The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1918-03-14

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suddenly attacked and sunk without /
warning, by ruthless German sub
marine, that 5hulking sea- wolf which
will kill but viii not fight
The women of the Federation also
extend their heartfelt sympathy to
the a0rely bereayed Wife, to the young
son ard daughter, and to the aged
mother, in their tragic sorrow All, ,
It has truly been said that It is tho
women who give the costliest hos
tagos Of wal, and in this crisis all
womeu's hearts beat as one. The
personal sorrow of the present hour
rises TO a public loss, aud the common
BORROW sinks to the sense ~ pcr.
sonal loss for, In those bacriGical
times, the boys who 30 forth to war
are bone of our bone, flesh OF our
flesh, and the twain, one flesh thus,
every personal sorrow becomes a
pdblic grief, ana to share our grief5
and sorrows, a holy sacrament; so we
say to you, dear sister, in your desc
late widowhood, bereaved Of one so
ineXpressibly dear TO you, we will
drink this bitter cup with you; but
also let us reason together and see
! if We cannot make this cup bitter
sweet draught, and see if you have
hot cause for consolation, that IS de-
MED many another
When Governor Williams voiced
the tribute that oklahoma pays to 4
beloved hero, and spoke the rage that
filled all hearts and vowed that for
every yaleut lie lost ON the Tus-
cania, Germany should pay in lives an
i hundred fold, when YOU behold in
what high regard the gallant captain
Is held in army circles, when you
felt the love and loss manifested by
lis lodge, and by men who worked
With him and knew him as a ciyilin'
\ surely that was evidence that the
e. ptain was a Knight without fear
and without reproach Surely he l'r-
| e. UP to the ideals of "Noblesse
obiieo"
Dear heart trouble not that your
bwo sleeps far from the home land
or that his is a grave in a foreign
soil, for he rests in country that
is moi alien, but one whose heart il
, allied with ours in this holy war loI
humanity; a land that has been ded-
icated through all the centuries tC
evil and religious liberties Scotland
tie land Of The leal and the brave
The land Of Robert Bruce William
\ Wallace and Robert Burns--tho lanC
4 where the heather bells OF Waite
h Scott still grow; fitting place for ;
warrior tomb You may safel1
trust his sacred form to those loya
hearts who kept the long yigils- try
ing to alleviate The horrors Of thes'
i awful hours and then pa.l, III,
sad rite over your hero, Ant II hero
al d all the American heroes who per
shed there; enshrouded them as be
X fls soldier soldier of "Ob
Glory the grandest flag that float
1 on land or sea II was done as
solder would have it done, oh, wral
the flag around me, boys, to die wer
far more sweet, with Freedom
starry emblem, boys, to be my wind
Ing sheet,
When rayished Belgium has beel
avenged, when bleeding France ha
\ been delivered from German bloo
I lust when other devastated region
\ have been restored, when all the afro
cities and denominations committe,
] by autocraHc Germany have becom
known, when the cup Of iniquities +
full; we will then see the Walls o
4 wrath igoured out on kaiserism and
Prussianized Germany, and we vii
4 know that our soldiers and sailor
have given the finishing blow to i'm
pcrial Germany's kultur, and her in
4 famous submarines, and her territori
zing methods will be no more
1 After we have achieved by fore,
of arms an enduring peace, you cai
point with pride to the results, ant
4 tell your children Of the magnituu,
Of the task we Americans undertook
and well may You rejoice to tell then
! how eagerly their father offered hi.
life for his countrys honor. It may
ho months II may be years. but tht
time will surely come when the sword
will be sheathed, and the war won
We will ever cOvet those hero forms
that lie in foreign graves We claim