Putnam patriot., 1909-06-25
THE PUTNAM PATRIOT June a5 1909

fence of human freedom. You hapiy buiit better than you knew, but 50 does every man who builds with God.
 And ! do you no injustice whan l set 'up the claim that fho-e Of us who were called to service in the spanish Amefi- can waf-a war which was fought ayowedly not for our own sake but for the sake Of people not even within the boundaries of our county, represented yef more advanced phase Of the mui- tifogm principle of human liberty. We were not brayer than you, nor were our satferings to be conpafed with yours, ! but that war promulgated, and sus- taiHed by blood, sentiment Saic n means The ultimate extinction Of ma. tionai injustice even to it's own sub jeeis.
 IL Is true that every phase of mans striving to be free k related to every other phase. They have in them common genius and spirit. II is true that no man ever fought for the freedom Of smother without, in sense, fighting for the freedom of all others. II is truer still that no man ever fought for the freedom of another without at the same time fighting for his own freedom. When the slaves were freed, every white man Tn this country, North and South, WAS a freer man.
 IL was no wholly unselfish motive that prompted either Lincoln, our first, or Mckinley, our second Emancipator, to say to tyranny: "stay thy lashR, And when we see today the snows of of Russia red with the life-tints Of her subjects, and the hill-sides of Turkey running with the blood Of thousands, slaughtered by rapine; when we look to the millions in dark lands who are yet in every form of bondage, 1t will be well 10 remember that no land on this globe Is wholly free while any land Is in bonds.
 Sometimes the Emancipator must himself be emancipated. Sometimes liberty itself takes loo much liberty, and reduces VI ole classes to slavery.
 We are told, and told truly, that there are Industrial and social liberties yet 10 be won in this country befora a complete and healthful demoerscx c,, prevail. Neither al home nor abroad 'ean tae gifss,s z 4, eg which you enlist. cd rest where 1t now is
 It matters not what theories some men may hold. 1t matters not what may be the time-serving shout of the political opportunlst, or how inert con servatism may say: "Let us attend to our own business and let other classes or other nations go on abusing the less fortunate ones The best sentiment Of our age, political as we'll AS religious, endorses q brayer and nobler course. We must advance to yet other stages of this long, long, conflict. Sadly enough your Grand Army will soon be gone, but If liberty be true to her own best conceptions, we shall not forget you WHtu NOu Wttb kindred, but will eontiue these observ- ances and go on 10 other phases of your cause. Go on in the spirit of the rug ged heroes who fought for their own personal freedom: Go on in the spirit of the fathers who won our civil indepen- dence: Go on in the spirit which ami mated vol when Southern battlefieids were swept beneath your victorious feet: Go on until mans love of his fel- low man shali make him give his life for the extermination of war itself: Go on till we reach a full measure of the spirit of Him who sanetiiied himself for the salvation of others, and who de- clared: "lf the Son shall make you you free, ye shall be free indeed!'