Weekly journal-miner., 1918-07-17
NAT|ONOBSERVES FALL OF THE
 BAST|LE
AMERICANS PAY HOMAGE TO FRENCH ON ANNI- VERSARY OF WORL DIS SECOND LIBERTY DAY; FLAG FLIES AT FORT.
(From Tuesdays Daily)

Sunday July l4th, was day of especial interest throughout the Unit cd States. It commemorated the Fall of the Bastile in Paris on July IA, 17S9 Throughout the nation on that day, honor was accorded this French holiday.
 Colonel Holmberg at Ft. Whipplc received telegram from the depart ment on Saturday evening. advising that the French flag should be flown from the flag pole at Whipple Bar racks. This beautiful ceremony was carried out. While no special pro gram was observed in Prescott, yet the displaying of the French flag on the bandstand and at French homes and the playing of the Marseillaise by the Prescott Municipal band, call cd forth many cheers.
 The following resolution has been sent by the committee on Public In- formation to the French Ambassa- dor for transmission to the people of France:
 Resolved: Liberty has two birth days, one in the new world and ono in the old One is marked by the anni- versary of our Declaration of 1nde- pendence on July 4th, 1776. It is the birthday of new nation in the west ern world, dedicated to the proposi- ton that all men are created free and equal. Its cradle was Independence Hall in Philadelphia. That nation has become a great people which has gathered in it's ideal the self-govern- ing people and now fights for the preservation of its life that goveren- ments of the people, for the people and by the people shall not perish from the face of the earth. The sec ond cradle of liberty was amid the ruins of the Bastile in Paris on July l4th, 17So The people of Paris des- troyed this great mediaeval prison. the emblem to them of tyranny and oppression and autocratic govern ment. They lighted the torch of lib- erty at its smouldering ruins and sent their armies forth from the first great European republic to carry this torch into a Europe governed by absolutism and uursed with privi- lege and inequality and injustice These two great republics are child rcn of the same spirit. Their essen tial union from the days of Lafayette and Washington to the days of Will son and Poincaire, of Pershing and Foch. has been unbroken. French blood and treasure were given so that we might found the first great experiment of self government. America today 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, unconquer- cd and unconquerable. America stands beside her our boys in khaki shoulder 10 shoulder with the hori- zon blue of Frances brave men, our stars and stripes over the trenches beside the tricolor of France pro- claiming 10 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 privi- lcve of paying the dept we owe. We, too, celebrate the fall of the Bastile, the first stronghold of absolutism to go down before the rising power of frccmen. We shall stand behind her till the last strong hold of autocracy falls in ruins about the HohenZollern dynasty. You, sister republic, are giving everything, keeping only the impcrishable hope. that spirit of self sacrifice for things greater than the lives of men and nations, which is the crown and glory of France through all the ages. Accept from twenty-ninth anniversary of your dedication to self-government the tribute, not of sentiment along, but of ourselves The voice of America proclaims today with one accordi Long Live, Long Live Francew