The Alaska daily empire., 1915-07-08


 trpoical wilderness of the Philippines. every American heart young and old, wili bent acknowledgement of what tRe ben tells Go the eye of tho cour- oge and integrity of the colonists who accepted a,l the odds against Chem ai the ringing Of the bell
 As It's occasion differed from oth' CTS. SO does the history of the Liberty Bell ll was designed by royal man date of Edward lii. ol England ln the 18th century. several hundred years before lt was cast ln London in l75I
 The third Edward had his own mo- ton of what ben should be and or dcred model made from which the English bells were shaped from that time. The Liberty Bell was 8 giant Of its day. and Is more so now in an unbelled age. for it is 12 feet in cir conference. almost four feet high and weighs 2.OOO pounds.
 conoecrited To Liberty
 sn i752 tho year after 1t was cast lhe bell was sent to America for thc state house in Philadelphia. Che building now known in American bis tory as independence hall. In land ing it from the ship with the clumsy tackle of those days its tone was bumped out of iJ, and the philodel phians yecasted it in l751 The dam age and recosting was clearly a parl of the bells destiny, for in Che re construction these words were stamp ed in the mouiten metal;
 Proclaim liberty throughout al the land unto all the inhabitants thereof"
 Receiving that consecration seem ingly by accident. the bell went to its place in the tower. from which at the appointed time. it yaliantly voiced ov CT the new world the mission it was charged with, and the history of the United States has been written clear around the earth in consequence That is something of what you win see when the old bell comes to Spo kane In July
 It was @ flaming month along the thinly settled Atlantic coast that July of I776. With savages swarming th, continent behind them and the ocean in front to bring them against thC greatest navy on earth the colonie. were facing Great Britain in arms The years of oppression from over the sea were iuli. the future was cast on the hazard of war Minute men oi Lexington had died and been avenged upon the retreating British. The great names of the revolution were already beginning to gleam-the superb, pre- eminent Washington; the cautious patient Greene; the weary. tireless Marion and Lighthouse Harry Lee John Stark. had led his militia down from the hills of New Hampshire. Put nam was stormlng recklessly about early fields. and Ethan Allen. with his Green Mountain boys had taken Ticonderoga in the name of the great Jehova and the continental congress
 From Maine to the Carolinas ran the inspiration of Bunker Hill and Washington had taken command oi 14.OOO willing but undlscipllned vol unteer troops. He soon had them roughed off into the form Of army organization with nothing behind him in the way Of systematic supply sourc es. Yet be began a vigorous siege of the British force at Boston. Schuy Ter and Montgomery had moved into Canada. capturing the fortress at St John and Montreal. but suffering a defeat at Quebec. Tn the Spring of ire Washington forced Howe tc evacuate Boston. Clinton was driven away from New York and Moultrie In his fort of soft palmetto logs had beaten the British fleet at Charleston Petitions for redress of political grievances had been rejected by the British government and George IT. was set sternly about the business of crushing the rebellion, adding 1T0Oo Hessians to his own forces for that purpose.
 Before the Bell Rrans.
 Up to this time, in spite of the fighting already done, the colonists had considered themselves still loy- al subjects of the crown, but now the time had come to make the choice of independence and maintain it or accept the consequences. The army had already accepted the cast of tate'