Arizona republican., 1917-05-06
DUR NATIVE LAND
 FOR GOD AVD HOME
 AND EVERY LAND
By Mrs. Ray c. Harker, Before the State w. s. T. U. Convention at
 Globe Last Week

The Woman's Christian Temperance
 Union is peculiarly a patriotic organi-
 zation. IL was founded for God and
 Home and Native Land, but only q
 few years served to show that putting Cod first means the composing of all
 the world, and our slogan necessarily became: For God and Home Every Land.
 We are organized to serve our coun- ! try and through our country to serve the world.
 Our nation is being stirred ~ofound ly. Our people ale showing their will | lingness to sacI ifice for a great cause. Our mothers are dedicating their noble sons, their sweet, bright boys, who have
 no realization Of what they are going forth 10 mee,. Mothers have suffered,
 and so the mothers suffer noN. They know the meaning of agony; the boys, so lately babes, know only the excite ment and devotion of the houl. Yes, the mothers know what love is, and the mothers know what pain is. Still to, send our sons forth to die in Nalant sacrifice for others were easy in com paTisOn with the dN sul fact of fiji st subjecting them to the damning infil ences so naturally attendant upon the grim monster war.
 It is not hard to give our boys to God, we are brave enough for that, bus take care, my cOuntrYmen. lest you ask us to turn them over to the devil. Christ said (Matt. 10: 2SD Fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to xiii the soul; but rather fear
 Him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell"
 We would implore those in authority tO use every means to see that the boys ! who serve Christian land may serve 1 in a Christian environment
 It will take unceasing vigilance to
 keep our soldiers who must return shot for shot and shell for shell from an swering hate with haze.
 ! Germany's watchward is hate. Her i rulihs classes have cultivated hate un- 1 til their utterancc sounds like the | speech Of mad men. Her scholars whom i one would expect to be the source of 1 highest wisdom for checking wild and
 unreasonable ambition, have given eX- pression again and agaln to the most i eXtravagant egotism and to the most unbounded contempt for everybody and | everything not German. Yes, thelr cdl- ! toVatior of proud outspoken contempt uous hatred has had it's natural re- 1 suit in narrowing thelr vision until i even the educators to whom we have sent our musicians, our doctors, our scientists. our scholars. for a view into 1 the farthest recesses of human knovl- | edge. until these men whom the world | has so honored, cannot see beyond the | marrow confines of GeTmany. Their i souls have been warped until they can unflinchingly plar diabolical means Of l torture. It seems that to them no pos sible multiplication of >human woe weighs anything in comparison With their own eXaltation. Here we see the | dizzy, sickening height to which 'Ge~- l man New Thought necessarily leads When they change the sacred words Faith, Hope, Love, but the great
 est of these is Love" t0 Faith, Hope. i Hate, out the greatest of these is Hate '' i we recognize that the foe we face is 1 hate perSOnified. To meet hate with | hate is to become like our enemies. | Love is the only power to sjlbdue ha- l trad us surely as heat is the only 1 power 10 overcome cold
 In this world war our people recog- nize that the contest is between olig-
 archy and democracy. The principle of democracy is the principle of consider
 ation for others. The principle of oli- | garchy is the principle of the many
 serving the few. Thus love stands 1 against selfishness and selfishness is ! the parent of hate. If democracy means 1 consideration for all, to leave out the 1 German would be to depart from the
 spirit of democracy. If we seek to exalt l the United States, Ue admit defeat, for
 we yield to the spirit We profess to | fight, the spirit of selfishnesS.
 We oppose hate, the offspring Of 1 oligarehy with love, theechild of democ-
 racy.
 The more guilty Germany is, the more impossible it will be for her to 1 atone for her own wrongs Christ, the /! innocent. died that we the guilty. might live. As Christian nation we must
 wage war only in His name. We bleed 1 that Europe may live, not to help in her destruction. Public sentiment stands behind our presidents state
 ment that we do not fight the German people. This conviction must grow
 and fid expression until the Teutons | know that we do not want to crust i them, that we are ready to sacrifice as
 much for peace in behalf of Europe as
 for war in our own defense. that we ! fight for humanity and brotherhood
 not to make poor, bleeding, defeated
 Germany reimburse Belgium and atone
 for ell Ter wrongs.
 We had to be driven to war in order
 to learn the extreme of devotion fol
 which we were ready. We thought W,
 sacrificed in giving Belgium as mucf in a year as England and France, witt
 all their drain, gave her every month
 We could send but a pittance to sustain
 Belgium and now we are voting billions
 upon billions for.w Let us not stop