Trench and camp. ([Admiral, Md.) 1917-1919, 1919-06-26
"1776--191y


fealAs "1776-1919"
TT is while for wearers of the ovedra whether
remain soldiers in uniform or whether we waiting
for discharges time off when duties such
days the Fourth July think back the years that
try to understand what Independence Day really
to us and to mankind.
Most Of us apt to take country for granted.
Here it is here We work, vote we pay taxes for
the most part obey the laws Our lives SAFE Our
and children live peacefully home when to
fight.
Our country" mothering Gathering institution,
which just IS.
We know how much best country is. We have
OTHERS
Yet that country has been BUILDED through hundred
and of Independence foundation laid deep
and broad through nearly THOUSAND years of struggle for
FREEDOM by who spoke what is English tongue
1t bued by who knew worth their while to
THINK and to BELIEVE to WORK FIGHT for LIB
ERTY. AS time and occasion demanded these argued
bnd worked and batled gdgng not their lives fortunes and
sacred honorw
Liberty through the ages something very definite
these spiritual orefahers of meant justice the courts
between and It meant sancy of the home against
violation by the powerful just laws which the mighty
bowed well the lowy meant the right out and labor
peace with wits fingers and be paid the honest for the
labor DONE It meant security for what earned and held and
protection his life and the his the
right to worship God in the form and pleased And
gradually meant that class should have special privileges and
that all men should stand evenfooted before the law
Very clearly these who have before wanted the
sort of Liberty they fought for obtained Freedom
Press Speech Freedom of Conscience Free Ballot and
Popular Government.
Forefathers, back in 1776 in old Philadelphia didn't
INVENT that for which they fought They took another step
along the far road other like them had travelled for centuries
What they did part and parcel of the development of
FREE AND ORDERLY GOVERNMENT that began thousand
years when the land call England the SAXON
KINGDOMS in which the free Saxon farmers and small town.
people had their Hundred Moot meeting of the hundreds and
selected their delegates to the hre moot county meeting
which the elders to the witangamot meeting
the wise No ABLE MAN king ruled in Saxon times
until he had been approved by the elders It rude
ment but the SPIRIT OF FREEDOM was in the people
Then the Norman Conquest An army, skilled dscp-
lined of the Norhnd strain but soourners through
er generations what the northwest coast of France
seized the Saxon dominated it. ruled through several
centuries with fierce military despotism.
But the Saxon devotion to personal liberty affected the Nor
Saxons who had become Enghmen began the long struggle of
breaking down the despotc military monarchy setting in it's
the through ASSEMBLY OF THE REPRE-
SENTATIVES OF THE PEOPLE.
Step by STEP through the Centuries Engshen fought
their grim contest always strong faith their and their
country always slow to leave the DID, always doubtful about the
They chung to the idea of keeping KING symbol of
their peculiar government-provded ENGLHMEN could rule
the king
One family of kings itself out and Queen Elizabeth
the last of the breed Engsen accepted the next of kim the
Suas of Scotland and the two kingdoms thus joined
Stuart died quietly in his bed His beheaded his
jec after solemn trial which adudged him guilty of high
For while England tried Commonwealth but the strong
who created died and able to take his
England accepted back the of the she had haded