Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-06-09

great body Of American citizens felt
for more than two years that 1t was
their duty to keep out Of 1t. We felt
our course should be one of strict neu-
trality We went on following the rules
of international law as we saw them.
Then came the thrill Of the sad news
of the sinking of an English passenger
ship in May, 1915, and the sinking to
death of hundreds of American citi-
zcns, men, women and children. We
protested and began correspondence
that lasted a year our chief enemy
promised, and we accepted it's word. 1t
| did not keep its promises. In February
| of this year came the added intensity
of its unlawful policy. We severed re-
latons. Then more American citizens
| were driven to death-by plain MUIR
der. the speaker said--and we declared
war
Not Against German People.
|. Mr., Taft in the course of his address
spoke in high praise of the German
people and their achievements. He
condemned their rulers. He traced the
rise of the German idea of world
domination. If it is realized, he said
it means the Germanization of the
world. We are now arrayed with the
democracies of the world, he declared.
against the only autocracias remaining
on earth. True. he added. England has
king. but as all know that king has
no more power than an ex-president.'
In praising Karl Schurz, Franz Sigei.
Fred Hassert. and other great Ger
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our nations history in the civil war;
he said they were not of the Germany
of today. We are not fighting the
German people as we have known them
and their fine work in the past, but we
are fighting a German people that has
made religion of their loyalty to
military dynasty.
1t is no part of our policy TO go and
tell people how they should be gov
erned and what they should do. Nor
are we a knight Grant. We are in
this fight because we believe the policy
of the German government is an Of
fensive policy against the peace of the
world.
Have Big Job Before Us.
Mr.. Taft warned that America has
big job before it, and a long task
ahead. He dWelt on the blunderS of
the German ruling caste, not errors OF
military strategy. in gauging the moral
forces that operate in life national as
we'll as individual. The political creed
Of that caste is that He shall take
who has the power and he shall keep
who can During his talk the ex
president said that if Venezuela or
E,,a 10 n o,,if tod
the German forces had from the wars
beginning there would have been no
question as to how this country would
act. If we acted differently with the
greater power simply because it is
stronger we could no longer consider
this nation an Independent people
One of the points made by the
speaker in dwelling on the blunders
made by the enemy, one that was APP
plauded by the whole audience, was
this: ITO win by the application OF
science without relation to morality,
Germany has forced into the ranks of
her enemy, just when the crucial test
Of endurance is coming, the nation that
can contribute most in money, food, re-
sources and men. So blinded were they
by their contempt for nation like the
United States that had made no
preparation for war that they by their
acts have forced into the war that one
nation Of the world that can furnish
the most toward their defeat"
Plea For Liberty Loan.
Mr. Taft urged liberal subscription
to the liberty bonds. and generous sup
port Of the Red Cross and the Y. NJ.
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the evils Of war and the moral main
tenance Of the young men who will be
in the camps and on the battlefields OF
Europe. The Red Cross asks only
500. 900, 600, dollar per head of the
population; Canada has given it be-
tween s14 and SIS per capita Of its
people.
Personnel Of the Class.
The personnel Of the class which was
graduated Friday night follows:
Dorothy H. Balch, Harold Mcfarland
Balch. Blanche LILLIAN Bates. Franklin
Styles Battin, Rilla Bell, Jessie Bige-
low, Charles David Brennecke. Cara
William Brown, Harold Lake Brown,
Marion Idella Buffet, Alfredo Vivian
Busch. Lyllis I. Busch, Myrtle Marie
| Carter. Adrian Devine Glenn. Puma
Clemens. Joseph Gilbert Cooper Eth6'
E. Darner. Florence Agnes Dawson. Iva
May Dunn, Jennie Ethel Dunn, Bina
Jane Easter. Mabel Agnes Elliott, Olga
Pauline Finley, A. Clare Flower. Fairie
Lorenia Fogler. Opal NJ. Foster, How
ard F. Goshen. Violet Christine Greg
son, Glenn V. Grewell, Helen N. Gund-
| ZACH, Iona Harrison, John Manly
Hodges. ]. Raymond Holiingswor:h
| Carol Maurine Houghton, John Blair
Hurlburt, Eta Dorothy Jansen, Eve
lyn Kfdder, Gladys Irene LANCE. Doro-
| thy Katherine Lierle. Edith Virtue Nc
Broom Mary Ardella McDermott
Cynthia Mary McKibben. Ethel Ellen
McKibben. Sherman James McNally
Musa Anna Mason, Mary Wilson Max
we'll. James Arthur Meeker. Carl Mel
ick. Harold A. Merryman. Hazel Eliza
| beth Merryman, Bernice Nickel, Lloyd
Eugene Miller. Fay G. Mossman. Maui
rice B. Norland, Esther Grinnell North
up, Anna Marie Painter, Russell Jen-
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