, 1885-07-04
BILL NYgs
He Speaks to Americans OF Their Fourth
of July Privileges.

He Speaks to Americans OF Their Fourth
of July Privileges.
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FELLow-cITIzENs: One hundred and nine
years have now passed since our forefathers
declared all men to H. free and equal and
began to hold out inducements for the OPP
pressed of other chimes to come here and
help US kill off the Indians.
1t has been a great success. 1t has been
thoroughly demonstrated to a dying world
that all men are fully equal to all other
men, II not more SO We point with pride
to-day to our broad lands, our luxuriant
national debt and our steadily increasing
Mormons. We have only a few more
Indians to wipe out, and then the oppressed
foreigner will have it all his own way.
The men who declared themselves free
and independent 100 years ago are now no
more. Yielding to the great nervous strain
incident to a red-hot campaign, they finally
plLed away and died. As f~orefathers we
can never successfully supply their places,
and their untimely death has cast a pail
over this Otherwise joyous occasion
To-day from ocean 10 ocean America re-
joices. From the humid Atlantic to the
moist Pacific the mighty cannon thunders
forth a nations exultation, and the smaller
cannon is gathering in its harvest Of
thumbs. This is oil annual holiday and
great national thumb carnival.
We rejoice that the idea Of freedom sug-
gestel itself to our forefathers. Otherwise
we would all be in Canada to-dny. Now
only a part of us are there.
lat n NOT unaalr 1trhfIv 81 Cou.I. r.
some of our largest moneyed men are there.
While We would not care to DO a part of
Canada, it is a good province to smuggle into
or smuggle out of. 1t is a good place to
stroll into after banking hours, while the
Board Of Directors are in session.
One hundred and nine years ago the King
of Great Britain made the great mistake OF
his life. 1 only regret that he did not live
to see it as we see it to-day. Had he been
less overbearing toward the infant colony,
the young men OF America wouli nave been
drinking alkali water in Egypt today. We
could have fought the heather oil over the
globe and left our shoulder blades to bleach
in any cline which we might select. Had
the royal tyrant softened q little toward the
struggling settlements in America one hun
dred and nine years ago, he could have bor-
rowed our navy to-day II he would agres to
take good care OF the worms and return
them in Us good order as he found them.
But he decided to do differently, and to-
day lie must take the bitter consequences.
Kings are not always right. They fire.
quently get lett. OF all the many kings
whom / have known personally, and with
whom Ihave been thrown more or less, there
are only four or five upon whose judgment
| could rely during a great crisis.
That Is the reason | very rarely go to a
crowned head when l am in trouble.
1 sock out some tender-hearted and III
selfish ~pawnbroker and tell him all.
There is one cloud, fellow-citizens, which
Isee with my prophetic eye, just climbing
the distant horizon OF our national exist
ence. Sooner or later it will darken the
brightest day for us. Is It the leprous
Chinaman or the great unlaundried Nor
mon I hear you ask Is 1t the spoils system
under which one-half OF our people will al
ways be happy and the other half accursedl
l. IL the kiln-dricd, fire and burglar proof,
worthless American dried appie pie which is
now invading our happy honest Is it the
baleful simoon breath Of New England rum
which would eat out the vitals Of a stone
quarry and 20 back the nert day to inquire
for the old nitro-giycerine cansi ID