Arizona republican., 1915-07-06

lueu lEe GaClIlC ocean To the Atlantic
 and wrought nightly for civilization
 and human happiness; it has cheered
 the hearts of our soldiers. quickened
 the brains of our poets and orators, and nerved the hands of our toilers lit brightens the candle light in peaceful homes and the gleaming camp fires of tented fields: and is echoed alike in the hum of industry and in the tramp of marching feet.
 It had it's birth in the Declaration of Independence; it spoke in Web ster's reply to Hayne; and Lincoln
 caught it's mighty import in his sec ond inaugural address, when he said, t"With malice toward none, with
 charity to all. with firmness in the
 right as God gives us to see the right. let us finish the work we are
 into bind up the nations wounds,
 to care for him who has borne the battle, and for his widow and or Iphans, and to do all that may achieve
 and cherish a just and a lasting ! peace. with ourselves and with all nations"
 Such. in brief as I read it. is the { teaching of the history of Uncle Sam. And it's a marvellous story;
 
 make it read as 1 would have it | read, with the ONE exception of the | chapter on Reconstruction. I would
 not tear out one page nor blot one single line: for whether it tells tine triumphs of peace or the victories of war. it is the chronicle of q people that fear only to do wrong or work oppression: and who. having seen the vision of their high destiny. have dared strive to attain it. And the dominant note throughout, the sum total of it all--is glorious achieve \ ment
 II is true that there are now. and always have been and probably al- ways will be. some timorous souls whose eyes have not seen the glory
 of the dawn of this Republic, who have not caught its mystic meaning nor read therein the message of
 Gods mighty purpose in the birth and growth of this nation, and so who clamer for peace at any price They were with us in the War of In dependence: they held conventions in the war of 1872: they sneered at our soldiers in the Mexican war; they criticised our leaders and crippled our effcrts in the civil war. they rendered comfort to AguinaIdo in the
 Philippines rebellion: and today. in this present time of national stress, , they assail the motives, and. had
 they the power. would frustrate the aims and palsy the hand Of our cour- ageous president at the very time
 when he needs and deserves the
 whole hearted and loyal support of
 every American.
 These men never voiced. nor do
 they now voice. the spirit or sent-
 ment of the great mass of our people.
 for We of today still hold to the faith and traditions of our fathers still
 cling to their ideals. still remain
 true Co the spirit of Uncle sam as
 we gather it from his glorious past and his mighty achievements; and we
 stiH seek and find our inspiration in the deathless words of his patriots
 in the devotion. the sacrifice. and the heroism of his citizens. in his tri- umphs of peace, and in his sears and wounds of righteous war: and We learn new devotion from the silent graves of his fallen dead
 So We pay scant heed to The puer
 ile platitudes of discontented poli- ticians. out Of harmony with the times and out of touch with the spirit and temper of the nation: and We pay even less attention to the senile chatter of men grown old and rich in the sale of defective. armor plate to Uncle Sam, and now spend ing their declining years and a DOT tion of their ill-gotten gains in the endeavor to build for themselves a reputation for philanthropy as s9Ivc F1 f.sf .g.., vanity
 This nation will never follow the lead of quitter or a hypocrite. for the | sure foundation of our national great 1 ness was laid by our men of action. by 1 our sons who dared and died. and not ! by weddings or carping critics. The conquerors hold the thrones they
 wrought While Ger them sages tower. and seers | still larger rise the pioneers Of progress and Of human thought. And far above these are the forms
 CT those who lived to make men free Or nobly died in wars fierce storms As sacrifice to liberty"
 We stand for peace-but peace with ! honor We have never provoked. nor | will We wage an unrighteous war. or a | war of oppression, or for conquest. But ! in the past. times have arisen when we | had to choose between righteous war i and base surrender to wrong. And | those times may come again. So. il | behooVes this people if We would | achieve and maintain just and last ing peace with all nations to so | strengthen our army and navy. and pro- Vlce such stores and munitions of war | to SO organize and plan our defense l that no nation can ever hope to land | or maintain a hostile army on our shores For the lesson taught by the mighty conflict now raging across the water IS that treaties are made but to be broken. that conventions bind only when the need for them does not ex- lst' and that the nation that would long endure, that would enjoy the blessings of an honorable and lasting peace must be ever alert. and prepar ed at all times to defend it's rights from lnirlngements and it's soil from inva- Slon We are nation with vast do- ma In and VaSfa- Ivaa1+b