Arizona sentinel Yuma southwest., 1916-06-15
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dering ruins of a thousand cities, over the graves of millions of brave men, out of the blackness of the battle smoke, arising from the obscurities of national passions, already the peo- ples of the earth recognize the dim outlines, growing ever more distinct, of the composite soul of- America in the patient and humane wisdom of the worlds real pacificator. Of what avail all the wealth of our beloved land if it had been consumed in the destruc- tiveness of war? What avail the tra- vail of human progress for ten thou sand years had not the schoolmaster and statesman been pacificator? His achievement is so vast that ambitious men are blind to it's reality. But the plain millions, of all creeds and nation alities, recognize in it the imperish- able glories of Christian civilization. It glorifies the peasant and king alike. The schoolmaster is statesmaster is statesman, the statesman is financier, the financier is emancipator, the emancipator is the pacificator of the world.
 Thus is the nation accomplishing the destiny of Democracy. The com manding fact of the modern age is the spread of intelligence. The school house has conquered ignorance. The printing press has transformed the purposes and capacities of man. Edu- cation has qualified him for a better existence. The Bible has made him moralist. Men know that the world is big enough to support the human family in peace and comfort. Men know that the great problem of peace and comfort is not yet solved. They know that it cannot be solved by the savagery of war. They know that it's solution is obtainable only in condi- tions of peace, reason and a practical morality. This state of knowledge Is the crowning achievement of pro- gress.
 "The American experiment of self government has stood the test. The achievements of the American system are known of all men and felt through out the world. The United States is the worlds asylum. Here all races, ] all conditions, all creeds are assimi- lated, helped, elevated, and men are made into self-governing men. In America justice has made it's greatest progress, because it is progress in which all men have a part. That form of government which affords the full est opportunity for happiness and comfort is destined to be the universal form. Such is the resistless syllogism of progress. War cannot stop it's in. evitable march. The opinion of all men is more potential than the opin ion of one man. The best opinion of the best men, by the force Of example and mutality of interest, becomes the Iopinion of all men. American opinion lis embodied ill man of peace, Amer Iican opinion Is marching through the world.
 When the Imperialism of Europe cast the iron dice of destiny, America threw the moral dice of destiny. Ant America staked the principles of hel Justice. There they stand in untar nished integrity in the gaze of z stricken world. The intelligence o1 men grasp the meaning of America
 Her example will readjust the rela tions of men everywhere. The aspira tions of men are for freedom. MeI and women can and should rule them
 selves. The day when they rule them
 selves war will disappear. The hand
 of Divinity has so written it in tht
 needs and necessities of humanity
 made in it's image.
 | AIn0Tlcd, pIOSpcIOuS, pOdNSAh oAN
 blessed, is so because the inscrutabl'
 purposes of God intended it. Int
 contrast between Europe in flames
 and suffering and the United States
 peaceful adn prosperous is the divine
 contrast. By saving the Americal
 system civilization is saved Int
 peace of America demonstrates thu
 folly of war. The principles of Dem
 ocracy furnish the means of avoiding
 and preventing war. The universa
 intelligence of men decrees that thu
 war now devastating Europe shall b'
 the last war It will end in a world
 league of peace.
 Sons of America, keep unsulliet
 the sacred shrine of peace, througl
 whose portals will yet pass arm il arm the crowned head and the humbl