The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-07-04
INDEPENDENCE DAY.

All over the United states. thls the Fourth Day Of July, will be ce- Iebrated the anniversary of the De ciaration of independence.
 The most important part of that instrument in Congress. July i, 177G. without question is the natur- al rights doctrine which is pro- pounded in the Preamble.
 The chiefest of these are enumer- ated with care and definitely speci- fled. the equality of mankind, the right to life liberty and the pur- suit of happiness; the limitation Of governmental authority within the scope of the consent Of the govern ed; the right to alter or abolish gov ernment when it takes another form than this.
 The world has moved apace since those days and the men of the world with it. A good many Amer 1can leaders have in this day loftily sneered at the impraeticability and the absurdity of those rights and the State, as an authoritarian body, ouite regardless of the source of its power, has become glorifed.
 It is quite likely that the annual celebration of Independence Day and the reiterated reading of the Declaration has resulted in purely mechanical conception or that in .strument. and the mind has wholly lost it's grasp on it's dynamic strength.
 Certainly we live in times when few of the principles are admitted even in law, and the equality that is insisted upon is such that is de limited by proprietary rights, just as the right of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness as rights |, are circumscribed within the re strictions that dependence upon pri- vate property compels upon the propertiless.
 The right of revolt against no government whatsoever is admitted today It is treason or sedition un t;l success attends the effor:, anh when another form is sdC ,essfully established.
 Moreover the various nations, without exception, have lent their aid in the suppression of those
 xn,h;oh n n annthpr were active in trying to alter or abolish governments. the right of asylum has been generally denied, and those who were active in for eign lands in promoting efforts to create popular overthrow of gov ernment were arrested and jailed in many for attempts to foment revo- luton against a friendly power.
 Yet. withal, the Declaration of Independence is one of the immor tai documents of history. It is one that marks an epoch in the pro- gress of the world It is as moment ous in it's significance as the Magma | Charta, for above all and before | all else it's very keynote is the prin- ciple that stimulates men to save | themselves, resistance to wrong in 1 ,zs1y shape, manner or form.
 It does more than this. It applies to government what has already been applied by Christ to religion, that tire institutions were made for man and not man for them. It up holds the immutable principle that the things which man has created are for his use and his benefit and that man does not and cannot exist for them. He is the creator not the creature of governmental, national and official institutions. They were made for him. If they serve him, we'll if not, so much the worse for them and not so much the worse for him
 It elevates the person above it declares humanity above those things which humanity ( has created, and it insisted then. and its echo still rings throughout the world. that these institutions ( must be judged and judged alone as they serve mankind and that ; there could be then, and we still l hear murmurs of this declaration. faint enough it may be, no judging mankind by their service to the in-'' stitutions which are for his use and