Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-10-01
PASTOR IN SERMON
BRANDS PAC|F|STS
'POL|T|C GANGRENE'
REV. CHESSMAN BERATES HY-
PHENATES AND THOSE Who
WOULD USE FREE SPEECH AND
PRESS TO STAB DEMocRAcY's
HEART.

That this hour needs undiluted pa.
triotism and unadulterated American
ism and that there is no place in the
United States for hyphenates now
was the general theme of a sermon de
lvered by Rev. George w. Chessmar
at the Baptist church last night. Rev
Chessman took his text from Marx
1926, And If a house be divided
against itself, that house cannot
stand" He said in part:
Abraham Lincoln used that tex
over half a century ago when the ma
tion was on the threshold of a great
war. II was clarion call for unity
the guarantee of national perpetuity
That text Is apropos now. because now
because now a house divided agains,
itself cannot stand A herculean task
confronts the United States and hel
allies in defeating the law OF the
Jungle aiming at world domination
For success there is need Of the elm
nation of all discordant notes in the
national life. To achieve this essen
tial harmony is the reason for gov
ernment activities against the Treason
Of the |. w. w. and the un-Americar
utterances of men like La Toilette.
The hour demands unadulteratet
Americanism. There is no place ii
the United States for a hyphenate,
citixenry. There Is no place for fre,
speech or press where such freedom
Is perverted into license and aims
dagger at the heart of democracy. !
propaganda which gives comfort t
foe Is treason. Sabotage and espior
age is treason. Rabid pacifism, lily
fingered parlor pacifism, or ultra-se
cialism constitute discordant note
disrupting the national harmony
They are gangrene of the body pol
tic calling for heroic surgical treat
ment.
"This Is an hour to forget Woodrow
Wilson is Democrat and to remem
bef only that he is President of tn,
United States and entitled to the loya
and enthusiastic support of ever.
American. We want one hundred pc
cent Americans.
when we look out upon the nation
al life there is ground for optimism
Despite rumors OF attempted cOrrur
tion of Congress, despite information
that enemy spies honeycomb the ma
tion, despite the activities of the
W. w. the rabd pacifists, despite tn
attitude of La Toilette, there is groun
for optimism and that ground Is ns
tional unity. North, east. south an
west the nation Is in concord. 1t
amalgamated into common purpose
Boys from thousands of our homes ar
In the Cantonments under a commo
flag and bent on common mission
Our industrial plants, manufacturin
concerns, food supplies are cooper
ating harmoniously. Our America
housewives are hard at task of doin
their bit. All this is ground for optin
ism
Compare the United States no,
with the United States at the begir
ming of the Civil war. Then sectiona
ism was rampant the nation wa
broken into parts by dialects and clar
nsh ideals. Today the nation is hon
oegenius. A generation ago It is III
thinkable that a statue of Robert l
Lee should be erected on the battle
field of Gettysburg a ground ded
Gated by the immortal Lincoln to tn
men who won the struggle. but las
June such statue was erected nea
where Pickett made his famou
charge. It is indicative that there
no longer north and solid sout
but one hundred millions of peopl
welded into a common purpose.
The activities of the paid or III
paid agents of the German govern
ment' does not scare us. We remen
Der that the Revolution had it's Torit
and the Civil war It's Copperheads.
Is to be expected today that among
hundred millions of people thei
should be lineal descendants of thes
undesirables. But the antiAmerica
ism prevalent in our land today
only a ripple on broad ocean.
"The unity of the nation astount
the central powers. II Is a revelatic
: to old world governments that ha,
ridiculed In times past our form
government. The calculations
: Junkerdom, which confidently expet
ed It's agents to impede our grover
. ment, destroy It's unity, have nisca
/ ried The fruit,basket of their hop,