The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1876-07-14
WHOLE No. 367.

peculate or abstract one dollar from the
public funds; applying the law with equal
force to County, City, State, and National
governments. This will kill at least one
half of the politicians, destroy the peace of
many clique and disrupt multitudes of
combinations that exist only by robbing
public treasures. But it Will restore con-
1idence and bring additional prosperity to
the whole land
Thirdly education. Giving our chill
dren and the nationalities who shall come
to us, an education that will enable them
to have proper conceptions of their duties
toward the State and toward one another,
and thus, with free schools, free colleges
and free press, and with all in the full
enjoyment Of civil and religious liberty,
they will be prepared to- lift the human
family TO higher plane Of true manhood,
and hasten the era of the universal brother
hood Of man.
Fourth-Obedience to God and the teach
ing Of His Word. For compliance with all
His commands is the true secret of happi-
ness and success. The history Of the past
teaches us the truth of the declaration
that, Righteousness exalteth a nation,
and sin is p reproach to any people"
Thus, with the precepts of the Most High
enstamped upon our hearts, we 60 forward
and tho glory of the second century shall
as far outshine the glory of the first as the
meridian sun exceeds the early morning
light.
have read that while the Continental
Congress at Philadelphia were engaged in
discussing the Declaration of Independence,
that crowds of people congregated around
the Old State House, waiting for the final
declaration that should declare the Colonies
free and independent. Knowing the
eagerness Of the people, the Speaker had
placed man at the door, another one on
the stairs, and the third one with his hand
on the rope of Old Independence Bell.
AS soon as the act had passed and the
ballot was announced declaring the thirteen
| Colonies forever free and independent, the
| Speaker cried to the man at the door,
1 " Ring! y" and the man at the door cried to
| the man on the stairs, "RiBg!" and he to
che man with his hand on the bell rope,
" Rj"g and with joyous heart, and amid
the loud acclaim of the assembled thou
sands, rang out peal that caused tic
nations Of tho earth to rejoice, aud whose
reyerborations are still sounding in ON
ears, "proclaiming Liberty throughout al
the land, unto all the inhabitants thereof" F."
And to-day, standing in the doorway oil
| the second century of American Independ
encc, we cry to the generations half way
up the second Centennial Ring freedom
and equality to all under the sum- anc
their voices shall reach through the path
way of years to the privileged one standing
! by Old Independence Bell in 1876, wlt
amid the loud acclaim and the triumphant
hallelNjahs of o people whose borders shall
extend over the whole American Continent
having but one Star Spangled Banner as ths
emblem Of their nationality, and bowinG
to one who is the Supreme Ruler thl
Jehovah Of heaven and earth, amid thu
symphonies of the swelling doxologies o
praise, will cause the Old Bell again t
hing out universal liberty to all the nations
Of the earth.