TaÌˆgliche Omaha tribuÌˆne. [volume] (Omaha, Nebr.) 1912-1926, 1915-09-11

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For Cod. King and coun,ryi
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heeh far better Nv use d lutte more
discretion Religion has nothing IN
common either with the aims or
with the methods Of che HEnteutc,
IN fact. they are both categorical
donlals 81 the very essence OF
Chfist's teaching. Thanks 20 the
cynical sophistry Of men like MI.
Winston Churchill. and the utter
unscrupuiousncss OF those fesonsible
Tor The policy 81 buying aid by pick
ing other peoples pockets, this war
IS like to prove the death Of Christ
ianity as a power in the world, and
this action on the part Of states
which have always claimed a prom
inent place among the leaders Of
eiyilisation is an open justification
OF all forms Of private crime. "A
state which descends 10 the depth
OF encouraging theft and dishonour
cannot well expect its private cit
liens to respect the laws.
DO your best to charm the worst,
to lower the rising race of men.
i Have we risen from out the beast,
then back into the beast AGAIN.
Has the world receded two thous-
and yearsi Is Reversion dragging
Evolution in the mud-that Eyolu-
ton which is ever climbing after
some ideal good9 Why? The selfish
interests Of an %all-powerful clique
rise triumphant above the public
veal. o the pity and the shame Of
it allt-
Russia bursts our Indian barrier,
shall we fight her, shall we Yield
Pausel before you sound the trumpet
hear the voices from the field.
Those three hundred millions under
one Imperial sceptre now,
Shall we hold thems shall we lose
them! take the suffrage Of the
pillow.
Nay, but these would feel and fol.
low Truth if only you and you
Rivals OF realm-ruining party, when
you speak were wholly true.
Plowmen, Shepherds, have | found
and more than once. and still
could find
Sons Of God. and kings Of men in
utter nobleness of mind.
Truthful trustful, looking upward tc
the practised hustings-liar:
So the Higher Yields the Lower
while the Lower is the Higher.
Here and there a cotter's babe i:
royal-born by right divine:
Here and there my lord is lower
than his oxen or his swine.
Chaos, Cosmosl Cosmos, Chaos
once again the sickening game
Freedom, free to Stay herself, ant
dying while they shout her
name.
Step by step we gained a freedom
known to Europe, known to all
Step by step we rose to greatness
thro' the tonguesters VIZ may
fall"
The e~loquence Of the market
place is the privilege Of the dem
agogue, and d~emagogy in the ser
vice Of privilege is a national danger
The purchase Of Dishonour as al
ally may be a profitable investmen,
for those whose dividends swell il
proportion to the duration of th,
war, but the burden-both mora
and material of the investment vii
remain as a national liability fol-
generations to come. Valuable live,
are being sacrificed by the thousand
the national resources are being
s~quandered by the hundred million
1.-THE national prestige-the nation,
most cherished ~treasure,-is being
wasted on the desert air of a hope
less struggleg-and whyl Because
none OF the politicians responsible
for the national disaster has tn,
moral courage to confess tina.
someone has blundered,"- to cry il
a voice Of penitence-mea cnlpa,"l-
to inform the British public Of tn,
enormity OF the crime committed BY
the Cabinet when it resolved to Sc
Europe on fire.
i From the military point of view
the hopeless position of the En-
tente" is evident even to tn,
amateur outsider: the British flee
has done nothing to justify its claim
: to the command OF the seas,-th'
German submarines have revolution
ised naval warfare,-the steam roll
Ter" has fallen to pieees,-the situa
ton in the West is as favourable Il
{ Germany today as it was eighi
months agor-the expedition to thu
! Dardanelles has proved a lamentabl'
failure,-the intervention of Itall
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