Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-06-18
Red Cross Meeting at :
City Hall, Sunday
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Rev clayton d. Boothby, Mrs. William
J Layton and Rev. z. s. Philbrook
Prof J. Francis MacNiehoi VA. a,
charge OF the singing which was carried
,r rs the audience with great enthu,.
ssr-
Mayor Willis z. Swift, the presidinR
osicer. explained the reason for the cali
ing Of the meeting.
This meeting is called, said the
mayor. for the purpose OF calling your
attention TO the campaign which will be
vaged this coming week to raise $4,000
for the Red Cross in this city 1t is our
duty 70 raise this money and we are going
10 do H. There is no question Of the 10y
sl,y or patriotism of our people but
dor believe that We appreciate the grav-
ny Of the situation.
In few months" continued Mayor
Swift, your sons and my sons may be
,ving on the battlenelds somewhere in
France We can't 60 to their relief. but
We can do our part by contributing to the
Red Cross. Augusta. which has never
failed TO respond to the call OF the State
or the nation, vii! do its part
After a selection by the Second Regi-
mental Band. Charles W. Crist, one Of
the field agents for the Red Cross work.
was introduced by Mayor Swift. He told
AZ VISITING other cities in the State and
AZ the great interest that he found in the
movement, These cities, said tire speaker
are going TO show the country that Maine
viii raise the $500, 900 which has been ap-
portioned to II.
4 believe that by the end of the
week said Mr.. Crist, that Maine
VIII over subscribe for the Red Cross
war fund as it did for the Liberty
Loan and you will all be proud of this
great and good State.
The French and British have been
keeping the Germans from coming to
Maine and the United States" contin-
ned Mr. Crist. We must either night
the German on our own soil or the soil
n France We will have to make sac
rsces. We have been enjoying the
profits Of the war. Now we will have
70 give up our money or our strength.
We expect great things from Augusta.
You will subscribe more than $4,000
in 'h!s city. believe"
Hon. p. II. GilIin
Hon. p. II. Gillin of Bangor, a men,
her Of the Senate from Penobscot
county. was the next speaker and his
eloquent address was frequently pune
tu4ted with applause. He said
Has the hour struck-is the moment
at hand when the God of nations rul-
ing in the affairs Of men is about
through the crucifxion Of war to
annihllate evil and through the strug-
gle Of the great common peoples of
the earth TO establish the sway OF in
tellectual man which will dethrone
and forever destroy the power of the
lew 10 control with reins of steel and
The barbarous scourge Of autocracy,
~ rights and liberties which belong
10 alp
THAT God rules in the affairs OF
mon is as certain as any truth IN
PHYSICAL science. On the great NOV
na power which is from the beginning
hangs the world of senses and the
world Of thought and action. Eternal
wisdom marshals the great procession
~ nations wording in patient continu-
nv through the ages, never hating ana
never abrupt. encomrassing all events
IN its oversight and ever effecting Its
will though mortals may slumber IN
apathy or oppose with madness. kings
are lifted up or thrown down, natlohs
come and 60. republics flourish ana
wither. dynasties pass away ike taie
that Is told, but nothing is by chance'
though men. In the ignorance OF causes
NAV think So The deeds or time are
governed. as we'll as judged, by the
DEGREES OF eternity. The caprice OF
neetinV existence bends to the immov-
able omnipontcnoe. which plants It's
feet on all the centuries and has neither
change Of purpose or repose.
The world Is held at peculiar polse
and thinking men the world around are
taking birds eye view of the moth
rlddled teachings Of Czarism and kais-
ert.m as they see their brothers rush
ing forward on the most terrible klno
o, engines of war, sacrificing their
lives bv hundreds Of thousands to stop
tAe onrush of the ancient superstition
which taught the Divine right of kings
70 order millions of their fellows 10
death and destruction and bring woe
and misery upon a totling, cnaritaole'
selt-sacrificing world OF peace-lovins
people
The flag which we honor today rep
rcsents a civilization that knows no
master-that does not 'don its nat 10
kings nor bend to lords the knee" II
represents n civilization standing upon
all the best that all the men ana wo-
men OF the world have thought ana
sad and done throughout the-centuries
"A civilization which has erected LOT
itself matchless temple of Justice
Embodied in it's bulwarks are the nesn
and blood OF human beings and around
ITS oloisters we see the smiling races
~ MN. children. while up in the DEL
fry Oft times in the still dark watches
Of the night, YOU hear the clang OF
the master workman's hammer. wniIe
over all floats Old Glory. hurting oeh,
ance 10 its enemies and fingins us
protection over it's people-revered oy
one hundred million loyal Americans
who. with a single heartbeat, are
sending the red blood of PATRIOTISM
through the arterial system and caplii-
airy network Of 4s great states. VINO
are ready to a man to take up .he
sword in the cause Of universal Jusuce
to all men the world around. irrespec-
tive Of color creed or CLINE.
great free. liberty-loving peopie
have cart THAR clarion voice careerlnS