The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-05-31

4 shaving stick. IL cc1talns tne eootnlng,
A healing resinol medication which
makes Il especially welcome to men
! with tender faces.
i your hearts that too may dedicate
|my life to the full measure OF devo-
tion-my life for principle And
today, as many Of the comrades are
placing laurels upon the graves OF
those that are unknown, I fancy
God is Whispering In tones, sweet
loving, yet majestic, He'll see them
when he wakes"
i Gentlemen OF the Grand Army Of
the Republic you responded nobly to
4 the frst call You served the country
we'll You are honored for it. You
again responded to the second call.
that of reconstruction. You have done
this well and we praise you for it. But
have you responded to the third call,
the call OF the Creator? Have You
heard the great Father say, Son.
give me thine hearth After you
fought, you fed your family, you
were law abiding. you stroEe to meet
4 eyeryS crisis In a manly way, and we
glory In your name because of it: but
my sympathy runs low for the soldier
that has not been law abiding AMI
respectable; some of you have been
drunken sots, trying to live on repu-
tation and people class you as use
less parasite, the quicker you are
dead and out of the way the better, 1t
lis true with all parasites. You have
never fought for home and school and
country. You have never spoken a
word in behalf Of Righteousness. Yon
never held God as the ruler Of your
life You have been mean TO wife
and children. you have squandered
every cent you could get hold OF for
liquor You have served the nation s
curse. instead Of Almighty God.
lYou are not respected or honored. No
. matter how you! fought" it will not
, compensate for your violation OF de.
. cent manhood and the principles OF
. God Some of you have faced guns,
but you have not had the backbone
to face a man and say no. Some OF
you have been disgrace to your
brothers. But it is not too late yet
to heed this third call. Henry x.
Trumble,' who was chaplain in one
of your regiments tells Of skip
for the soldiers. No man could be
more vile than he. He had tasted the
last dregs Of life. But only some
time ago, Tumble says, although
old in years, he became a babe in
Christ Many of you can say partly
with Paul, 81 have fought the good
fight" and you can truthfully say, 1
have finished the course" but how
many of you can say, Il have kept the
jfaith?" At the end Of the war, when
the roll was called, you responded,
but when life's battles are over, how
many of you can say. When the roll
is called up yonder, I'll be there"
Whv not complete your unfinished
Itask-hear the third call?
Are Flag Makers Today.
Dear friends, we Of the younger
generation, we now hold the flag.
They made the flag, they gave it hon.
or, power, and prestige, what shall
we make it? We are the flag makers
today. But I am only mechanic, or
a housekeeper, or a student" No
matter, we are the flag. We drag it
in the dust, or cause it to float gal
liant and erect Our attitude, or
ideals, our innermost thoughts make
or mar old Glory. We cannot live to
ourselves, we are the flag makers or
to-day. And this demands new pat
riotism. Then the cause was to do
and die, now it Is to service and i've.
Mere living rightly offers opportunities
of greatest heroism. You, our noble
fathers, can help us In this. You
have had experience. and this has
given you wisdom. Just now the
world is rocked in violence. Men are
tasting the sting of war, and lands are
being devastated. The old ship Of
state is rocking, help us to steady
her. Tell us again what war is so we
will hate it. Teach us again its con-
sequences SO that we shall shun It..
Help us with peace in this hour Of
need that we shall not be implicated
in this strife of greed. Point US again
to the south with its sadness and de-
yastation. the ultimate result OF war.
Show us again the land of Paraguay.
which because Of the war fever has
lost the flower OF the land, and al
though once the leading nation OF our
sister continent, is now the most i'm
moral, most wretched OF lands. I'M
morality is fragrant; polygamy is COM
mon. in fact the proper thing; clubs
of women supporting a man for evil
desires. The land that was once the
mecca. of the world, now the sore
spot.
Our fight is with not only the seen,
but the unseen enemy. Our struggle
is with political corruption, the saloon,
bribery, greed, graft, the purveyoIs
Of vice. The man who will contend
against these is as great hero. and
takes as much nerve, as the man On
the battlefield. In the future laurels
will be given for those who will fight
disease, unfit houses. child labor. and
wages that will not support life ct
Ificiently Our battlefield is in every
Icity and town. Victims by the thous-
ands are falling every month. Homes
are being wrecked as truly as tn any