New Britain herald., 1918-07-03

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 steel-workers. the canners, the car- penterS the plumbers-they all marched and they ali sang when the
 bands played, and when the bands didn't. The Catholic organizations marched, and the Protestant organi- zation marched. Thousands of ne- groes marched in their church orders
 singing and free in the war, like the rest And there were great clubs and organizations that had been called German, but would no longer be called German, they marched and sang and
 were most absolutely and violently part of the war on Germany. There were BuJgarians, shouting the Allied
 battle call. singing The Battle Cry of Freedom" and there were Rumanians, and Servians and Greeks and Rus sians, all Americans and all in this war. There were Chinese and there was a band of Japanese, dressed as antique bowmen. Nowhere in the city was there anything that wasn't at war with the Germans. And over head sailed the airplanes. But 1t was not so with Indianapolis alone, or with all the cities and towns and vil- lages and Countrysides of Indiana alone. The same manifesto tion was visible all over America, where there were 1O0,O0O,O0O people!
 So we said: "If that Rosenkranz and Guildenstern pair of worthies in Germany, Hindenburg and Ludendorff, could only get a bird s-eye view of what is showing forth today, if they could get but a glimpse of this Ameri- ca reused, they might also get glimpse of what is coming to themi"
 America not only reused, but Amer lea united. Our trouble has taught us our unity. We have said, Come brother!" and we stand together stead fast. We are at war with militarism. The Kaiser, knowing that he is the front and symbol of militarism said: Those who wish to destroy us are digging their own graves" He knows well enough what we mean to destroy. and in his rage he talks graveyard to Tighten Us. His worst mistake has been his thinking that ''terrorization'' terrifieS; that murdering a mans child subdues the man and keeps him quiet! Zeppelins, submarines, 70-mjle guns, poison gas, rape, setting peaceful towns afire, turning machine guns on Women children, priests and old men these are the raw and bloody bones he uses, hoping through fear to make all the wide world his own private ogre's castle. But America will not have it so. Let him wave his raw head and bloody bones; let him threaten us with graves, and let him make the German people believe that it is Germany we mean to destroy; he knows what this Republic means to do; he knows what the united de- mocrUcy of the world means to do-and it is he that is afraid, and proves his fear, like a coward talking big in the dark.
 Am erica is marching. Leaders go before us, mighty and implacable for Am erica and for the Freedom of Man. and we see them not in dimness, but as shining figures alive today and alive forever, at the head of the na- tion: Washington and Franklin and Hamilton and Adams and Jefferson and Hancock and Patrick Henry and Francis Marion and Paul Jones and Light Horse Harry Lee; and Decau- tur and Madison and Andrew Jack son and Scott and William Henry Harrison and Zachary Taylor And Llo SOlSllIl, great lISuF6 or 1JlnCOln marches there, at our head, with Grant and Sherman and Sheridan ad Robert Lee and Stonewal Jackson. We know what these men have said to us: that the word to us was al- ways the same, yesterday and today and tomorrow--alway their word to us is Forward" And we follow them.
 Their way lies straight onward over i Ennporors ad Kings. For a while. in our prosperity. ir seemed that we had ! forgotten our leaders, that we had ! forgotten that the power of the spirit i is greater than the power of dollars, 1 that we had even forgotten to keep l ourselves a nation, one and indivi- l sible, and had become collection of l grabhers, living on fat and laughing 1 at corruption and shameA-and it was i thus the German thought of LIS. i Never was there so false 8, lie! The i time has come that bdings us our i test. America awoke and woke in arms. Not one true son of America l f,1%,