Weekly journal-miner., 1916-07-05
SINCERE SPEECH DELIVERED BY
 FAVOR|TESON
TOM CAMPBELL GREETED BY LOUD APPLAUSE AT PATRIOTIC EXERCISES YESTERDAY.

Simple but wholly sincere Indc rendencc Day exercises were helt yesterday morning between 10 anC 80 o'clock in the Elks' theatre. Nc ? attempt was made to offer anything elaborate for there was plenty going on in the city in the way of enter tainmcnt, but the program was inten.
 sely patriotic and, although the the.
 atre was not crowded, those who did ' attend went away feeling just little , more patriotic than usual, and satiS- fled that in giving over few minutes
 to the memory of the men who signed
 the Declaration of Independence they had done their duty and enjoyed do-
 ing it.
 The Rev. Harold V. Hartshorn de- livered a patriotic invocation at the beginning of the program. A vocal
 solo was then offered by Mrs Viva Head Paar. The address of the day was delivered by Tom Campbell. Tom" was not introduced. for every one present knew him, and Chairman M. B. Hazeltine had merely to speak his name to cause a hearty burst of applause to sweep over the house.
 Unlike the example set by many Eigh United States officials, Tom" did not take advantage of the oppor- tunity to play for votes" during his speech. He confined himself to pay, ing tribute to the Pilgrims and the big men of the revolutionary period Tom" is not brilliant orator, but 1 he IS a common sense speaker, and made his hearers feel that every word he spoke was spoken sincerely and without the desire to create any sen sational applause.
 The address follows:
 "An Arab proverb says: "A cam, el knows himself when he passes un- der a mountain It matters not whether he know himself, but one Campbell fresh from the heat and the sands of the desert knows it to be good to come under a mountain in July.
 My breast is filled with pleasure and pride, pleasure to be back with faces and friends that I know and love and to breathe again the mag nificent air of The Place to Live:' pride that l am chosen to address the city of my nativity upon this day of importance.
 How little the world took heed of the Mayfiower. driven westward over the waters by wintry blasts which were not so relentless as the spirit of persecution that the Pilgrims left be- hind. How little James the First, seeking to strangle the liberties of the English people, realize that the little group of weavers and carders and farmers of England were departing from the Mothcrland to found a col ony in an unbroken wilderness: d Ettle party of Pilgrims from whose oins would spring republic which should dominate the world and give civilization freedom and liberty from spiritual and civil domination. They gathered the material for the build ing oi new nation, their hardships, pIivdtions and heroIsm were the first nails to De driven into the hull of the bark which they launched then upon unknown waters and which has since been built into a grand and roble ship of State sailing the waters c: the universe spreading the gospel oi free government.
 As we look back upon it. tine stu ! ation which faced tine Americans in | lz75 looked well night hopeless. Thir- i teen colonies now strung along the i Atlantic Coast, thousands of miles O. ocean in front of them, 5000 miles ol unknown wilderness and impenetrable | forests behind them, hostile Indians . 10 deal with at home, and a mighty | nation threatening them from abroad | Thirteen colonies with infinite diver sitics of interests: different in blood, ! different in social relations, different i in ambitions, different in pursuits, the English on the Rock of Plymouth. the Knickerbocker Dutch on the shores of the Hudson, the Jersey Quakers on' the other side of the Delaware, the Swede extending from there to Wilmington, Maryland bi- sected by our great Bay of Chesapeake Virginia cut in two by the same wat erway, North and South Carolina ly- ing south of inpenetrable swamps as inaccessible to transportation as a iange of mountains and still farther south tine sparsely settled colony of Georgia Huegenot. Catholic, Quak- CT, Cavalier, Puritan and Church Of England men, and yet at the hammer stroke of English oppression, thirteen colonies were welded into one inter est, one ambition, one determination- that of obtaining liberty.
 Representative of each colony met in Philadelphia in l775 and authorized the war, begun not for the avowed purpose of independence, but for the redress of grievances. In the third session of the second continental