Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-07-05
THRONGS OF PATRIOTIC CITIZENS
OBSERVE CITY'S SANEST FOURTH
Preparedness and Amercanism Dwet Upon in Principal
Celebration, Held in Historic Independence Square.
U. S. Must Have War With Mexico, Says Fess

with an intensely patriotic celebration at
Independence Square, where noted speakers
urged the necessity or Immediate pre-
paredness and neghborhood celebrations
in ali parts of the city Philadelphia yes
terday spent its safest and sanest' Fourth
of July.
Fully 10000 persons participated in the
municipal celebration held in Independence
Square in the morning. Mayor Smith and
two Congressmen Fess, of Ohio, and Scott,
of this city, delivered addresses, and Mrs.
Clara Driscoll Sevior. of Texas, was the
central figure in pretty ceremony, when
she presented the flag of the Lone Star
State 10 the city Of Philadelphia.
Elsewhere throughout the city more than
100 community parades and celebrations
we're held during the afternoon. and at night
supervised displays of fireworks were held
at many places.
Patriotism and preparedness had full
sway at the Independence Square celebra-
ton The school children, ge1eral public
and city officials stood silently while the
bell of the State House doomed forth 4S
times in recognition OF each OF the AZ States
in the Union, rose TO their feet three times
and spontaneously sang patriotic songs and
cheered the speakers, who urged prepared
ness,
Congressman Foss, who represents the
7th Ohio District in the lower house of
Congress- came out fiatfooted in declara-
20 10 war. The Monroe Doctrine, he de-
clared, forces this country 10 go TO war,
I'VE have started into Mexico" he said,
"and we can't come out under FIRE the
colors can't come back with dishonor. But
If the army should come out. then after the
great European war we will have, instead
Of a Mexican problem, a European problem
on our hands. Because France, England,
Germany, all OF them. are going to demand
that we go there and clean up the country
or step aside and give them the task"
Early in Mr. Fess' remarks he referred
10 the Declaration of Independence as an
announcement. and the Constitution Of the
United States as a performance, And
both being products OF the city Of Phil
adelphla," he said they indeed are sutfi~
cient to make your city famous"
He compared the declaration, as an in
strument OF civil liberty with the Ten COM
mandmsnts as an instrument OF religious
liberty He stroked the British lion the
right way OF the fur by declaring that the
declaration was an Indictment, not against
the British people, but against the igno-
rance, brutality and pig-headedness OF the
English king.
referring to that sentence in the declara-
tion which asserts the principle that all
men are equal. he exclaimed; How would
that have sounded In enslaYed Greece, in
mllitaristic Rome. or IN feudal EuropeY
Speaking Of preparedness, he quoted
conversation he had the other day with the
majority leader. Air. Kitchin II ran this
way. said the Congressman:
Claude I expected you 70 say after the
Carrizal incident that YOU wogld give Car
rama "a hours 70 deliver those soldiers
across the border, or well send the army
down there after them
TO Which Khehln replisdg My good
friend. Ne falked Il over, but before you
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