Norwich bulletin., 1918-06-15

:. tocracy, has beer slowly, but surely disappearing from the earth.
 Old Glory then is emblematic of the growth of Democracy, of the power of liberty, of the final triumph of. the principles of humanity. It spurns the distinction of rank and the tyranny of the strong. It is an emphatic protest against the doctrine that might make right, that some with hammer and
 sword can impose their will on oth
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 Democracy must now. it seems, dem
 onstrate it's right and it's power to live. If military autocracy is strong and ef- ficient enough to impose it's will on
 nations, then democracy must go, and
 men must be ruled by force. De
 mocracy can only survivie by proving it is stronger, that it has a stronger
 hold on the hearts and minds and
 purses of it's citizens, than feudalism. Free Government Cannot Perish. We are Americans enough to believe | that free government cannot perish 1 from the earth that Americans today
 are imbued with the Spirit of 1776. and.
 are ready to devote their lives. their | fortunes and their sacred honor on
 the altar of their country's cause. It was the idea of freedom of op- pcrtunity and freedom, of action that
 drove to our shores, liberty loving men of eeyry land and cline. Loyalty to America today is not matter of race l or creed, or both. It is a matter of ] heart. The true American is true to Americas ideals. The immigrants son ] when he puts on the khaki uniform
 and shoulders a rifle and marches away, is just as good an American as the man who counts six generations to
 the Pilgrim fathers. The soldier, like the flag. is the emblem of Nations Glory. Without the soldier the flag is
 silent when insults are hurled aga nst It. Old Glory shall reign while her
 soldiers live. All honor to them.
 When this republic was founded on
 the principle of equal rights to all mer
 not a single nation was willing to ad-
 init tkat we could make a success oi
 it. Today four fifths of the civi-
 ized nations are willing to join he nds
 with us on the platform of the rights : of man. Our principles have become
 the dominant thought of the age Oul
 principles have become the doninart thought of the 1ge. Our leader. Wood
 row Wilson, has become a world lead
 CT, and our flag has become the stal
 If the worlds hopes. If anyone be [ lieves in the divine right of kings tc rule their feliowmen he doesn't belon: under the Stars and Stripes.
 Our boys are not fighting alone. HoY times have changed For the first tim in our history. We are fighting with not against our motherlaud. and witl our Canadian cousins We fight wit
 F'rance-gallant old France-our ait in our day of need-tle France , 2 Lafayette and Rochamheau that len l us millions when we were a starvin
 -;4- s Italy the homo of ar II cong; wit t Belgium: with Poian5 ~l-, desolat V Poland. where Pru- 'rture ha' t left the children ma roars deaf 2 1 rottins by the roa1s.d with Russi. {; Fthat great empire. just emerging fror /: ages of ignorance and Tn sru'e into tn e sunshine of self government.
 r Fighting Under Old Glory.
 T Our boys are fighting under no fen : dal banner, under no royal ensign, uU der no flag typifying the divine rief II of kings to rule, They fight under Ol II Glory, the flag of the free. They ar 9 imbued with the Spirit of 1776 Stan
 back of them and they'll defend tl1
 Old Flag and carry it to victory The r. will add a new Glory to Old Glor IT, They will not stain it With dishonc " and inhumanity, and they'll not brin C 1t back until they have made the kais e CT see the stars and feel the stripes n a free people.
 IF What that old flag means to us, W e want it to mean to all the world. " e have. seen it through all the dark day a of our infant struggle through ostarva if tion and suffering: through disasts d and defeat. until the black nidnigf
 of Valley Forge burst into the cloud a less dawn of Yorktown We have see if ] it wave over Perry at Lake Erie, an IF over the dauntiess Andrew Jackson { n New Orleans. We saw it march in tr = umph at Monterey. Cerra Corda an
 Buena Vista. We saw it sway to an
 fro in the great struggle at Gettys
 burg, when brothers fough bravely fc n three days to prove to themselves an the world. that they were one n courage, one in race, and one in de- - tiny. We have seen it with Dewey { = Manila. Bay and Sampson and Schle e at Santiago, and we shall soon see tf y same old flag. a star of hope to tf e suffering world. carried in trump " across the bleeding fields of Franc e and Belgium, and planted in victor c and in permanent peave above the la! $ stronghold of feudal power in tf ! world