The labor standard., 1910-01-01

people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with an other, and to assume, among the pow CTS of the earth the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of natures God entitle them, a decent respect for the opinions of man. kind requires that they should de- clare the causes which impel them to the separation.
 We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed, by their Creator, with certain unalicnable rights, that among these arc life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, govern mcnts arc instituted among mon, de- irving their just powers from th" con sent of the governed; that whenever any form of government becomes de- structivc of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish 1t, and to institute a new government, laying it's foundation on such prin- ciples and organizing it's powers i'll such form as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and hap piness Prudence, indeed, will dictate, that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are suffcrable, than to right themselves by abOlishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpa- tions, pursuing invariably the same object, eVlnces design to reduce them under absolute despOtism, it is their right, it is their duty to throw OH such government, and to provide ne" guards for their future security. 6ucn has been the patient suferance ol these Colonies, and such is now the necessity which cunstrans them to alter their former systems of govern mcnt. The history of the present hlnS of Great Britain is d history of re- pcated injuries and uSurpatl0nS, all having in direct object the establish ment of an absolute tyranny over these States. To prove this, let facts he submitted to q candid world.
 He has refused his assent to la"s' tho most wholesome and necessary TOT the public good.
 He has forbidden his governors to mass laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended m thell operation till his assent should De obtained; and when so suspended ne has utterly neglected to attend to thenl'
 Ho has refused to pass other laws for the accommodation of large dlS- tricts of people, unless those people would relinuuiSh the right Of repre- sentatiOn in the legislature, r1ShI inestimabc to them, and formIdaole to tyrants only.
 He has called together Legislative bodies at places unusual, uncom1ort- ahle. and distant from the depository of their public records, for the S0le D,lrpusc of fatiguinG them into Cnhl~ nliance with his measures.
 He has dissolved representative houses repeatedly, for opposing WltIl manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
 He has refused for long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihllatloh have returned to the people at large for their exercise; the State remaining, in the mean time, exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and