
crowd of about 1,000 gathered near
the platform erected by the Philosoph-
ical society seven years before
from which Rittenhouse observed the
transit of Venus. Mounted upon this,
Colonel John Nixon read the docu-
ment in his big voice and winsome
Deborah Logan, leaning over the wall
of the Norris homestead, which was
upon the present site of the customs
house, heard him quite plainly. Both
she and Charles Biddle, writing of the
scene in their diaries, make the com-
ment that “few respectable persons
were present.” This was not remark-
able, for Philadelphia’s wealthy class
of that day was outright Tory in its
sympathy and John Dickinson, Ed-
ward Biddle, Thomas Willing and the
others expressed Its sentiments ac-
curately when they voted against the
Lee resolution.
After the reading the crowd gave
three huzzas and took down the king’s
arms from the state house. The bell
tralian parliament, who should have
the right to be heard at the bar of the
house on any matter in which science
plays a part. They would devote their
whole time to this work and be paid
such salaries as would attract men of
the highest talents.
CUMMINGS’
KEYNOTE SPEECH
Bitterly Arraigns G. 0. P. in
Address—League of
Nations Defended.
San Francisco, Cal.—From the
shadow of the Golden Gate the
hosts of democracy sent a roaring
tribute across the country Monday
to President Wilson.
The national convention flung
aside for the moment the business
before it, while delegates carried
on a demonstration that swept the
gathering off its feet,
was half an hour before the
outburst evoked by a sudden dis-
play of the president’s portrait
could be stilled. Again and again,
as his name was mentioned, the
cheers broke out anew, to culmi-
nate in the shout of approval that
was adopted and sent to the White
House, a striking testimonial of his
party's faith and pride in the man
who has" led it through troubled
years.
Arrangements for the first na-
tional political convention to be
held in the far West had been well
made.
ALL LATEST NEWS
News That Is News, When it
Is News, for AL.
STATE, NATIONAL, FOREIGN
Happenings the World Over of
Important Events Condensed
to Good Reading.
Roman Way With Peace .Negotiators.
. In the brave days of tile early Ro-
man republic the consuls might in-
deed negotiate and sign treaties of
peace on their own responsibility. But
message,
Christ church bell keeping it company
and the funny old guns of the Associa-
tion battery down at Old Swedes'
church, roared out their salute.
The Philadelphia Fourth of July
celebration of 1777 was a public dem-
onstration, planned in advance. For-
tunately we have a short contemporary
account of what took place. The
Pennsylvania Gazette, published week-
ly by John Dunlap, tells in its issue
of July 9, 1777, of this first of a long
line of Independence day celebrations.
Here is the full account:
“Friday, the. fourth instant, being
the anniversary of the independence
of America, was celebrated in this
city with demonstrations of joy and
festivity.
“About noon, all the armed ships
and galleys in the river were drawn
up before the city,, dressed in the gay-
est manner, with” the colors of the
United States and streamers displayed.
At 1 o’clock the yards being properly
manned, they began the celebration
of the day by a discharge of thirteen
cannon from each of the galleys in
honor of the thirteen United States.
“In the afternoon an elegant dinner
was prepared for congress, to which
were invited the president and su-
preme executive council and speaker
of the assembly of this state, the gen-
eral officers and colonels of the army
and the members of the several con-
tinental boards who were in town.
“The Hessian band of music taken
in Trenton the twenty-sixth of De-
cember last attended and heightened
the festivity with some fine perform-
ances suited to the joyous occasion,
while a corps of British deserters
taken into the service of the Conti-
nent by the State of Georgia, being
drawn up before the door, filled up
the intervals with feux de joie. '
“After dinner a number of toasts
were drunk, all breathing independ-
ence and a genuine love of liberty and
commemorating the memories of those
brave and worthy patriots who gal-
lantly exposed their lives and fell glori-
ously in defense of freedom and the
righteous cause of their country.
“Each toast was followed by a dis-
charge of artillery and small arms
and a suitable piece of music by the
Hessian band. The glorious Fourth
of July was reiterated three times,
accompanied' with triple discharges of
cannon and small arms.
“Toward evening several troops of
horse and corps of artillery and a
brigade of North Carolina forces which
was in town on its way to join the
grand army were drawn up in Sec-
ond street and reviewed by congress
and the general officers.
“The evening was closed with the
ringing of bells and at night there
was a grand exhibition of fireworks,
which began and concluded with thir-
teen rockets on the common, and the
city was beautifully illuminated.
