The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-06-08

principles of government and its opposition to
the German theory of state and the consequent
war which the Kaiser has inflicted upon the
world.
The outpouring of people is to be represen-
tative of the various natonalities that are pres
ent in our community. Native-born and foreign
born will unite in common profession Of their
loyalty to the United States and give expression
to their love for this nation and its institutions.
No better day than the Fourth of July could
be selected for celebration of this kind. The
very spirit of the day suggests love for liberty,
desire to live as free men and women under re-
publican form of government, and decision to op
pose a system that makes militarism and not lib
erty the test of government
On this day. thousands of citizens of this
community will have an opportunity to help
solidify the feeling of national unity and purpose,
and to prove to Germany that we are not divided
in citizenship and principle but are united in spir
it and truth.
Germany was deceived in her calculation that
citizens of teutonic origin in the United States
would rise in arms against our government as
soon as war was declared against the Imperial
German government. Judged as a whole this
clement of our population proved loyal and true
to it's adopted country, and the few exceptions
soon learned that it was highly dangerous to at
tempt opposition. Germany's attempt to alien
ate large portion of these men and women
through an insidous propaganda also proved a
dismal failure, and the effort she still is making
in isolated cases is being checkmated
Independence Day celebration will be the fin
al and conclusive proof of our citizenship that it
cares nothing for Germany and earnestly seeks
it's defeat The Kaiser's agents will find little
cheer in these celebrations and will be compelled
to report to their master that the American ma
ton as whole not only is backing it's president
10 the limit but also is willing to go to the limit
to supply him with men and money to attain vic
tory The Fourth of July celebration will be a
conclusive proof of the united loyalty and undi-
vided patriotism of our citizenship.
wave of oxulting loyalty will spread over
the United States on the Fourth of July that
will astound all of us. Our determination to win
the war will be intensified immensely, and ma
tive-born and foreign-born citizen will go home
with new vision of his duty as citizen new
pride in the principles of our government new
JOY in being an American, and an accelerated
hatred for the Kaisers theory that might is right
and that the people only tools in the hands of
the ruling classes.
independence Day is an occasion that brings
out sharply the contrast between our form of
government and that of the Prussian. Where
as we believe that the pople are the sole origin
of governmental power and that all the instru-
mentalities of government vested in the peo-
pie, the Prussan system teaches that the people
exist for the government and that the state
through it's ruling classes decides for the people
what is beneficial or detrimental To their yyel.
fare. Under our theory, the people boss the gov
eminent; under the Prussian system, the state
bosses the people.