The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-10-15

children have lost something OF their
right and their heritage.
Idleness is a wasteful inheritance
tax benefiting neither him who loses
it nor any one else.
When another Waterloo has sound
ed its knell the trenches will give UP
their living to the pursuits of peace.
The machinery now forging death
dealing implements will turn to
peaceful merchandise.
The crippled and blind will use
their hands at what they can. Before
nature has woven her marvellous tap
estry over the warrior graves of Etl-
rope the survivors will resume their
handiwork. A colossal war debt VIII
crush Europe. Its tax machinery VIII
wiring Its toll from labor's earnings.
None will be exempt.
Then the Tax Gatherer.
After the captains and kings comes
the century of the tax gatherer. After
the Napoleonic wars, multltudes fed
from it's burdens to our country.
Again history will repeat itself. Amer
lean labor will then meet the world
and its conditions, it's wages and Its
products. Is not Labor day time OF
sober reflection? Shall we not now
consider how to protect ourselves?
The fathers founded here repub'
lie dedicated to the principle that all
men are free and equal. They made
lit an asylum for the prosecuted OF
race, creed, and political belief.
Here Gentle and Jew, protestant
and Catholic meet and worship each
at the altar of his ancient faith. Each
has covenanted with the other that
government shall not regulate reli-
gious convictions. Here the fires OF
persecution are forever auenched in
universal tolerance where church and
state are severed, that all may be free.
All Races Here.
Under the shelter of our country
are Slav and Saxon, English and Ger
man, Hebrew and Latin. They have
gathered beneath our flag to perpe-
tuate and not to destroy it. 1t repre-
sents the best hope of the world.
What of government by the people
if it fail? 1t is protest AGAINST king
craft and absolutism wherever 1t
rises. 1t offers government Of law
at home against a government of
force wherever found It proclaims to
TIE worlt today that amone nations
there is a higher law on land and sea
! than brute force.
1t means In the future if war shall
blast earth's nations the helpless and
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the innocent shall not die in Its with
ering breath. 1t is the worlds great
est hope that springs eternal in the
human breast that it may blazon the
way to the Judgment seat of nations
where Justice and not armed squad.
rons will sway the tribunal that be.
comes the law giver of empires in In.
: ternational disputes.
1 FORGET Racial Origins.
| Let the first great lesson of THIS
I Labor day make US Americans Nav
we everlastingly forget our racial orr.
gins in the old world in new birth
OF broader, stronger American free.
dom in this republic, There is no
! Germany here: no allies.
! Why should we involve our country
| in foreign war when diplomacy asserts
and maintains our interna tional
rights? Why should Americans. alien
! or native born, yield to sudden i'm.
pulse? What purpose can now be
! served by crossing the Atlantic to
| fight in the ancient quarrels Of cen.
turtles?
Let it be burned into the memory OF
! this Labor day that powerful neu
trail nation that has gathered within
! its borders much of the best blood OF
all Europe can at the end best serve
others and ourselves by remaining at