“Everything was conducted with the
greatest order and decorum and the
face of joy and gladness was uni-
versal.
“Thus may the Fourth of July, that
glorious and ever-memorable day, he
celebrated through America by the
hosts of freedom from age to age till
time shall be no more. Amen and
amen.”
if the senate and people failed to rat-
ify, the correct practice was to sur-
render the consuls to the enemy. Thus,
according to Cicero (De Officiis III.,
30) Titus Veturius and Spurius Pos-
tumius were delivered up. to the Sam-
nites, with whom they had negotiated
an unsatisfactory peace. And on a
much later occasion Cains Mancinus,
who had negotiated a peace treaty
with the Numantini which the senate
failed to ratify, was on his own motion
surrendered to the enemy.—New Re-
public.
San Francisco, Cal—The league of
nations covenant was championed as
the “Monroe doctrine of the world,”
by Homer Cummings, temporary chair-
man of the democratic national con-
vention, in his keynote address Mon-
day.
Of the peace treaty’s defeat in the
senate he said: “No blacker crime
against civilization has ever soiled the
pages of our history.”
He characterized the republican
platform as “reactionary and provin-
cial. Filled with premeditated slan-
ders and vague promises, it will be
searched in vain for one constructive
suggestion for the reformation of the
conditions which it criticises and de-
plores,” he continued.
The oppressed peoples of the earth
will look in vain. It contains no mes-
sage of hope for Ireland; no word of
mercy for Armenia; and it conceals a
sword for Mexico. It Is the work of
men concerned more with material
things than with human rights. It con-
tains no thought, no purpose, which
can give impulse or thrill to those
who love liberty and hope to make the
world a safer and happier place for the
■Hrerage man.”
He declared that the peacetime rec-
ord of the democratic party from
March, 1913, to the outbreak of the
world war has to its credit “more ef-
fective, constructive and remedial leg-
islation than the republican party had
placed upon the statute books in a
generation.”
Praising the administration’s course
in the war, he said: “We fought a
great war, for a great cause, and we
had a leadership that carried America
to greater heights of honor and power
and glory than she has ever known be
fore in her entire history.”
“Let no one misunderstand us
These great affairs were carried for-
ward under the stimulus of American
patriotism, supported by the courage
and spirit of our people. All this is
freely and gladly acknowledged, but
surely the time has come when, be-
cause of the calculated criticism and
premeditated calumnies of the opposi-
tion we are entitled to call attention
to the fact that all of these things
were accomplished under the leader-
ship of a great democrat and of a
great democratic administration. If
the republican' leaders are not able to
rejoice with us in this American tri-
umph, they should have the grace to
remain silent, for it does not lie in
the mouths of those who conducted
the Spanish-American war to indulge
in the luxury of criticism.”
Postmasters for Two Texas Towns.
Washington.—Two changes in Texas
postmasters were announced in the
bulletin issued Monday. John P.
Turner succeeds M. W. Doyle at Sli-
dell, Wise County, and John F. Alli-
son succeeds P. H. Reddy as post-
master at Stonebury, Montague Coun-
ty.
Tennessee Legislature to Meet.
Nashville, Tenn.—The legislature
will be called to meet on August 9 to
consider the federal suffrage amend-
ment, it was stated this week at the
capitol.
Plunge Record Broken.
Almeda, Cal.—Duke KahanamcSku of
Honolulu Saturday in the Neptune
beach plunge here swani 100 meters,
f^ee style, in 1 minute 1 second,
breaking the world record for the dis-
tance, established by Norman Ross.
Greeks Clear Territory.
Smyrna.—The Greek forces engaged
in the offensive from the Smyrna dis-
trict against the nationalist troops of
Mustapha Kemal Pasha are occupying
a curving line on a radius of about a
hundred miles from Smyrna proper.
Noted Economist Dies.
Boston, Mass.—Walter Campbell
Taylor, journalist and economist, died
at his residence in Wellesley Hills
Monday.
WASHINGTON NEWS.
Resumption of postal money order
service between the United States and
points in the state of Sonora, Mex-
ico, was announced Friday by the post-
office department.
The population of continental Unit-
ed States is estimated at 105,000,000
hy J. A. Hill, chief statistician of the
census bureau. His calculation is
based ,on the combined populations of
1,406 cities and towns for which sta-
tistics have been announced.
