Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-07-04
CELEBRATE 4TH
IN LOWER PART
OF The COUNTY
Patriotic Program is Held in Rob-
insOn Grove With J. Clinton
Searle Speaker.

The cities in Rock Island county
were not the only scenes of a
Fourth of July celebration today
In Robinson grove, situated
near Edgington, people from the
lower end of the county gathered
for patriotic program. j. Clinton
Searle of Rock Island was the prin-
cipal speaker.
After reviewing the remarkable
progress made by this republic, Mr..
Searle said: ''Men and women of
western Illinois, let us remember
that this program has been made
in this United States, in the past
generations, under a representative
republic; let US remember in these
days of reconstruction, when those
who come among us and seek to
lure US, from the beaten path of
such a representative republic by
f1aDering promises of all govern
Dent or no government, of the de-
/Struction of individual enterprise
and free and open competition, to-
wards the democracy OF Greece
and countless others which have
ever f1uctuated between the mon
arch and the mob, the aristocrat
and the demagogue, the iron rule
OF some potentate and the tyranny
OF some bOlsheV1k, that those gov
ernments, one by one have failed;
that in all the hundreds of years
OF their existence, political and re-
ligious liberty was not found, nor
were the rights of the individual
secure; that in all the years the
only real success in government
has been the representative repub-
lie under written constitution.
Remember: that in the United
States, our constitution provides
for an executive, and a legislative
body, the latter alone has power to
Saise revenue and make expendi-
tuhes, a judicial body to pass upon
the MRnstitutionality or legality Of
their acts; and that last of all the
judiciary protects and defends the
rights of men given to them by the
federal constitution.
Remember: when those come
among us preaching TownIeyism,
l. W. W.ism or Bolshevikfsm, that
they ask to depart from our con-
stitution. from the highway of sue
cess We have travelled as a nation
III tue last Ito CdI
time we have prospered as no other
people in the history of the human
race, and to go into the byways
strewn with the wrecks of ruined
nations and destroyed peoples;
thaI our fathers recalling the dis
astrous events in Greece, in Rome, |
in Venice, and in Florence, and the
happening among the nations of
modern. Europe established a gov
eminent with a constitution which |
protected individual liberty from |
the power of government itself and |
also from the more powerful indi- |
viduals; that in a few generations |
by and under our constitution, in |
this republic we have developed |
more true freedom and liberty |
than all the nations of the COM !
bined past; that we have the only |
representative republic, with a con-
stitution which guards our liberty"
Tribute to Flag.
Mr.. Searle then paid a tribute to !
the flag, and closed by saying: |
Men. and women of the great |
mid4fe west-when We pay our re- /
.Syects to our flag. the sacred en-
'blem of our nation, which repre- |
sents our glorious past, our happy |
present, and hopeful future, we do |
homage to the written constitu- |
ton of this republic, to the great |
existence. For in the last analysis.
our federal constitution placed
each star of white on the field of