The border vidette., 1907-07-06
4 GLORIOUS FOURTH.
Patagonia Does Herself Proud Hun dredS Of Santa Cruz County Citi-
 Zens Royalty Entertained.

Cruz county Tn royal manner, and
 today hundreds of our citizens are saying nice things of our neighbors on the banks of the Sonoita.
 Harry Barnett, Dr. Doron. D. O. O'Neil, and the rest of Patagonia $ boosters-every citizen of the town had said "Come to Patagonia on the Fourth; you will never regret it." If one of the hundreds of people who visited that place last Thursday, has the least kick coming, we don't know 1 1t.
 More than two hundred people boarded the regular north train for Patagonia Thursday morning, ac- companied by the Nogales brass band and the Diamond N ball team.
 Upon arriving at Patagonia they were met by a reception committee composed of all the ladies and gentle men of that place, and many from neighboring mining camps and ranches. The entire town and surrounding was turned over to the visitors. Carriages conveyed the ladies and children to the fine picnic grounds where a large, handsomely decorated speakers stand and dancing pavilion had been erected in the shade of an old oak tree.
 Mir. Clay O. Cooper, master of cere- monies delivered a short appropriate address of welcome, in a most pleasing manner, at the close of which he introduced Mir. Harry M. Chapman, who read the Declaration of Inde- pendence. after which Hon. Bo. J. Whiteside, Legislative Assemblyman from Santa Cruz county, orator of the day, was introduced by Mr. Cooper.
 Mir. Whiteside was in fine form and voice and as usual delighted his audiance In part he said:
 Mr. President, Ladies and Gentle-
 We have, my fellow countrymen, assembled again to celebrate the An niversary of American Independence and the birthday of liberty.
 We have congregated here today, on one common level, as free people can meet, to commemorate an event only that Is dearer to us, than any, since the birth of the Saviour of the World.
 We have come together to strike the hand of friendship, on this our jubilee of freedom, and to unite with grateful hearts in our acknowledge ments to the Sovereign ruler of all the Nations, that we are still free and united people, and for the peace, prosperity and abundance with which our heritage is blessed.
 Here we greet with a cordial well come-you who are native born of other lands-you who have sought and found happy homes in this great kt. VO1o h me our dearest institution, and with you, we will divide OUT joy
 Have we not cause for abundant exultation and gratitude today. Free are we, and secure in the enjoyment of life, berty aud the pursuit of hap piness, and our glorious Union moves mslestically on her bright way of destiny and policy of peace.
 Pass around the joyful bowl today but fill it with the fire and spirit of '76. Drink it to the memory of the departed brave; drink it to the nations honor and to the health of patriots; drink it to the perpetuity of these great U nited States, and to the com ing of Universal liberty and peace.
 It is certainly right for all the patriots of America, and every body else to become little bit intoxicated, on such spirits, on this historical day.
 One hundred and thirty one years ago today, there assembled in In dependence Hall in the city of Phila- delphia the Continental Congress of America. They were the representa- tive men of the thirteen Colonies, the original thirteen states that formed the nucleus of the great nation that we live in today.
 After due and careful deliberation, headed by the master mind of the il- lustrious Jefferson. they framed, sign ed and uttered to the World that great document. that has no equal. nor never will have in all the Worlds to come-the Declaration of lndepen- dence.
 It startled the then civilized world. To every one except those who fram- ed it, the declaration carried only wild denunciations of sQrely oppressed and rebellious people.
 But is was a great day tor Amer ica. "Hail Columbia" was the glad anthem that broke from every free mans tongue. His glad hu:rah, made all nature ring. and the first race of free and Independent people, ever known in the world, was started in America, which was then, now is, and 1 forever shall be. the land of the free and the home of the brave.