The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-07-05
HURLEY URGES
 VIGIL A NCE BY
 ALL AMERICANS
In Fourth of July Address He Warns Against Work
 of Propagandists

enlist III the eAef-pIeeeaH '"H- fliet" against "Insidious propagan- da" of influences that woi id tend to break up the republic. was sounded yesterday by Robert Hur- ley in a brief but forceful address before a large Fourth of July crowd.
 MT. Hurley characterized the League of Nations as morbid. intellectual institution" and saw in it a trap that might lead the United States into entangling fore ign alliances.
 He warned against the proposal for a Federal department of edu- cation and urged education of the alien in true patriotism.
 Text of Address
 MT. Hurley said in part.
 To-day is the great day in the year for the American citizen and the one on which his mind turns back the pages of his country's history and visualizes the stirring events and heroic figures that made the birth of the nation a thing of reality. As we turn back the pages of history We re view the acts and deeds of the immortal Washington, Greene. Put nam. Gates Allen, Wayne, he bril- liant Benedict Arnold. who after yalorous service to this country, ir a fit of pique. succumbed to the seduction of English gold ard sui. fered the degradation of traitor. .'But the work of the Fathers, as we reyerently term them, was not yet finished when they signed the declaration of independence, for they were to give us that great human document, probably the greatest, the Constitution of the United States, the document that delegates certain powers to the national government and re- serves the rest 10 its citizens; that guarantees the free exercise of religious belief; freedom of the press; the sanctity of the home and person; trial by jury: the abolishment of slavery, aud the other rights and privileges there in provided.
 Work of Marshall
 And to give this great doclara- tion of human rights vitality anu vigor, to make of it living, sen tinet thing, there entered upon the scene, John Marshall, the great chief justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, with his able ally, Justice Story. This able fearless and zealous judicial off cer gave meaning 10 the Constitu ton without fear or favor, and his great legal opinions have come down through the years as the law of the land hardly impaired by the exigencies of time and circum stances.
 But there was one fostering cancerons sore on the body poll tic that refused to respond tC gentle treatment and that was thf slavery question as it is common ly known. That was the surface aspect of it, but the real, deep down, fundamental question to b' solved, was whether any state ol states could of it's or their owT violation, withdraw from the un Ion contemplated by the Constitu tion, without the consent of tho people thereto as a whole. The drastic treatment necessary to cure this ailment brought On the Wa of the Rebellion and gave us tho Great Emancipator, Abraham Lin coin, and with its passing tool him from us This terrible, ira tricidal conflict settled the ques tion forever, and bound the vari ous states in union that shal last down into the ages to come
 Ever Present Conflict
 But there is a conflict eve present with us, both external an lniernal, Ill Wnlcn every good clt Zen must take part, especially vo veterans of other wars, if you ar to continue to enjoy the right and privileges and immunitie guaranteed to you by our grea Constitution. External forces ar busy with insidions propaganda the effect that our Revolution wa mistake; that the great Was ington was a malcontent iufferin from frustrated ambitions to n bility; that John Hancock. a sig CTS of the Declaration of Indepen ence. was a violator of the lav that the great patriot Patrick He sy. was shyster lawyer with l