The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-02-18
NENANA HEARS
 GREAT SPEECH
 BY MINUTE MAN

That the public at Nenana is i'm. bued with spirit of patriotism and good speakers coming to the front with timely talks on the present sit. uation, is apparent from the follow ing stirring speech which was de- livered there last Sunday night by John c. Murphy, an attorney at that place. His speech was as follows:
 There are two great forces on this earth. In their political form we call them Democracy and Au- tocracy. In their spiritual form we cal them Right and Wrong. Be- tween them there never was and never will be peace. Each seeks to destroy the other. They are as opposite as heaven and hell. There are times when the age-long combat between them seems to cease. Out of the dust of the present World War, this same old terrible conflict reveals itself. And so today. we are fighting evil enthroned. We hate no people. We hate no coun- try. But there are things that have been wrought against mankind. against humanity and God. are hide ous, hateful and devilish and by the ever-living God, our hands shall never be withdrawn until they are crushed and destroyed. Blessed and victorious must be Nation that goes to war. expecting nothing. de- manding nothing but the spread of freedom and the glory of sacrifice.
 "This task Is tremendous one. We have set out to make the world safe for Democracy. It may require every ounce of our strength to teach these Huns that they cannot be- stride the world while an American lives. The evidence Is now before us, complete and convincing, that the so-called German war lord, Junk CTS and autocracy. lie in wait to murder and assassinate mankind in order to assert world dominion, and claiming authority from God to help in this murder. And so these cold, calculating, dominant and self. centered, ominous and malignant threatening with a mailed fist while decorating with an Iron Cross. un- bolted the gates of hell and turned loose on an unsuspecting world, hordes of imprisoned devils who range and hunt and cry aloud for human flesh and blood. Treaties, temples, shrines, art, earth itself men and women, children and nurs- ing babes-animate and inanimate things have paid the awful toll. Un- speakable monsters! Horror of hor- TOTS! In the name of God. ask you, citizens of the grandest and freest government ever born of the brain of man, is all the blood that has been shed by valiant men. wo- men and children of America, of France, Belgium. England. Canada, Serbia, Poland, Armenia, Norway, Australia, Scotland, Wales. Ireland and Russia to be for naught? Who with pure and live blood in his and her veins will say. Yes? Peace. there will be, but America will make 1t. When? We'll, when the army of the kaiser is rolled back in Der lin, by and through the power and wrath of the American people. And God pity the man or woman who dares to come in the way of this wrath. God have mercy on the man or men who will dare to para. lyze by look. word or act. the arm of American power in this conflict. for he can expect no mercy from the great American heart as 1t read of the sinking of the Lusitania and the wanton murder by drowning of hundreds of non-combatant American men, and helpless women and chill dren. Remember at this time we were not at war with Germany-we were neutral-more is the pity. Then came causes of war thick and fast, and we had to fight this ravisher of Belgium to save our honor. to save our national existence. and to save Democracy throughout the world. Germany must be conquered now, or else she will conquer us along with the rest of the world. The outcome will determine whether the world will be Democratic of Auto. cratic and whether government of the people and by the people shall obtain throughout the earth or shall perish everywhere.
 we war Germany because there Is an irreconcilable conflict between the ideal of this Republic and the dominating German Autocracy. We fight her because her success would mean the end of freedom every where. Humanity will never forgive her and history will never forget. She Is the outlaw and worse than the American people.