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member that there is no place in this
republic for citizens who are not
Americans without the hyphen.
Sentiment Rnles World

member that there is no place in this
republic for citizens who are not
Americans without the hyphen.
Sentiment Rules World.
Moreover. neither they nor we should
be provincial, for beyond our local
neighborhood is the allegiance we owe
to our entire country; to that one flag
which is above every state flag, and
wave every day. and not simply on
holidays. over all our buildings, public
and private. To some it is but bit of
bunting. But then to some the Decla-
ration Is but a scrap of paper. To-
these so-called practical men who can
nothing seems important but what they
call deeds AS though you could have
deeds without creeds, fruits without
roots.
the Declaration. as in the everyday
deeds of Americans. that makes this
day worth celebrating and our lives
worth living. Lincoln's great deed was
word at Gettysburg. Well for US II
we have that word in our hearts toI
make us live right in our daily deeds.
But unless we have it the daily deed
will not save US from cold and barren
materialism. Only those who are really
ready to give up all for the republic
of liberty and justice-are the true
Americans. Many natives are not truel
Americans, and many foreign born are.
Peril of Demagogue.
Cali together, native sons and adopted
sons. we stand today in this city set
upon hill for our republic one and in
Invisible. with liberty and justice for
oil 10 r. a
Individual liberty is threatened by the
tyranny of the mob led by demagogues
as much as by the tyranny of any mon
arch. 1t is threatened by every en-
croachment of government on the
rights of the citizen. 1t is threatened
by the theory Of state socialism fasci-
mating to many minds. which If applied
would enslave every man and woman
under the tyranny of the most cunning
and the most powerful who would then
become the state. Some of our foreign
born Americans know the tyranny of
the state. They can help the native
born who have forgotten the tyranny
of kings and who do not see the dan
ger in the tyranny Of the state to
awake in time to the defense of our
individual liberty.
Genius Of Foreign Born.
Through the genius Of one Of our
exander Graham Bell, the old Liberty
bell of Philadelphia spoke on Lincolp's
birthday from it's sacred home in In
dependence Hall to the crowds at the
Panama-Pacif1c exposition in Califor- |
MIA.
''Over the transcontinental Bell tele-
phone wire. the latest marvel of that
marvellous art. the old bell, silent since |
1t cracked when tolling for the death
Of Chief Justice Marshall eighty years
ago. solemnly uttered four tones again. |
Those four tones represented the words
from the Bible which are inscribed
upon that bell: Proclaim liberty |
throughout all the land to all the in
habitants thereof Let US believe that |
they found a response in the heart of
every American. and that the TWEEN
tieth century will see a new birth Of |
freedom here. Even a free people must |
from time to time be born again to
keep free. |
Trust in God.
The men who signed the Declara-
ton Of Independence did 1t in the name |
of God. Doubtless the same men who |
think the flag a rag and the Declara-
ton glittering generalities.' as Rufus !
Choate said, would smile today at their
faith But one OF the
precious results Of the terrible war is
that here and everywhere men and |
women under the Christening OF afiic- |
ton are turning back to that simple |
faith in the All-Father in which lies |
the hope of the world. Academic peo-
pie educated beyond their brain power |
may think they can put God out OF His |
world. but fortunately the practical |
minds Of most men and women do not |
follow them. They are just childlike |
enough to put their trust as Washing
ton and Lincoln did in the God of our |
fathers. Hence we do not despair of !
the republic"