Mexico weekly ledger., 1918-06-20

Christianity today is Kultur. Chris
tianity stands for brotherly love and
human kindness Kultur stands for
cruelty and savagery.. Christianity
stands for chastity and virtue; Kul-
tur claims these are mere convention
alities. Christianity says: Suffer
little children to come unto me" Kul-
tur cuts their hands off in order to
terrorize the community. Christianity
says the greatest thing in the world
is love; Kultur says there is no more
virtue in love than in hate, that the
greatest thing in the world is might.
Christianity stands for perpetual
peace; Kultur stands for continuous
war.
"In the language of our distinguish
ed President: "a supreme moment of
history has come. The eyes of the
people have been opened and they
see. The hand of God is laid upon the
nations. He will show them favor, |
devoutly believe, only if they rise to
the clear heights of His own justice
and mercy"
Il have talked much to you about
the war, its problems, its theories, and
the sacrifices which we must make in
the cause Of victory. Let no man think
that ! entertain the smallest p~artical
Of doubt that we shall win victory,
great and glorious vivctory, not a vic
tory in the cause Of conquest and self
ish greed which will be promoted the
basis Of other wars for posterity, but
a victory over organized treachery,
%niiquity, and oppression, in the cause
Of eternal right and justice.
Many men from the flower Of
American manhood will shed their
blood and give their lives on the con-
secrated battle fields of Europe, but
they will not have suffered and died
in vain. When we shall have achieved
the victory for which we are striving,
all the sacrifice which we shall have
made will be justified, and we shall
have given guaranty to the genera
tons of the future that never again
can the cruel lust of conquest in the
heart of savage rulers of s~erville peo-
pie involve the world in such a hoIo-
caust of horror. We shall have given
guaranty to the future generations
that the principles which civilized So
ciety has considered fundamental are
indeed eternal and that free Govern
ment and Christian principles shall
never perish from the earth.
when we are engaged in the prose-
cution of such a cause, with such a
goal before us, and with such sacri-
flee involved, on what altar can the
servant of the people in Government
position lay his ability except the al
tar of full and complete service to the
speedy and complete accomplishment
of our great purpose. l should deem
myself as your servant a traitor to
the greatest cause that has ever en-
gagged the attention of mankind, if /,
through indulgence of personal opin-
ion on unessential matters, inter-
ferred in the slightest respect with
the most vigorous prosecution Of our
great undertaking. In the prosecution
Of that undertaking, the Congress of
the United States has, in accordance
with its Constitutional authority, con-
ferred upon the President Of the Unit
ed States the full power to direct and
the full responsibility for the conduct
of u military activities. / believe,
yea, | know, that our great President
brings to his great task as sincere pur-
pose and as profound conservation as
human being ever brought to a task
before him.
with supreme confidence in the
President Of the United States, | have
no platform to offer, no pledge 10 give,
except the pledges to support to the
utmost Of my ability the Executive
Branch Of the Government in the per-
Torrance of the stupendous task of
winning victory for the peace and
freedom Of all mankind"
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