The Pulaskian., 1917-12-14
ELOQUENT SPEECH
 BY REVIEW. BATES
FORMER PASTOR OF PULASKI HEIGHTS MAKES CLEAR PRE- SANITATION OF ISSUES AT
 REED CITY, MICH.

The Rev. F. w. Bates, who was a resident Of Pulaski Heights three or four years ago, and is now pastor of the Congregational Church at Reed City, Mich, delivered Memorial Day address to his congregation filled with an eloquent patriotism that should ap- peal to all true and loyal American citizens. It was a clearscut presen- tation of the issues involved in the present war. following a review of the war Of the sos. He said in part:
 "As the shot fired at Fort Sumpter startled the nation into realization that the advocates of African slavery were determined to enforce their ar rogant claims even though it meant the destruction of individual and na- tional rights, so in these past two years the whole world has been awak- ened to the fact that Germany is de- termined that the forces of slavery shall exist. are determined to force their will upon the nations though the whole world suffers. For the present war is war between freedom, na- tional, personal and what Is really the suppression of individual and nation al rights, a war between autocracy, or the rule from above and democra- cy, or the rule of the people. by tho people and for the people, war for the upholding of the divine right of kings" as against the rights of the nanuja Aa th..r ffs,,ohf f<.,- tl,<. ..xtf.. ing of the nation, 90 today we fight for the unifying of the world, as the nation could not exist half free and half slave, so today the world cannot exist half free and half slave, in other words, half democratic and half auto cratic.
 We wage no war today against the German people-our war is against that class in Germany that has exalt- ed might above right, that have killed out the better instincts and longings Of a great nation, that has turned the nation of individuals into a machine of destruction to be directed solely for the sustaining and exultation of a handful of demagogues. We have too much German blood in our own nation among our best citizens, too many German names Gn the pages or our history, past and present, for us to harbor any feelings of enmity to- ward that great race. Our quarrel is only with those who degrade the bet ter clements of that great people.
 "A great American years ago de- fined war as "hell" and these men whom we honor today because they endured hardship upon the battlefield and in Southern prisons, and these women who waited and watched, pray cd and suffered through long years of loneliness and hopelessness will all say amen to that definition. The whole nation accepts 1t.
 Germany, on the other hand, has for generations exalted the war god above all gods. About year before the war the following appeared in one of the leading German papers. the organ of the Young German par cause 1t so well illustrates the senti- ment of the kaiser and his war lords:
 War is the noblest and hoIiest ex- precision of human activity. For us, too, the great glad hour of battle will strike. Still and deep in the German heart is the joy of battle and the long ing for 1t. Let us ridicule to the ut termost the old women in brooches who fear war and deplore it as cruel or revolting. War is beautiful. When
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