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The .Springfield, Mass., Repub lican thus sets forth the claims of an ancient town of that State to share honors with our East ern neighbor for -a premature Declaration of Independence: The Mecklenburg declaration of independence, which Presi dent Taft has now helped to cele brate and to dignify, remains in the embittered field of historical controversy, notwithstanding the presence, in an official capacity, of the nations chief executive at the annual ceremonies. The as sertion that Mecklenburg county N. C., declared its unqualified in dependence of King George 111 and his parliament, on May 20, 1770, might be true; but, even if it were, the significance of the act seems susceptible of a ludi crous exaggeration. If the three tailors of Tooley street had de clared their independence of his majesty's government, the gliock to the British empire must have been no less profound than a similar manifesto by an issolated county in an American colony. It seems unnecessary to say that it was the joint Declaration of Independence by all the colonies that made the independence movement a reality. A county or a township, here and there, might have anticipated the Phila delphia convention, but the course of history would not have been changed had there been no Fourth of July. What may be called the Meck lenburgingof American history is 'delightfully illustrated by a claim recently put forward in be half of one of our most venera ble Massachusetts towns—Wren tham, no less. A resident of New York, whose ancestry goes Wrenthamward, has written to the Evening Post of that city a letter that should give pause to all supporters of Mecklenburg the great events of the past. If Mecklenburg county can claim to have declared its .independ ence of the crown prior to the action of the Philadelphia con vention, then why not the town ship of Wrentham? The claim ant of similar honors for Wrentham, Gilbert Hay Hawes by' name, call attention to the ' 'historical fact, not gen erally known, that in the little town of Wrentham, Mass., on the 6th day of June, 1776, there was promulgated a declaration of independence which was not only a stirring appeal, but an eloquent ?and forceful protest against British aggression." And it is further claimed that from the Wrentham manifesto Thom as Jefferson "borrowed" certain phrases and ideas when, a month later, he wrote the immortal and somewhat better known defiance of his majesty, the king. Cne finds from a perusual of the Wrentham document of lib erty that our doughty Wrentham forbears were thoroughly alive to the situation. "Whereas'' they resolved on the historic day in June aforesaid, "Tyranny and oppression obliged our forefathers to quit their peaceful habitations and seek an apylum in this distant land, against and howling wil derness . . ." The indict ment of the king's government that follows the preamble is an excellent example of hard-hitting revolutionary literature; and the final paragraph reveals the exact basis of the present claim that the town proclaimed a declara tion of independence before the Philadelphia convention did. "In short." concluded the town fath ers:— All hope of an accomodation is entirely at an end; a reconcilia tion is as dangerous as it is ab- It Pays. When the dimpled baby's hun gry, what does the babr do? It doesn't lie serenely and merely sweetly coo; The hungry baby bellows with all its little might Till some one gives it something to curb its appetite; The infant with tfce bottle which stills its fretful cries A lesson plainly teaches—it pays to advertise. The lamb lost on the hillside when darkness closes round Stands not in silence trembling and waiting to be found; Its plaintive bleating echoes across the vales and meads Until the shepherd hears it, and hearing, kindly heeds. And when its fears are ended, as on its breast it lies, The lamb has made this patent: It pays to advertise. The fair and gentle maiden who loves the boy Assumes when in his presence a manner that is coy; She uiushes and she trembles till he perceives at last And clasps her closely to him and gladly holds her fast; And as he bends to kiss her and she serenely sighs This fact is demonstrated; It pays to advertise,—S, EJ. Kiser in Chicago Record Herald, surd ; a reconciliation of past in juries will naturally keep alive anb kindle the flames of jealousy We your constituents, therefore, think that to be subject or de pendent on the crown of Great Britain would not only be im practicable, but unsafe to the state; the inhabitants of this town, therfeore, in full town meeting, unanimously instruct and direct you (that is, the rep resentatives) to give your vote, that, if the'honorable American Congress (in whom we place the highest confidence under God,) sheuld think it necessary for .the safety of the united colonies to declare them independent of Great Britain, that we your con stituents with our lives and for tunes will most cheerfully sup port them in the measure/' Mr. Hawes seriously asserts that what, on its veiy face, is