Denver labor bulletin., 1918-12-14
BRITAIN'S DAY
WAS DEFERRED
CELEBRATION POSTPONED
TO FUTURE DATE.
Health Authorities Asked That the
Proposed Meeting Be Held at Some
Future Date and Instead Reso-
lutions We're Adopted.

The people of Colorado, represented
by joint committee appointed by the
governor of the state, the mayor of
the city of Denver, the Colorado
branch of the National Security
League, the next of kin overseas, the
Colorado council of defense and the
women's council of defense, unani-
mously adopted the following:
The people of Colorado, on Britain's
day, December Z, 1918, pay tribute to
Britain for Britain's part in the war,
and hereby declare:
For more than four years of war
Britain stood as the bulwark which
protected the world from being over
run by the highly organized and thoro-
ly prepared forces of predatory tribes
who, under the leadership of the Ger
man kaiser, had determined to sub
ject the free peoples of the world to
their dominion.
Britain assumed this task with the
same high spirit of devotion to the
principles of liberty which has ami
mated her in the resistance she has
interposed to others who have at
tempted the conquest of the world in
times gone by.
Without the British navy the free
nations of the earth would have been
overrun by the trained armies which
this half-mad leader assembled for the
conquest of the world. Our own coasts
would have been endangered, and our
own free soil might have suff cred
invasion.
That every piratical craft of Ger
many and her allies were driven from
the surface of the seven seas or sunk
to the bottom of those seas is due to
the British navy.
On the single occasion when the
German navy ventured from its fort
ess-protected harbors, it suffered in
glorious defeat by detached and COM
paratively small squadron of the Brit
ish navy. The German ships, after
three years in cowardly hiding be-
hind the barriers erected for their
protection, sailed forth to strike their
flag and submit to the ignominy of
unconditional surrender to the admiral
of the British fleet
The British navy conveyed 15,000,-
900 men overseas, infested with mines
and submarines; many of these men
were brought vast distances, and the
losses were only one man out of 5000.
Without the splendid armies of Brit
ain, in which are included the heroic
armies of the British dominions and
dependencies, the glorious result ac-
conlplished thru crushing conquest of
theSassailants of liberty could not have
. been achieved.
Until the entry of America into the
war Britain was to her dominions and
dependencies and to all the nations
united to preserve liberty in the
world
"The bank of the open credit;
The power-house of the line'
After OIlr entry into the war Rrit
ish ships carried two thirds of the g.
00O, 200 men which America sent over
!; seas and furnished the convoy for l.
100000 of these American soldiers
who assisted in the final victory
British and American soldiers have
fought on the same fields, under the
same commander and in the same
holy cause. The blood of Britons and
the blood of Americans is commingled
on the soil of Flanders and of France
and British and American armies are
keeping watch on the Rhine tonight.
We declare ourselves to be brothers
in heart and brothers in mind, as we
are brothers in blood, with the brave
sons of Britain and the younger Brit
annie nations.
We are proud to pay tribute to an
empire, 8,500,000 of whose men took
up arms and 100000 of whose wom-
en- took up the implements of industry
laid down by those men.
We join with this great people in
grief over million dead and two mil
lion more wounded. Every British
grave is hallowed to US and every
British wounded ranks with our own
wounded heroes.
We would not have the expression
of Americas tribute to Britain limited
to resolutions adopted in mass meet
ings. 1t should find expression at the
peace table. The union begun in war
must not be broken in peace.
Hail Britannia! Across the sea Co.
lumbia grasps your hand in friend
ship never to be broken.
The resolutions are signed by julius
c. Gunter, governor of Colorado; w.
F. R. Mills, mayor of Denver; L. G..
Carpenter, chairman of state council
of defense and of joint committee; T.
J. O'Donnell, chairman mayors COM
mittee; Mary E. Lathrop, chairman
National Security League committee;
Mrs. R. w. Steele, chairman commit
tee women's council of defense; James
H. Brewster, chairman committee next
of kin overseas; Cass E. Harrington,
chairman committee on resolutions.
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