The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1908-12-28
LIBERTY BELL
TO COAST
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Hudson petty and unimpressive, with
snow-capped mountains in sight of
the city's streets, with every home
the center of a garden, powered with
every variety Of bloom, Portland is
as proud of its beauty as it is of it's
commercial strength and conserva-
tism, and above all, its America1ism.
"Those two cities are to celebrate
their arrival at full stature among
American cities. Next summer they
invite Americans who know only the
East and Europe to look upon our
West. And. therefore, we think that
this plea which comes to Philadelphia
deserves the most respectful and
friendly considerations:
"'To His Honor, the Mayor, the
Select Council ami the Common
Council, Philadelphia, Pa.
Gentlemen:
"'The Portland Rose Festival and
the Alaska-Yukon-Pacif Exposition
of Seattle are extremely anxious to
have the dear old Liberty Bell
brought to the Pacific coast in June,
1909. This sacred memorial, whose
thrilling tones inspired our forefath-
ers, has never visited the great gold
en- West. We feel that it would prove
valuable educator to the rising gen.
erations, and inspire them with the
patriotism that proves sheet anchor
to the windward and a bulwark to
our civil and religious liberty.
eff you, honorable gentlemen,
will pass an ordinace making it pos
sible for us to secure the presence of
the Liberty Bell, we will Immediately
arrange for the financial details con-
nected Herewith. We will send
guard of safety to meet the Bell and
its guard of horror at the state line,
and watch over it carefully until it
has passed out of our state confines.
Already the mayors of hundreds
of cities an dtowns along the pos
sible routes the Bell might travel
have volunteered to give the veneer
able and wOrshipful relic welcome
worthy of its Importance. Tens of
thousands of school children would
greet the bell and smother it tn
flowers as they sang patriotic songs
i'll "ommemoret'on.
I'm the ey-r; of Wis t by tie
Liberty Bell, we assure you that prog
ress through u, land will be the
march of a cOnq., ring hero trump
ant in a great ali noble cause. Wit.
the sincere hope that you may grant
our request, we have the honor to
subscribe ourself, yours very sincere
Ily
THE PORTLAND ROSE FESTIVAL
1--WE can conceive of no more in
spring lesson in patriotism than
would be provided by that jealousy
guarded journey of the Bell from the
Delaware to Puget Sound and the
Columbia.
1t is wise and proper to keep that
national relic from becoming cheap
ened, ever-traveling trinket. 1t should
never leave it's shrine save upon rare
occasions of real national signifi
canoe
But that journey across the CONT
nent is one of those occasions. Past
the prairies where no white man had
faced the Indians when its last peal
sounded; past the splendid fertile
states that once wer the great Ameri-
can DESERT over the Rockies, then
unknown, and over the Sierras, which
only the Spanish adventures had
seen, let the Bell travel, guarded in
honor, to the lands for which our
fathers were once ready to fight the
strongest power on earth over dis
puted degree of latitude.
'Let those new generations of
strong Americans see for once the
sacred thing which is to them but a
name. Among tens of thousands a
reverence will be inspired and senti-
ment inculcated more deep than we Of
the East can conceive, grown careless
as we have through acquaintance dur
ing generations with the concrete re-
minders of the nations birth.
"The fostering of that spirit is a
need of the nation now. Purely SEN
timental as the results would be, the
whole country would find ultimate
profit in the sending of the Liberty
Bell to those Pacific cities.
Mr. 7 A HOwsOn the new Dhar-