The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-07-04
TIE FOURTH.

OF all our anniversaries that which
marks the natal day of the comforting of
political and religious freedom upon the
people of the New World should be the
great holiday of all the people. The per-
son who cannot find it in his heart to feel
grateful to the founders of this republic
and rejoice over the liberties which
have come to him and been confirmed
to him and his offspring through the mighty
PRONUNCIATION which we now celebrate,
ought to take his leave Of America and
seek an abiding place elsewhere. The rich
and the poor, the feeble and the strong
are alike under obligations to the heroes of
the last century whose brains conceived
the scheme and whose blood bought the
independence which has ever since been
enjoyed.
What grand thing it was that those
heroes established, Grander, we fear,
than some of US conceive, IN our thought
lessness. Every test which could be ap-
lied to nation has been imposed upon the
republic. We have had great foreign wars,
such as would have wrecked less inherently
strong governments; we have INDUCED in
est of modern times; we have had that evil
which has so often proved disastrous with
republics disputed Presidential elections;
we have suffered from corruption in high
places and leading statesmen have plotted
against the nation and conspired against
the people; but the republic has withstood
all, has come from every test stronger,
more vigorous and closer united. and to-day
stands forth the mIghtiest of the nations.
the strongest in the love and patriotism Of
the people, the richest and happiest-
Ought this day not to be celebrated in a
manner most gloriousl Is there another
anniversary in all the calendar which
should be hailed with louder acclaim or
marked with greater distinction. 1t should
be an occasion of universal rejoicing from
one end of the republic to the other; a re-
ioicing which recognizes the receipt Of q
patrimony nobler than that ever inherited
by any other people in any other age.
And the boys and the girls, let them cele-
brate aud rejoice in the ways and with the
means which have been approved since the
event which singled out the Fourth OF
July as the day Of days for the lovers OF
liberty. 1t is always annoying to hear OF
the boys being restricted in their patriotic
hilarity Rather do we like TO see them
go beyond the line, and il reprooi
be necessary, 1t should be Of the
gentlest; for in the noise and
excitement, in the crackers and the rockets
even in the danger DO they find the inspira-
ton which leads them to be better men
more patriotic, TO love with deeper affec
ton the nation and its institutions. II
teaches them TO love the GLORIOUS Fourth, y
and if occasion shall ever come for then
to defend that Fourth and the princi-
pie which the anniversary has made
sacred, they will do so with more
spirit, more earnestness, more deter
mination from having been permitted the
unrestricted hilarity which the day seems
to inspire in young and old.
To-day dates the birth of the best free
dom which ever came to man, and let us
celebrate it in Publication, in noise if we sc
desire, and in such enioyments as are ap
propriate and most desirable.