The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1917-08-30
CONSCR|PT THE
War PROFITS
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| speak to you with some degree o!
Emphasis upon this subject because IN
ny humble and my limited way
AVE vision concerning this particu
ar conflict. 1t is vision, of course
hat | can speak of but myself alone
md which of course binds none but
ne; but it is after all my vision oil
his great war, and because It is put
n such succinct fashion, in a little
brochure called The Menace of Peace
read it to you:
1t matters infinitely which
side shall win and what shall
be the vision and the judgment
of man as to the issues involved
in the war. And the thing that
urges and counts is not when the
war shall end, but what it shall
De seen 10 uledu' VI the wal
to close and the world not know
what 1t has been fighting about
would be the supreme catastro-
phe of history. A compromise
between the contending belliger-
ents would be betrayal Of peo-
pies of every nation and would
issue in universal, mental and
moral confusion. A peace that
leaves the nations where they
were, that recognizes neither
victor nor vanquished, that ig-
nores the conflicts causes and
questions, that evades all judg-
ment as to the right or wrong
of the matter-such a peace
would be the last disaster of
mankind. The millions who have
died would have died in vain.
The lessons of the last 1000
years would have been written in
the sands. The hard ascent of
the race, from its beginning I'M
til now, would have conveyed no
convoking and uniting purpose,
no empowering and compelling
prospect. The Judgment day
would have come and gone with
out our Discerning the judg-
ment passed upon us or even
knowing we had been judged.
The supreme opportunity of man
would have proved itself greater
than man.
1t is because of this kind of Wis
on upon the part Of some of us, be
'ause we think, although we thinl
,nly for ourselves and speak only TO
ourselves, that we believe we under
tand the underlying philosophy o
his great conflict, that we begin nov
not alone upon lines far
ar away, but preparing at home wit
he money that Is necessary that tina
inc may go to ultimate victory.
l have an abiding confidence in tn
people. There has neva
been a time in all our history wha
the American people have not rise
superior to any crisis and have don
their full and their patriotic dut.
All they ask is that they shall b
treated with equality, with honest!
and with truth in this great cats
clysm. The American people, wit
the burden that has been put upo
them, with the sacrifices that are d.
handed of them, are entitled
in every law, to honesty an
to truth.
Today / think that l echo what
in every senator's heart when l sa
that that has not been put forth
the American people which shouI
be put forth in clarion tones UNI
them. The mode in which they a
given their publicity now Is he
stated concretely in a very simp
illustration. Recently a Japanei
mission came to San Francisco. Thu
arrived there on a certain day la
week. Four weeks ago / had the 1
vitation to attend the ceremonies al
the various entertainments in beha
of that mission. For three weeks 6
the newspapers OF the city Of 81
Francisco have been exploiting Il
arrival OF that mission and that mi
sion's views; and here in Washin
ton and in the east, although {
California has published every d
tail, we read each day lat a Pacii
port"
Can you tell me upon what pri
ciple that sort OF dealing should
INDUCED in with a people intellige
and critical, n people patriotic, and