Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-12-24
This Is a Militant Christmas

Of America.
Our ono business noE is to toin the iUdr.
- The spirit that is over all the land is the spiri
Of righteous battle. Here and there pacifst raise
puny cry; here and there agents of the enemy AM
disloyal Americans may be found working like mole
underground, but the vast mass Of Americans, Got
be thanked, are beginning to be filled with the hol.
zeal OF crusaders and armed with the justified in
ssdignation of patriots summoned to defend thei
4 rountry.
America knows now that this is as much wal
ssof defense as of ofense. We know that our coun
14ry has been forced into the maelstrom not merel!
TO fight the atruistic battles of humanity and poll
tical and social freedom, but to fight against TIT
monster whose existence, so long as it is allowed
10 exist, threatens our own cities, states, people.
As a nation and as individuals We have made
.pmistakes in our attitude toward the war; and art
q making them now in our conduct of the war. Some
snistakes will yet be made for whole viewpoint
is away from the cold, calculating facts of a,
ambitionmad Germany has imposed it on the
world. But if speedily we eliminate those mistakes
: II is in the power of the United States to bring
4eace TO the world at least year before it could
NHtherwise come. ~ 80; :. --~....'
Il Oar one business noe is to ,rin the irar.
~ And on this Christmas when our thoughts turn
coward the Prince of Peace who came upon earth
by the spear and sword we may take a solemn pride
IN the thought that our own sacrifices now will ad
lance the cause of world. wide pence.
The great fact that must be driven home into the
deeper realization of the American people is that
-ur chief national concern now. is to win the war
And by "our" We mean not merely those of America
but Of all the Allies. 5s IA! sss;
- Orr one business nosc isf0 srih HE iedy Sc I 3
We. are confronted with the greatest military
Lespot the world has ever known, combination
feater than that of Rome in her ancient days OF
Iowef; ruthlessness which makes AttiIa to ap
pear as benevolent; an ingenuity and an equipment
forged into one mighty warsword through forty
years of ceaseless scheming, planning, intriguing
Against that military despot we must summon
{tFery ounce of moral mental and physical force;
md we must not weaken our own combination BY
allure to support our Allies
81 Our one business noc is to ici,i the tcdr.
OF what value is private fortune il it is to be
taken by victorious enemy; of what worth is EN-.
Poyment If it is to be exploited by greedy enemy;
"a what sancty is home II it is to be violated by a
bstfa enemy of what sweetness is life if it is un.
Yer the heel of q dominating enemy?
We must not spend our energies in fighting fri.
kUal fights among ourselves at home We must not
8pend our money wastefully, nor live wastefully.
I've must not forget, day or night sleeping or wax.
ing, that the demands that are coming upon the
american people will be for money, goods and
patriotic service on a colossal and undreamed-of
5calc
Oar one business noU is to scin tho tcar.
To the success of that business we must direct
Irery activity Let our businesses be welded patri-
8teally toward that end and our pleasures be such
As make us ft and keep us fit for the fight that
EVERY man and woman ought TO be making.
President Wilson's latest addresses hammer
easeIessy home the thought that every branch Of
our national life must be devoted to the one great
national activity of successful war Recent incl.
dents in Washington oiicial life suggest that the
men who cannot deliver the goods are eliminated
from directive control and the men who can deliver
the goods are put in Office and told to strike out
and strike fast. The president may vet emerge as
me OF the greatest OF our war presidents and al.
eady ne has won to him the loyal support of ma.
Ion of businessmen. Whether or not they differ
With him on details, they stand BY him on essentials
Z slowly, somewhat creakingly, but with tremen.
dous promise and already with considerable force
our war machine is getting under way.
Are you doing your share? Are you doing your
hest? -. = -,
q; On this Christmas, as you think of millions
4pon millions OF homes where the Christmas spirit
as rested in peace through many years; and as you
1bink of millions of homes where now PRAYERS
ascend for the safety of boys gone or going @over
here you think of Christmas. 1917. remember
that America will not be land of peace and happy
homes, of safety and security until Americans and
their Allies have crushed the military despot and
reed the world from his cruel menace.
- Our one business aoir is to acin the tcar.
It's slow day when some vessel doesn't arrive
-.a Pacific port with news Of evading a supposed