The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1917-09-20
E|CHTY-SEvEN LEAVE
FOR CAMP DODGE
Thouands Say Farewell to Ward Coun-
ty's Second Contingent Who Were
of for Camp Dodge Wednesday.

. Inc City VI NlHOI JOluCu Will
hundreds from the countryside We'd
nesday in giving the eighty-seven
Ward county young men a fitting
farewell, as they departed over the
500 line at 1915 o'clock for Camp
training for active service.
At eleven thirty o'clock, all Of the
whistles of the city blew, this being
the signal that the young men were
soon to depart, and thousands lined
up on either side Of Main street as the
young men, all wearing white badges,
marched down the streets towards the
depot.
The procession was led by Geo. Won
Media, president of the Association of
Commerce, in whose hands the ar
rangements of the day had been plac-
ed, and Attorney Dudley Nash, the
speaker of the day They rode in an
auto decorated in the national colors.
Then followed McGuires Drum
Corps with Co. D, Co. A and the Med
ical Corps taking up the rear. At the
500 crossing, the soldiers stood at at
tenti6n while the eighty-seven young
men passed.
Atty. Nash delivered an unusually
strong patriotic address and at It's
conclusion was loudly applauded. The
address follows: ..- D., Is-.
My Friends:
I did not come here merely to ex-
press to you my personal feeling but
largely l act as the mouthpiece OF
those who love you and those who
wish you well. This is the method,
the time and the place selected by
your patriotic neighbors to pay you
homage and to ask Destiny to be
kind to you as you submit yourselves
to it's burning uncertainties.
The mothers of men are making the
greatest sacrifices that will inevitably
follow the United States Of America
into this world-war-this great and
terrible crush of elements into which
a numerous people, the enemy, plung'
ed at the command Of meglomanlac.
Yours is the duty that falls to the
son, the citizen and the patriot.
It is your great privilege to carry
the RESPONSIBILITIES of a great nation
to a successful determination in order
that free institutions do not perish
from the face of the earth; in order
that the great principles of democracy
NAV lend hope to that poor and miser-
able human derelict, the by-product
and the victim of autocratic arrogance
and misrule.
Mans inhumanity to man existed
from the beginning,-fromt the time
when an all-wse Providence placed
cone created in His own image in the
Edenic Paradise. 1t was there that a
brother slew brother. 1t was there
that blood gurgled forth it's first pro-
test and it as there that the first muir
derer of man was called to account
and the awful judgment of God pro
nounced,-"And now art thou accursed
from the earth which hath opened hel
mouth to receive thy brothers blood
from thv hand; when thou tillest the
ground it shall not henceforth y1eld
unto thee her strength; fugitive and
vagabond shalt thou be in the
earth" And as there is still God IN
Heaven, and thank God for that, the
Judgment of the Lord of Hosts shall
vet call to account this insufferable
monster who kills, and kills, and kills
in the hope that historys pages viii
count him great; kills in the hope tha
posterity will remember him for mill
tarv achievement and shrine him witt
the immortals.
Yes, posterity will remember him
hit only as the glorious fool; al
the autocratic head of military cast'
that fires upon hospital ships, klll
little children, defiles women and rem
ders uncertain the liberty and happ1
ness gained for mankind through cen
turtles and centuries of human sacr1
fee.
The impudent Interrogation"
my brothers keeper?' rings throug
the ages. answer for you, yes
and your mothers and your sisters
And who, pray,is your brother? 1t
anvone who needs you in just cause
Tn this instance your English, Irish
Scotch French Italian, Greek an
even your German kin. You are a
inspired lot because your cause is jus
and you are therefore thrice armet
The sign of distress hangs high IN tn
armament. The morning stars illum
nate it and give it companionship. Yo
see it, and whether you are Anglo
Saxon, Teuton, Latin or 'WhatsoeVe
Won are American citizens and yo
will heed
The S. o. S. call of the nation ha
found it's mark in free America. Tn
ancient Judgment Of God is once NOR
to sound it's warning. A Prussian mi
itary regime is to hear it and if l rea
Alright, the flower of Americas mil
tary manhood with it's spirit OF fre
dom is the collective hand and instr
mentality of Providence to carry tn
rebuke of an outraged Diety.
have said that the mothers OF me
are making the great sacrifice an
that yours is the privilege to see to
that the sacrificial offering be not
vain. They hear the weeping of Be
gian women and see the haunted loc
of ravished girlhood. The lisping ar
prattle of dying children has waite
=. itself across the dark waters in whit
lies the unseen mechanical terror