Bill Cunninghom's Fourfh of July Orqtion

We wish that every man, woman and child in this nation could have listened on July 3rd to Bill Cunningham's flag-waving oration about the United States and her Fourth of July. Mr. Cunningham, as you may or may not know, is a Boston newspaperman who writes a powerful column on political subjects, and likewise makes a fine and stirring speech.

And he turned himself loose that day. The patriotic speech lasted no more than seven or eight minutes, but it must have warmed the heart of every true American who listened. for it was the kind of talk that Americans need so sorely to hear in these strange days.

Having no script at hand and only our recollections from hearing the speech that one time, we can only attempt to give you the gist of his remarks. First, he erased with bold strokes of word and phrase, all the dividing lines that ever existed in this American nation. He said there is no longer a North or South or East or West, but that we are all one solid nation, strong, and proud, and capable of doing together more good than any nation in all history.

And he reviewed our past' He said we should remember that there is not a scar, not a cloud on our history. We have never invaded any other land for any selfish purpose, never enslaved any people, never took anything by force that belonged to others; we have stepped out several times to rescue those who deserved to be rescued from the forces of evil, and when we did we made a job of it. Tliere is nothing in our entire history that we need be ashamed of ; that only pride is our heritage as we look back over the years. We are an honest, honorable, friendly, helpful people with no wrong designs on anyone, no acts of the past that we need dePlore.

And the Fourth of July is the time to cry those truths frorn the housetops, and the time to drive into the minds of our children these proud and blessed facts. Not America the international, but America the Beautiful and the honorable, the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave. Thanks, Bill Cunningham, for that mighty sermon. We need something like Ihat-CONSTANTLY.

As Tom Jefferson wrote into the Declaration of Independence, "We hold these truths to be self-evident.!'

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