New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1917-05-12

OF chaotic riot of assets, irrespon-
slye to the touch Of living spiritual
lty, Is today the greatest moral in
tiuence and impression on every
battle front, in every battling
trench. The day of EmDerors and
Kings is gone and past; the
dawn Of Democracy is firmly
planted i'll the east Of life S hori-
ION. The ruler and his subject
have been condemned sovereign
citizen and the public officer ac-
claimed the prophet of new vi
sion of the rights Of man, Justice
and happiness. The American les
son Of freedom; the struggle for
life and liberty; the. claim to the
heritage of divine Righteousness
viii be scared deep, by the Amer
lean battling boys, into the hearts
and conscience of the bulk of suf-
ferlng humanity from which the
Unsuitable nav Of autocraey s
cannon and engine of destruction
draw their food and fuel. This is
a holliSr war than that Of the
crusader. 1t is for the rescue of
the hottest cross on earth; the
cross of civilization, Of justice,
right and truth, the redemption
Of mankind, the, emancipation of |
man s soul. There is no search |
for a millennium and the resource
ton Of dreams of misguided faith.
This government is warning |
against organized autocracies,
maintained, supported and pro
tected by the best and most high
ly organized military organiza-
ton human ingenuity and inven-
tivenesS ever constructed. The
power of aggression, of
Tense and use Of this jaggernaut
Of militarism is characterized by
an inhumanity, ruthlesSness, a
brutality, a sayagery unheard Of
n the annals Of civilization.
Every device Of mechanism and
chemistry and deception and false
promise is arrayed against the on
coming wave Of democracy. The
yrimaces Of a defOrmed dynasty ,
he mad fury and contortion of an
insane landed aristocracy; a ling 6
ring asphyxiating mirage of a
numbering middle-age feudal-
SIN, soaked through and through
With a hereto belief Of divine
light Of king and nobility and Z
uperman, thrown with crimson c
Iorror on the war screen cannot q
righten, intimidate free man,
rec institutions.
The HohenzOllern ogre, the Prus- =
ian DOGGY of militarism the Ger L
lanic hegemony in the barbaric R
)rm of the present kulture kampf,
isclosing in gruesOme form the
emoniacal defects Of hereditary g
ANTS on one side and the re- s.
rudescence of the tribal sayagery L
n the other, cannot eclipse the O
tar of victory of man S hope and D
aith. II
This is democracy test. Is 1t 6
match for,the boosted, exploited, lnn
;ientific efficiency and criminal 7,
lstinct of Europe's fighting 5;
espotism? Can it roll back, for
ne second time the engulfing
ave of the Hun or allow the ss
ag to trail in the dust of 'barbar- !"
IN desecrated and defiled by the g,
OF Kisses, contempt, scorn Of the a
vrant? This is a titantic strug-
lie of life, love, liberty against DIS
emon, despotism, death. 1t is
OF for soil, for soul. 1t is free =
ON s angel wrestling with me-
histoes pretensions and claims.
he light Of glory in effulgent
)lendor generated by American s AT
ational sun will send the mes
lge of achievement, of man S vic Lc
Try, of the triumph of the ancient u u
rophet' s moral and spiritual con &c
epts of life to the one Almighty N
ing above in whose hands dwell 81
le destinies of the universe. ~
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