River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1894-06-28
THE GLORIOUS FOURTH.
some of the Reasons Why We should
Honor the Day.

some OF the why Wv cnoufu
Honor the Day.
We should not deserve our country
and our liberty if we did not honor the
day which declared our independence
one hundred and seventeen years ago
We should not be thankful to God as
we ought II we did not believe that
ours is the best and the happiest eoun-
try the sun ever shone upon.
Is il conceit To think so, foolish,
ignorant arrogance of which we ought
to be ashamed? Let us consider mo-
ment.
We live in the end of the ages, thus
far reached We have better chances
than any ancient people ever had IL
there has been progress, If there have
been discoveries in the arts of life and
government. we are heirs of them all.
Other nations of the present time may
have these same opportunities. but
none of those that have passed away.
We need compare our own privileges
and blessings only with those nations
now existing.
When we make this comparison we
may begin with physical advantages.
In this respect we ask in vain what
other country can surpass our own.
We have everything desirable in sli-
mate, soil, scenery, oceans, rivers.
lakes. mountains. plains, forest, quar-
ries, mines or skies that any other ma
ton can elaim-all that a continent
can give. None can boast more. What
one can boast as much?
Then we have liberty. Ours was the
great nation in the world which en-
tirely removed every vestige of mon
archy. We govern ourselves absolute
lv Just as we wish, and there is no in
herited sovereignty. Our liberty is
settled and assured. France has its
imperialists and royalists, and still
fears a revolution. Brazil is a great
republic, brit il has not passed the rev.
dictionary stage. We have no royal
lists or revolutionists. There is no gov
ernment on the globe which better
protects the equal rights ard just Ii .
critics of its citizens.
Then we have intelligence. Nowhere
in the world is education more diffused
than it is over the larger part of our
country. Everyone reads. Schools
and colleges are everywhere, and as a
result every new continuance for the
comfort of man is either originated or
Immediately applied among us.
Then we have no fear of war. We
have no standing army to burden us
Our taxes are light. Our earnings are
our own. Our young men are not
forced into barracks, nor are our
women left to ill our fields. 1t is a
country of comfortable homes, where
the men and the women have each
their proper place of service.
Then we have a good race of men to
inhabit our land. They have come TO
us from England, Scotland, Ireland,
Germany, Norway. Sweden, Italy,
France, Spain and Africa. They are a
strong, active people, enterprising,
glad to work, a happy mixture ofvigor
and blood. No country can claim a
better stock.
Then we have history of which TO
be proud. short bat noble. The United
States sets the example to the world
in the methods and the points of lib
erty and self government. To us more
than to any other land have those
come who wished to seek what would
give them the best privileges and OPP
portunities the world had anywhere to
give. They are all the most enthusi-
astic Americans.
Now let our readers look over the
map of the world and see what other
country has equal variety and wealth
of climate, soil and product, and equal
ly diffused education. and equal free.
| Il la ora1 ha
hension of war, and an equally worthy
history of the achievements of free
dom. Is it Russia. or Turkey, or China,
or France, or Germany, or even Great
Britain? We have reason on our an
nual independence day to thank God
for our glorious country and to join in
the celebration of the 81 orious Fourth.
IN. Y. independent.