Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1918-07-11

on American soil, through the shedding
OF human blood.
Now. ii is peculiar, we may say in
Une sense, that all notable progress IN
governmental affairs has been attained
through great sacrifice. Anything
that we get In this world that is valua-
BILE is costly. That Is, it costs some.
thing to get it, and the more valuable
it is to us the more 1t costs and the
more we appreciate it.
Last Great War !.
It is so in human progress. All
great forward movements have been
made through trail Of blood
through the offering up Of our sons
and our daughters upon our country's
altar, through the mothers heartaches
and the sacrifices of the fathers and
sons.
This war ought to be the last great
war. The sacrifices the people of the
| world are making in this era of tre-
mendous struggle ought to result In
some other form than war for settling
International disputes, but If it does
not SO result, future human progress
will be marked by the shedding OF
blood as in the: past.
The conflict in which we are engaged
today is to determine whether demo-
cracy or autocracy shall be the donii.
mating influence in governmental af-
fairs for generations to come If each
America each patriotic Ameri-
can does his duty there can be but
one outcome. Democracy will triumph
through the overthrowing Of autocra-
cy, for each patriotic American II go
ing to do his duty; in fact is8 doing it.
:. A Nation Of Pacifists /.
We are a nation Of pacifists that
is to say. we are not inclined to war.
We abhor war. We don't want any
thing to do with war. We have never
had anything to do with it excepting in
defense OF the principles OF liberty.
When, in response to the foresight of
our great president who perceived that
to remain out of it longer would be
shutting our eyes to all that we have
stood for in our hundred and thirty
odd years Of national existence. we de.
clare a state Of war to exist and de-
termined to perform our duty as repre-
sentatives OF "a great democracy, many
OF us failed to grasp the situation in it's
full significance. But, as the truth
has been presented to us, and as we
have comprehended the case in its true
light, we have become jealous in the
defense of human rights and human
I liberty, individuap and elective.
For myself I want to say that was
impatient over our delay in getting
into the conflict thought saw,
from the very beginning, that we
would be drawn into 1t, in fact, that
we could not evade the issue and ne.
tain our self-respect; that it was our
duty, not only to ourselves but to-
those struggling peoples Of Europe
who were feeling the lash of autocra-
cy, and in order that the world might
be safe in the future for self govern
ment, to participate as an active fac.
tor. rejoiced when the president so
boldly proclaimed our duty, and again
when congress SO promptly o1as7,--
Led to the Presidents clarion note
Loyalty and Disloyalty.
am well aware that many of YOU
have been referred toAas entertaining
disloyal tendencies. But you Will find,
upon investigation that this cry arose
largely from the throats of those who
have been systemati cally profiteering
out of war conditions Your attention
need be called only to the tremendous
profits which ceriafr Of manufacturing
institutions have been reaping to I'M
;derstand wherein lies the basis for this
SANDER against our great farming com
munities. It is my opinion that the:
mparatiyely few men who have been
sreaping almost untold profits because
4 Of their position to demand 1t and to-
exact it represent "a phase of what we
may term pro.G ermanisnl that is more.
far reaching in its effects than all the
proc erri1an isrli that may be found
among the little fellows Of our country.
.sI don want to be understood as.
same ioning any form of pro Gernla1l-s
ism. don 7 believe that. you sanction.
any form Of In fact, know, from
the manner in which the farmers Of
the northwest and OF the Dakotas ii
parti ular. have done their part in buy
ing Liberty Bonds and IN contribution
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