The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1920-07-02
DECLARATION OF
INDEPENDENCE

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This declaration is not new. 1t is
an historic document, the title of
l which only has been heard by too
l many American citizens. 1t is the
( declaration of war made by the peo-
5 pie of the British Colonies in Amer
lea, on the 4th day of July, 1776.
t Our forefathers fought for free
: dom from the oppression of a British
f king, overthrew his government in
5 America and established a govern
ment of, for and by themselves.
: That government has endured for
: 144 years.
: There have been times when that
government wandered from the prin-
ciples of the forefathers, but now it
is further away than ever before,
! But the fathers of the nation left
, all the necessary machinery to bring
back the country to that constitu-
, tional government which they estab-
= lished.
! Let it be done.
Let there be another declaration
VI Oll 4NONCIlIDCl anu
let it be the re-ratfication of the
old one.
You Americans who have felt the
oppression of the plutocracy which
now governs you have but to unite
and overthrow the oppressor.
This government is built on the
principle of majority rule-then over
throw the minority and rule your
selves. Do this with your ballots.
They are cheaper than bullets and
more effective.
Go to the polls in November de-
termined that you will have no more
of present conditions and the parties
who have made them.
You are Americans. Show the
world that you are worthy of the
name.
Read now the Declaration of In
dependencies:
In Congress July 4, 1776
The unanimous declaration of the
thirteen United States of America.
When in the Course of human events,
it becomes necessary for one people
to dissolve the political bonds which
have connected them with another,
and to assume among the powers of
the earth, the separate and equal sta
ton to which the Laws of Nature
and of Natures God entities them,
decent respect to the opinions of
mankind requires that they should
declare the causes which impel them
to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self
evident, that all men are created
equal, that they are endowed by their
Creator with certain unalienable
Rights, that among these are Life,
Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
That to secure these rights, Govern
ments are instituted among Men,
deriving their just powers from the
consent of the governed. That when
ever any Form of Government be-
comes destructive of these ends, it is
the Right of the People to alter or to
abolish it, and to institute new Gov
ernment, laying its foundation on
such principles and organizing its
powers in such form, as to them
shall seem most likely to effect their
Safety and Happiness. Prudence, in
deed, will dictate that Governments
long established should not be chang
ed for light and transient causes;
and accordingly all experience hath
shewn, that mankind are more dis
posed to suffer, while evils are suf-
ferable, than to right themselves by
abolishing the forms to which they
are accustomed. But when a long
train of abuses and usurpations, pur-
suing invariably the same Object
evinces a design to reduce them un-
D,c,o+,r,o, i hi,
right, it is their duty, to throw off
such Government, and to provide
new Guards for their future secur-
ity. Such has been the patient suf-
ferance of these Colonies and such
is now the necessity which constrains
them to alter their former Systems
of Government The history of
the present King of Great Britain
is a history of repeated injuries and
usurpations, all having in direct OBJ
| iect the establishment of an abso-
Lutte Tyranny over these States. To
prove this, let Facts be submitted to
candid world.
He has refused his Assent to Laws
the most wholesome and necessary
for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors
to pass Laws of immediate and press
ing Importance, unless suspended in
their operation till his Assent should
be obtained; and when so suspended,
he has utterly neglected to attend to
them.
He has refused to pass other Laws
for the accommodation of large dis
tricts of people, unless those people
would relinquish the right of Repre-
sentation in the Legislature, a right
inestimable to them and formidable
to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative
bodies at places unusual, uncomfort
able, and distant from the depository
of their public Records, for the sole
purpose of fatiguing them into com
/ pliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative
Houses repeatedly, for opposing with
manly firmness his invasions on the
rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time,
after such dissolutions, to cause 9th
ers to be elected; whereby the Leg
islative powers, incapable of Ami
hilation, have returned TO the People
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