Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 June 1908 — The Presidential Salute. [ARTICLE]

The Presidential Salute.

The American presidential salute Is twenty one guns, as is the English royal salute; but the reason why just twenty one guns are fired .s oDscure. Antiquarians have put forth different theories as to this. One states that seven was the original salute; but that In England this was given three times, once for 3cotland, once tor Ireland, and once for England. Some declare that the American salute Is twenty one guns because the sum or the numbers 1,7, 7, 6 (the year of the Declaration of Independence) Is, twenty one.