The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1938-09-15
Nation To Observe
Constitution Day

The Montana State Society of the
Sons of the American Revolution
bv the Executive Secretary, Leslie
SuIgrove, Director Montana OBJ
servance, requests statewide cell
ebration of the One Hundred and
Fifty-first Anniversary OF the COM
pletion and signing of the Articles
of the Constitution" on Monday,
September IT, 1887, by the Colonial.
Delegates: thus founding our re-
public and a nation, the nations
birthday.
Almost unnsticed for 100 years,
the event and date were resurrected
ON September ~, 1917, and named
Constitution Dry" by the found
or, David Lawrence Plerson, nus
torian, Gef<oxnl National Society
S. A. r., which date and name
were accepted by this patriotic or.
ganization, and added to the list OF
Revolutionary observance.
Compatriot Barid Lawrence Pier.
son. founder of Constitution Day,
passed away, aged 70, of heart at
tack. at his heme. in East Orange,
New Jersey, On Monday, July IL,
1888. His leadership will be sadly
missed, but his name will be for
ever linked with the great docu-
ment which Is the foundation of our
nation: 1.-The Rock upon which our
proud nation has stood and grown
throughout the years" Within a
few months of his demise he was
finally honored by the nation, as
resolutions were adopted by the
legislature of New Jersey, the Ma
tional Society, S. A. R., and the
congress of the United States, rec
ognizing him as the Founder of
this Day we Celebrate Some
comments should be made on his
life-work on his DAY"
BY request of the Montana State
Society S. A. r. was issued this
Proclamation
BY
Governor Roy E. Ayers
THE authority of the government
was established by the adoption of
its Constitution on September II,
1887. AT that time it was not with
in the dream of the most fantastic
imagination of all of the world that
governmental authority could ever
exert itself by the consent Of the
governed. The idea of the world at
that time was that all governmental
authority must be inherited, handed
down and preserved through fam
lily tree The adoption of our Con-
stitution gave birth to democratic
government and brought to life this
nation which has since demonstrated
to all of the world that all gov
ernments must depend for their sue
cess upon the will of those to be-
governed, and not upon hereditary
authority. Our Constitution ha!
been the real beacon light to tina
end, for by its strict preservation
this government has reached thu
top rung in the family of nations
and our family tree, has been nj
other than the will of the people tt
be governed.
mo American can do more fol
his country than to follow this grea
fundamental and basic law of TIL,
land, and in order to do that HI
must keep himself familiar will
its terms. Having this in mind thu
twenty fifth legislative assembly o
this state designated the date o
THIS anniversary III the duoplltl U
it as Constitution Day" lega
holiday
Now, therefore, |, Roy Z. Ayers
Governor of the State of Montan
do hereby proclaim, Saturday, tn
seventeenth day of September. 1895
as the day for all Montana to Civ
special attention to the precepts an
terms and conditions of the Con
stitution of the United States, and
respectfully urge all of our peopl
to appropriately observe it as Cor
stitution Day, and | particular
urge that all public schools an
high schools of the state observe
by appropriate exercises in CON
memoration thereof"