Arizona republican., 1917-04-20

l Wild tongues that have not thee in awe, Such boastings as the Gentiles use, Or baser breeds without the law. Judge of the Nations, spare us. yet, Lest we forget Lest we forget.
 What They Forgot
 What did they mean? Lest they for get what? Good Bishop Atwood and our beloved Father Novatus here will tell you they meant Civilizations great Golden Rule: The omnipotent father hood of the Almighty and the universal brotherhood of all mankind,
 But that prayer, that invocation, proved shallow nothingness, an empty mockery, for they have for gotten.
 Two years and a half ago the tocsin of international war sounded across the seas and there was a mad rush to arms by the European nations. Throughout the length and breadth of the continent we have seen the sol diery, responsive to the call of silver bugies. and in step with the furious swing of The Marseillaise' and Die Wacht am Rhine,' with flying banners and glistening bayonets. in all the fair est flower of manhood, marching on and on, legions upon legions of them,
 
 and there we have seen them-not the autocracy-but the worl1ingman, the common people, by the hundreds, by the thousands, yea. by the hundreds of thousands. perishing in the throat of that bloody vortex; the battle field,
 And all this carnage, all this slaughter of the workingmen of Europe for the mad ambitions of the thing that men call king. 4 thing which Amer ica. thank God. has not known and will never. never tolerate.
 The bloody gauntlet has been Haunted in the face of Uncle Sam; our flag, the old flag of Lexington. of Bunker Hill, of New Orleans. of Mon terey, of Antietam and Gettysburg, of San Juan hill and Manila-y0ur flag and my flag--has been insulted The rights, the lives and property of our citizens have been violated, and now that the official fiat has gone forth, it is up to each and every one of us who lcyes his country and his home and who has a spark of patriotism or man. hood in his breast to say: Regardless of nationality, regardless of politics. regardless of ancestry, regardless of every other earthly consideration, I re- joice with every atom of my mind and I exult- with every fibre of my . Old Glory is my flag and that my pres ident has done what he did, and I am here to support my country, my flag and my president with every particle of strength that the Almighty has given me,
 The real sacrifice in this crisis is that which will fall tos those at home our good mothers, wives, sisters and daughters
 Tribute to Womanhood
 Each of us knows the tender solici- tude of a mothers heart It has been said that the nature of man is so con- stituted that if he had never heard of creed or dogma that he would manu- facture a religion of his own and wor- ship the highest embodiment of good that had come into his life. and l feel that 1 am but speaking for each and every man present when I say that if had been born on desert island and had never heard of the lowly Nazarene CT of that dark day on Calvary, I, too, would have manufactured religion of my own, and 1 would have worshiped with my whole heart and with my whole seul that good old fashioned and southern mother of mine-she who guarded md guided the tender tenden- cies of youth. she who taught the little