The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-07-05
|D|MOND WARNS
 OF SUBV ERSIVE FORCES AT WORK
Delegate Hits at "Isms in Forceful Independence
 Day Address Here
Continued from Page One)

peace not alone of victory but what
 is far more important; of justice.
 On this day, above all others, we
 would do well to recall to mind the
 aims and ideals which were pro-
 claimed at Philadelphia on July
 4, 1776. and for which so many have since fought and died. We should here and now, to use the words of she immortal Lincoln, take re- newed devotion to the cause for which they then stood ready to give their last full measure of devotion,
 the cause of freedom and justice. Freedom and justice! The words are so often on the lips of men that we fail to realize their import.
 Freedom What is it? Any diction- ary can give us the definition. But the freedom we value is an ordered freedom, an intelligent freedom, a freedom under which all may enjoy fife and attain the greatest possible measure of happiness without any restraints except those which bind each person as member of society,
 and without any limitations of action or conduct except such as are necessarily imposed upon each in- dividual in order that every other person may enjoy like measure of freedom, But this freedom does
 not mean unchecked license, and our devoton to the ideal of freedom ought not lead us to support those
 who, under the protection of the flag of our nation and the freedom
 for which it stands, seek to tear
 it down and to substitute for it some other flag, red or black, the emblems, as we know by the ter rible examples before our very eyes, of disorder and persecution, of ter TOT and assassination, and of such tyranny and oppression as to shock the minds of civilized men.
 And today we should realize that the freedom which we value will not sustain itself; that it requires and demands unremitting watchfulness, and more. Some one has said that eternal vigilance is the price of lib- cry but that is only half the truth. Eternal combat is the price of lib- erty Our liberty was conceived in battle, born in battle, preserved in battle; and it must ever live by battle, and whenever the people of this land are unwilling to spend the last bit of their substance or to shed the last drop of their blood in the cause of their freedom, then that freedom, which is so justly our proudest boast, will h ave been doomed to death and oblivion, and this nation, like many another, will be merely the memory of blasted hope, shattered ideal, noble am- bition for the happiness of man kind which has failed of its purpose and it's promise.
 We may rightly think of that freedom, not as a cold, dead insen- sate thing, but as warm, living, all most incarnate, full of yigor and life, and vitality; and because it is alive, and in obedience to the very laws of life. fighting, fighting always that it may live and live only by it's power to defeat its enemies
 The freedom of the nation is con- stantly assailed both from within and from without. From within by those who enjoy the blessings of that freedom, but like detestable parasites seek to destroy that which gives them life and makes their ex- istence worth while; who clamor loudly for civil liberty for them selves in order that when they at tain power they may kill all liberty; and from without by those who mock at and deride the very idea of liberty and believe, with Napol- con, that God is on the side of the heaviest cannon. This day will have failed of its lesson and it's meaning if we do not here and now resolve to be eternally vigilant and to- eternally do battle with all of the dark and malign forces which open ly or covertly assail our freedom.
 Nor should we be So unintelli- gently selfish as we think of our selves alone. By the highest laws of morality, as well as by the rules of enlightened self-i n e est, we should give fair and sympathetic consideration to the welfare and aspirations for liberty of others. In modern times every part of the civil lized world has it's impact. social and political and economical, upon every ether part. Common sense suggests that we occasionally look beyond the boundaries of our own village, orI city, or state, or nation, and there, perhaps, to our advantage and en- eichment, we may find in other peoples or in other lands something worthy of our admiration or charity, or pity; or something so horrible that we shall be more than ever de- 5ermined to prevent a similar con- dition from arising in our own land
 o curse us with it's evil.
 And then justice What is justice?