Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1918-04-19
MORMONS
PLEDGE AID
TO LOAN
Heber ]. Grant, Presi-
dent Of Church,
So Declares
LEADER PROUD OF
FOLLOWERS
RECORD
BY HE8ER ). GRANT

! for forty ODD years, when the
Germans have been meeting on land
or sea, they have drunk ITO the
Day-To the Day." They meant the
lay when Germany should practically
-ule the world. They have thought
they had the might, and they were
convinced that they could conquer the
world but they mistook human ma.
ture. They never dreamed, for one
moment, that the little country Of
Belgium would oppose their great
7nd powerful army They thought
hey could walk right through Bel.
GUM, and within ninety days II not
within thirty days. BE- In Paris. But
Belgium offered her life fer her ideals.
They never dreamed for one moment
that England. snprepared. would en-
ter the war; but these German states.
men misjudged the fiber of the Eng.
Iishman. and England entered the
war. Although they might sink the
Lusitania and murder American citi-
zens,, they never dreamed that Amer.
lea, with an Insignificant army, would
enter the war. In all these things
they have found or they will find
their mistake.
The Kaiser and the entire German
Empire will yet learn that these
prophetic words of their greatest poet
are absolutely true-"Know this,
God rules the hosts OF heaven, the
inhabitants of earth"
What kind of love, what kind OF
charity is the German scattering to-
day? Death, destruction, the killing
of babies, the raping of women and
putting men and women in bondage.
The German government has brought
about a slavery today that is as hate
full as the Southern slavery of the
negro. which this country fought the
terrible Civil War to overcome, and
would extend it over Americans If
she could. But she never will. The
Lord has told us, in the Book Of
Mormon, that this is a choice land
choice above all other lands, and that
no king should rule here. No, not
even the Kaiser, though he claims
to rule by divine right from God. For
this is land Of freedom. I will read
you some of the Kaiser's words:
There is only one master in this
country; I am he, and I will not toll.
crate another" The Kaiser has to
find out that God rules and that the
people will be their own masters. If
he lives long enough he will, and
hope he does. l want him to live to
find out that the people of the world
will be the master, and that intelli-
gence and the desire for right will
count more than might in all the
wide world.
There is only one law-my law;
the law which I myself lay down"
The Kaiser is wrong. The law of
God, the law of Justice, the law OF
virtue, the law of honor, is the only
law that will prevail, and that is not
the law Of the German Kaiser today.
1t was on the 7th day of June,
1914, that Frankfurt assembled her
school children in the opera house. to
further their taste and understanding
of Germany's supreme national art
Exactly eleven months later, on May
18th, 1915, a German torpedo sank |
the Lusitania; and the cities of the
Rhine celebrated this also for their |
school children.
Goethe said: THE Germans are OF |
yesterday few centuries
must elapse before 1t will
be said of them: 1t is long since they
were barbarians.' Out of their own
mouths shall they be judged"
AS chairman Of the Liberty Loan
lave in this section, was recently
,alled to San Francisco to attend
/ conference. After two days of
meetings we were invited by the
Committee of One Thou
and to a banquet. The cities that
lad gone above the maximum-over
he top. so to speak-in purchasing
liberty Bonds were to represent
by a speaker on the pro-
ram. and the honor fell to me to
epresent Utah In a ten minute
peech. Among other things l quoted
hese inspired words of Ella Wheeler
Wilcox: That no question is ever
ettled until ii Is settled right.
l repeat again the words of the
ierman poet: Know this, God rules
he hosts of heaven. the inhabitants
( earth" l was delighted to say to
he people in California, and the
1orkers in the Liberty Loan cam
align, that there are no "Mormons"
tho have any doubt OF the final
utcome of this great world war.
he Lord has spoken, SO far as the
Mormons" are concerned. The
ord has said that this is land
hoice above all other lands, and
lat no king shall rule here l have
cen proud of the wonderful record
lade by the people of Utah during
lis war, and I rejoice to say there
70 no more patriotic or loyal citi-
ms of the United States than those
those valleys OF the Rocky Noun
lins.