The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-14
!. Bio Speech on Signing OF the
.,..ioe at a Great Patriotic
Meeting In Cali
fornla.
LARD BY KEoKUK MAN
!. went to Meeting Ignorant OF Pro-
and Had His Reward In
Hearing the Familiar
orator.

r hanson. former Keokuk
- who now lives in Riverside. went
- day recently to a great patriotic
nstration in Fairmont park,
wing nothing of the program
l l.;. reward was in hearing a fine
aaob nv Judge Hugh H. Craig who
elected to the bench there the
= time without opposition.
The sneech is reported in the Riv-
side press as follows:
Huqh craig's Speech.
rbe events Of the past week have
,an the most epochal since those
eunacted with the life Of Christ"
sclared Judge Hugh H. Craig, speak
~ during the intermission at the
End concert in Paramount park yes
srday afternoon. "The United States
las always been a God-fearing nation;
md the American people have never
kslieyed that the war could result
ultimate German triumph.
"The signing Of the armistice by
No Hun ENJOYS brought joy to more
nillions of people than has any other
went in the history Of the civil or
Military world. Germany cannot pos
LIbly renew the great struggle, for
ky the terms of the armistice her
hover for evil is stripped from her.
That glorious motto, Freedom for all
forever is now near realization; and
I'M anniversary of the 18th of No
|rember. 1918, will always be a great
iay among the allied nations.
The Beginning Of Freedom.
MANY OF these nations will date
khe beginning of their freedom from
that day: and Germany has come to
realize the truth of that saying: Be
Ware of the wrath of patient man.
bio longer will our ships travel seas
fraught with the peril of the sneak
bng submarine; no more will the
tecret activities of Hun spies menace
bur industrial life; for the crash OF
the lettering thrones in Europe be-
tokens the dawn of a new era-an
era in which the little nations of the
earth may live without the ever pres
ent peril of military Germany"
Judge Craig next went on to tell
how the dynasties of the world have
gone, never to return; and showed
that the ambition of these is a most
prolific breeder of war. The speaker
spoke of the fact that the United
States had no selfish motives in en-
tering the war, and quoted McKin-
eys famous remark to the effect that
Dur future lies Gin concord and not III
conflict"
DO not fear" continued Judge
Craig, that the sacrifices of our boys
,verseas and our own labors here will
De vain. Wilson and Clemenceau
md Lloyd George will see to 1t that
just peace is concluded. Justice
mplies punishment when deserved;
md those responsible for the world
ataclysm will get their just dues.
Worlds Greatest Race.
The last half year has seen the
reatest race in the history Of man
race between the German
rmies, Paris bound, and the titanic
norts Of the United States toward
Iar making. The race was won at
hateau Thierry when the American
Foops We're poured into the breach
dam the onrush of the Boche
ordes. The greatest epoch in the
orld is the awakening of America,
eace-loving and unprepared, to war
onsciousness and the full realization
It's present place as the worlds
reatest military .power.
Our debts. to France, to England
I'd to little Belgium have now been
add concluded Judge Craig, for
e came to the aid of the imperilled
ATOMS at the crucial hour. The
merican soldiers and the American
eopie have learned the meaning Of
e worlds duty and sacrifice let
Iere be cheers for the living and
ieers for the dead, for the night
gone, and in the dawn's early light
e Star Spangled Banner still waves
'er the land of the free, and the
mes Of the brave"