Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 157, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1918 — Governor Goodrich Urges State To Observe French Bastille Day [ARTICLE]

Governor Goodrich Urges State To Observe French Bastille Day

On the fourth day of July the people of France celebrated the birth of the American Republic. On Sunday, July 14, the people of France will commemorate the one hundred and twenty-ninth anniversary of the fall of the Bastille, an event which sounded the death knell of autocracy in France and the birth of the republic. Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States, has asked for a suitable observance of this day in our own land. Every patriotic American likes to think of the friendship which has ever existed between his country and the French people. It was a friendship in the hour of travail when a new republic was born into the world. The friendship which has been* cementea by a common ideal and a friendship which will grow stronger and stronger as we join our common efforts to drive the last vestige of despotism and autocracy from the face of the earth. The city of Indianapolis will commemorate the fall of the Bastille on Sunday, July 14, and I therefore urge the citizens of , Indiana to join theta in a proper observance of the day, and thus demonstrate that we have not forgotten the great debt of gratitude we owe them for the help they gave us in the cause of liberty in the dark hours of the Revolution. JAMES P. GOODRICH, Governor of Indiana.