President Wilson Thursday sent a
telegram to Governor Roberts of Ten-
nessee urging that a special session
of the Tennessee legislature he called
to act on the federal suffrage amend-
ment.
STATE AND DOMESTIC NEWS.
With “Treat Texans in Texas” as
a slogan, the Benevolent War Risk
Society of Texas is carrying on a
campaign to raise funds for the build-
ing of a hospital at Kerrville, Texas,
to treat tubercular ex-service men.
Work on this sanitorium is well under
way, but not all the money needed for
its completion has been raised.
Ten persons were killed and nine
injured, probably fatally, when a truck
carrying a load of picnickers was
Btruck by a passenger train near
Huntington, Ind., Sunday.
Since March 13, when the coastwise
longshoremen at New York City went
on strike, the total losses in com-
merce and in wages to longshore, har-
bor and railroad strikers in and near
New York has been about $82,196,-
000.
A decision on the demands of rail-
road employes for wage increases will
be made on or before July 20 by the
railway labor board, Judge R. M. Bar-
ton, chairman, said in a statement at
Chicago Friday. The award would be
retroactive to May 1, the statement
said.
Est 3s Snedecor of Portland, Ore.,
was elected president of the Interna-
tional Association of Rotary Clubs at
its closing session at Atlantic City,
N. J., Friday.
Hundreds of letters from investors
In oil stocks, who asserted they had
been the victims of fraud, were re-
ceived Friday at the office of the
United States district attorney in New
York City. The flood of correspond-
ence followed the filing of five in-
dictments by a federal grand jury
against four oil companies, ten brok-
erage concerns and fifty individuals,
charging fraudulent use of the mails
in selling oil stocks.
The court of criminal appeals of
Texas in its closing session before
adjournment Friday for the summer
vacation, which is to 'continune until
the first Monday in October, over-
ruled the motion for rehearing in the
celebrated case of E. E. Sapp, from
Brazoria County, convicted of murder
cf bis wife and sentenced to ninety-
nine years. The case originated in
Liberty County and was transferred
to Brazoria County on change of
venue.
The Texas pink boll worm act, as
passed by the legislature, meets with
the general approval of the federal
horticultural board and there will be
no cessaton of the fight which the
United States government is making
to eradicate this disastrous pest. As-
surances to this effect were obtained
Friday from W. A. Orton, vice chair-
man of the board, from Dr. Karl F.
Kellerman, one of the board members
who made the trip from Washington to
Texas.
The inaperial council of the Shrin-
ers in session at Portland, Ore., se-
lected Atlantic City Friday for the
1921 convention. Charters were grant-
ed to Hajen Temple, Greenville, S.
C., and Karlem Temple, Waco, Tex.
Dispensations were granted to A1
Kaly Temple, Pueblo, Colo.; Khiva
Temple, Amarillo, Tex., and Maskeh
Temple, Wichita Falls, Tex.
FOREIGN NEWS.
Greek forces engaged in the offens-
ive against the Turkish nationalists
in Asia Minor are advancing in four
directions and have taken a number of
towns. <
Bolshevik forces are continuing to
drive back the Poles along the
Zhmerinka-Proskuroff Railway, south-
west of Kiev. The start of a “fierce*
battle” west of Retchitsa is reported.
Recent statistics published in Ger-
many on that country’s war losses
state that 1,350,000 men were grilled.
There are today 520,000 war widows,
according to the statistics, 1,130,000
war orphans and 500,000 maimed or
consumptives supported mostly by
charity.
Provisional President de la Huerta
of Mexico has invited forty newspa-
pers of the United States to send
representatives ot study conditions in
Mexico. !
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“I put my foot in it today.”
“What did you do?”
“Tried on a new pair of shoes.”
Two in One.
Recently the six-year-old son of ttu
family attempted to take up the ques-
tion of future habitation with his
three-year-old brother with the follow-,
ing result:
“Where are you going when you die
Billy?”
“In my grave.”
“I mean are you going to heaver
too.”
Slow.
“Well,” said the genial old gentle
man, “are you getting ready for tin
next war?”
“I should say not,” replied the for
mer doughboy. “Why, I haven’t writ
ten a book about the last war yet.”—
Birmingham Age-Herald.
Explained.
“Yeah! He and I are old bunt
mates.”
“What! Were you and he in th<
army together?”
- “Oh, dear, no! I mean we believt
the same kind of bunk.”—Cartoons
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