The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1915-07-30

ard stripes which may yet be des-
tined to foat with the banners of all
nations. as it did with those Of ia
pan? God grant it, for the spirit 4
rs has been moving over the world
in all as the waves of pebble, CAST
into pond, moves to all its shores,
If suspicion, ill-founded, is to spread
its calumnies into the hearts of those
who gathered to the defense of the
nation in which liberty was Graded,
and let their blood flow in the bat
ties which were fought that that ma
ton should still remain zone and in
separable," the editors of such pa
pers may have that to answer for,
which may cause their descendants
to blush for shame, that they must
henceforth bear their names. If fair
minded, naturalized German Ministers
of the Gospel are heard to say that
their hearts and prayers have been
with the Fatherland, till such an act
of cruelty as that which Mortified thy
world when scores of innocent wo-
men and children were ruthlessly
blown up by an act of the Fatherland
and which brought forth from such
ministers words of shame and re-
proach at such unprecedented con-
duct by any nation whose leader call
ed forth his armies in the name of
the Father of every truth, then they
were done with leader who would
ratify such conduct. Why should the
editors of the above mentioned pa
pers think it strange and unjust, that
the nation which has always stood
for liberty and humanity should pro-
test against such conduct as vigor
ously as has been done? Such con-
duct could not have been inspired by
the spirit which brought forth the
fountain of liberty in the words,
snow abideth faith, hope and love,
these three, but the greatest of these
is love-" which words the German
Emperor claims to be united with in
works. If he would be believed he
must add deeds" to his knowledge
answerable.
Have these editors forgotten how
the spirit of '76 and 81 was fired
against England, when Secretary Oh
ney's drastic message flashed across
the waters, to notify England that
she must keep her hands off Vene-
zuela? That message had not in it
half the soft answer that was con-
tanned in the message of Secretary
Lansing, which again spoke for hui
manity, when the world was notified
of the conduct of militarism, which
shocked the whole world when it sent
the Lusitania with it's unsuspecting
passengers to watery graves. No
minister of the Gospel could condone
such an offense however deeply he
may have been attached to the Father
land for it was an offense which
cried aloud to the Kingdom whose ba-
sic principle was stormed at by such
an act. A Kingdom which being es-
tablished in the world will bring about
THAT zone increasing purpose" which
is to drive out the sins of the world
and leave in their room the peace that
all ministers of the Gospel are striv-
ing for. The heart of our great
President was in the message which
indirectly warned England, that the
United States of America stood as
|, firmly for humanity today as wher
it directly informed England to keeT
hands off Venezuela. Although
sheathed in a scabbard of velvet, yet
: it held sword of steel that every
naturalized German-American i!
sworn to WELD just as he did when he
!, stood by that oath which so greatly
aided the question of humanity, set
tied at Appomatox. If the spirit o.
Carl Schurz could arise from the
grave, how it would point the finger
of shame at the editors, who have Sc
q cruelty misrepresented the spirit o.
t liberty which has given every Ger
c man-American a welcome and Goo
0 speed, of which we find the embodi
a ment in our President.