The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-10-24
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day, Oct. %, set apart as day OF
prayer for our soldiers and sailors
9 will be observed in all Of the war
! saw churches.
; Melvin Furtney, Jr., will leave Mon
, day for Mt. Vernon, ILL.,, where he
!, will work for the state roads commits
sion, being assigned a new district.
, The Hay mansion, opposite the
park, piece of property on Clay
, street and 100 acres of farm land
, east of town will be sold by master
/ in chancery, early in November. Thls
sale is for division of property 10
the heirs.
Thursday evening, Oct %, is the
regular meeting night of the Warsaw
Commercial club. There should be a
|, good attendance and an effort made
to do som ething for the good of our
city; no use to lie down.
The following Is condensation or
the stirring, patriotic sermon OF our
friend Rev. G. G.. Maple OF the M
E. church which was delivered sun
day evening last before large audi
ence. 1t is worth perusal by all OF
The Gate City's readers:
Text: Il have fought good fight,
i have finished my course, / have
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He that won't fight cannot win.
Such has been every mans expert
ence, who has succeeded. The men
and women whom we honor lived in
a heroic age and evidenced their
yalor by their deeds. They lived
through a period when battle ragged
furiously. demanding a courage more
than physical.
1t is proper at this time to speak
/ of battles that have been fought and
of victories that have been won,
also of battles that are being fought
and that will have to be fought and
of victories that will have to be won
| before we will have Lincoln's con-
! ception of government of the
people, for the people and by the
people We are moving in that direc-
ton. In all that is worth while
America, for over one hundred years,
has been the worlds great battlefield
in the interest of the things that con-
Germ humanity's greatest good.
With possibly one exception every
war in which we have engaged has
been in defense of some inherent
God-given right. The war of the
revolution on our part was humani-
tartan, hence was good fight"
We do not believe that rulers are
born divine Neither are our chill
dren taught such stuff in our schools
as is taught in the schools OF Ger
many. We have no preachers in the
pay Of our government to preach
such monstrous doctrine to our chill
dren We have established and main
tain the best public schools of any
nation on earth. The question is
now sQuarely UP to us to answer
whether we shall maintain this ma
ton Of liberty and freedom bequeath-
ed to us by the fathers and mothers
of 1776. l hear the answer in thun-
dering tones, Eyes, we will maintain
1t, II it requires every able~bodted
man in the land. We will maintain
it If it becomes necessary to undergo
tue trials, suffering and pain that
was suffered by the fathers and
mothers of the revolution"
The war of the rebellion was a just
war and again we fought a good
fight" The Spanish war was in re-
Spouse to a cry for help from the
oppressed and down-trodden people
of Cuba. It was fight to give an
oppressed people a fair chance. Here
again we fought a good fight" and
sprang at once into the arena as a
world power to be reckoned with in
the consideration of international
affairs.
AS to the present world wide con-
fict into which We have been
plunged, l feel sure that we have
undertaken ito fight a good fight"
We were not the aggressor. We
sought no quarrel with Germany, and
did our level best in honor, to keep
out. Except in the declaration in SO
many words. officially uttered, Ger
many had been actually engaged in
acts of war against us for two years
or more before we entered. Now We
are at war with Germany which can
not be altered, changed or brought
to a close by speeches. 1t can only
be settled by fighting to finish and
forever Graduating the one man
power of nations. The kaiser must
be taught that he and his cohorts
cannot rule the world, and that the
people Of Germany and not the kaiser
nor any other man or set of men
shall rule the destiny of nations to
the hurt of other nations.
Opinions amount to little now. The
word of the government must be
obeyed without question. The man
or men. high or low, who question
the authority of the government at
! this hour are fools, and he who fails
= to do his part is a coward. And
those who stand in the way of sue
cess of this government are traitors.
, AS soldiers and citizens, we must
obey the law as declared by those in
authority, otherwise anarchy will
prevail. Obedience to any faith in
, this nation is bound to bring sue
cess Success means the liberation
of millions of people from virtual
/ slavery. It means peace to this coun-
, try for many years, If not for all
time. It means that the crowned
heads of Europe must go and go for.
, ever. 1t means that the people of
/ all nations shall rule their countries
as to them seems best. 1t means to