The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-03-21
"ODELLOQUENCE"
Extracts from Frank G. Odell's
Liberty Loan Speech at the Rhode
on Tuesday Afternoon.
The Cross of War.

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crusaders. Somewhere on the pin
nacles Of civilization we have seen the
sacred vision of the star of Liberty.
ire a guiding light to purity and justice
until man went mad and dreamed
that he might tear that star from it's
heaven and make himself the master
of the world. He was almost success
full until-thank God - America and
her allies took up their cross of war
determined to carry it even to Col
gotha, if it were necessary, to save
the light Of that star. And now with
the help Of Heaven we will save HUI
manity in the hour of her crucifxion
and bring her resurrected, unscathed
from Calvary"
A Modern Parable.
4" certain rich man who was highly
respected and prosperous coveted the
lands of his neighbor and determined
in his heart to deprive his neighbor
Of that which was his own.
Accordingly he assembled his
family, armed them with weapons of
death and torture and prepared them
to seize his neighbor Is field.
Now between him and that neigh
Dor lay the land of another family,
patient, high-minded, God-fearing
folk, who believed in liberty and JUS
tice. But the rich man cared not for
their rights or ideals. Them and their
families he trampled ruthlessly under
foot in a wild carnival of rapine and
murder.
FThis accomplished he fell upon his
unsuspecting neighbor and sought to
despoil his fields, ruin his women, and
MAIN his defenseless children.
And I say unto you that justice
cannot be done until that man is TAX
en-, and made to expiate with suffer
ing the crime that he has committed
and to restore in full the territory he
has taken from neighbor who wished
to live in honor, peace, and holy
charity"
Vindication.
"There may have been a time when
my friend, Major-General Swinton, and
his compatriots over there scoffed at
us, their present allies back here.
They called us a nation of money
lenders, a people without soul. But
we shall vindicate ourselves before we
are through with the Hun. We shall
show England and France that we are
q country with vision, a dream, a
purpose a determination to fight on
and on until America and the world
are safe for democracy"
War Wisdom.
"This war is burning glass
searching the hearts and souls of men
and women and finding there new
nobility, a new devotion to all that is
selfish, altruistic, just, righteous, and
religious.
We have not seen war yet. We
have not felt its chilling horror or
known its blighting touch. But there
are those who have and by the blood
Of every child manned in broken Bel
GUM and the honor of every woman
ravished in northern France we are
enlisted, men, women, and children, to
fight until we win in war for per-
sonal freedom and international jus
tice.
THE war has become an organized
man-hunt for an international criminal
"a fiend who has violated every law
in the decalogue and committed fur
Their outrages too diabolical for the
sanity Moses to foresee.
Wisconsin is loyal to the core and
Washington is all wrong if she believes
any reports to the contrary.
"All mankind will be our debtors
when we have defeated the Hun and
saved the world from despotism. AS
we now enjoy a freedom won by Leon
idas and his men, who died with him
at ThermOpylae, so future generations
will develop in an aura of Liberty
bequeathed to them by the patriots of
this crucial hour. Participation in
that service is privilege and not an
obligation.
A Prayer for Patriots.
Eternal God, who hast made man
in thine own image and dedicated him
to freedom since his first creation
give us the courage, the resignation
and the divinity to offer ourselves 8
supreme sacrifice upon the altar OF
Liberty, in order that government OF
the people, by the people and for the
people may not perish from earth. =