Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 185, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1920 — CLEAR CALL TO AMERICANS [ARTICLE]

CLEAR CALL TO AMERICANS

Year 1920 Should Be Remembered by All as Anniversary es Establishment of Free I netftution a Distinguished Americans, including William H. Taft, Charles Hughes and Cardinal Gibbons, have appealed to their fellow countrymen to remember and honor by local celebrations at any suitable time beginning June 4 the establishment of free Institutions in America. A great year Is 1920. Three hundred years ago beginning the 30th of last July, there was being held in Jamestown, colony of Virginia, the first American legislative assembly called by free men of lawful age and understanding. And during this time, with self-government at Its birth hour, the Pilgrims from England after a twelve years’ sojourn in Holland were making ready to establish In the new world a home of religious freedom. One year after the Virginians met, this Pilgrim band set sail for America, departing from Leyden, Holland, JUly 30, 1620. Furthermore let It not be forgotten that Nov, 11 is not only the anniversary day of signing of the Mayflower compact, second assumption by English colonies in America of the unalienable .right of self-govern-ment, but it Is also of the signing of the armistice closing the great war in which, as the above representative spokesmen point out, the descendants of the Pilgrims of New England and the cavaliers of Virginia and their kindred crossed the sea and won liberty together. A year with an imperative challenge to renew policies of Americanization and patriotic conse- 1 cration is 1920, and no community should be without Its religious and civic expression In acknowledgment of the past and tn dedication to the future.