Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1917-07-11

our souls by the Almighty. Thus we
are assured that we are potential ele-
ments in the freeing of other people
and in so doing fulfil our destiny;
destiny carrying with it, let us hope,
the salvation of the world.
But more, my friends; when the
war is closed and the settlement is
to be made we are the only people
to the controversy who have no alli-
Rnces, no acquisitions, no adjust
ments of territory to make. We are
in the war for the victory of the
eternal principles of right to the in
dividual; for the enforcement of de-
mocracy. About the council board of
the nations We will be guided solely
by the thought of the common GOOD;
a good which means disarmament,
free ocean, the right of peoples to be
the authors of their own future.
With us there can be no question of
the balance OF power, except as that
balance is made by adhesion to right
and justice. There will be, there
should not be a commercial war; no
boycotts on the part of peoples; but
trade, commerce and finance will be
free and untrammeled. The wrongs
and injuries of the autocrats should
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upon the common people. The future
can only be safe-guarded by the pres
ence at the conference of the nations
of the only nation which has no sor-
did ambitions Of it's own to further.
The Last Revolution.
The French revolution, the English
revolution, the American revolution
freed certain peoples; this revolution,
the mightiest and helliest ever waged
will free the world. There will be
league of nations, with just armed
force sufficient to act as world po-
lice, which will keep in subsection
the dreams and ambitions of the Will
liams II, the Nicholases, the Bern
hardis, the Neitsches, and give free
course to the ambitions and genius
of those who in the realms of science.
philosophy and religion will work
for the spiritual salvation of the
world
Where, then, will we who are here
today array ourselves? There is
great work to do. There are mighty
sacrifices to be made. There are
pain and agony to be endured. Thou
sands, perchance, must go to the
trenches; millions must cultivate the
fields; other millions must conserve
the resources of the land. Billions Of
money are to be raised by taxes to
be poured into the war Golfers of the
nation. But, my friends, there are
millions of money to be raised by vol
untary contributions to keep in acti-
witty, with its beneficent results, the
most gigantic realization of the teach
ings of Jesus ever inaugurated on
this earth-the Red Cross organiza-
ton. There we can do our part, IL
not with the army at the front, or
the army in our fields. Until this
war is ended and justly ended, our
people must face the certainty that
sacrifice and not pleasure, duty and
not profit, obedience to the highest
in thought and accomplishment and
not careless Indifference, are the es-
sentials of our lives. Every man or
woman who fails to recognize these
facts and act accordingly is a slack
er and unworthy of political freedom,
and will come under the condemna
ton of history. - ,.'
So, my friends, in conclusion,
summon you to the field, to those
achievements which will make for
strong and holy character. I sum-
mon you to the work of binding up
the wounds, both of the battle and of
sorrow everywhere. I summon you
to the common labor Of life which
is now hallowed by mighty under
taking for the lives of posterity. I
summon you to become the compat-
riots of the mighty host who in the
past, and now, and in the glorious
future, have endured, are enduring.
and will endure agony, pain, suffer-
ing, buffeting, sorrow and tears, that
the highest and noblest ideas of God
and man may become our common
good. I summon you to work into
the term American all that makes
for generous and noble life, honest
government, prophetic greatness an6
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that life and order which will be t.
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heaven.