Arizona republican., 1918-07-17
TELLS WHY ALLIES
 WILL WIN THE WAR

At the weekly luncheon meeting of the Kiwanis club at the Y. M. c. A. yes terday George H. Reubens was the principal speaker He spoke upon the subject "Why We Will Win the War. He said:
 Justice is indispensable to nations. The unjust nation, like the individual is doomed of God to calamity and ruin. Students of history will find that this is the teaching of the eternal wisdom and of history. The nation that adds province to province by fraud and vio- lence, that encroaches on the weak, and plunders it's wards and violates it's treaties and the obligation of its con- tracts. and for the law of honor and fair dealing substitutes the exigencies of greed and the base precepts of policy and craft and the ignoble tenets of ex pediency, is predestined to destruction; for here. as with an individual. the con- sequences of wrong are inevitable.
 We must not forget that behind Austria lay the traditions of Germany, plus Germanys aggressive spirit. her materialistic tendencies, her years of preparation, her consciousness of mili- tary might and her determination to
 
 No Chance for Peace
 These acts left the world no chance i for peace until arms had decided whether Germany was to control the | thought and life of the world, or wheth- CT Germany was to live and have her being in common and on the same terms | as other nations.
 "The history of all is and will be the same. Acquisition, dismemberment ruin,-these considerations teach us that the unjust nations lease on life is temporary and fleeting. The public opinion of the civilized world is inter- national law and it is so great a force though with no certain and fixed foun- dation, that it can constrain a victorious despot to be generous and aid an op- pressed people in it's struggle for inde- tpendence.
 "The rape of Belgium stands as a gi gantc monument of German rapacitl and there is no more sovereign elo quence than truth in indignation. Th' protests of truth are always needed Continually the right must protes against the fact.
 6eIgium to Rise Again
 Belgium has been robbed of he liberties, but she should not despa ir The protest of the right against tn fact persists forever, and the robber, of a people never becomes prescriptiv Reclamation of her rights are barre by no length of time.
 Warsaw can no more be Tartar thal Venice can be Teutonic. A people ma endure military usurpation. and subju gated, bear the yoke while under tn stress of necessity, but when that ne cessity disappears, if the people is ii to be free, the submerged nation wi float to the surface and reappear an tyranny be adjudged by history to hay ? murdered it's victims
 Must Secure Liberty
 Tt is not enough for people to gai it's liberty. It must secure it. It mus not trust it to the keeping or hold | at the pleasure of one man. Surely W |. need but to reflect a little to be con | vinced that the individual man is but fraction of the unit of society, and tha he is indissolubly connected with th rest of his race. Nations are chief 9 avaricious of commerce and of terr : tory. The latter leads to the violatio ) of treaties. encroachments upon pee } pie, neighbors and rapacity towards tf : words whose lands are coveted.
 ''These despots never learning frol t history that individual expansion | II rapine and fraud has it's inevitable COT I, sequence in dismemberment or subjl n gation. When a nation begins to plur e der it's neighbors, the words of doc d are already written on its walls TT c soul of the avaricious nation petrifie
 like the soul of the individual WI 0 makes gold his god. Heartless al le merciless, it has no sentiment of pit -S sympathy or honor, to make it pause :. it's remorseless career; and it reach u down all that is of impeachment in i 'i way, as it's rules of commerce cru 'i under them the murmuring and u u needed waves.
 We Will Win War" y Belgium today, the land of misfo es tune, isolation, abandonment, is a ba o, tlefield which has heroes, heroes o s' scure but sometimes greater than tho who become illustrious.
 We will win the war because il su nation is the agency through whi T. righteous rectitude and justice mt ~ survive kings. czars and emperors.'
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