Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1918-05-02
News Of Neighboring Localities

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Belgium, sir, by absolutely unfinch.
ingly, ulhesitatingly accepting the
ichallenee when the foe struck at her
tpeace, her liberty, her national in
tegrity, her homes, her very life, has
| er9Tned herself with crown Of
si'aad glory which will mark her with
/ It's halo as long as nations exist But
lahl sir, in the stand King Albert and
his subjects took cost these sublime
people, cost them a price OF SUFFERING
| the enormity of which we in fair Am
i.erica can scarcely realize in it's full,
ness They are still doing so, paying
1.-THE price, bearing the cruel cross.
Surely to Belgium and to France
America and all the rest OF the world
will doff the hat Your restitution
your devotion. your service, your sac
rifice, your cross has indeed been
lsupremely great. but it will not last;
| it will cease. Your crown Of honor
and glory will last; it will never cease
while human history lives.
| (And we speak here with all regard
to the people of the land of our fore
fathers, Great Britain, and the very
great part she is taking in the titanic
struggle in the old worldly
And America, my country, our glo-
rious land, champion ever of the
weakling, the needy and of liberty,
we think of you This great war is
now thy war, we know you will not
fasl to give in fullest measure of
men and means, of all thou possess
eth.
The Gossess Of Liberty, with tear
full eyes, yet with determined brow,
hand in hand with our Uncle Samuel
with his worried, yet calm smoke be-
'grimed visa8e they have barred their
arms for the fight. They appeal to
us for our fullest help, for our sons
and daughters, our dollars, our serv-
ice and of these, sir, of that which
we have to give may we not stint but
freely give, for as we do our duty,
as we devote our labor, time and
means, as we sacrifice, as we give of
those we love, so just as surely will
our individual, our national reward
belt is law, it is also the law of
compensation. 1t is just that it be
SO.
And in this giving my countrymen,
it matters not where some one to
whom you may be related came, it
makes no difference from whence you
came, whether Austria, Germany, It
ally, Spain, France, Russia, England,
Denmark, Sweden, Norway, or else
where, but it does matter, and that
only, whether you love the glorious
flag under which you live and are
protected. where you own your prop
erty, Educate your children, worship,
unmolested, our God; it matters, sir,
whether you believe America, these
United States to whom you for every
practical reason, owe your allegiance
and devotion, is in the right in her
stand with the people of Europe pit
ted against the tyranny and autocratic
power of the central nations. All! my
friends, men and women, if you fail
at this time in your duty to the cause
now espoused, to this country. wheth-
er yours by birth, adoption or sworn
allegiance, the time will surely come
mark the words-when you, or your
children or your children's children
will be ashamed OF the fact that you
did fail in your duty
BY reason of my business, of the
fact that wife and three little girls
look to me FOR the needful things of
life largely, that my age and physical
condition incapacitate me for military
service q many times wish 1t were
otherwise): have not son or a
daughter for service, no wealth in my
possession; perforce. my gift at this
time must needs be small and as
surely my reward In future days, or
that OF my immediate family. will
too. be small.
All! father. mother, brother. sister
sweetheart, you, all Of you, and your
number is legion. you who give from
your lives some loved son. or daugh
tier. brother. lover; you. wife. yot
child. who give husband. father, you
Indeed give, yours the supreme gift
only inferior to the ones themselves
who gobut ah!! the cross. the de
lyotion the service, will not be create,
than the crown which will surely
come to ven and yours
And sir. If you will be patient Will
! me vet a while. wish to give to /
friend. a mother in Richland Ito whom
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