The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1914-11-09

stands, and which brought her into be-
ing For in this favored land was first
established and is slowly being work
ed out to completion the great princi-
pie of equality before the law; the
principle that maintains that no man
shall find the circumstances Of his
birth or his station in life, however
humble. a bar to his advancement to
the highest honors or emoluments his
country can bestow. The progress tc-
ward the full fruition Of that ideal at
times seems slow; sometimes it seems
to be backward instead of forward
The violent extremes of a small priyi-
legged class bent upon exploitation and
CT an almost equally dangerous class
whose excesses prove that they have
mistaken liberty for license are not
encouraging signs but deep in the
heart of every loyal izen is the
hope, amounting to conviction, that
some day, in some way, these evils
will be righted by the orderly process
Of law and the growing sense of jus
tice and fair play that is one OF the
predominant characteristics of the
Anglc-Saxon race We grow impa-
tient, sometimes with the arrogance
Of our aristocracy Of wealth, Of the
laws delays. OF corruption in politics
but the truth remains that we live in
a better world than ever before .or
tyranny of late has cunning grown,
yet every day it is compelled to as
sumo new habiliments that it may re-
tain its loosening hold upon the peo-
pie The truth is that oppression of
the poor was never so profoundly hat
cd as now: that in the hearts of the
people there was never such a strong
desire for justice between man and
man, or that righteousness should
more and more prevail. 1t is black
Gay indeed for any man when he be-
gins to despair for his country
War is a great evil, but there are
greater evils and it has seemed, in the
past, that these greater evils could
only be removed by war. If for the
words American slavery in the par
agraph quoted above we substitute the
words European militarism,' we have
parallel that should strike the mos.
heedless and | believe that it is the
same spirit in which Lincoln uttered
these words that Great Britain has
gone into the greatest war of all
times, a course which, it should never
be forgotten, she could have easily
avoided had she wanted to palter with
her national honor | knew the spirit
that sometimes animates my country
in Canada at the present moment,
can family realize what it will cost
them. ] can family realize the poig-
nant anguish, the sorrow unspeak'
able that will visit many Canadian
homes before the close Of this war. |
can family realize the agony of her
soldiers dying on the battlefield and
the agonized suspense of the sleepless
nights and weary days of those who
watch and wait at home. Who caa
| describe the infinitely worst part OF
it; the tearing apart of sacred family
ties the destruction of the fondest
hopes of loving hearts that have been
built upon the future careers of the
lads that 60 to war No pen can de-
\ scribe IT, We have a glimpse Of it in
/ Byron's matchless lines penned the
year after Waterloo, in speaking OF
the mourning in the British isles after
that epoch making battle
"They mourn, but smile at length;
and, smiling, mourn
And thus the heart will break, yet
brokenly live on
SO Canada, the nearest and best 10y.
ca neighbor of the United States, is
under no delusion in this conflict that
is every day assuming more gigantic
proportions and the result Of which
is entirely unforeseen. She has count
ed the cost and made up her mind and
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