French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1919-07-03
THURSDAY, JULY 3rd, 1919
INDEPENDENCE DAY

pleasant memories-and more IS
here again. Tomorrow millions o.
patriotic Americans will join in fl
ting commemoration of the creates
event in the history Of the ReHuhlic;
the day one hundred torry-rhrce .yeals
ago upon which tGe first great step
by a small band OF men determined n.
longer to submit tC a%ut0cratic OErres-
sion. These fat1u' s and patriots &c
clared that Anc 'riHd should be free
and their dec!dr ltiol signihed more
than empty words.
A German king sitting upon an Eng
lish throne, with hordes of hireling
Prussians at his command, failed to
either intimidate or the Pill
grim Fathers who sought justice by
resort to arms. They made good the
threat to throw off the English yoke
and set up a government "of the peo-
pie, for the people, by the people,"
For years following the conclusion of
this struggle for independence the
world looked in derision upon the
progress of the idea of popular gov
eminent, expecting that it would soon
crumble and fall. But Washington
and his cOmpatriots builded upon
foundations that could not be shaken
and today American ideas of govern
ment are sought by nations and
principalities throughout the civilized
world.
The Providence guiding us as a
people in the first experiment in pOpu-
lar government has followed us step
by step to the greatest event in the
worlds history and enabled our in
comparable leader, Woodrow Wilson,
through the unstinted support of the
American people, to play the leading
role in removing the shackIes from
the oppressed multitudes of a bleed
ing world. AS the hand of oppression
was stayed by the surrender of Corn
wallis at Yorktown, so was the world
made safe for democracy when Ameri-
ca aligned herself with France and
England to push back the hordes of
rapines and p%lunderers in the late
and fearful war for human liberty.
The American people will assemble
this year for a two-fold purpose. In
dependence now signifies freedom for
America and the world. We are face
to face with the dawn of a new free
dom. Autocracy is dead. 1t never
had any right to live and has gone to
the scrap heap for all time. The
feelings of the lowly Nazarene have
been enthroned and will hencefortn
shine with a brilliance unparalleled In
all the ages. Our Great Deliverer
failed not. Let EXPLANATIONS of 10y
be unconfined.
But in recounting the deeds of dar-
ing during the early days of the Re-
public, let us keep in mind the names
OF the heroes whom it is our pleasure
to welcome back home from the fight
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ing line on the Western Front, and
those who made the SUPREME sacri-
fee and now lie smouldering under
the troubled soil of France that Ameri-
ca might remain q fit place i'm which
sqa @nplap u! peleIeI 1oqM 'eAH o.
story Of the late val will be the
most marvellous ever heard in all the
ages of the human race. and with it
the name of Woodrow Wilson and the
soldiers, who made victory
possible, will be inevitably linked.
Moth Carolina soldiers measured Up
to every requirement and we honor
them for the glorious record which
stands to their credit in this fearful
conflict between might and right for
world supremacy. Their deeds of de-
votion, of sacrifice, of duty done, that
makes possible this delightful mo-
ment when the civilized peoples every
where may join in appropriate cere-
to welcome the approach of
the new freedom.
We repeat: The wonderful accom-
plishments of America and the Amer1-
can soldier, since this country enter
ed the war is a record of the achieve
ment of the unparalleled, of the SEEM
ing impossible, and will form the
brightest chapter in the history or