Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1917-05-04

long ago. A great national soul can
never be selfish. The principal OF
Consideration for the Rights of
Others has been most outrageously
violated. Surely and with deliberate
Iforethought we answer the challenge
which autocracy has cost at the feet
of democracy.
And those OF America, and the ma
ton as a whole. who will lose those
dear to them, in this struggle for
right, will find solace in helping to
bind up the wounds of Europe. And
with equal earnestness and with equal
kindness we shall attend also the
crushed limbs and broken hearts of
the people of that nation of a sad
plight which the usage of war terms
our enemy. For, as our president has
well declared, we have no quarrel
with the German people. but only with
the plutocracy that is killing the very
German people themselves. With the
consideration of Lincln we are in the
war to also assist the German people
onto a higher plane.
Then after a while will come the
end; and the council of the nations
will sit to make a division of the
spoils of war. 1t is almighty i'm
portant that the spirit of Lincoln be
represented at that council board. The
selfish injustice of the council often
far exceeds the cruelty of the battle
field. Already we know that America
will have nothing material to gain
from entering the war. 1t is enough
that we are permitted to give thous-
ands of our citizens and billions of
our wealth for the advancement of n
right to enunciate the principal of
consideration for ALTO declare the
same during the war and after the
war.
And then, after the council of peace,
the period of reconstruction. 1t is
during this period that the spirit of
Lincoln will be most needed by Amer
lea and by the world. During this
time no lives will be lost but there
nevertheless lies the gravest and
greatest danger for America. During
this time we may easily sacrifice the
great good which we shall get from
entering the war. All Europe will be
Americas market. Bewarei If we
as individuals. as business concerns,
or as Il nation, take advantage of the
weakness of others for the making of
fabulous profits, the curse will fall
upon the shoulders of democracy, and
large part of the war will have been
in vain. For many months the Stars
and Stripes have flown over all the
food depots of the little stricken coun-
try of Belgium. Mothers with half
starved babes in their arms have
weapingly caressed the beloved ban
ner Of liberty, while thousands OF
American flags have been made on;
of American flour sacks by the wound.
ed Belgian soldiers in the hospitals
and have pressed every one of them
to their hearts. Today our flag is a
priceless memorium throughout al
the land of France. And for the
, ner ilutters from the spires over the
halls of parliament of the British
/ Empire. But after this Spectacular
r excitement of war is over, we nigh
| bost aplenty of the spirit of Lincoln
, and the spirit of America with all he
, consideration for the weaker nation
[ but with the ease and crash of al
/, ayalance we can sell this priceless.
!. heritage for the almlght dollar o
r commerce. What a grand stroke 70
: democracy, and what blow TO auto
cracy, IL we as a people should say
. We will not take a profit out of tn
!. pockets of Europe till she stand
! again upon her feet, we will not pla
, the national highwayman. 1t is All
! solutely impossible for us to accep
r profits that arise out of misfortun
, with the one hand and wave tn
[ American flag with the other. In
| democracy the misfortune of the on,
must be the misfortune of all; til,
| i'll wind can blow no one good. II
lay an economically profitable sieg,
upon stricken Europe after the end
, ing of the war Is to lay the hand o
: destruction upon the throat of Ameri
ca. 1t Is forbidden us by the spiri
5 Of Lincoln.
/ II Is the duty of America to s,
/ live and to so act that the world will
]. come to think more and more o
/ democracy. and on the philosophy o
. Lincoln that only right makes might
!. Out OF her national heart this ma
[ ton has carved her hero. Let u
I see that the nation is true to tn,
[ heart beat. Let us know that tn,
red blood of democracy must ever b,
used II II is to be. kept alive. lie
us dare to announce our principles
and to fight for them.
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