Arizona republican., 1918-07-14
bAST|LE DAY WORD |S GIVEN BY FOUR
 MINUTE MEN HERE

Last night, in every theater in Phoe- nix there appeared Four Minute Man who read the Fourteenth of July mes sage. which commemorated the fall | of the Bastile in Paris on July 14, 17S9. | At the conclusion of the reading, the l speaker asked the audience to vote on a resolution which expressed the mes sage as read by the speaker to be the sentiment of the American people toward those of France.
 In every city and town in the United States 25000 Four Minute Men ap- peared in the moving picture theaters at the same time as in this city and read the same message and requested the same expression from their audi ences.
 The resolution will be delivered through the Four Minute Men of the committee on public information to the French ambassador for transmission to the people of France.
 The resolution adopted by the Amer ican audiences is as follows
 Resolved: Liberty has two birth days. one in the new world and one in the old. One is marked by the anni- versary of our Declaration of Indepen- dence on July Fourth. 1776 It is the birthday of a new nation in the west ern world, dedicated to the probosi- l ton that all men are created free and equal. It's cradle was Independence Hall in Philadelphia. That nation has become great people which has gath cred in it's ideal the lf-governing na- tlonS of the two Americas and now fights for the preservation of it's life that governments of the people for the people and by the people shall not perish from the face of the earth The second cradle of liberty was amid the ruins of the Bastile in Paris on July l4th, 1lS9. The people of Paris de- stroyed this great mediaeval prison, the emblem to them of tyranny and oppression and autocratic government. They lighted the torch of liberty at it's smoldering ruins and sent their armies forth from the first geat European republic to carry this torch into Eu- rope governed by absolutism and
 nursed with privilege and inequality and injustice. These two great repub-
 lies are children of the same spirit.
 Their essential union from the days of
 Lafayette and Washington to the days of Wilson and Poincaire. of Pershing and Foch. has been unbroken. French
 blood and treasure were given so that
 we might found the first great eXperi- ment of self government. America to-
 day sends her millions in men and her
 billions in gold that the home of Joan
 of Arc and the tomb of Lafayette may remain inviolate. France stands erect
 today, unconquered and unconquerable.
 America stands beside her, our boys in
 khaki shoulder to shoulder with the
 horizon blue of Frances brave men,
 our Stars and Stripes over the trenches beside the tricolor of France proclaim , to the military masters of Germany a union which shall carry the cause of
 democracy to triumph and form the basis of greater world federation in
 the days of peace. We ask for France nothing but the privilege of paying the debt we owe. We. too. celebrate the fall of the Bastile, the first stronghold < of absolutism to go down before the rising power of freemen. We shal
 stand behind her till the last strong
 hold of autocracy falls in ruins about
 the HohenZollern dynasty. You, sister F republic, are giving everything, keep l ing only the imperishable hope, tha s spirit of self acrifice for things great
 CT than the lives of men and nations f which is the crown and glory of Franc, 6 through all the ages. Accept iron Q twenty-ninth anniversary of you
 dedication to self government the trib f ute, not of our sentiment alone but O I. ourselves. The voice of America pro f claims today with one accord, Lon, $ Live, Long Live France!'"