The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1918-11-15

our hearts!
" Is it merely we have given them
and that they have made this su-
preme sacrifice merely that states
men and Generals shall sit at a ia
Bile to patch up peace that can and
may be broken tomorrow?
Thank God, it is the determination
of America, as far as in her power
lies, to put now an end to all war.
When the peace table is again set
lup, and when the nations send their
chosen representatives to sit around it,
this war shall have been ended and
the question then will be- first and last
how to prevent the very possibility of
war.
IT our sons are to be recalled to Eu-
rope some other day to beat back the
German Hun or another Hun from
the doorways of Liberty, and to suf-
fer this hell again, to what end, in
deed, have we endured it all?
Whoever shall sit at the peace ia
BILE, he shall be told that unless it was
for liberty the sons of America died,
they died in vain, and that there can
! be no liberty until the monster of
war is forever slain.
They shall be told that liberty is
worth the lives of all the Americans
that walk the earth, but that all Eu-
rope, for any other reason, is not
worth the life of the humblest Ameri-
can boy whose blood has crimsoned
Europe's soil.
This is the greatest and the blood
lest war that has ever been waged.
Let it be the last. While we have
now its own weapons in our hands let
US use those weapons to kill war for
ever.
We have demonstrated what we can
do with such weapons. We have made
the world understand that we can
make weapons faster; that we can
make more of them, and that we can
use them to deadlier purpose than any :.
other people can think of doing.
And let US allow no error of the
mind to delude US now when the hour
comes to settle the score. ..,r
The facts are obvious and there can d
be no excuse to evade them. And
these facts are that the Allied nations
were at the mercy of Germany when
America came to their aid; that Ger
many would have conquered had not
America crossed the seas to oppose
her in her unholy ambition.
wherefore, at the peace table
America need not mince words when
speaking either to the Allies or to
Germany.
And when she shall say that with
the end of this war there must be an
end to al wars as long as earth shall
endure, she can make her words good.
If, in her still brutal stubbornness,
Germany shall object to this ultima
tum, or If by some inconceivable blind
ness the Allies or any of them were
TO oppose disarmament, America has
the power and the will to bend them
till they break.
She is in a position to tell them.
and to back it up, that if Europe is
not now, at last, in mood to make
peace lasting, America is prepared
and determined to continue the fight
until they are in that mood,
There was a time when it was mot
our affair whether Europe cut her own
throat or whether she did something
else; But that time has passed. The
world has become one great theatre
now, and America is the principal ac-
tor in that theatre.
We are nation that has never uro-
ceeded on the old theory that might
makes right. America never was and
is not now disciple of the doctrine
of blood and iron.
Our nation was founded under the
banner of the Prince of Peace. Un-
der that banner we have been blessed.
we have thrived and prospered and
grown strong; We have been made
happy. And, in that sign we shall
conquer.
Under the banner of the Prince Of
Peace, God grant that America shall
enroll the whole world. .s .., :.
Surely we have walked as best we
knew under the folds of that banner.
NE have not forgotten God. We have
Kept the faith of our fathers. And
now we have laid down our lives for
our friends.
vi wherefore, it is not alone that we
speak from the seat of power and that :,
the magic brand, Ex-calibur. is in eur
hands, but it is because we wouIh
bind all men and all races to ms ;ns
peace and love, that we now must not
rest or pause until the monster war
has been slain. 49,. /,
We must see the green grass grow j,
ing over the blood-stained trails Of the !
world before we can sheathe the
sword. We must see the lilies of
peace abloom and we must know that
their bloom shall never fade. }21a
That God may grant to America TO
be His instrument for this wondrous
end, well may we bend our knees in
humble duplication.
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem;
they shall prosper that love. thee. I,
Peace be within thy walls and pros I.
perlty within thy palaces, Il, "rfz,Los, Ana.
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