The Harrison times., 1917-09-29
ADDRESS OF GOVERNOR BRoUeH
BEFORE THE ARKANSAS Ma
TIoNAL GUARD AND ARKANSAS
NATIONALS.

NATIONALS.
who saves his country, saves all
things,
And all things saved will bless him;
Who let's his country die, lets all
things die;
And all things dying curse him"
Those words, engraven on the statue
of Benjamin II. Hill, at Atlanta, Ga,
sound the shibboleth of patriotism
and loyalty to native land that should
characterize every American in this
hour of our country's stress and strife,
Arkansas is today genuinely proud Of
her noble sons in the National Guard
and in the Selective Draft service of
our country and today delights to pay
the volunteers and Nationals tribute.
Thousands of our citizens have gath
cred in our Capital city, along the
line of parade, to pay the brave sol
diers, worthy of the best traditions of
valOr in our state, that measure Of
respect which heroes are justly due.
luse the term due" advisedly, for
In the worlds broad field of battle,
In the Bivouas of life,
You are not like dumb driven cattle,
You are heroes in the strife"
You have left homes of love, of af-
fection, where for years, you have
been enshrined in the fathers devo-
ton and wrapped in mothers ten
derness; you have left fields of cot
ton and waving grain, vocal with the
praises of the happy husbandman and
replete with the gladness of the re
warded tOiler; many of you have sacri-
ficed lucrative positions in marts of
trade to endure the hardships of camp
life and the dangers Of the far flung
battle line-all for the honor of your
country and the glory of your flag.
1t is your proud privilege and your
rich legacy that will be handed down
to succeeding generations, to serve as
soldiers in the mightiest conflict, for
the nOblest cause the world has ever
known. This titanic struggle of the
nations represents an array of liberty
against despotism of Democracy
against Autocracy, and your victory,
which ! veritably believe has been
ordained by the God Of freedom and
the free, will mean that hereafter
liberty and Democracy will belt the
earth with bands of light, and that
the whole world will witness the
march Of millions of emancipated po-
litical and industrial slaves redeem
ed, regenerated, and disenthralled by
the irresistible genius of universal
emancipation
Heretofore all European battle
fields have been magazines lit by the
fuse of ambition, and in the cannon's
raking fire, has been sealed the SOY.
ereignty of kings; but the American
guns that will resound on the battle
fields of France, Italy and Russia will
reverberate in laundering tones of ex-
alted patriotism that "All governments
derive their just powers from the con.
sent Of the governed" When you re-
turn with the laurels of we'll earned
victory wearing uniforms of cOnse-
Grated service, and bearing the arms
of free Republic, there will be no
longer any German Kaisers, and Ans
trian Emperors, and Bulgarian Kings
ruthlessly violating the treaties of d
brave and helpless Belgium, to over.
run and lay waste to a struggling Pol
and, to massacre women and children
and hospital nurses in chivalrous
France, to butcher martyrs in Arme-
MIA, struggling against revolving Mo-
hammedism, and to annex, by political
Grand Larceny, the territory of the
Apline crested and sun-kissed Italy.
No. the eyes Of your fellow country.
man will behold a world Democracy,
presided over by leaders selected by
the voice of the people; they will see
rising before their eyes, temples Of
human liberty, whose corner stones
will be justice and the equality of all
men before the law With such a he
roic mission before you and such
noble ideals appealing to your better
selves, believe that each and every
one of you brave men feel today, as
did Nathan Hale, one of the Revolu.
tionary heroes, as he exclaimed, 81
only regret that have but one life
to lose for my country"
Your reward, soldiers of Arkansas,
and your fellow American compatri.
OTIS will not consist in additions to
your territory, treasure to your cof.
fers, and exalted positions OF power,
but rather the consciousness Of duty
well done, and the appreciation OF
grateful country. There will be no
common snldinrs among Won, nnnh