The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-08-03
LATEST DRAFTEES TO LEAVE
CRooKSToN HEAR WORDS OF
ENCOURAGEMENT FROM ZEAL
Gus PRELATE.

Gus PRELATE.
Recently Right Reverend Bishop
COrbett addressed the new soldiers
before they entrained from Crookston.
The Bishop spoke as follows:
My Dear Soldier Boys: The world
witnesses itself threatened to be en-
quilted and enslaved by the most for
midable enemy that mankind has been
ever forced to conquer. Every scien-
tific invention is utilized to spread ter
rOr, destruction and bloodshed. Ami
hilation menaces entire nations. Fer
tile fields, prosperous homes, thriving
industries and some of the nobIest
monuments of civilization have been
already ruined. The increasing num-
Der of orphans, widows, wounded and
dead creates an alarming and an ap-
palling state of affairs.
Force, therefore, must be valiantly
met by force to end the inhuman raw
ages and finally terminate the most
disastrous record Of destruction and
bIoodshed in the pages of history.
Strength of arms, power of mind and
combined national skill must be en-
ployed to arrest this most terrible
plague ever inflicted on civilization.
Every honest effort was iudiciously
made to avoid this frightfuI event, but
nevertheless the inevitable hour has
sounded for strenuous action, since
our beloved and peaceful republic has
been forced into this regrettable. aW-
full and heart-rending conflict. Con-
tinued neutrality, therefore, would be
veritable and ignominious treason.
The inhabitants of our shores must
firmly assume every possible means
to gain the victory, which will re-
dound to their own glory, the cause
of civilization and the welfare of suf-
fering humanity.
Answer the Call.
At the solemn summons of our
most honorable, wise and worthy chief
executive, whose commands must be
Internationally obeyed, as all authori-
ty proceeds from the Eternal God,
the Supreme Lawgiver, you, young
men, braVely go forth, leaving home,
position and comfort for country's
sake. You, the flower of our beloved
land, inspired by the sublime senti-
mentS Of patriotism, will wage our
war, not to enslave, but to free; not
to Cypress, but truly to protect the
precious liberties of mankind.
Acts and not words, allegiance to the
legitimate dictates of the nation and
loyal cooperation with the govern
ment in its wise and praiseworthy
measures for victory, are the positive
and urgent needs Of the hour. No de-
mand on our American citizenship
must remain unheeded Strongly
bound are we before God to render
our country, native or adopted, our
fullest service, which no worthy pa
triot will ever presume to deny.
Your battle, soldier boys, is, for right
and justice, with no thought of nation
al ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. Our aim is no
Al1ISIC SI. OuI OWu4 american
tenets stand for pure liberty for man
kind in all its pristine glory and gen
uine Specification. Liberty, that God
given right of every man born into
this world. Our defense is for the
rights of civilization, the downfall of
tyranny and the dawn of enduring and
blessed peace.
What American citizen, worthy of
the noble name, would not joyfully
immediate himself on the altar of sac
rifice for the welfare of our great and
glorious republic, so grand in her or
igin, so superb in her constitution and
so sublime in the spirit of her indus
trious, progressive, liberty and peace
loving people. America, Gods own
country; America, the hospitable home
of the down-trodden; America, the
guardian of every mans rights and
the land of equal opportunity, with a
constitution that knows no equal, pres
ent or past.
Your strife, young men, will be for
the future honorable standing of our
World-renoWned republic and it's time