Norwich bulletin., 1919-03-10
SECOND DECLARATION
OF INDEPENDENCE,

Washington, March 8.-The Repub-
liCan Publicity Association, through its
president Hon Jonathan Bourne Jr.,
today gave out the following state
ment from its Washington head
quarters:
The British W11sonian league Of
nations is dead, killed by the cour-
ageous action OF the republicans of
the senate in rising up at the critical
moment and signing their names to
document that amounts to prom
Use not to vote for the league if it
is presented to that body for ratifi-
cation. The reference to the repub-
lican 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 fatal
blight of the Wilson league. Here
tofore the slogan of the republicans
has been protection to American in
dustries from destructive foreign COM
petition. Still adhering to that prin-
/ ciple the party now assumes the new
| role of protector of American liberty
itself. Under the leadership of Lin
/ coin the republican party saved the
| Union in the eventful days of 81, and
now it has again come to the rescue
! of our imperilled institutions and
proclaimed to the world that govern
ment of the people, for the people, and
J by the people shall remain the birth
right OF Americans.
| Like n second declaration of indie
pendence rings the phrases of the res
olutions TO which 81 republicans OF
the next senate signed their names in
the closing hours of the most momen-
tous congress in the history of the
country. In one sense it is a docu-
ment of Tar greater import than the
| declaration that gave freedom to the
| American colonists. The population
Of the country at that time was less
than 5000, coo, possessed of national
wealth utterly insignificant when COM
/ pared with our present aCcummula-
tons. Now there are 100000 souls
within our boundaries and 300 billions
is not an overestimate Of our natiOna
resources.
"The declaration Of &c gave liberty
from foreign oppression to our fore
fathers. hequeathed them to theil
pOsteritN through 143 Years. The dec
iaration Of 10 assures the country o
Ia continuance of that liberty despite
tho attempts Of men now in temporary
control OF the executive to revert Il
The conditions before the Revolution
The tremendous development of tn
resources Of America that our law
and institutions have made possible
arc to he preserved for ourselves anC
our children: our Constitution is Il
rcmaiu the supreme law of the land
untrammeied by any regulations of
supcrstatc and the people, through
their representatives in congress, viii
continue 10 exercise the powers witt
which they are clothed, unhamperet
by limitations sought TO be placed up
on them III foreign schomers, assiste'
b. rcpudiated theorists from our owl
laud.
The DECLARE ton of sc saved tn
country from foes from without. Tn
Declaration of 10 preserves the coun
try from tho insidious poison injecte
into our veins by foes within ou
gates. Tho vile nostrums which tn
present day quacks put forth as vac
cination against fine ills of the futur
have been detected and denounced be
fore thcy had time TO work thei
malign influence and break down tn
structure upon which our very life a
. p nation hangs. The men who slgne
that document will go down in histor
I with tho famous signers of the declara
ZION that brought the United State
{ into being and the narplots VIII
would appoint European trustees fC
. orr liberties and wealth will fade int
3 the oblivion from which they came