Arizona republican., 1912-02-12

lie; reaffirmed and emphasized by the burning words and great spirit of Lin-
 coin, and finally sealed by his life blood. have broadened with the ad
 vancing years. While the principle and the democratic ideal are still the same. the vision is larger and richer and the men Of today in these years of the twentieth century nave tasks to meet and duties to perform 0f which our father; little dreamed a century. or even a generation ago: a Irsponsi- bility to each other, to our country, to all the world. civilized anI unCivilized. and finall- to God and His Christ, whose vision and leading can alone enable uS to see clearly and to do rightly In the words of our :eXt we are remiHded that before Him shall be gathered all nations"
 If the naticn does not stand for fairness, for honesty, for justice. for purity. for truth. for a Christian and Civilizing foIcc in the world. who is to blame but you and me? Let Us face the responsibility then like men and see what our duty is as We strive to help
 this great country of ours tc do its part in the worlds work, and 10 realize the great mission which God has given it to do. If it fails to do this then it surely will be called before the julg
 ment seat of Cod and destroyed from the fact of the earth.
 Its fate will be the fate of empires and states Cncc as mighty and domin
 ating as itself. of Babylon and its faithless king upon whose palace walls was traced the coming judgment; Thou art weighed in the balance and found wanting Of Rome losing its aUstere simplicity of life. its carly faith. it's Gemocratic ideals. becoming luxurious. tyranical and goddess; and thus losing :ts place forever among the nations of the earth.
 To warn us of the judgments of AL
 mighty God, even in modern days we have only t0 look upon the once proud ration of Spain, the most powerful state in Europe four centuries ago, dominating both sea and land. but now humiliatel in the dust. with none too poor tO her honor. Her ancient heri- tage gone because her children have become deDased in their moral life. weakened i.v incidence and ignorance, lost to faith in the vital principles of christianity, and inadequate to face the problems of new and noDler civ iliZation bC.ause she still rests in the shadow and amid the fading splendors Of the middle ages. The blow aimed at Ter totterinE tower fourteen years ago l,- +1,sg irNi hH~ the love of conquest, the greed for trade and territory. or even to revenge for insult wrulj have been an unholy| var. the mere inexcusable because it would have been the strong matched against the weak But we believe that the future historian will rightly record tbat the love of liberty, the hatred of oppression, which impelled our fath- CTS fathers in the outbreak of the American Revolution to fight even against the Mother land for the rights denied them. drove reluctantly at last this great country of ours hating war as she ought to hate it. to take upi arms: not in her own behalf but with i noble chivairy in behalf of her weak and suffering neighbor. cruelty wound i Cd and dying at our very doors
 In spite of the cry of the jingo and the demagosue that was heard in those days appealing to the baser instincts Of mankind We know that the spirit of revenge did not enter into the minds of those who stood at the helm. Some of Us know that in those troubled days the great soul of President Mckinley al I In n.at sense of responsibility laid upon him. and that he was sustained like his great predecessor by the inspiring thought that he was the instrument of Almighty God in. leading the nation op -o the vindication of eternal justice md right.
 We are forced by the far reaching