Bisbee daily review., 1918-07-14
AMERIcA,s COMING oE AeE
By pr. Prank Crane

By Dr. Frank Crane
 This Fourth of July, 1918, the Unit ed States is engaged in the greatest war in history. It is fighting in this war for the same thing for which it fought in every other war in which it has, been engaged. Every war of ours has been a war to liberate the laboring man. The Revolution of 1776 was to get the privileged class of England off the backs of the American colonists, who were redeeming this wilderness. The War ot 1912 was to rescue Ameri. can seamen from oppression. The Mexican War was to liberate the set tiers in Texas from the whimsey cru city of Mexico. The War of the Re
 bellion. was to get the white man off the back of the black man. The ac- cursed institution of human slavery had trailed its slimy length down the centuries into the nineteenth. We scotched it. The Spanish War was undertaken because we could not en- dure the cries of Cuba being murdered at our front doorstep. Having freed that island, we did an unprecedented thing in the history of nations. We handed their country back to the Gu
 bans, and withdrew our armies. So, every time our army and navy have gone forth it has been to clean up some filthy autocracy, to end some an- cient fraud. We have no laboring class in this country. Because we are all laborers. The greatest labor union in the world is the U. s. A. But all
 Nrar 11I s..A l. -e peace, have been but preparation for our present task. We did not realize 1t. No man. forsees his destiny, no nation forsees its mission. Yet the life of every nation as of every man is plan of God. God has been piling up riches on this continent until we are the wealthiest nation in the world. He has been sharpening our inventive skill, our craftsmanship and our busi- ness ability. He has been forging here a mighty spirit of democracy. It is a chip jibe to say that the United States was unprepared. It has had the might jest preparation in history. Now God says, America, you are come of age; you are ready for your real work I have kept you in reserve until this time. Go forth and make the world a decent place to live in" When we get fully into this war we will have an army of five million of the finest men in the world. navy greater than that of any other country, and a merchant marine unparalleled. What for? To liberate the common man everywhere No such formidable flood of human energy has ever before been let loose upon the earth. Not the armies of AL exander. nor the legions of conquering Rome, not the battalions of Napoleon, not the murderous tribes led by Tam erlane or Attilla, not the brutal hordes of Prussian Junkerdom can compare with this mighty going forth of free men from the New World. They are the liberated sons of emigrants turn. Ing back to bring liberty to the lands of their fathers. We have no desire for territory. We have no ambition for conquest and military glory. We want no loot. All we want is to make free the common man everywhere. We do not wish to conquer Germany; we wish to set the Germans free. It is Tor this reason that our preparation has been slow. We are getting ready to fight if all the rest of the world quits. It is for this reason that the armies of the United States have nev- er been defeated. It is for this reason that we cannot come back "Till it's | over, over there" We must triumph 1 because we are but the crest of the | tidal wave of destiny. The future is 1 ours because our boys are dying in Picardy for the same cause for which l Jesus died in Judea-to save the 1 world.