The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1927-07-07
in COMMUNICATION OF INDEPENDENCE
DAY SCOTT LEAVITT PRAISES PIONEER
Congressman From Second District Speaks to Throng at
Midland Empire Fairgrounds on Fourth of July

frontiers OF scientific discovery shoule
have been pushed far back into the
fields of valuable knowledge. that the
natural resources of a richly endowed
land should have been developed by
industry to beneficial purpose; that
the material wealth of the nation
should have been amassed to useful
ends, and that America should stand
among the nations the richest of them
all. We assemble in our pride today
and with uplifted hearts give thanks
for the founders of the government
which has guaranteed that we shall
be free, and likewise for the pioneers
of thought and deed who have blazed
for US the untried paths.
"But as we thus give thanks let
there come to us as fully that humble
reverence which stirs in our souls the
firm determination to preserve at once
the achievements and the inspired
ideals and purposes of those who
prepared for us the way
"But a few weeks ago journeyed
to Monticello where Thomas Jeffer-
son lived and where he lies buried. It
is enshrined on the top of a Virginia
mountain. From it in 1776 Jefferson
went forth to pen that immortal docu-
ment, the Declaration of independence.
"I stood uncovered beside his grave
and | looked with reverence upon the
delics Of his life preserved in the his
toric mansion. Among them I found
one which strangely held my attention.
1t was the remnant of the two-wheel-
ed cart drawn by single horse, which
driven by himself, had borne the pat
riot to Philadelphia to write that his
toric and inspired charter.
"A tWowheeled cart, the vehicle of
destinyl 1t is the symbol of that age:
primitive in material things, but in
spired in its conception Of it's human
duties and the rights of men, A two
wheeled cart, and yet it bore him who
was to pen words of hope and promise
TO all mankind.
But yesterday a youth of the re-
public leaped into the air and spanned
the sea. His was the modern vehicle
which symbolizes the startling pro-
gress of this age, the amazing ad-
vance of the young nation which the
Declaration made possible. With him
winged the spirit of peace and good
will to all the world Of an America
grown powerful and great. 1t was an
epochal deed, and yet the principles of
human right and justice and liberty
under law which rode in the heart and
brain of jefferson in the tWo-Wheeled |
cart Isl years ago are still the fixed
stars in the armament of our nation
al life and were the heart of Lind
bergh's message to the world. By
them we set our course, and from
them we will not depart. We read in
hem the very purpose of the existance
IT our nation, because their position
IS fixed in eternal truth.
"The Fourth Of July brings to us
and to our country each year that re
urn to first principles which we need. !
We recall Lexington and Bunker Hill
and Washington praying in the snow
1t Valley Forge; the victory of York
own; the convention out Of which the
constitution came; the youth of this
'epublic when ideals were clear and
sacrifice was endured that lasting
foundations might be laid
'In the commemoration of this day
We regain the clearness of our under
We recognize the duties of
'ur citizenship. We pledge to preserve
'ur heritage by preparedness for de-
ense on land and sea and within the
liked determination of our souls, that
We may transmit this our country and
is liberty giving institutions of gov
more powerful in material
strength, but no less devoted to JUS
ice and to purity, to the generations
yet to come"
MATT ORISKOVTCH