Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1910-07-01
JOHN |. SULLIVAN ON
THE FOURTH OF JULY,

| 1t is the duty Of every man to cele-
brate day like this and to buy fire.
works for his family. / am in favor
OF allowing the children to set part of
them off in the morning of the Fourth,
for nobody knows how boy suffers
If he has frecrackers and can't set
them off.
No country can celebrate a day as
well as we can. We have got more
money than anybody else, and we GER
| tainly have got enough speakers
l suppose there are hundred thou
sand men thinking up Fourth of July
speeches at this minute, and it is not
too many. | hope every one of those
men will remind the boys who listen
to him that this is the greatest country
on earth and that it can lick any other
That is the great truth to keep ham,
mering home. Confidence in yourself
and confidence in your own country
should be every Americans motto, and
while he has that motto he can laugh
at kings and tyrants. because be knows
they stand no living chance
As for the so called Americans that
bow down to English royalty and turn
up their pants without any cause. |
have no excuses to make for them.
They are unworthy of their country,
and, while | have known dudes that
could put up pretty good fight in
corner, l advise no man to rely on
them.
My advice to Americans, young and
old, is to be patriotic all the time Yell
for your country and think of George
Washington every time a frecracker
goes off. Invite your friends to share
with you in moderation whatever you
have and, without being boisterous, re-
mind every foreigner you see that
America can lick his country. which
ever it is. This drives the foreigners
to naturalization, which is only right,
and it keeps the sacred fame of patri-
otism alive.
AS matter of fact, this is the only
country on earth, for if China is big
ger it makes no difference. 1t takes
all the good in hundred Cinnamon to
make a bad American. anyhow, and,
besides, they don't know what to eat.
The Russian nation is big, but it is
a mixed up crowd. I'm told they sleep
on stoves, and there isn't day in any
week that we couldn't lick Russia.
The other nations don't count. Ire
land is too small. and, besides, Ireland
is a part of America. The Germans
and the French can speak foreign lam
guages. but fighting is not in their line
and never has been. In all history
you cannot find even good middle
weight among the French. What is
more, they fight with their feet, and,
as poor old Toppy Mcguire used to say,
man that will fight with his feet will
think with them.-John L. Sullivan in
New York World
Chinese Originated Fireworks.
From an early period the Chinese
were skillful in making and using fire.
works. and with that people the idea
Of amusing the public by pyrotechnic
displays undoubtedly originated. Un-
til the invention of gunpowder and be-
fore the properties of saltpeter were
understood fireworks may be said to
have been unknown in Europe. The
first of the Europeans to cultivate the
art were the Italians. In 1910 Birin-
guccf Varuccio described fireworks in
a book entitled "De la Pyrotechnia."
In France in 1898 there appeared a
work called "Traites Militaires," by J.
Hauzelet. which recommended the use
Of the rocket in war. But the Chinese
had long before that employed the
rocket as an offensive weapon, affixing
to it a pointed barb like that Of an ar
row.