nothing more than an instruc tion to Wrentham's representa tives in!the Massachusetts Legis lature how 10 act in a certain contingency constituted an ac tual declaration of independence. It is not for us to make light of Wrentham's glorious Revolution ary record. It sent five compa nies of well-organized minute men to Concord and Lexington before the people of Mecklen burg county, N. C., had become fully awake to the Icrisis. Wren tham already knew the grim reality of war while the Meck lenburgers were still slumbering on their North Carolina hillsides. And when Wrentham declared that it wouid support the cause of independence "most cheer fully" "with our lives and for tunes," it was trusting in the God of Oliver Cromwell and keeping its powder dry, Yet the present staggering claim in be half of Wrentham shows clearly where Mecklenburging must fi nally land us. The significance of the Meck lenburg declaration is very near ly up to a level with that of our old Norfolk county town. Single handed, Wrentham could have whipped Great Britain quite as rapidly as could the whole coun ty of Mecklenburg. Besides, Wrentham showed the more sense. For, conceding that Mecklenburg unqualifiedly de clared itself free and indipent as early as May, 1775, Wrentham, already in rebellion, was willing to keep step with Massachusetts, of which it was a part, and the other American colonies. And it was that spirit of unity which made America free. After all is said, however, it is Mecklen burging, as a form of distorting the perspective of history, in or der to flatter the pride of locali ties, that one must protest against. A Credit to Hickory The Raleigh News and Obser ver had this to sav recently about a well known Hickory in stitution: The First Building and Loan association of Hickory was organ ized April 3. 1890. The first offi cers were: J. D. Elliott, presi dent; J. A. Martin, vice presi dent; J. A. Bowleg secretary and treasurer, E. B. Cline, attor ney. Directors H. C. Latta, 0. M. Royster, D. W. Schutar, D. M. McCombs, Frank Laugh ran, S. E. Killian. Of these gen tlemen Messrs. Elliott, Killian and Cline have served the asso ciation continuously in some offi cial capacity. Starling in a small way the growth of the associa tion was slow for a number of years as the collapse of the Na tional Building and Loan associa tions made our people distrust all associations, and it was rot until after the successful matur ing of several series of stock that the confidence of the commun ity was gained. The association has been fortunate in its officers and directors, and has - always been carefully managed. In the nineteen years of its existence there has not been a single loss. At this time Hickory will com pare very favorably with any of the cities in the State in the pro portionate number of shares of stock in force to the population. The association have recently purchased a building adjoining the city hall, and are arranging to fit it up with all necessary con veniences for the handling of their rapidly growing business. The officers now are: C. H. Geit ner, president; J. D. Elliott, vice president; W. R. Wooten se cretary and treasurer; E. B. Cline, attorney. Directors. A. A. Shuford, J. A. Martin, C. H. Geitner, W. B. Menzies, J. A. Lentz and S. E. Killian. A Matter of Business. An exchange makes the fol lowing timely remarks: Don't get it into your head to pay the newspaper man as an act of charity—that he has to live, and feel that you had just as well help a little. A newspaper is just as legitimate a business as the dry goods or grocery busi ness, and it is just as necessary to the building of the town and country in which it exists as any other business. Further than that, every man in the county gets benefit from the paper whether he is a subscriber or not. The editor does more for the de velopement of the country than any other one man, if he has the good of the country at heart. Don't figure that he has to be an editor to make a living either. The majority of them can do other things, too. "So, as you are getting bene fit from the home paper, don't you think you ought to subscribe for it and help the editor to do a good work —not as an act (f charity, but as a matter of busi ness and self interest? We do." Scared Them All. A paper in a good sized town in Oklahoma recently published the following: "The business man of this town who is in the habit of hug ging his typewriter had better quit,or we will publish his name.' The next day 37 business men called at the office paid their sub scriptions, and left behind them 37 columns of advertising, and told the editor not to pay any attention to .foolish stories.-Bot tlers Gazette. Democrat and Press, Consolidated r905 | Miss Liberty Holds ft ff WmtSk J considering she Is 132 N . r , \&£/YI TL w years old on the Glorious Tl jft Fourth. She is like our U uriUM 1 jewelry in that respect. does not detracat of eveary article in %. * you good jewelry we /f I Fvf AOB & RHODES | .'¥ Jeweler's and Opticians VV A| Hickory, 2 : IN. 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