Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1917-06-06

that liberty is made secure for man
KIND. At the day of our greatest d.
vision there was one common passion
amongst us, and that was the passion
1of human freedom. We did not know
that God was working out in His own
way the plan which We could best
serve human freedom--by making
thls nation great united, indivisible,
lndestructible instrument in His
hands for the accomplishment IF
these great things.
Significance in Coincidence.
CAS- ! came along the streets few
moments ago, my heart was full Of
the thought that this is registration
Gay. Will you not support me in
feeling that there is some signifi-
canoe in the coincidence. that this day
which welcomes you to the capital, Is
day when men young as you were
IN those days, when you gathered to
fight, are now registering their names
as evidence of this great idea, that
in democracy the duty to serve and
the privilege to serve falls upon all
alike? There is something fine, my
fellow citizens, in the spirit of the
volunteer, but deeper than the volun-
teer spirit is the spiri, of obligation.
There is not man in this house who
must not hold himself ready to be
summoned to the duty of supporting
the great government under which we
live. No really thoughtful and patri-
otto man is jealous of that obligation.
No man who really understands the
privilege and liberty of being citi-
zen doubts for moment the idea that
the congress OF the United States has
the right to call upon whom it will
to serve the nation. The salemness
Of registration ought to be signal to
the world, to those who are flouting
the dignity and honor and rights of
the United States, that all her man
hood will flock to that standard under
which we all delight to serve, and
that he who challenges the rights and
principles of the United States chal-
lenges the united strength and devo-
ton of nation.
A Time TO make Sacrifices.
There are not many things that
one desires about war, my fellow citi-
zens, but you have come through war,
you know how you have been chast-
ened by it, and there comes a time
when it is good for a nation to know
that it must sacrifice, if need be,
everything that it has 10 vindicate the
principles which it processes. We
have prospered with sort of needless
and irresponsible prosperity. Now,
we are going to lay all our wealth, if
necessary, and spend al, our blood, If
need be, to show that we were not ac-
cumulating selfishly but were accu-
mulating it for the service of man
kind. Men all over the world have
thought of the United States as a
trading and money-getting people, but
we who have lived at home know the
ideals in the hearts of this people and
We have sober convictions which
were lain at the base of our life all
the time, and we know the power and
revolution which can be spent in he
roic work for the service Of those
ideals that we have treasured.
I'VE have been allowed to rest in
the providence of God that oar
strength might be used to prove, not
our selfishness, but out greatness, if
there is any ground for thankfulness,
in a day like this, am thankful for
the privilege of self-sacrifice, which
is the only privilege that lends dig
nifty to the human spirit.
"And so. 1t seems to me that we
may regard this as a very happy day,
because day of reunion, day of
noble memories, day of dedication,
a day Of the renewal of the spirit
which has made America great among
the peoples of the world"