The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-10-15
LOAN
1A[k|'[R BRINGS
REAL MESSAGE
Places War on High Plane of
World Issue and Ignores
Selfish Claims
TIME HAS COME WHEN
NEW WORLD MUST ACT


fish claims which America had for en-
tering the war in retaliation for the
brutal ignorance of its national rights
on the part OF Germany, former Con
gresham Frank NJ. Nye brought to an
audience which filled the Auditorium
Saturday night real message, filled
with inspiration Everyone who heard
him left the theater thrilled with a
new loyalty for his flag and his coun-
try: proud of her past, confident or
her future, and with the conviction
that she is destined to play great
and noble part in the contact now
waging.
President H. P. Goddard of the Bis
marck Commercial club introducing
the speaker said: 1.-THE fact that you
are here tonight is an indication that
we are rising to higher type OF
PATRIOTISM and on this higher type
of patriotism Congressman Nye dwelt
in an address which was sane, temper
ate, free from hectic bombast, but
filled with genuine American senti-
ment
Thankful for Heroes.
81 am thankful for every hero and
patriot who has left his impress on
the world. | am thankful fonthe good
men and women who have enriched
the world and human life. Only I'M
selfish souls have left their impress
on the world No man can stop and
study the history of this country, with
its brave men and women; it's self
denying men and women, without a
tendency to get out of the rut. In
coming here tonight, | speak from
the standpoint of an optimistic patriot.
| have lived long enough to know that
we as a nation are not community
of saints; but there is 50 much that
is good as compared with any of the
old world nations that l daily give
thanks that | am an American.
THE hero never dies. Washington
still stands at Valley Forge; Grant
still fights at Vicksburg that nation
may be reborn; Farragut still stands
strapped to his masthead; Sheridan
still rides the valley of the Shenan-
doah; Sherman is still marching to
the sea; Dewey still stands there on
the bridge at Manila. They cannot
die. This meeting here tonight is to
renew, and in some cases, to resurrect
our patriotism
The speaker told of the inspiration
he found in reading as boy a proph-
esy made by great Irish statesman
40 years ago that the new world
would become the renovation and in
SEPARATION of the new, and he declared
that it is true of nation as or an
individual that "as man In his
heart thinketh so he becOmeth.' Amer
lea, he declared, has been too. busy
building a great nation to think OF war
and conquest and aggression. Its few
wars have been humane wars, and in
them the God of right has marched
with the colors. America has thought
along peaceful, constructive lines,
while an element of brutality comes
down through the centuries in the
nations OF the old world.
Those Who Gave All.
He spoke at length of the moral
heroism shown by Wendell Phillips,
who had the courage to preach eman-
cipation when the very business life
of the nation seemed based on slav-
cry. Today, in this crisis, he declared,
we should emulate such men as Phil
Inns and others who gave all,
1--WE will always have the fault-fihd-
err we will always have the copper
head. The patriot and the copperhead
live side by side. One growls at ev-
h1 tho ct0tn tho
county-thc other goes forward to do
and die for his country"
Americas Justification.
OF Americas entrance into the war,
he said, 1--WE are justified from the
lowest standards of civilized history,
by everything we call material; by
the loss of lives of our citizens; by
outrages, of national dignity and de-
cency. From the usual standpoint OF
resentment we have as much as any
nation ever has had unless it be Bel
GUM. But l place this war upon the
higher ground of world issue-of a
battle for an ideal. Germany has
bowed to material power. Down at
the bottom of its national being is an
idolatory of military power which
shuts out all humanity Germany has
been ripe for war; as result we have
war which had no cause, which
didn't need any cause. Austria and
Serbia were ready to make peace, but
within IL hours Germany was march
ing its armies across poor, liberty
loving Belgium. If there is any SYM
pathizer with the kaiser here tonight
let him remember that the kaiser him.
self admits Germany had no right on
Belgian soil Students of history 50
years hence will turn with holy horror
from pages that tell Of the tiendish-
ness, the brutishness, yes, the hellish-
ness of this war in its inception and
its execution.
But that huge. colossal buffer,
the kaiser, will come to an end as
sure as tOmorrow's sun shall rise. The
liberty loan is surely the safest invest
ment a man can make in these trou'
blous times; certainly it is the best
and it will cost us nothing. Within
two or three weeks you will find this
American people reaching their hands
down in their pockets and raising
twice, yes, thrice, the amount asked OF
them. Let the gods of vice and lux
ury be laid aside for day: let US as
a nation get away from our material
ism. 1t can be done, and will be done
Let us have new faith in the pos
sibilities of the American people. This
nation has possibilities of world reve