Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-07-03
The Kings Advisers.

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American colonies and French Canadians were coming
down, to Boston and to Maryland, kind of timmiga
ton against which the advisers Of George III. espe
chilly warned him as tending to loosen his hold upon
the colonies. Tho Declaration sets forth as a grcv
ance that the King prevented the population Of the
colonies, as indeed he did by obstructns natnralzu
ton.
The Declaration protests against the judges being
dependent on the Will of the king for their salaries
and, indeed, in some Of the colonies many Of the
judges had been inpeached for declaring that they
would receive their salaries from the royal treasury
# Graphically the authors Of the document tell how
the erection Of multitude Of offices had nlpoyer
ished the country, referring to the collectors up
pointed to carry out the provisions of the Stamp
The quarterng of troops in times of peace was sub:
sisted on retaining British regiments here after the
French and Indian War at the expense of the colo.
nis ostensiby for defence but in reality to suppress
growing democracy
The words Tho has affected to render the military
Independent Of and superior to tho civil power re-
ferto the position taken !, ~ General Gage, who
ton. BY order Of the King he had been made superior
to the civil government
Here and there through the colonies Americans had
been killed in alterations with British soldiers, who
We're subsequently put on trial and acquitted. The
Declaration accuses the King Of quarterlns larH
bodies 6f armed troops and Of projecting them b.
mock trial from punishment for any murders which
they may commit 49,
Trade with the Spanish and French colonies mad
been cut of from America because England wished
I all the trade for herself, and even fishing the
Banks OF Newfoundland Ind been stopped, All this
trade with all parts of the world
Colonists were deprived Of trial by jury and the
monstrons practice was adopted, as stated in the
Declaration of transporting them to England for ra
in direct violation of the ancient charter of Liberties
which maintains that every man .'shall have trial
before his peers of the picinage." This violently
opposed by leading British statesmen.
Such were the principles enuncnted In the Decld.
ration, and how well they sustained by the ar
bitranen Of war the world knows. The nation began
celebrating the glorious Fourth from the very Begin
ming. Statutes of thirteen cannon were fred by the
army in It'll. and the new Republicans pledged In
wine. At some OF the posts there dances which
the wives and daughters Of the officers attended
and in these festivities the helpmutes Of Generals
Knox and Greene We're especially active 1t Isl res
corded that on the first anniversary troops
at Nlorristown, N. J.,s We're RECALLED with an extra
ration Of gill of The celebration grew in pop
uarlty TIE following year with more cannon and
more bonfres One of the features OF parades inthe
South was figure with tremendous headdress III.
tended to ridcule the fpibles Of che Tory ladies
Vest Point saw significant celebration in 17I9,
when General Washington issued Il pardon for all
prisoners in the army under sentence Of DEATH The
ast Of the army Of the Revolution as such
u grand salute was fired.
To-Day.
More Of the nature of festival dominated the
Fourth after 1888 for then came partdes free din
ners toasts, the reading OF the Declaration III public
by citizens, and more and more the participation Of
the younger generation Dignity and solenlty marked
these early ceebrations and eloquent speeches were
made In New England the day was specially OBJ
delivered addresses Of burning patriotism
" The fiftieth Fourth of July was Il notable ami.
velsary Several OF the original sgners of the Dec
lafation OF Independence were still alive, although
ulipe3 Oh account OF extreme old age to take part IL
the exercises to Which they were hidden. New York
hhd u grand procession aud barbecue in the square
now named after Washington, at which 10000 per.
sous We're present. Josiah Quincy was the orator Of
tne day IN Boston, and addresses We're also made by
webster ana Peabody. Edward Everett discoursed
az Cambridge. a speech was made from the steps Of
the National Capitol.
freedoms jubilee was observed by the Centennial
Exposition In 1876. and impressive exercises were
held Doth in Philadelphia and New York. Since the
centennial the patriotic and serious features of Tue
DAY seem to hare been essened, and the occasion
accompanied more by noise and merrymaking anu
sports III the open air. The amount and variety OF
the noises hlve appreciably increased and casualties
on the Fourth have reached such proportions as 70
cause alarm and to stnrt movement for a ceepra
ton which shall lave more Declaration of lnde'
pendence and fewer frecrackers and fireworks ana .
snuller proportion of ockjaw. The Fourth OF july.
lS9S, which brought the news OF the destruction "
Cerveris 1eet, caused the flame of patriotism "
burn with renewed fGrNor and the CONSUMPTION "
powder by the ton.
The Fourth Is u statutory holiday in every sla.s.
and its fame has gone beyond tile seas.
celebrate 1t by dinner in London at the n
with the kindly assistance of British ot1clnls, a ,S
Paris and Berlin the day is toasted. SWltzerlala
officially recognizes the day. In Japan the
join with American residents In hailins the plf.n ,,s
the American Republic Other nations nave s An
the Declarations achieved republican forms OF sst
ment. The new American possessions and the SR,s rrd
of amity toward the United States now a me an
Power, have made the Fourth d factor tlrous y
the civilized world.