The Detroit times., 1917-11-14
Opportunity Knocks Hard
And Loudly at the Door
OflOur Good President!

son. president
II says. Come! Stand in the sunlight
Of immortality with noble Washington
and grand old Abe Lincoln!
Thru an the centuries in which men
have put their feet in the path that leads
10 undying glory, but very seldom have
/ Opportunity. offered leadership in the
cause of human liberty Awake. Wood
row wilson Come forth, Lead or, /
pass on, to return no more
The people of the United States are
for equal rights, equality for the moth
ers. wives. sisters. who send their uni
formed loved ones TO the bloody trenches
10 die for liberty and equality, who
skimp and hoard that bonds may be
bought. who watch their dinner plates,
so that hungry heroes may be fed and
Gods great blessing. liberty, may come
TO all peoples.
Between Woodrow Wilson and the
women Of our country, and every man IN
it who may die and leave his widow and
fatherless children in political slavery,
there exists but one real difference.
The president believes in states rights,
as if human freedom were an issue be-
tween Ohio and California and not an
issue between God Almighty and Ameri-
can manhood.
1t is true that Thomas Jefferson,
father of Woodrow Wilson's party, wrote
into that party the doctrine of states
rights.
For over 20 years, we truckled with,
temporized with the pernicious idea that
human freedom was a local issue, and
fortified half the nation with human
corpses to prove the thing lie.
Half century ago, we cut each others
throats knowing that this nation could
not live half slave and half free" To-
day, we know that the freedom of our
whole nation and human liberty over the
whole civilized world are in deadly peril.
Woodrow Wilson has the glorious
vision.
He says to the oppressed or threatened
peoples of Europe:
AS labor 70 which we are called by God. we
will give you liberty. Here are our young men
Here are all our resources. Drink from our con
secrated cup OF liberty. equality democracy But
In my own nation, liberty is bounded on the
north by Lake Erie, on the east by Pennsylvania
and West Virginia. on the south by Kentucky, on
the west by Indiana. And God bless the old
party doctrine Of states rights
Woodrow Wilson. look upon the women
of America, in this your hour of trial
by worldwide war.
II is they who have your vision Of uni
versal liberty and happiness.
1t is they who will sacrifice.
1t is. they who will bury and mourn
over the dead heroes thru the years.
1t is they who will win the war against
universal slavery to autocracy.
Are they states issue? Nay, their
freedom, their equality of rights are the
greatest, most thoroly national, most uni
versal issue that time has set before man
kind since Lee surrendered the sword Of
states rights at Appomattox.
The Opportunity of which immortals
are born is at your door, Woodrow Will
son.
The congress meets in December
Give it a ringing message in advocacy
of the constitutional amendment for
equal suffrage.
In doing this you may appear as hav-
ing been in error as to your views on
this great issue.
But, what president in all the list has
had the glorious opportunity to lead in
the cause Of freedom for fifty millions
Of Americans?
What president in all the lst has had
such opportunity to prove that he has the
courage to be the loyal servant Of the
nation2
A message Woodrow Wilson, A mes
sage that shall thunder across the seas
TO tell enslaving autocracy that America
is not to fight for human liberty, half
slave and half free" herselfl
A message to tell our husbands. sons
and brothers facing the guns that their
wives. mothers, sisters are to be equal
By will of the whole American people as
a nationl
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