The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1899-07-08
WORLDS FOUR7HS OF JULY.

Not all the nations have anniversa-
ries which are quite SO important date.
marks in the worlds history as the
Fourth of July. Many of them, how
ever, haye days which hold some.
what similar relation to their own
annals that this date does to the
political life of the United States.
France will have q celebration on
July IA. which will be observed by
Frenchmen all over the world, and be
participated in by many persons who
are not Frenchmen. On that day in
1889 the old political prison, the
8astile, the most hateful emblem of
Bourbon tyranny, which has confined
within its walls at one time and an
other Rich"lIeu, Voltaire, Latude, the
Man in the Iron Mask and many
other personages who figured in a
conspicuous or inconspicious way in
the history of France. was destroyed
in a rising of the Paris populace. 1T
is a revolt" exclaimed Louis XVI,
when the tidings were carried to him
in Versailles. mo, sire," said the
Duke of Liaucourt. ''iti is a revolution !"
From that day dates the beginning of
the French revolution, the most
sweeping political convulsion of the
worlds annals. The 'deluge" which
Nine. Pompadour predicte forty years
earlier had come.
The Swiss celebrated Angus l, and
rightly so, fo' on that day in 1921 the
representatives of the cantons of Uri,
Unlerwalden and Schwyz entered. into
the league and covenant against the
ginning of their confederation and
their present republic. the oldest Of
the republics today. September IL is
anot6er great datemark in Swiss
history, for on that day in 1S48 was
established the frst federal constitu-
tion which Switzerland ever had.
France. the o,her European republic,
does not celebrate any day in con-
nectiod with the the history of its
present governmental system, hut if it
should do so an appropriate day would
be Septem ber 4, on which day in 1870
Napoleon III. was deposed, the second
empire overthrown and the third re.
public proclaimed. The birthday of
the present kingdom of Italy is Octo-
Der 2. On that day in 1870, the City
of Rome then being occupied by the
troops of Victor Emanuel, the people
of the papal states decided b. large
majority to unite themselves with that
monarch's other dominions, and Italy,
which had previously, in the words of
Metternich, been merely geographic
cal expression, became concrete fact.
Most appropriate of all the days for
England's Fourth of July would be
June Is, the day in 12l5 on which the
barons exorted the great charter from
King John-the patent which in con-
nection with the petition of rights OF
Charles Ia days, the habeas corpus act
of Charles IFS time, the bill of rights
of William and Mary and the act of
of William III, forms the
of the British constitution.
When on December 4. 1870, the king
of Bavaria in a letter to the king of |
nominated the king of Prus-
sia, the grandfather of the present |
VilIiorn TT for Tn nnoror ~ No.-,
the movement begon which, culnin.
ating with the coronation of that
in the hall of Louis XIV's
palace in Versailles, on January 18, |
1871, brought the present German EN-.
pire into being. In Spain's long and
history there are a few
dates which stand forth conspicuous as
great datemarks in its annals. January
,, 1892, the city of Granada surrender
ID. This marked the final extinction
Of Moorish power in Spain, which had
asted seven centuries. A greater
in Spanish history even than
this was October Is, 1859, when Isabel
a of CASTLE married Ferdinand of
Aragon, the whole of Christian Spain
became united, and the history of that
country as modern state began. A
'till greater day in Spanish history
,ne of the greatest days in the worlds
October II. the day in
492 on which Columbus got his fret
glimpse of the western hemisphere,
ID which made for several centuries,
annals Of Spain the history of the
That day is SPAIN 3 real Fourth
Globe-Democrat.