Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-04-02
Magnificent Patriotic
Demonstration at Coliseum

| SWaylng vast cOncourse of people
| that filled every nook and corner Of
the Coliseum, moving to tears and then
| to tumultous applause that made the
building ring as it seldom has before,
Judge Benedict F. Maher delivered
one of the greatest patriotic addresses
ever heard in this city at the Patriotic
meeting held Sunday afternoon. Pat
riotlc songs were sung by the audience,
an orchestra furnished instrumental
music and Miss Mildred Wadsworth
sang. all Of which were very pleasing
| Hon. o. B. Clason introduced the
speaker. who spoke in part as follows:
Render unto Caesar the things that
are Caesars and unto God the things
that are Gods. Over 1900 years ago the
| Prince Of Peace on Palm Sunday en-
| tered the citadel of man-for mankind
and the next Friday the Prince of
/ Peace SIZED his blood to redeem man
from the moral slavery of Kings and
| kingdoms. In 20 centuries there has
/ been no Holy week more pregnant with
| human possibility for veal or woe than
| this day In which We live. For 2000
years shows clean and clear the fact
| that truth itself endures unperishable,
! immutabe and eternal The moral truth
of man when men combine in states or
| nations becomes the political truth of
| the peoples therein. As the nation is
/ but the aggregate of the individual so
| the political truth of that aggregate
| is but he combined expression of the
| moral truth Of its members. AS with
! the individual, so with the nation, no
| facile wealth of imagination, subtle
! charm of culture, forceful eloQuence of
| diction. impellinS power of intellect or
compelling courage of heart and hand,
! but upon the Elusive intangible lending
| of the while termed character.
so with this nation. It's true force
and perpetuity among the peoples of
the earth shall be measured not by its
armies or navies, not by its millions OF
treasures, nor by its merchants with
millions. but by it's men, by its princi-
! pie, by it's character, by its soul.
! THE most momentous moment in the
| life of America since the first PennSyl-
yania Congress- will come Tuesday next
when you and l in the person of our
representatives confer with the repre-
sentatives Of a hundred million Amer
! leans on Capitol Hill in that city nam
cd for the Virginia cavalier who per-
! sonally was our patron as his princi-
| pies are our pattern-to see what an
sWer shall be given the challenge that
we of today have forgotten the re-
wards of the revolution, confirmed by
the curses of the Rebellion.
/ What is it all about?
an August of 1914 the dual monarchy
Of Austria Hungary sent an ultimatum
! to Serbia-which was war! This war
| hn- of a
was shed by a private assassin.
| zone man dead and world at war.
ION Tuesday next from this new world
| there will be written in history this man.
date. now and ever here and hereafter.
at home and abroad, the blood of peas
ant is as food as the blood of prince
and no government, whatever its eXigen-
cies. can wantonly shed the blood OF an
American freeman without answering IN
! stantly to American freemen.
1.-The hour of academic discussion mas
nassed the time for interesting meta
nhysical distinctions as TO the parucu-
lar app]cation of the tenets of interna-
! tonal law has gone-the moot ques-
| tion that submarines are new depart
ure and that new conditions new duties
! n.
couth, pales before the one clear issue
' if any nation can ever arbitrarily Tx an!
limit at all that a peaceful nation cannot
pea cefully and lawfully pass on the hlsh
seas then it is a question or olscre'ioii
ONLY where and when such limit shall ne
| Liberty then becomes myth-the pur-
| suit of happiness privilege and not
right. life itself a loan from some tenn
poral as against the Eternal King
! "Wider than any local issues of bound
ary, deeper than any accident or circulh-
stances the real true cause of TINS war
| is one of basis human rights. Rights
| higher than representation for taxation,
RIGHTS not of the African slave alone on
q Carolina plantation, but rights of the
! whole human race. The right OF man
| 70 he a man in relation to his fellow as
we'll as in the image and likeness OF his
| God Man had faced too many trials IN
the political evolution of the ages to ne
! baked when the prize. which mad been
en,nerons'. then barons', then kings. was
his his alone on earth. mans plain
mans. The right to life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness.
From factory and farm from class
| room and work bench, down from the
| hillsides and up from the valleys, from
| every state and station must come the
! voemen soldiery of the new world No
| great army, no big navy ready prtmed
| for instant conflict but thousands and
thousands of men like you, in whose