Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1916-08-24

could be created and accomplish tn
purpose Of lts creatlon7 Or do yol
think II 10 q mere lnsIncsre sop throw
TO the desplsed paeiflsts of America
Can IL be possible that II 10 intende,
to deceive the people, kind of anes
thetie administered to the American
voters while they are subjected TO tn
nalnfuI ordeal Of being robbed Of thei
bIood-bought rights az freemen ami
pIundered of their earnings for thu
beneficiarIes Of miIitarism2 Is 1t con
ceivable that this provision is place.
in this bill for partisan political pur
poses? No, Mr.. President; | am no
going to impute such discreditable mo
tives to the authors of this provision
| believe the men who wrote IL wer,
sincere In what they did and cherished
the hope that the plan outlined nigh
reach effective contamination. Mr.
| President | am a devout believer II
the ultimate triumph OF righteousness
| hold that
Out OF the twilight OF the past
We move to a dviner light;
For nothing that is wrong can last:
Nothing's immortal but the right
I believe that IL the doctrine taught
by the Prince of Peace shall be giver
a fair trial by the nations OF the earth
in their intercourse with each other
the same beneficial results will follow
that universally come to the individ
ual citizen who makes that doctrine
the rule and guide of his conduct in
private life. Genuine Christianity has
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national matters. Then why not have
the United States, so advantageously
situated at this moment, lead off ir
this superb, this glorious experiment
of international government by the
Golden Rule? It would be a unique
dstinction-the embracing of an OPP
portunity which seldom comes to o
great nation to serve all mankind.
The ordeal may be painful through
which the man will be forced to pass
in order to come into his own, but the
day Is not far distant, in my judg
ment, when the nations of the earth
are going to be controlled by the good
judgment, the sense of prudence, and
sef-preservation of the individual cit
izen. 1.-THE common sense of most
will be the supreme law of the land,
II has been suggested that the Repub
lies and democracies of ancient times
have decayed and been swept from the
earth because of their failure to pre-
pare for defense by the organization
Of great armies and navies. Nothing
could be further from the facts of his
tory. Governments and civilizations
of the past that arose to eminence BY
the inspiration OF the genius of free
institutions have persisted from the
earth because of the moral decadence
of the individual ctzen-the fata
fault has invariably been in the indi
ViduaI man, But there is one vital
cardinal truth which history teaches
rs and which ! would impress upor
the American people and have them
teach it to their children until it be
comes an instinct of the race. 1t is /
this: Free institutions can not live
long when they are upheld and the
flag Of the nation defended by hired
professional army. The present wal
which is being waged in Europe is
disgrace to the worlds civilization
making their pretended faith in the /
Prince OF Peace a bloody lie, was
brought about without consulting with
the men who bear the brunt of the
and who pay the enormous
expense in blood and treasure. But
he day of reckoning and readjustment
will come; a just God still reigns, and
righteousness and truth will prevail
In the situation it seems to me that !
IAN see the possible fulfillment of the
lream of the inspired English bard
who more than half a century ago was
BILE to stand within the shadow of the
hight, and, looking beyond it, saw the
lawn of a brighter and better day
For l dipt into the future, far as human
eye could see,
saw the Vision of the world, and all the
wonder that would be;
saw the heavens fill with commerce, ar
gosies of magic sails,
PLOTS of the purple twilight, dropping
down with costly bales;
Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and
there rained a CHASTITY dew
from the nations airy navies graphing
in the central blue;
FAR along the world wide whisper of the
south-wind rushing warm,
With the standards of the peoples plung
ing thro' the thunder storm.
Mr.. President, in that glorious Wis.
on the poet saw with the eye OF
prophecy that which we see today
With the physical eye-distance ami,
Iilated, the telegraph and the tele.
hone, the wireless telegraphy, the
irship and the steamship, the rail.
Dads and all the modern means of
apid transportation, transforming the
world into one great neighborhood
lose contact, looking deep into the
yes of each other, and recognizing
he kinship of every soul, their pulses
Meeting in the cordial handshake fill.
ng the heart with brotherly love and
irving out of their souls the old en-,
my of hate. Cooperation taking the
lace of competition, selfshness Civ.
ng way to altruism, and men taught
he great lesson that the way to grow
ich and strong and wise and useful
to do something for somebody else
md then
i'll the war-drum throbb'd no longer and
the battle-fagS were furld
the Parliament of man, the Federation
of the world.
here the common sense of most shall
hold a fretful realm in awe,
nd the kindly earth shall slumber, lapt
In universal law.
Now 10 the time for America to act
nd help to bring about the fulfiIlment
this glorious dream. Mr.. President,
believe 1t is possible for the nations
the earth to do the very rational,