Toledo Hungarian-American Weekly, 1930-07-04

eight years of long, hard and Hon. Judge James Austin Jr. dubious warfare, and four more years of internal strife before a constitution instituting a government to preserve those rights and carry out those ideals was framed. It has taken 91 years for us to acknowledge that neg negroes - roes negroes are men in the constitution and 144 years for women to be regarded as a part of mankind therein. Shall we con conclude - clude conclude therefore with some of the Scoffers that the Declara Declaration - tion Declaration is only a group of glittering generalities? We have grown more mature and also more serious with the years. We can even confess that in all things our beloved Country is not supreme without having our patriot patriotism - ism patriotism seriously challenged. Often mayors are issuing their proclamations for a Safe and Sane Fourth. With the growth of our population and national influence, we are losing the bombastic and boastful Spirit of our youth and coming true greatness in the recognition and confession of faults and failings a premonition of coming disaster. We do well in reverting annually to the Spirit of '76; our Forefathers dreamed of the typical American, and saw with inspired vision an America that was and is yet to be. Even now those typical Americans appear occasionally among us and we call them men ahead of their times. The men of '76 said: "And for the support of this "Declaration, with a firm reliance on the Protection of "Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our "Lives, our Fortunes and our Sacred Honor", the signers were largely the young men of their time. Some of the principal signers were Hancock .'{9 years of age, John Adams 41, (Jerry 33, Hopkinson 29, Push 31, Thos. Jeffer Jefferson - son Jefferson 33, Rutledge 27. An encouraging sign of our times is that young Ame America - rica America of 1917 was ready to sacrafice life, fortune and Sacred honor for an ideal in the World War. Even if we havej fallen short of thg ideals of the Declaration, we do well to Honor those set them before us for our Social and Political Standards. Though the ideals mean perfection and that way be unattainable, yet if one after another strives continuously to reach it, the struggle will always be noble and the living ever higher and higher. "Let us then be up and doing With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing Learn to Labor and to Wait."

In 1776 when the Colonists declared it "to be self evident "that all men are created "equal, that they are endow endowed - ed endowed by their Creator with "certain rights; that among "these are Life, Liberty and "the pursuit of Happin'ess." "That to procure these "rights, Governments are ins instituted - tituted instituted among men deriving "their just powers from the "consent of the governed", fireworks, bell ringing, voci vociferous - ferous vociferous clamor and riotous assemblages followed upon the promulgation of their Declaration among the 3, 3,000,000 - 000,000 3,000,000 Colonists. It took