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starting with the words-'.He has, etc.,' Then there are nine other charges of more general character, making a total of 27 indictments brought against the King and his government.

ft remains for Part 5 of the Declaration to state the gist and meat of the entire matter, .as follows: ..That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States, that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown, and that all political connec_ tion between them and the State of Great Britain is and ought to be totally, dissolved.,, Those are the exact words of the resolution that R. H. Lee introduced into the 2nd Continental Congress on June 7th, L?76. They are considerably different from Jefferson's original wording of this paragqaph, as may be seen in the rough draft of the Decla_ ration. But the Lee resolution went unchanged into Jeffer- son's final draft of the great pxap€r.

I suppose that in my lifetime I have read or heard more tftan a hundred eulogies concerning the Declaration of fndependence and the Fourth of July. My choice among them all is one that Col. Robert G. fngersoll, delivered at a Fourth of July celebration, and I shall quote from here to the end of this piece, from the opening paragraphs of his long oration. This should thrill you, folks. There have been no orators in this nation since fngersoll to compare with him, until Douglas MacArthur came along. This is fngersoll, * I

"The Declaration of Independence is the grandest, the bravest, the profoundest political document that was ever signed by the representatives of a people. It is the embodiment of physical and moral courage. I say of physical courage because it was a declaration of war against the most powerful nation then on the globe; a declaration of war by thirteen weak, unorganized colonies, a declaration of war by a few people without military stores, without wealth, without strength, against the most powerful kingdom on the earth; a declaration of war made when the British navy-at that day the mistress of every sea-was hovering along the coast of America, looking for defenseless towns and villages to ravish and destroy.

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"It was made when thousands of English soldiers were on our soil, and when the principal cities of America were in the possession of the enemy. And so I say it was the bravest political document ever signed by man. And if it was physically brave, the moral courage of the document is almost infinitely beyond the physical. They not only had the courage but they had the almost infinite wisdom to declare that all men are created equal. With one stroke of the pen they struck down all the cruel, heartless barriers that aristocracy, that priesthood, that kingcraft had raised between man and *lr. *

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"They struck down with one immortal blow that infamous spirit of caste that makes a God almost a beast, and a beast almost a God. With one word, with one blow, they wiped away and utterly destroyed all that had been done by centuries of war-<enturies of hypocrisy, centuries of injustice.

"What more did they do? They then declared that each man has a right to live. And what does that mean? It means that he has a right to make his own living, the right to breathe the air, to work the land, that he stands the equal of every other human being beneath the shining stars, entitled to the product of his labor-the labor of his hand and of his brain. What more? That every man has the right to pursue his happiness in his own way. GRANDER WORDS THAN THESE HAVE NEVER BEEN SPOKEN BY MAN.''

Converting Business to Wholesale

Timberline Lumber Co., 815 South Ivy Avenue, I\Ionrovia. Calif., is discontinuing its retail business, and will operate a wholesale distribution yard. The change was effective June 15.

Leslie T. Nelson, general manager, announces that they will offer direct car shipments as well as shipments from the yard of Douglas fir, redwood, ponderosa and Sugar pine, and White fir.