The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-07-08
Intended for Delivery at Duluth
Heights and West Duluth on
Independence ~.
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ILLNESS PREVENTED ITS
DELIVERY IN PERSON
The Address Was Read By a Sub
stitute at Each of the
Places Named.

The folio wing is the main body OF
an address prepared by Mr. W. E. Me-
Even. publisher and managing editor
or this pape:. Cor delivery a. the
Independence Day celebrations, held
at Duluth Heights and West Duluth,
respectively. MIR. McEwen has not
been In good health for several days.
and ever since Saturday has been
confined to his home. His attending
physician would not entertain the
thought Of his attempting to appear
IN person so. the address was read by
substitutes at both places
The Address.
Mr.. Chairman and Fellow Citizens:
This day belongs not to America,
but to the world. The results Of the
event it commemorates are the heritage
Of the people Of every. race and cline:
the second great era in the struggle
for the complete emancipation Of man.
The preparation was the work Of
countless centuries, the realization was
the revelation of one.
Mans Great Desire.
From the time when the children
Of Israel because the bondsmen of King
Pharoah to the day in which we live
LIc uOpc VI man mas Deen concentrated
in an unyielding desire for the fullest
manifested itself in some particular
form In every age. Under the inspira-
tion of it's spirit the ;shackles Of re-
asserted his right to worship God &C.
cord1ng to the dictates Of his own
conscience. Religious freedom was the
result Of this declaration. The next
step was for political liberty. Then
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divine right of kings was questioned,
and it was affirmed that no person
had the right to govern another with
out the consent of the governed. .
Arena of Action.
Here in America fate had decreed
insfits truest neal should be waEed..
Its results radiated their blessings
over all the world. The Declaration
est Ian guage the hopes and aspirations
OF centuries. There had been other
documents and other declarations Of
principles in other lands expressing
noble Ideas, and many of them declar-
ing the equality of man, but their ap-
plication was limited to classes and
conditions. The masses cared little for
them. nor remembered them long.
Declaration of Independence.
Jefferson's superb crystallisation Of
the popular opinion that 'all men are
created equal, that they are endowed
by their Creator with certain unalien-
able rights, that among these are life.
had it's force and effect in being the
deliberate utterance of the people. It
swept away in single sentence kings
and mobiles. peers and prelates. 1t was
Aagan Charta and the Bill Of Rights
planted in the virgin soil of the Amer
loan wilderness bearing richer and
nobler fruit. Under its vitalizine in
fuence upon the individual the farmer
left his plow in the furrow, the lawyer
his books and briefs, the merchant
to enlist in the patriot army. They
were fighting for themselves and their
children.
Adaptability for the Work.
should be set for the contest for civil
liberty in the New Word. No people
were so we'll prepared to accept and
administer a constitutional govern
ants Of the most dtstinctively progress
s1ve clements among the people Of the
Old World. Their fathers had engaged
IN the contests for liberty at home,
and came to America exiles from their
native lands.
There was nearly century and one
half of schooling preparing the Amer
lean colonists for the execution of the
great trust that Providence had COM
mitted to their hands. Here was as
sembled fair representation Of WHAT
soever was most va,uable in European
characteristic resolute industry Of one
sa nation; the Inventive skill and curious
arncp,e dn the uf
moved out, by the policy of govern
ments on the other side of the IT.
lantic, as a precious seed wherewith
to plant the American SOIL
Peculiarly of Our PcoDle.
The persecution of the martyrs in
England, Ireland, Scotland France and
Germany made this country the great
asylum of suffering virtue and op-
our population, which some have
thought misfortune, is in reality one
OF the happiest circumstances attend
Ing the settlement of our country. Had
we been the unmixed descendants OF
any one nation of Europe. we should
nave retained moral and intellectual
dependence on tha: natior;Seven after
the dissolution had taken place. In
stead OF marring the symmetry Of our
social system, 1t is one Of it's most at
that, with the prominent qualities of
the Anglo-Saxon character inherited
from our British fathers we have an
admixture Of almoE. everything that is
valuable in the CHARACTER Of most of
the other countries of Europe.
Setting the Example.
me American revolution set the pace
1or the world. It's result tottered the
" 'AS - cu1 oQS, dHu "nen xne gov
crnment Of the United States of Amer
lea vas finally perfected sagacious OBJ
servers were forced TO admit that a
esonstitutionai cons II, age had begun. Since
then the nations Of the earth, in pro
portion as they have had eyes to see,
ears to hear: and hands to grasp have
INSISTED on Initiating the example set
Eress has been various, modified bv cir
oumstances, by the interests and pas
sions OF governments and men, and in
some oases, seemingly arrested. But
tne1F a'arcn IS as invlncible as fate.
Our Responsibility.
We are proud Of our country; we
love and Venerate her institutions, and
;eJotce IN the manifold blessings she
Sestows upon her citizens. But the
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