Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1918-04-11
MORMONS
PLEDGE AID
TO LOAN
Heber ]. Grant, Presi-
dent of Church,
So Declares
LEADER PROUD OF
FOLLOWERS
RECORD
BY HEBER J. GRANT

Germans have been meeting on land
or sea- they have drunk ITO the
Day-To the Day." They meant the
day when Germany should practically
rule the world. They shave thought
they had the might. and they were
convinced that they could conquer the
world but they mistook human ma
ture. They never dreamed. for one
moment, that the little country of
Belgium would oppose their great
and powerful army. They thought
they could walk right through Bel
gium, and within ninety days If not
within thirty days be in Paris. But
Belgium offered her life for her ideals.
They never dreamed for one moment
that England unprepared. would en-
ter the war; but these German states
men misjudged the fiber or the Eng
lishman, and England entered the
war. Although they might sink the
I,usitania and murder American citi
zens, they never dreamed that Amer
lea, with an insignificant army, would
enter the war. In all these things
they have found or they will find
their mistake 81
The Kaiser and the entire German
Empire will yet learn that these
prophetic words of their greatest poet
are absolutely true-"Know this,
God rules the hosts of heaven, the
inhabitants of earth"
What kind of love, what kind of
charity is the German scattering to-
day? Death, destruction, the killing
of babies, the raping of women and
putting men and women in bondage
The German government has brought
about a slavery today that is as hate
full as the Southern slavery of the
negro, which this country fought the
terrible Civil War to overcome. and
would extend it over Americans il
she could. But she never will. The
Lord has told us, in the Book of
Mormon, that this is a choice land
choice above all other lands, and that
no king should rule here No. not
even the Kaiser, though he claims
10 rule by divine right from God. For
this is a land of freedom. I will read
you some of the Kaiser's words.
There is only one master in this
country; I am he. and | will not toll
crate another" The Kaiser has to
find out that God rules and that the
people will be their own masters. If
he lives long enough he Will and J
hope he does | want him to live to
find out that the people of the world
will be the master. and that intelli-
gence and the desire for right viii
count more than might in all the
wide world. III
There is only one law-my law: ,
the law which I myself lay down :
The Kaiser is wrong. The law of
God, the law of Justice, the law of
virtue, the law of honor. is the only
law that will prevail and that is not
the law of the German Kaiser today,
1t was on the 18th day of June,
1914. that Frankfurt assembled her
school children in the opera house. to
further their taste and understanding
of Germany's supreme national art
Exactly eleven months later. on May
18th, 1915 a German torpedo sank
the Lusitania: and the cities OF the
Rhine celebrated this also for their
school children.
Goethe said: The Germans are Of
yesterday few centuries
must elapse before il win
be said of them: IT is long since thew
were barbarians. Out of their own
modths siall they DC iudge d.
As chairman of the Lib sty Loan
drive in this section wa recently
called to San Francisco TO attend
a conference. After two DAYS OF
meetings we were invited by the
Patriotic Committee of One Thou
sand to a banquet The cities that
had gone above the maxinIlm-over
the top. so to speak-in purchasing
Liberty Bonds We're to represent
themselves by a speaker on the pro
* am. and the honor fell TO me to
represent Utah in a ten minute
speech. Among other things / quoted
these inspired word of Ella Wheeler
Wilcox: That no question is ever
settled until it is settled right
repeat again the words of the
German poet: Know this. God rules
the hosts of heaven. the inhabitants
of earth" I was delighted to say to
the people in California and the
workers in the Liberty Loan cam
paign, that there are no "Mormons"
who have any doubt of the final 4
of this great world war
The Lord has spoken. so far as the
"Mormons" are concerned. The
Lord has said that this is a land
choice above all other lands, and
that no king shall rule here. | have
been proud Of the wonderful record h
made by the people of Utah during
this war, and / rejoice to say there
are no more patriotic or loyal citi-
zens of the United States than those
in these valleys of the Rocky Noun
aims
we are fighting for our Iives-"-