Weekly Arizona journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1903-1908, 1906-07-11
(from Fridays Daily.)


The celebration at Mayer was com.
slete success, and was thoroughly en-.
JOyed by the large delegation Of patri.
.tic citizens Of that point and neigh.
boring camps. The program Of exer.
ei.es and amuscments wss well arraps.
ID, and was n credit TO those who had
,he affair in charge. One Of the fea.
,orcs Of the exercises vac the splendid
Grafton by u. A. Hsggott, superiptend.
eat Of the Blue Bell mine, who spoke nc
follows;
This day WIS made immortal and en-.
ssrined in the hearts Of oil inhabitants
Of the United States and lovers " lib.
S,, and free government everywhere,
~ The adoption Of the Declaration Of
Independence ON July Fourth, l770
Our fathers, peace 70 their souls, Of
the colonies, had already sent dieniaed
ssd temperate statements Of Britain =
Si.rulc 10 the King and Parliament
ssi the strength Of their arms and the
righteousness Of their cause had al.
ready been demonstrated ~ Lexington,
riconderopo, Bunker Hill and other
ied-, during 1876. The time had
Gene for decisive record. and the
Declaration, NJ written by the com.
mi,tee, composed Of Jefferson, Adams,
Franklin, Sherman, and Livingston.
was adopted this wonderful day. 1870.
Hence all lovers Of this great land
adore this day, honor the grand men
wso made il hallowed. and gather 90
jsyfully celebrate IL In their different
communities according 90 their re~pec.
tive customs.
One hundred and thirty years have
passed down the memory -echoing halls
Of time, since that great day. Good
aud i'll, love and passion, gladness and
sorrow have been ours. Day after day.
since that yesterday and day after
day. during the tomorrows Of our cX-
isience there has been, and will con
'inue To be, played upon the heart
strings Of our people and reflected in
ssr governmental structures the entire
samut, major and minor, Of humanities
scale From individual to nation we
are wronged and We are righted, we
have our loves and our hates, and on
The whole We nre happy and believe
generally in the beautiful idea
"Teach me TO feel anotber's woe.
To hide the faults I see;
That mercy Ito others show,
Such mercy show 70 me-
II is ever comely habit TO DE glad.
Other emotions induce too much bill
isnsness.
Upon the corner stone and foun,ia-
'ion plan laid by our fathers, the
greatest nation and most active gov
eminent the world has ever known is
bullded. There is no longer from
tier, and the pathfinder is halted by the
barb wire fence enclosing the beautiful
acres Of some energetic husbandman.
Some anectionate, but uniformed
brother east Of the Mississippi, may
IN the circle Of his Preside, tell of Ari'
IONA, the frontier, the whooping In
dian, the gore. hunting cowboy, and the
terror sounding six shooter. All ira
di''on. my loving friend. Sturdy ones
before me well remember few years
back, when these things were ringing
realities, but In what section Of our fair
country have not the fat boat, the
prairie schooner, and the burro preeed'
ed 'h" railway, the telegraph and the
electric transmission line, and these
DAYS have come 20 Arizona, dear one
of the Atlantic coast. You will find
action and energy and success, an old
81 generation whose faces and ply
sques are burned and scanned by the
sun Of the desert and erosion Of life's
great contacts with nature g'e"'
forces, whose eyes shine bright with
The thoughts Of destinics performed,
and whose hearts are filed with hosp''
'ali'y and love. You will find young
er generation Of sons and daughters.
Sons boldly carrying on tho work where
laid down by the fathers Daughters
with the sweet modesty Of their dear
old mothers shining In their eyes, and
The glorious beauty and grnce OF the
eternal hills and Wales In their faces. a
people who have wrung from the will
derness new and successful subdivi'
''on for the United States. Dema
sogues and peaainists are short lived