The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1918-09-23
.BORAH SPEAKS At
UNWILLING CEREMONY
IDAHO SENATOR DELIV VERS S
PRINCIPAL A D D R ESS AT
BROOKLYN CEREMONIAL

NEW YORK, Sept. Ex-senator Viii
liam E. Borah OF Idaho, speaking today
at the unveiling in Prospect park of {
tablet to the memory of $50 Brooklyn
men killed in the war, urged every
American, from laborer to capitalist, tc
back up the fighting forces to the ut
most. "If you are laborer and do your
best to produce the things we need" he
said, you are a comrade in spirit and
purpose with your gallant comrades over
there.
"If you are man of means and uti-
lizing your wealth for the country's good
you will stand nobly by the men who
are fighting and dying to keep this
free country but if you are bent alone
on exorbitant profits and scheming for
unconscionable contracts you are to be
more despised than the enemy across the
line"
Senator Borah also took occasion to
speak for the fourth Liberty bond issue,
the campaign for which is about to be-
gin, saying in part:
S'These are proud and reassuring days
for Americans. We feel better salts
fled these days than ever before with
the experiment initiated in 1889. II
seems no longer an experiment. 1t is
meeting the severest ordeal ever laid
upon a government and meeting it with
great and distinguished success. Per
shing and his men have made representa-
tive government respected in every quar-
ter of Europe, including Berlin and the
hideous rendezvous of Constantinople
We know now and the world knows
that, though devoted to peace, we can
successfully meet the challange of those
devoted to war. We know now that
men reared under the wholesome stimu-
lus of free institutions in the atmosphere
of peace when aroused by national pride
and imbued with the righteousness of
their cause make the greatest soldiers on
earth. That men could be taken from
the farms and the factories, from the
lawyers office, from behind the bank
er's desk, hurriedly trained, pushed on
in a few weeks or months at most to the
most frightful battle line ever formed,
there to display the skill, the endurance.
the courage of veterans and win vic
tories from the first nlomentous hour
they entered the conflict is one of the
marvels of warfare. It is more, infinite
" more, it is a demonstration of the
success of free institutions.
But do not tell me that a few weeks
of training alone did all this. 1t IS the
training and environment of lifetime
There is something in the character Of
the soldier from this free republic which
the stolid cog in an unconscionable and
soulless military machine can neither
understand nor overcome. Mere brute
force, thank God, is not enough. There
is a higher power-the might and the
of the independent and intel
Iigent manhood. How proud we are to
claim them as our fellow countrymen
What a debt the world owes and will
ever acknowledge to these men. Long
after this tablet shall have broken and
the moving story of these
brave Americans, the rescue party of
human liberty, will be told by every race
Of men who hate tyranny and love free
lom.
"But there is just one way by which
you and | and all who remain at home
.an show ourselves worthy of these sol
1iers, living or dead. Words will not
program. Deeds are the things which
make us worthy to be countrymen of
hese men. Each and every one who
would have part in the honor and glory
which they are giving to the American
lame must act from this time on until
he close of the war, disrobed of per- |
onal selfishness and with an eye single |
O complete and crowning victory.
Congress has just passed law con-
cripting every man from IS to IS. We
ire about to pass law taxing the peo
lie for $8OOO,OOO,OOO In few days we
viii be asked to subscribe for $5,0O0,-
10000 Liberty loan. These stupendous
TENS in this conflict disclose the deter
nination and courage of our people. |
They are as telling in their moral effect
or good upon our allies or for evil upon |
,ur foes as the winning of great battles. !
But there is an individual responsibility |