Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-06-15

dltdI or tne GOd or PeaCe. It does satisfy the mothers of the land at whose hearth and fireside no iingo- istic war has placed an empty chair. It does satisfy the daughters of this land from whom buster and brag has sent no loving brother to the dis solution of the grave It does satis- fy the fathers of this land and the sons of this land who will fight for our flag, and die for our flag when Reason primes the rifle, when Honor draws the sword, when Justice breathes blessing on the standards they uphold.'
 Fighting for every degree of in jury" he maintained, would mean perpetual war and this is the policy of our opponents, deny it how they will. It would give us a war abroad each time the fighting cock of the European weather vane shifted with the breeze. It would make America the cockpit of the world. We would be so busy settling other peoples quarrels that we would have no time to attend to our own business"
 Preparedness.
 In his treatment of the issue of preparedness. Mr.. Glynn asserts that the genius of this country is for peace.
 'qWe have built our greatness on the resources of nature and the peaceful toll of our people. The ring of the anvil, not, the rattle of the saber; the song of the reaper, not the shriek of the soldier, the chatter of the shuttle, not the crack of the rifle, have won usfthe place we occu- py in the councilssof the world.
 Like the old Mohawk chief who loved peace, we would like to throw
 the tomahawk of war SC high in the
 sky that no mans hand could ever
 pull it down. But when some other tribe among the races of men sends us bundle of arrows wrapped in the skin of rattle-snake, we want, like old. Governor Bradford of Massachu- sets to be in a position to send that rattle-snakes skin back stuffed with powder and with ball.
 "We have been carried too close to the rocks of war during the past two years to believe that those rocks do not exist. And looking into the future we cannot perceive that if our soy ereignity is not challenged, if our peace is not assailed it will only be because the world knows that we are strong enough to defend ourselves from every foe.
 "For these reasons this administra- ton has done mere for our army and our navy than any administration in l our history.
 "More than this. it has mObillz0d | the resources of the nation to. meet | the needs of war. It has placed the 1 wealth of the country back of the strength of the country. the toiler
 back of the soldier and the sailor. And to our opponents we say you can't create an army, can't create a navy in the course of day; to l them we say if our navy is not strong enough. our army not big enough, the Republican party ie eighty per cent l to blame for the Republican party has been in control of this nation eighty percent of the time during the
 past 50 years.
 "The Democratic party advocates and seeks preparedness, but it is pre-
 paredness for defense, not prepared ness for aggression.
 All Americans Here. "It is the preparedness which 1 builds the nations house upon a
 rock. so it will not fall when the
 rains descend and the floods come | and the winds blow.
 "A regard for national surety as ] we'll as pride of personal honor will 1 therefore bring the American people to the support of their president. Whether their blood is drawn from | the banks of the Rhine or of where
 the River shannon flows: whether
 they hail from Alpine valleys or the | meadows of the Pyrenees, whether
 their descent be German or French Irish or English. Austrian or Italian
 Russian or Greek. the men who have sworn an oath of fealty to the ideals of America will be true.
 'They may love the lands of their | fathers much. but they love the land l of their children more. They may | cherish the memory of the sod from
 whence they sprung. but they stand
 ready to die for the soil that they | have hallowed with their homes.'