Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1915-07-06

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tons and be naloed with %everlastin:
light.
OF course, some grave mistakes
have been made, but they need no
be named today. A great deal o
! work remains to be done before
exact justice can be done for ou1
people and the world; there mus
still be improvements in the genera
and state governments; in the con
duct of affairs in cities and the ham.
lets; for the republic, like planets ant
suns, is made up OF atoms which mus
be kept in place to insure its steady
motion.
tige restored on the sea by a greater
merchant marine.
W. must have our boys in school
trained in the simpler duties of a
soldier, not to beget militarism, but
to keep alert the military spirit, for
that is the staff upon which patriot
ism leans, and the nation that does
not keep that spirit in full vigor very
soon becomes a subject nation.
The old world is rocked by a
war that causes a shudder through
the universe. All the old battle fields
are being fought over; the track of
the war for a thousand miles marks
a new, awful Golgotha. Cities and
ships are. being destroyed, the land
made a wreck; the war extends into
the clouds and beneath the sea. The
thought of it all and especially of the
despairing women and children, IS
heart breaking.
Had the different countries been
states incorporated into one great
republic, where free men would have
guided events, would there have been
any war; any cause for war?
This is a question that will be often
er and %oftener asked in the coming
near future.
Our country is at peace, and the
prayer of our people is that the peace
may not be broken; and it never will
be broken except in self-defense, or to
cure some monstrous wrong, like
that which made our war with Spain
holy. But since the world outside
has gone mad with a blood-lust and
behind the blood-lust a land-lust and
behind the land-lust are unholy am
billions, we would not have our
country taken by surprise of be al
together unprepared should trouble
come.
Nevada was battle-born. On the
night of her birth in the windows Of i;
the republic no lamps of welcome
were lighted; the clouds of war blot
ted out every star in the sky.
The people were divided. Neighbor
looked upon neighbor with suspicion,
and a full quota of men stole away to !
the north and the south to join the
armies where brother was fighting |
brother.
But all who went were Americans;
all who returned we're better Ameri-
cans than when they went away;
while for the wounded and sick of
that war, Nevada gave in proportion
to the number of her people, 500 per
more than any other state.
At the same time her mines held
up the credit Of the nation, and
a little later, when the debt !
of the war was almost overwhelm-
ing and the business of the country
vas as unsteady as is a ship when
a gale suddenly dies and leaves the
no steerage way in the tumbling
surges, the government, at the be-
hest of less than 100 New York and
London interest gatherers, crippled
and almost crushed Nevada's chief
industry, still there are no two sides
to the thoughts of her people now;
and were another call to be made
upon her patriotism, another cry that
native land was about to be assailed,
belief is that her response would
be as it was when the Maine went
down; that the cry would be "Our
Country and the Right" and when
the clouds finally lifted, the fore
most of the worlds nations would oe
second-class compared with ours: SO
caprisoned would we be in might, SO
panoplied with power and SO ablaze
with the archlights of Freedom, that
her flag would symbol to the nations
a majesty such as, five and thirty CEN
turtles agone, the devout Chaldean
fire-worshipers saw when they turn
ed to the east at dawn, to watch the
stars fade before the splendor of the
rising sun.
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