The Owyhee nugget. ([Silver City], Idaho) 1905-1984, 1911-07-13
HON. DOW DUNNING SPEAKS
AT JORDAN VALLEY ON 4th

Valley on July 4th from the Jordan
Valley Express
"The Declaration Of Independence was
the most important political document
ever recorded upon the pages of history.
That only two others ever approached it
in grandness of expression and sublimity
OF thought. One was the Declaration Of
the first French Assembly, and the
other the Magma Charta. That neither
of the last two had ever been thoroughly
understood by the common run Of man
kind, the rank and file of the great
common people, who had always been
the leaders of every popular movement
for the advancement of the rights and
liberties of men, while the principles
laid down in the Declaration of Inde-
pendence were the common heritage of
the human race, and had moulded the
form, guided the course, and fixed the
DESTINY Of governments. That natural
resources and opportunities that sur
rounded the men who gave us the Dec
laration of Independence had moulded
their lives and elevated their ideals, and
that they bad written these ideals into
the great Declaration.
"rhat the Revolutionary War and the
Great Rebellion were resultants of the
Declaration Of Independence. and that
these were only single conflicts in the
great war of human freedom that has
been going on ever since the earliest
history Of man upon the earth, and had
established irrevocably the fact that one
government is not competent to govern
over an other government, and that one
man is not competent to govern over
another man, and that the the third
great battle in behalf OF human liberty
is now being fought out in ever nation
of the world; that this war the most
universal and all inclusive of conflicts,
was a direct result OF the Declaration of
Independence, and was for the abolition
of special privileges, and the establish
ment of an equality of opportunity
among all the men, women and children
OF the earth.
That arrayed on the other side were
mighty forces of privilege and monopoly,
and upon the other the countless hosts
of labor demanding right 10 live.
That per cent. OF the people owned SO
per cent. of the wealth, and that eleven
billionaires controlled the industrial Sc
curities OF ninety millions OF people, and
that the natural resources of the nation
had already largely passed into the
hands of monopoly That this had a
tendency 10 bring about uDearned wealth
on the one hand and undeeerved pow
city on the other, and thus threatened
the very existence of the republic
That these conditions had driven hun.
dreds of thousands of our women and
children into sweatshops, mills and fac
tories; had lowered the social sta ndards
of our social life, and weakened the
mental, moral and physical powers Of
future fathers and mothers Of the ma
ton"
He appealed to the intelligence instead
of the vanity and preiudices Of his aud
fence; that the remedy did not lie in wild
schemes Of destruction, but in simple
remedies sanctioned by justice; that the
golden rule of morals was the rule that
should govern the distribution Of wealth.
He then appealed to the voters Of Ore
gon to desert the army of privilege and
monopoly, and follow the banners of the
new crusade, and to cast their votes a
year from next November according to
the still aall voice of conscience, that
speaks to each and every one Of us in
the silence and sanctity Of his own
home.