The Republican journal., 1914-06-04

whole generation and then by few
well-advertised benevolences be marked
up o. K. There is no plaudit for his
name. History will rank him among the
unfortunate and despised. Do not mis-
understand; this is not war against a
man so much as against the system that
controls the man. As in 81 the true
patriot had no personal feelings against
his Southern brother, but the system
that was menace to the land and threat
ened the overthrow of our republic; SO
today it is the system by which the man
is controlled that we are fighting, and
the battle flags of righteousness are be-
ing borne to the front. We may guess
what will become of the man controlled
by the system, but we know that the
golden god he worships will be ground to
powder.
Wars and rumors of wars! wars social!
wars intellectual and religious wars!
Sin ard shame. hostile to manhood and
country brought up in battle array
against truth, righteousness and pat
riotisp1. He who lives in the broadcast
sense rejoices again and again in the
armies of Gods noblemen marching to
the front. Before closing l want to
speak of one war that greatly interested
Abraham Lincoln. On the day Of his
assassination he was holding the hand
of Major Merwin when he said: 1--WE
have cleaned up by the help of the peo-
pie colossal job, slavery is abolished.
After reconstruction, the next great
question will be the overthrow and aboli
ton of the liquor traffic; and you know
that my head and my heart and my hand
and my purse will go into that work. l
predicted, under the influence of Gods
spirit, that the time would come when
there would be neither slave nor a
drunkard in the land. | have lived to
see, thank God, one Of those prophecies
fulfilled, l hope to see the other realized. -
Oh, Lincoln of sacred memory, thou
nan of true prophetic vision, once more
the armies of the Republic are marching
up to AppomattoX.
Gentlemen, | hope some of you men
will live to see the day when the demon
king with his rebel hosts shall cease to
drive, in his, blood-stained chariots, his
royal horses over the heart strings of
women and children, and bind strong
men with chains of hell. Already he is
losing; the chariot wheels are dragging
hard; the chains are growing rusty; the
fire in the eye of the foaming steed is
dying out. In his last hope this unscrup-
ulous demoralizer of every class in our
nation is pouring his ill-gotten Golfers
into this great war of the republic.
But we are learning that the boys in
blue left, at the close of the war, such a
heritage of patriotism that, as in your
war, so in this great war, the finest and
strongest of our American citizens are
volunteers in this heroic fight They are
winning. The world stood back in startled
amazement when Georgia threw up the
white flag and victory was won for pro-
hibition. Then our armies marched in
and captured North Carolina. Next Ten
nessee and woolly Texas surrendered.
Then Alabama and West Virginia went
dry by vote of hundred thousand;
following came Arkansas. The Hon. M.
R. Patterson, ex-governor of Tennessee,
says: 1.-THE South from Arkansas to the
Carolinas, from Tennessee to Texas, has
freed herself, and now turns her face to
the North and East, and proclaims that
she has no Missouri Compromise to offer
on the slavery of the liquor traffic, for "a
house divided against itself cannot
stand and this nation cannot exist half
slave and half free" am glad that
can tell you, today, that more than half
of our territory 10 under prohibition, and
the American slogan is, IA saloonless
nation in 1920"
The fight is on. When we failed to
pass the Littlefield Bill, some who did
not understand the true heroism of the
American patriot said we could not win.
Then came the passing of the Kenyon
Webb Bill in the house and senate, only
to be vetoed by the President. But
greater than the President or the Presi-
dents veto is this fire of progress burn
ing in the hearts of these twentieth Gen.
fury men of war. Then back to the
house and the senate, and our nation
found expression through her represent
atives, and passed the bill again, over
the veto of the President.
:. No president, no number of presidents,
no power on earth or hell, can hold back
much longer the fulfilment of the prop
hecy of the great Lincoln. The Stars
and Stripes shall soon float over re-
public not only free from slaves, but al
so free from system that has cost us
more sorrow and more money than all
the battles fought on fields of blood; a
stainless flag, too, without one cent Of
revenue from traffic that steals a ma
TONS character, turns men into mon.
sters, women to lives of shame, and fills
Iuc U0lOC UOA Will q
that weakens the administration of jus.
tice and poisons the streams that flow
into all public affairs.
It is no longer local question; it is q
national warfare and God Almighty will
once more vindicate the right. The ga.
looms and brothels where the enemies Of
our flag congregate. and anarchists plan
their diabolical schemes, shall be closed
and no coming generation shall dare tt
open them.
My last word to you is this: Our natior
is going to have greater reverence fol
the Stars and Stripes. In the city Of
New York an old German woman wal
scrubbing an office floor with what she
supposed to be rag, when little Italian
boy came up the stairs, and, looking ir
commenced to scold, and kicked overhel
pail of water. She drove him into The
street and had him arrested. Before
the judge his only plea was s'She scrubb,
de floor wild de flag" Every day in thu
public school he had saluted the flag anc
could not see it diehonored without re-