The Natchitoches enterprise. (Natchitoches, La.) 1888-1965, 1917-06-21

" ColII IIlS llISIGN dIltl lTSGuUf
s to all the peoples of the world"
ii No more wars can ever be chronicle
: on our liberty banner, and it woul
S seem that by all rules of mysticism an
y heraldy. the cons ummation is at hand
: The Spirit Of '76," row full grown in
: to NATION of free citizens, governe
e under Constitution, with the people
rights held sacred, is ready to go forth
as did the Knights of Old-to succo
our less fortunate brother nations t,
bring them into the outer light of dem
Ocracy, away from their ancient enemy
| = despotism, as represented today il
the maddened war lords of Contra
Europe, who have inherited and brought
, even into this enlightened twentieth
century, the etfete autocracy and feud.
: ahsm of Middle Ages.
/ SO with our flag of prophecy flying,
. our sturdy youth shall go forth on this
one hundred and fortieth anniversary,
and show to the eye of the benighted
Hun mis- first glimpse Of Old Glory, with
all the promise it contains, even to him
and to mis- children-freedOm from
peonage to self constituted War Gods.
who for the ambition of the few are
sacrificing to their Moloch the youth
and beauty of great and wonderful
race of people.
To the end that the above may be
better understood, we viii cite the six
epochal American Wars that have gone
before six in which We were complet-
! ing our destiI y and carrying forward
( the service Of our country in the final
peace pact which is to include all the
peoples in a world Republic of Demo
cracles, that will band together all hu-
mainly, and start the millennium OF pre-
paration: Gods final Haven to his sim
torn children, as promised in the Scrip
lures.
The First Red Stripe on Liberty's
Banner-l776
The Battle of Lexington began the
worlds struggle for freedom. "a blow
was struck which severed the fated
chain, whose every link was bolted by
Act Of Parliament, and bound US to the
wake of Europe, said Edward Everett,
and he continued in his prophetic
speech:
"1he brave bark of our youthful for
tune was destined henceforth to ride
the waves alone. The consequences of
that blow are to be felt by ourselves, |
and the family Of nations, till the
seventh seal is broken from the apoch-
olyptic volume of the history of en-
pires.
Thus was the first red stripe drawn
on our Banner of Democracy, and the |
Revolutionary War, indicating the
Spirit of rs passed into history.
The Second S!noe OF Red-18Ol.
A sullen peace now prevailed for
years, with unrest on the seas. |
At last it became the duty, as our coun-
try saw it, to suppress for good, piracy,
fagrantly pgacticed then by the Bar
barry powers. For four years, between |
1901 and 1906, we We're internationally
in war with Tripoli and the
North African states.
Finally peace was brought about and
piracy ceased. Quoting the words of
Pope Plus the Seventh, Americans
have in this war done more for Chris
tendon against the pirates than all of
Europe combined.
Again we were rested and the second
zone of white was recorded.
The Third Stripe of Red-1612.
. The war of 1872, known also as the
Second War of independence, had
% be fought. The right of American
7essels to sail unmolested from port to
port had to be forced from the Mis-
res of Seas. This final acknowledge
nent of American independence was
sealed with the Battle of New Orleans,
lfter two years and eight months of
conflict on land and water. We then
another chapter in our des-
my, as recorded in the third red stripe
N the flag of prophecy and its story
# Freedom. II
The Fourth Stripe of Red-1S47
Mexico, our neighbor to the South,
With her traditions brought from feu-
al Spain, had next to be dealt with. Il
bur border people had to be freed
rom molestation, Texas, California,
Arizona and New Mexico, the great /
outh west, had to. be guieted and
made secure. AS part of our des- j
my. it was necessary to balance and
ound out our own republic of common
7ealths.
10 this end, we fought in 1S47 our
reat Mexican War, paid money for
arritory attained, and went forthwith
ack to the plow, and to our own bust d
ess of gathering strength for the !
'ork that was yet to come.
The Fifth Red Stripe d
Thirteen states-fateful number Il
ad struck for liberty in 1776. In 1861,
1irteen states. with the idea that lib
rty also included a license to with Y
raw from the republic when they
leased, went out The time now came
hen we were to be born again into a
ompleted solidarity-a Nation. This
as accomplished after four years of +
avail, and with the surrender at
ppomattox, there stood forth finally
)mpleted nation of free and untram-
lelled people, and the constellation on
If union jack shone again with pris- ii
ne beauty; the Star Spangled Banner =,
as nailed forever to the masthead.
The Sixth Red Stnpe-189S
Our bancroft freedom in 1893 had to
egin our oversee worlds destiny. By
decisive victory with Spain as our ii
oponent, we released a struggling
uba and extended our benefcence to
clude the Philippines, and several II
her weak peoples.