Evening journal., 1920-07-03
FIGHT ron THEM,

T,AKE time, right now, Delaware noghbor. to get
A these Fourth Of July facts straight and vivid
IT'S your day. dedicated to your liberties Fight for
those lbertes-your personal Individual lberties-any
day any minute at the drop Of The hat-when anybody,
hish or low, steps on them.
That goes whether you are a now American with your
second papers Just issued or the greai-erandson Of
pilsrim who kicked the first moss on Plymouth Rock
Your "inalienable rsht to life liberty and the pursuit
q happiness flung denantly in the Teutonc face
OF autocrac old pronieer just i4i years ago today
Brave men nung IT, Brave arc needed today There
are other auiocrale pronteers now more cunning and
more tricky than frumpy frowsy George the Third
Watch them, and swat them.
But that wonderful Declaration wasn't enough So the
Fathers wrote another piece 10 make u plain solid
1.-The Constitution. They said 1--WE. the people
order to secure the blessings or liberty 10 our
selves and posierliy do ordain and establish this
Constitution"
The ink not dry 10 before lawyers began 10
Quibble and superior people began walk all over the
right OF common folks So. TO make u dead sure the
Fathers quickly adopted amendments They wrote II
bold and straight that government must never
sbridge free Speech free press free assembly, that no
policeman deputy sheriff should ever search your
drag you from u without due process OF law
that judge proud petty should sentence you
to prison without fair, public trial
The Fathers won their liberty by lighting for H..
against DIG ODDS You VIII nave 70 ngnt also, DO keep
your liberties Eternal vigilance is the price And It's
worth itl
Whenever the lawful rights OF any American citizen
violated your liberties are lmpered You are apt
10 forget this sometimes when you think man deserves
just what he seis when you absolutely out Of sym
paihy With the victim. II autocrat ramples today
the lawful rights of friendess woman and gets
away with it-look out Tor yourself tomorrow
And most OF ALL remember that the Stars and Stripes
lie nac Tnr u.sIo oHu IA.
wraps about himself desecrates it There's red In H.
ooihe good red blood Of slrong men who died TO hoist
and to keep anoat BE ready. like them fight for
it, then, If you are red-booded-and to hight for an Il
symbozes of hfe liberty and The pursuit Of happiness"
"Why Is the Fourth OF July2~
To induce 10 read the Declaration.
And to attempt TO understand IT,
u would be Illuminating 20 know how many Amer-
cans do read and do understand IT,
Ask me next Gen citizens you meet TO quote the gis
oft
Ask yourselfl
Not to enbarrass you, here his,
we hold these Truths to be sef-evdent,
mat all men are created equal,
that they endowed by their Creator with certain
inaiienabe rights
that among these are Life. Liberty and the pursul
Of Happiness.
that to secure these rights Governments are insti
tuted among men, deriving their just powers from th
Consent OF the Governed
that whenever any PORN Of Government becomes des
tuc'e to these Ends, it is the rish OF the People
alter OF abolish H." etc
No" begin al he beginning ask your ten citizen
whether they endorse the statements made
II iVe out OF ten do not deny the 1rst clause your
lucky in scquainances
Al men created equal Haw Hawl
abraham Lincoln and Uncle Toni
Leonardo da Vinci and Reuben Boobi
ME andSohn Smith Equais2 Woww
Yet Jefferson neither says intmaies that a bln
man equals an astronomer in eyesieht
that one-arned cripple equals Dempsey in the rim,
that an iiliieraie write plays like Shakespeare
WHAT ne does say is that they have equal title to "cel
tain unalenabe rights"
Because Dempsey has the physical provess 10 take n
life OF she ene-aruasd does not eniitle him to do