Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-02-25
PRINCIPLE OF GREAT REPUBLIC
BASED on WISDOM OF ANCESTORS

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PRINCIPLE OF GREAT REPUBLIC
BASED on WISDOM OF ANCESTORS
Upon that principle our fathers
built the great republic OF the west,
until its free banner OF the stars and
stripes foated over 100. 900, 600 peaceful
peace-loving, Godfearing people. con-
tent to work out their own destiny
apart from other peoples OF the world.
save in the spirit Of neiGhborly help
fulness.
THAT flag had become the emblem
OF hope to which the oppressed pco-
pie of every CLINE lifted their eyes In
prayerful aspiration. that what il stood
for might come TO them
what is IL, then, that in so brief
time has turned this beautiful peace
full and still God-fearinc country into
an armed camp? Has cal!eG the SON
and father and brother and husband,
he very flower OF our manhood from
the spursuits Of pence to forge and bear
he weapons of destruction. while all
who value the best there IS IN life
freedom to live to love ana serve
must drop all else to unit with every
sacrifice in the common cause that
seeks to save and TO maze secure for
humanity. for our children and our
chi!drens children. even rs II came TO
US. the ines,imable BLESSINGS Of liberty
and peaceful living What Is tn
hateful thing that has brought this
threat 20 all that We hold dear in life
and love and happiness? Let the chief
spokesman FOR his creed answer
MUST NOT LET RUSSIA
ANSWER FOR AMERICA TODAY
From childhood have been in
Great. julius Caesar Theodoric the
Second. Frederick the Great and Ma
polcon. Each Of these men dreamed
dream OF world empire and my mailed
!ist Shall succeed
such IS the challenge 10 our peace
which has grown clearer with ever
day that has passed since the German
Kaiser. under the pretcnse OF ,iefcrsl"-
warfare. tore up his treaties with Il In
Blass LITTLE Belgium. lung defiance NJ
Christian civilization with his hell
horn doctrine that might makes RIGHT
and launched his forty years prepared
drive against humanity, revealing witt
! widening atrocities, revclinC in
rruelty and treacher", rapine and
reed the UNIFORMED Hun Of Attilla's
-inc. dread mcnCCcsto all who must
i've in the world with him.
20 God OF our fathers, shall these
things go unavcnged under the Amcri-
can flag? Shall we let the Russian
paci!ist answer for us? To-day in that
unhappy land. which we thought a few
months ago had caught the CLEANS OF
drwning freedom is demonstrated the
tutili,y OF appeal 20 German honor.
Indeed. the only choice we have 70
make is whether We shall tight in
America or wage the war in Europe:
whether VIC shall spend in support OF
our own or pay tribute 10 the German
Kaiser
And now when it has come 10 pass
under that inscrutable Providence with
whom q thousand years are but as a
day. that not for America alone, but for
all the world. allied hosts wherever the
tsht for democracy is wagcd. another
V!rginian born Is the chosen spokcs-
man OF the !mper!shable creed Of free
dom. Shall! there be fal,ering here 20
follow his leadership without question
ing? ., no: ii is not in the breed.
YOUNG MEN OF VIRGINIA
ANSWERED THEIR COuNTtY'S CALL
The summons came and NirS!nias
Young men have answered. First OF the
States, was she not, 10 supply her COM
pletc quota for the first draft? The
old Comm onwcalth is still true. weak
ness not in her heart. WEAKNESS not on
her brow.
-. my countrymen! This generation
IS beginning 10 pay its part of the price
OF liberty, but it is not fair that the
hoys III the trenches, though they offer
all should pay for il all FOR you and
FOR me there is a part also TO pay. Moth
ing less than the united force of us all
men. women and children--iS both
needed and is due in this great cause.
Every dollar saved and lent, though
Il be bu; IN thrift stamp: every pound
OF wheat spared for tile common good:
every thread of yarn knitted by loving
hands into a soldiers sock. will speed
the end in snch victory as will alone
bring us righteous and lasting peace.
MUST MAKE SACRIFICES TO
HELP BOYS IN TRENCHES
Every word OF cheer that goes with
and to those soldiers lighting even more
for you and Ter me than for themselves
Will nerve their arms 10 strike. not
only that we may now be saved. but
that such rctribution may be carried 10
the Hun and all his kind for ;hciY
crimes against humanity that fear
their one controlling Scntiment--Inav
forever hold them against daring this
hateful thing again. .. lie who with
holds anything from that service is an
worthy Of the Land that gave him birth
and of the glory OF opportunity We
must win tho war we shall viii. the
war. And ,hcn u day il coming
aid though we kno~ not when wc do
know that every present sacrifice we
make will hasten lis coming when
with victory pcrchcd upon their ban
ners our boys VIII como back 10 us God
speed the day and spare them IL IL may
bel
lin that great day YOU and ] viii be
worthy neither To meet nor TO welcome
them. nor Will lave paid the near part
OF the price OF that freedom purcha scd
for us, II we offer less than all we are,
or have or hope to be, in the glory Of
that high service to the God of love and
of truth that makes men free TO our
country and humanity
All Join Rcd Cross.
SHELL LAKE. WIS. February IL
This little city has IL 100 per cent Red
Cross membership, as each one OF it's
1 900 inhabitants men women and chill