The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1917-10-04

+, and lacerate the heart chords of a
helpless people; to prostitute the
dome of Heaven with the pestilence
CT its arms; to lurk beneath the
oceans blue, midst the Shiny serpents
of the deep, that hide themselves
from Natures sunbeams by day, and
IL the darkness of night steal forth
to bury the dagger of the assassin
deep In the heart of the innocent, un-
suspecting non-combatant, unwarned
and untold;
| If you have enjoyed the benef-
cence of this land of opportunity, the
protection Of its emblem, the Star
Spangled Banner-if these are the
principles for which you stand-you
are the enemy of constitutions free
dom, the enemy of democracy, the
enemy of my country and the enemy
of suffering humanity-and no apol-
cgy Is your due!
For the principles of our forefath-
ers; For the principles for which we
as Americans stand today, and for
which, God willing, this Republic
shall ever stand, comes the broken
voice of Armenia, the grief-stricken
voice of Serbia, the voice of devastat-
ed, outraged and bleeding Poland, the
dying voice of the starving childhood
of blasted Belgium.
AYE! That we might not shame
the memory Of our ancestors;
That we might not prove faithless
keepers of a sacred trust;
From their very graves and ashes
Genes the voice of Washington, Of
Lafayette, of Lincoln, and the voice
of the silent heroes of Bunker Hill
and Ohickamauga.
And the spirit of the Americans of
177S; The spirit of the Americans of
1860; The spirit of those venerable
heroes of that mighty conflict for
freedom and liberty; the Grand Ar
my Of the Republic, the American
Roysssoe fifty ye&rs, ago, through yen
the younger generation Of the Ameri-
cans of today is responding to the
voice of humanity, soon to speak in
tones of mighty import to the autoc-
racy of Europe.
ITO the Hapsburgs and the Hohen-
zollerns, to the Military Domination
and to Prussianism.
Thou shalt not infest the Heav-
ems above with thy damnable instru-
ments of death and destruction as a
menace to the liberty-loving children
of earth who have incurred thy dis
pleasure.
Thou shalt not devastate the
fields of industry-the marts of trade
nor appropriate the lands and
goods of thy weaker neighbor;
neither shalt thou take its people in
to bondage for thy pleasure or profit.
Thou shalt not lurk beneath the
open highways of the world and 81
lently steal upon and cowardly as
sassinate the non-combatant, the in
nocent and helpless, nor pave the bot
tom of the deep with the bodies of
unfortunate humanity, that thy mag
niloquent wrath may be appeased or
thy unholy greed satiated.
I Thou shalt not violate the sacred
chastity of the motherhood of man.
THE bigness of the thing you
young men are about to do is to us
now almost incomprehensible.
For years, for centuries, for ages,
constitutional freedom has been the
coveted goal of common humanity
Autocracy, insidious in its intrigues,
base in it's betrayal of human rights
and liberty, murderous in its wanton
sacrifice of human life has ever been
its bitter foe.
ITO be one among those who shall
for all time place the peoples of
earth upon an equality, to be one
among those who shall scale the bat
Elements of autocracy, of prussian-
ism, and militarism, and there over
its smouldering ashes fmrly plant
our glorious emblem of freedom, the
Stars and Stripes, that under its
gracious folds a free people may for
ever repose, is indeed to be one chos-
en- OF God, and as the centuries shall
melt into the ages your names shall
stand boldly forth on that everlast-
ing immortal roll of honor.
! I'VE who are destined to remain
here are proud Of the fair young man
hood that constitutes Morrow coun-
tvs roll of honor, and it should be,
ard will be compiled and placed
among our most treasured possess
ions, and as you and those who have
preceded you shall endure the rigors
Of the training camp, as you shall
journey across the sea, to that land
now drenched with the blood of pa
trlots, where the joyful songs of God S
creatures of the air are even tinged
with sadness and the very waters
that are wont to sing as they race to
the sea seem to sob in sympathy with
Its distress;
"As you shall march beneath the
skies OF France facing the dangers