The daily progressive-miner., 1917-06-21
UNDERTAKINGS
 STZRS AUDIENCE
 MGREATSPEECH
People of Ketchikan Are R oused by Speech Which Brought Home True Re aIzation of Meaning of
 Liberty and Home.

firing of cannons, the beauties of the eyer-changing Aurora Borealis, and all the other mysteries of nature, familiar to us here. But even these. become everyday occurrences with us, he com mented. we become used to them, and they cease to enchant us, after time as all things do, with constant associ- ation. So. he concluded, are we dull led to the meaning of the Liberties which We. as citizens of the United States. enjoy day in and day out.
 He recalled. however, that it was not always thus. Our forefathers, had shed their blood that we might en- joy these liberties which mean to us today He led us back to the days of the Revolution when the pioneers of America revolting against England, were fighting their motherland, where their fathers. mothers sisters and brothers were living. But, altho Eng land was their Motherland, they were
 
 drens land, and today the aliens who are fighting in the ranks of the United States Army today or who will be called upon to fight, will be fighting for their land, and for their children's land. He led on to the forming of our Constitution the product of the u-icact mon of tha fip,oc tho oraot iticians, the greatest lawyers, and the greatest writers. The Constitution was criticized in many ways first, be- cause it had been written behind clos cd doors, and second because it did not cover all emergencies. Those who did criticize were hypercritical, he re- marked, for the Constitution had been searched, revised, rewritten, held up to the light for hidden meanings, and deliberated on for many days, before it was finally ratified. Second that it was not intended to cover all emer- gencies That Congress and the Ter ritorial legislatures were given the power to cope, with emergencies, and that could never be obsolete for that reason.
 The Judge then illustrated with a few cases, as to how the Laws work ed for rich and poor alike under the Stars and Stripes, which stood for freedom for all, and for liberty and the sanctity of the Home, which he remarked were the keynotes of our Nation"
 'To keep our liberty and our homes inyiolate, democracy must win" he de- clared, and to win, we must all do our share. Some of us,' he remarked, are too old, some too young and some of us are not brave enough to go to the front, but there is an avenue, in which we can all turn, to aid those who are at the front, fighting, dying and suffering, for You and for Me, that we may enjoy our Liberty and our Homes" What is that avenue? Im- mediately the mind and tongue ans wers, the RED CROSS. There" he
  said, we can all do our share" If we are inclined to bubble and kick because we are being called upon to give dollar, let us be thankful that is all we have to do, and let us do it cheerfully and willingly, he remarked.
 Judge Jennings closed one of the "eatest speeches ever heard in Ketch. an by reciting the opening lines of the Star Spangled Banner, and bring ing home to his enthralled audience the especial meaning contained in the words:
 "The Star Spangled Banner,
 Long May She Wave,
 Ger the Home of the Free,
 And the Hearts of the Brave"