The Delta independent., 1919-03-14
SECOND DECLARATION
OF INDEPENDENCE

VI
Washington, March 1.-THE Repub-
lican Publicity Association, through
its president, Hon. Jonathan Bourne,
Jr.. today gave out the following
statement from its Washington head
quarters:
"The British Wilsonian league Of
nations is dead, killed by the courag-
eous action of thu republicans OF the
senate in rising up at the critical
moment and signing their names IL a
document that amounts 10 promise
not to vote for the league IL 1t Is pre-
sented to that body for ratification.
The reference to the republican party
as the party of protection takes on
a new Significance in the light Of its
demand that the United States must
be saved from the blight of the VIII
son league. Heretofore the slogan
of the republicans has been protec-
tion to American industries from de-
structive foreign competition. Still ad
herring to that principle the party now
assumes a new role of protector of
American liberty itself. Under the
vi LlhCoiu, tiiO iOP1bAiNHh
party saved the Union in the event
full days of 81 and now it has again
come to the rescue of our imperiled
institutions and proclaimed to the
world that government of the people.
for the people, and by the people
shall remain the birthright of mer
leans.
Like second declaration of in
dependence ring the phrases of the
resolutions to which 81 republican
members of the next senate signed
their names in the closing hours of
the most momentous congress in the
history of the country. In one sense
it is a document of far greater i'm
port than the Declaration that gave
freedom to the American colonists.
The population Of the country at that
time was less than 5000, 600. possessed
of a national wealth utterly insight
ficant when compared with our pres
ent accumulations. Now there are
10000, 900 souls within our boundar-
les and 300 billions is not an overes-
innate of our national resources.
THE Declaration of '76 gave liberty
{ ilpil oPpl W oui ioi'-
fathers. bequeathed by them to their
posterity through 143 years The dec
laration of '19 assures the country of
a continuance of that liberty despite
the attempts of men now in temper
ary control of the Executive to revert
to the conditions before the revolu-
ton. The tremendous development
of the reource of America that our
laws and institutions have made possi-
BILE are to be preserved for ourselves.
and institutions have made possible
are to be preserved for ourselves and
our children; our Constitution is to
remain the supreme law of the land.
untrammeled by any regulations Of a
superstate: and the people through
their representatives in congress. will
continue to exercise the powers with
which they are clothed. unhampered
by limitations sought to be placed up
on them by foreign schemers. assisted
by repudiated theorists from our own
land
THE Declaration OF '76 saved the
country from foes from without The
Declaration OF '19 preserves the coun-
try from the insidious poison injected
into our veins by foes within our gat-
es. The vile nostrums which the pres
ent day quacks put forth as vaccina-
tion against the ills of the future
have been detected and denounced be-
fore they had time to work their
malign Influence and break down tho
structures upon which our very life
as nation hangs. The men who
signed that document will so down in
history with the famous signers Of
the Declaration that brought the Unit
ed States into being and the marplots
who would appoint European trustees
for our liberties and wealth will fade
into the oblivion from which they
came"