Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-05-26
The Divine Right Of America.

INC OtStUS nf9Ht OF HIuSfiSd'
1t is his divine right, the Caesar Of
the Germans seems to believe, to
slaughter as many millions of men
and women and children?-as he can
for the glory and power Of the
Hohenzollerns. He surveys the red
carnage spread across the Old World,
the record Of Hohenzollern ambition
written in blood His ancient name
feared in Prussia since an ancestor
Frederick VI received Brandenbury
from the impecunious Emperor Sigis-
mund as pawn, he would see the
terror Of both the Old World and the
New. and he has a Napoieonic ambi-
ton free from the military and civil
genius of the Bonaparte who sweep.
across Europe when war was popular
and the common good embraced in
democracies was a thing unknown.
The world today greets Kaiser Will
helm as the relic Of an outworn regal
system hated by all freemen and
fought by all Christian democracies.
His divine right arises from the fusti
ness of medieval philosophers, a stencil
in the Christian age.
America has a divine right. Her
divine right is founded upon the
democracy of mankind and has been
proved by the foundation of a ma
tionality as firm upon the earth as hui
mainly itself, unconquerable as the
race Of men, eternal as the very sphere
itself. The European system Of feud
and war gave little pleasure to the di-
vinity that rules the sphere and to
the inspiration to search out a New
World wherein could be founded a ma
ton dedicated to its people and Sc.
against the winning of soil through
murder. Time and toll worked out
the plan, foreign and home enemies
were overcome, and for years the
nation made up of all the peoples of
the Old World working together in
peace and unity, has been studying the
problems of human happiness and
solving them as fast as it is given to
the human mind and heart to see the
will Of the almighty.
The citizens of the America of the
New World look upon the pointless
conflict in the Old World with horror
knowing that blood is split there but
for national gain, which is not gain
for any people or the world of souls
Americans understand better than
folk OF any other nationality can that
it matters not what flag flies over the
soil so long as peace, justice. and the
love of man for man are fostered by
the people who salute and honor that
flag. The light Of the world streams
forth from America, it penetrates the
blood-spangled darkness Of Europe,
and spreads in glory to every land
where Christian thought has even
touched.
Americas divine right Is the right
to exist eternally since it exists for
its own. is slave to no crown, and
covets no others soil. No conquest
invites her, no greed tempts her; she
Is satisfied with herself and bends her
every energy to the completion Of her
democracy. Hands from every part
Of the Old World work together with
in her borders in Christian pursuits,
toiling always toward the perfection
Of the social state which will greet
the dawn Of the millennium.
In her real divine right lies
Americas defense. There is no
power on earth that can wrest from a
people the power that lies in their
own hands: there is no despot under
the sun who can drive his slaves
swift enough and with power enough
to conquer people who rule them
selves, whose soil Is their own, whose
one ruler is the Creator and Giver Of
the land.
America nay lay: up countless bill