The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-05-13
GREAT SPEECH MADE
BY CHAUNCEY DEPEW
Noted New Yorker Gives
Splendid Address at
Dinner.
EVENT is NOTABL E
MOntauk Club Entertains in
Honor Of His Eighty
Third Birthday.
EVENT IS NOTABL E
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revolutionary than the uttcrances for
which the Socialist leader lies in Jail
The chancellor promises reforms and
the kaiser says that for kin.ship BY
populi. voX Del, is near his heart, and
intimatcs that 1t may be u new reveal
tiOn of. the will of God. But it may be
the handwriting on the walls OF the
palace.
Christianity has been challenged by
the world tragedy. but through 1t the
people have found their souls.
Tho Wonderful Russian Procession.
have seen historic pugeants and
professions. The most wonderful and
significant of them all was at the close
of the civil war when the union army
marched past the president and Grant
and Sherman and Sheridan at Wash
ington. the Union saved, to be mus
tered out and return to their homes
and peaceful pursuits as citizens.
The celebration of the fiftieth year.
and the diamond jubilee of the reign
Of Queen Victoria were tributes by land
and sea to her as a sovereign and
woman, and the wonderful progress
in popular government. in the arts and
sciences, and in the expansion and de-
velopment Of the empire during her
reign.
But moro remarkable, and equally
significant is that wonderful Russian
procession from savage settlements be-
You'd the Arctic circle, from prisons
and convict camps. from mines and soli-
tary huts of men and women, of boys
and girls. on sledgcs, and on foot. hur-
rying through the SHOWS and biting
cold Of Siberia to home and freedom.
The martyrs of liberty suddenly re-
leased from bon daSe and torture by the
peoples government as suddenly or
ganized and victorious. The pomp and
splcndor, the brilliant uniforms. the
inspiring music of other pageants are
not here They are clothed in rags,
they are partly naked, they are UNI
washed and unkempt. Many have been
condemned by court martial, more by
police cdict without trial, all by ruth
less tyrrany for daring to speak of lib
erty or suspected of thinking OF lib
erty. freed people overnight with
out passion or bloodshcd firmly plant
their own government upon the crum-
bling ruins of Il thousand years of OPP
preston. Old autocratic Russia has
found her soul
A Distinction to Be an American.
It was always Il privilege to be an
American citizen: now it is a djstnc-
tion. The autocrat and the war lord
declare war on short notice, and then
call on their subjects to fight. De-
mocracies go into war on the dclib-
crate judgment of the people after
every effort for peace has failed. The
emperor Of Austria gave Serbia |.
hours, aud then began hostilities. The
emperor of Germany limited Russia.
France and Belgium TO Il few days.
The United States waited and endured,
suffered and protested for two years
and IA half until Christian patience
could no longer be justified and right =
cuus wrath no longer restrained. We
enter the war to protect our funda
mental rights and liberties. and to win
peace upon basis so sure and per
manent that people can live their lives
ana enjoy their liberties unmolcsted
in this world. 1t is a war for freedom
and humanity. When peace comes
with victory, if there are question
OF territories, we want none: if in
IDENTITIES are demanded. We will not
share 1t is IA glorious result that TIL,
English speaking peoples of the worlc
arc of one faith and fighting for com
mon ideals. Americans. English, Irish
scotch. Welsh. Canadians. Australians
New Zcalanders and South Africans
are united to end forever the doctrine
that might makes right. All English
speaking people have Il common her
itage in Magma Charta and the Bill
of Rights, and the results of the rev
olutions which have democratized tn
institutions of Great Britain. But W.
Americans have contributed immorta
urincipics of liberty in which they al
equally share. In the cabin OF tn
MHVtlOWcf Il iitllc bttu tiuoptSb, aii
now most of the world acclains. =
government of just and equal laws.
One hundred and fifty-siX years q
the development and practice of thi
idea produced the immortal Declaratio
of Independence. that all men are ere
atcd equal, that they are endowed. b
their Creator. with certain inalienabl
rights. that among these are life. lib
crty and the pursuit of happiness Afte
seven years of war had gained us OF
indepcudence. the Republic was bui
on this foundation: I'VE, the people I
the United States, in order to form
more perfect Union. establish justic
insure domestic tranquility. provide f.
the common defense. promote the gel
era| welfare. and secure the blessing
Of liberty to ourselves and our pc
terity. do ordain and establish tn
Constitution for the United States
America"
What Of the future: We will il