The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-10-26
SHOWS PATRIOTISM OF PEACE
Traces History of the Nation to Show
that Valor Built Up Great Plan of
Regulation and Not License-Large
Crowd Hears Him.

Friday evening at the Park Avenue
| M. E. church the Hon. J. Frank Hanly,
former governor of Indiana, spoke to
| a large and enthusiastic audience at
| the second of >the series Of entertain
ments given by the Adult Bible Glass.
The subject of former Governor Han
| ly's address was patriotism of
Peace In his opening remarks he
stated that he was here to plead for
civic reform, a saloonless land, clean
politics and a warless world. The ad-
dress was given in a mastery way and
was enthusiastically received by the
$50 people present.
The governor took his audience back
to the time of the founding Of the ma
ton and described the founding Of the
country by the forefathers through the
several crises of the early nation where
citizens stood for the right without
fear and built up the idea of liberty
regulated by law and equality of men,
"Then after 1875 years of such teach
ing and training he continued, ''men
try to construe this to mean the right
of license to secure gain for selfish pur-
poses" This thought ran all through
the former governors speech and he
showed that the revolution and the war
of 1912 were only means to this end
and we're instrumental in establishing
the principle 'Fthat liberty should be
regulated by law
He spoke of the civil war. The ma
tion had sown the wind for $50 years
and now for four years we reaped the
whirlwind. He said for $50 years
men had been driven in bondage by
the whip and lash of their masters and
now III four years it was paid for in
blood of the noble manhood of our ma
| ton shed by shot, she'll and sabre,
i" You wonder why I paused to tear
these pages from history" said the
governor, Fbut out of the past comes
the people marching to Immortality and
the memories of the blue and the gray
form priceless heritage to a united
people and show the value Of free
Institutions and of liberty regulated
by law
The true patriotism according to the
ex-governor definition is the passion
to obey law and although the patrio-
tism Of war calls for noble sacrifices
and stirring deeds the patriotism of
peace often calls for greater ability
and more courage than the stirring
scenes of war and carnage.
1T was our father s privilege to es-
tablish liberty and it is ours-~to pre-
serve 1t" was an expression that
brought forth much applause. The ex-
governor said that he thought it was
the divine purpose for this nation to
became the habitat Of great people
who could give the world a correct
idea of the value of liberty regulated
| by law and whenever there was need
for great man to lead the people he
was brought forth and took the lead
and brought the people safely through
the crisis. ExGov. Hanly said that he
was against the idea expressed by
Roosevelt that our army and navy
would grow so large that all the world
| would fear us and he expressed it as
his greatest desire that all nations
would hold US in the highest respect
and honor for our greatness in civil
and industrial pursuits
''The enemies of our country are not
in foreign lands,y' said the ex-governor,
but they are right here in our midst
and as long as debauchery, corruption
and graft run riot we are not safe
| The former governor said that there
was no exception to the places where
graft existed. It could be found from
| Maine to California and even I'M our
own state it might be well to investi-
gate certain things and even in this
city traces of this graft system could
be found by anyone who cared to look.
This is largely due to the saloons the
ex-governor contended and the day
will soon be here when these forlorn
hopes of temperance, a world disarmed
and corruptionless nation, would be
as firmly established as the other one
time forlorn hopes of civil liberty, a
representative government, religious
freedom, adjustment of slavery, and
even the Christian religion.