The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-05-02
A Sermon of Sterling Worth to
the Stay-at-H Homes.
A DUTY TO BE A LINGO
Stand Loyalty by the Country While the
Boys Are Facing the Enemy-One
War for the Old Fashioned
Principle OF Liberty.


Tabernacle there was preached a SER
mon to the stay-at-homes. While the
soldiers who have enlisted for the war
attended service at various churches.
the stay-at-homes gathered in the old
tabernacle and were preached TO by
Rev. Jerry Rounder. In the course OF
his remarks the preacher said:
Some of you are staying at home
from preference and some are staying
at home from necessity. Some OF you
are anxious to go to the front. hut are
not given a chance. You may have an
opportunity yet before this war is over
to move on the enemy. Some of you
are staying at home because you have
families to supper and you do not see
Just how your family will be supported
III you throw up our $3.50 "a day job
to work for 46 cents a day. Others are
staying at home because they don't like
war. anyway. or don't approve of the
war. or for any one of a dozen other
reasons.
1t is not my purpose in these few
remarks TO enter into a discussion of
your reasons for staying at home, but
TO say what j think ought to be the
conduct of those of us who are at home.
And, In the first place, | want 10 say
that ever we who are staying at home
can stand by the flag and be patriotic.
III We can't be soldiers we can be lin
goes. and the man who isn't a lingo
when his country is at war Is a very
unsatisfactory sort of a patriot. I'm
time of war IL Is the duty of an Ameri-
can citizen TO stand ny his country.
whether right or wrong. | admit that
the constitution Of the United states
grants freedom of speech To all it's citi-
zens, but i deny the right of any citizen
to criticise his government or his coun-
try when there is a common enemy. 1t
is the duty of the stay-at-homes to
shout for America. To yell enthusiastic
cally for the boys who are going 10 sup
port them. admire them. cheer for them
and in all cases stand loyalty by the
country and by the leaders who are
conducting the war. Jump on the OFF,
Gals. If you please, in times Of peace.
But these are war times, and all must
be one.
II heard IL remarked the other day
by N who is not going to the from;
that this war is an outrage, q crime
against humanity and civilization, that
II could not be justified on any grounds.
j would like to have that man tell me
when in the past century there has
been a war more justihable. | ppo
that mans idea OF a justifiable war is
when you throw a few Maxim guns into
the barbarian blacks of Central Africa;
i suppose that man would cheer with
greatest enthusiasm at "A victory of
modern cannon and modern arms over
the half-civilized and scantily armed
natives of Northern India. or the Hovas
OF Madagascar. Or the unwarlike Chi
nese or the Indians of American West
ern plains. nat is one kind of military
glory. j think there is a better quality
of glcry to be obtained 10y akin the
part OF the small dog I'm the fight. |
am glad to see the century redeemed
at it's close by having one war for the
AZ flE hfnna1 nRfpaH.Ia ~ lsA.atF -
glad 10 see one more wal for a principle
more righteous than conquest! 1t may
be a glorious thing to NOV down hordes
of blacks with modern guns and wrest
from them ihe lands they have pos
sessed from time immemorial. but / pre-
fer the glory which frees rather han
subdues; hat glory which Furnishes the
tyrant, gives a helping hand to the
down-trodden and advances another
stride the righteous cause of liberty!
IF our forefathers were justified i'm
against the rule of Great Brit
ain i'm revolutionary times. then a hun
dred times more are the Cubans justi-
fed in seeking to free themselves from
the %tyrannical yoke of Spain. For the
government Of Spain in Cuba has been
more cruel and oppressive
than was the rule Of Britain I'm America.
III France was justified i'm helping to
America her freedom. then surely
<tiilffltd u JuSlllth III ntiplnS 10 Tree
Cuba. If IL is not the right and even
the duty Of this country to fight for the |
oppressed, then liberty. fraternity and
equality are empty terms and glory IL
a thing of conquest only. For a quar-
ter OF a century the wars Of the world
mainly been wars against bar 4,
barian tribes by the great powers Of
Europe. which are engaged in the par
of Africa and of Asia. II is we'll !
that the great powers OF Europe should
that over on his side of the |
water the spirit of 70 still lives: that
is SIN not only the land of
the free bu; the home of the brave:
that II Is ready now as ever To engage
IN a righteous war for liberty's sake
and is not afraid To try the fate Of arms
against a people more formidable than
Hovas. Ashantees. Abyssi-
hines and Indians.
1T is said that .he war will be most
expensive and that America will lose
much in money and in men and can
gain nothing in return. If. indeed. il
be true that there is no recompense in
a liberty-loving people from
4 tyrant's grasp. nevertheless the war .
will prove a paying one. The war will
pay IL 1t does no more than cement the
and South into a union once
To-day the men of the North
md the men of the South. who bitterly
against each other a generation
are marching side by side with
loyalty under the same old flag
he flag Of our common country. After
his war no man Will be able TO say
hat this country Is divided. that there
5 d~isloyalty anywhere. There will he
no waving OF the bloody shirt after this
war. Ii will be worth millions of trea-
'ure and rivers of blood to have this
cemented and unified. and
can do that so enectually "a
he marching of the men Of the North
the men Of the South under one
against a foreign foe,
T those VINO stay az home. there
ore. ! say that the war is honorable.
he war h. righteous. the war T. Just.
comes. stand by your country
nd shout for the flag Indulge In no
criticism. DO not get lmpa-
lent. Trus; the var to those VINO are
their lives In II and support
hem Loyalty. BE ~jingoes. do not
Ipprove Of the style Of lingo who would
leedlessly rush his country into war.
,ut when war is nm IL IL the duty of
very American citizen to be a iinyo,