The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1873-07-04
AMERICAS NATAL DAY.

With booming Of cannon and display
of banners, with rolling drums and mar
tial music the Ninety-seventh Ami
versary of masculine Independence is
ushered in upon the Republic.
Business stops, the exciting race for
gain is hushed, the indulgence of all |
absorbing greed is for the day forbidden
and the Nation, from Portland, Maine,
to Portland, Oregon, joins the jubilee.
From ten thousand speakers stands,
under the arched canopy of God, and
with the starry emblem Of Liberty
floating in the breezes over the heads of
a great people in commemoration OF a
Nations struggle for Freedom, will be
read to-day these grand, immortal
words: 1--WE hold these truths to self
evident; that all men are created equal.
That they are endowed by their Creator
with certain inalienable rights; that
among these are life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness; that governments
derive their just powers from the con-
sent Of the governed; that taxation
without representation is tyranny"
Beautiful liberty cars, occupied by
thirty-seven little girls, to represent the
States Of the Union and the Goddess Of
Liberty, will be paraded through the
streets o. ten thousand cities and villages.
Liberty, everywhere, will be represented
by women. Justice, everywhere, will
stand, as a woman, at the entrance to
Liberty's temple. Girls will listen to
the spread-eagIe speeches Of embryo
patriots in broadcloth, and women who
have spanked these same inflated de-
chalmers in their babyhoOd and washed
their faces in advancing boyhood will
sit silently with their tax receipts in
their pockets, listening, while the shout
goes forth in honor of the men who so
nobly resisted the DEGREES of King
George with the watchwOrd ever on
their tongues, Taxation without repre-
sentation is tyranny These women,
we saw, will listen to these windy dec
Iamations and will "sit and muse and
ponder much" what all this means to
them.
Before the woman's hour came she
spoke not. Content, always, to be re-
membered last, she has considered the
wants of others, until now, their needs
are all supplied. The negro, the Indian,
or the most. ignorant or degraded for
eigner who wishes TO become citizen
is recognized in his inalienable rights;
but when woman, who has worked
longest and waited till all others are
served herselfthe veriest servant of them
all, asks now for representation, the boy
whom she has reared and educated,
takes the reins into his hands, of gov
ernment she is taxed to support, and
yells Justify above cannon and music,
.rThe ladies! God blesss themI we
love them in proportion to their ODE
dieacc! May they darn our stockings,
roast our mutton, pay their taxes and
rear our babies till dOomsdayw Then
the drums roll, the cannons roar, the
music peals, the people clamor, and
above the noise and din and smoke and
huzzahs, shrieSs forth from throats OF
men upon the listening air, the mocking
shout, Taxation without representation
is tyrannyw Out! out! upon such
moekery Of justice. Let the good gray
eagless, as she scars in freedom through
the pelIucid Empyrean, look down upon
these ceremonies that typify the ami
NAL birth Of our Republic in sorrow.
Then let her soar still higher and shout
forth in shrill, clear accents, that all the
world may hear the glad tidings o
great joy, that shall be to all people
when the new, or spiritual birth shall
dawn upon us. In that day the people
will be ashamed of the animal represen
tation Of sex, and will gladly acknowl
edge the spiritual representation o
mind.
Shall not the new birth dawn upoI
the Nation ere the Anniversary of on
Hundred Years? "And let all the peo
pie say amen"