The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1886-07-10

uoss. roE tnose great ana tnOughtful
men knew full well the issue thew had
summoned. An infant State against .
mighty Nation; q David against q
Goliath; pigmy against giant, so il
seemed. What wonder some of them
faltered But the infant State had
sprung from the womb of Liberty and
they knew that the All-powerful Ruler
OF the Universe upheld her, 50 to their
anxious gaze the rays of a glorious
dawn were family discernable through
the curtain of the coming night.
Then. trustingly, their hearts re .echo-
ed the words: 1--WE, therefore, the Rep
resentatives of the United States of
America, in general Congress assem-.
bled, appealing to the Supreme Judge
of the world for the rectitude of our
intentions, do in the name and by the
authority of the good people Of these
colonies solemnly publish and declare
that these United Colonies are and of
right ought to be free aud independ-
emf States, and that they are absolved
from all allegiance to the British
Crown and that all political connec-
ton between them and the State of
Great Britain is and ought to be totally
dissolved" And as eye me. eye and
soul went forth TO soul, this noble
pledge was given To mankind; And
for the support of this Declaration,
with a firm reliance on the protection
of Divine Providence. we mutually
pledge to each other our lives, our for
tunes and our sacred honor" Each
one of them had "set his life upon the
cast" and would .'await the issue of
the die" Such we're some of the hap
penings within the State House, at
Philadelphia, July 4th, 1916, In Inde-
pendence Hall.
Meanwhile, a great concourse of
people had gathered outside anxiously
awaiting the news. for il was known
that final action would this day be
taken on the adoption of the Decara-
ton. High in the belfry above the
State House there hung bell whose
tongue had been silent for three and
thirty years aud on this bell there
WAS inscribed the sacred legend:
proclaim Liberty throughout all the
land, unto all the inhabitants thereof"
And on this great day. that bel! was tn
be the first to obey the glad command.
That no time mit.ht be lost, the bell
ringer had sent his little boy to wait
ut the entrance Of the Hall and bring
the news the moment the Declaration
was adopted. AMI at last the moment
came. The doorkecper signaled to tho
boy, and off lie flew to his waiting sire
who clutched the bell lope in his firm
but nervous grasp. An instant more,
and the boys glad voice was heard.
Ring! Ring be cried; aud then out
Of the tower went rolling forth the
deep. sonorous tones of the bell. 4
course there, and IN that hour Nation
was bcgnttsn.
II is SAID sound never dies; the
spoken word forever lives and on the
waves of Time is borne to- the shores
of Eternity. If this he so. then the
sounds of that bell must ring in the
ears Of Spain, to-day, must gladden.
the soul OF the English Premier and
yibrate throughout the Halls of West
minister. And five pause to consider
the cause which prsvokes hostility tn
Gladstone, to-day. we will find that it
is the same which led the patriots of
old to emancipate themselves from the
British yoke and throw eff the tyranny
of arlstocracy. The attempt Of one
nation TO hold another in blind and
absolute submission to its will, to
force it to bear every burden, but to
possess no privileges. to enjoy neither
liberty nor prosperity save at the
pleasure of its master; in a word, TO
maintain ON national scale q class
supremacy. was the primal cause of
the Declaration of Independence; and
the attempt to perpetate class supre
macy is to-day the cause which i'm
peIs the naughty dukes and noble
earls, the Lords, the Bishops and the
landed aristocracy TO hamper and de
cry the Grand Old Man in his eff
forts IL obtain for Ireland a scant por-
ton of long-delayed right. The is
sue then, rs now, is the people against
class, and the fight is to the death. for
if the people triumph now, class is for
ever doomed.
The overthrow of that class supre-
macy by the fathers gave US the grand
est form of civil government ever