The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-07-03
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Rev. Father A. Souby Of the Sacred
Heart Church Responds to Re
quest of u. S. Commission
err Hoover
Continued from Yesterday

Continued from Yesterday
Do not think, either, that because
America has joined the ranks of
those fighting for liberties Of man,
therefore the conflict will soon be
over. Lat US not deceive ourselves.
So far America has not added much
to the prospects of Victory except
perhaps the encouragement the
Allies may feel from help to come.
America is great in industrial enter
prise and especially high moral
ideals of which our noble president
is such a shining exemplar. She is
great in her vast expanse of terri
tory and unlimited potentialities,
being fittingly symbolized by the
Statue of Liberty" enlightening
the world. But on the other hand
there is another statue to which she
might be compared. Dormant and
unprepared as she was, before the
late events had famed the fires Of
patriotism into flame, America
seemed to us, not unlike the colossal
statue of Nebuchadnezzar's dream,
whose head was of gold, its chest of
silver its knees of brass and its feet
of clay. 1t seems mighty but you
blow upon it, you put it to a strain,
and 10! it lies PROSTATE in the dust.
The strength of the bigger chain is
only as great as its weakest link.
And hereby hangs tale.
The poet Virgil, in his Eneid sing
ing of the Fall Of Troy, through the
lips of his hero who is recounting to
queen Dido, the sorrows of his un-
fortunate countrymen, uses these
memorable words: "Voe Victis''
Woe to the Conquered and who
will they be in this conflict? We
know who they ought to be! But
'ought-tobe' is not always the rule
that governs events. Many events in
history-according to our way of
thinking, ougth never to have hap
pened, but they did. We need cite
two out Of many: The Fall Of Con-
stantinople under the Turkish Rule,
after 100 years Of heroic resistance,
and the Partition Of unfortunate
liberty-loving GLAND by three
unjust neighboring nations. Perhaps
in the higher plans Of Providence, it
was fore-ordained as best it should
be so, to prevent some greater evil
we know not of. Still as the designs
Of the All-Wise Ruler of the Uni
verse are not open to our scrutiny,
whenever we see great wrong be-
ing perpetrated against humanity, it
is our bounten duty to call it by the
name it deserves, to protest against
it, nay-like the christian who re-
sists temptation--to fight that
wrong with all our strength until it
is blotted out and justice agains
prevails. Then we have Peace, that
blessed peace which so many do not
appreciate when they possess it,
whilst others undervalue it. greatly,
by thinking it can be had for moth
ing without the shedding Of blood!
Thai very shedding Of blood which
becomes necessary to purchase the
blessings of peace as our fore
fathers in various times and chimes
purchased in wars gone by, shows
that Right does nat always prevail
in this world. And War il no excep-
ton to that rule, else we would not
now see poor unoffending Belgium
as well as peaceful industrial north
ern France, overrun by an enemy
who long had coveted those rich
agricultural and mining districts. |
''Woe to the Conquered! and while
those words, our mind |
wanders back to Rome before the
days of its Imperial glory, while yet
she was peaceful and frugal rep
ublic, producing such patriots as
Cincinnatus the farmer, who left
his pillow because his country needed
him and then returned to it when
me no longer needed his services;
Rome. fighting for existence againot
host Ct surrounding peoples
whose names are now but all for
rotten, We cannot help reverting
NTH tinge Of sadness 10 the sad
sate Of Carthage her rival. Carthage
he senior Of Rome BY mere than .
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