The Republican journal., 1918-08-22
would take advantaee of his employer. |

would take advantage of his employer
emergency to force unfair concessions
from him. And that lawless individual
who puts spikes in the spruce logs, and
that lawless individual called whatever
you will, organized or unorganized, that
goes about the country thinking only of
himself and seeking whom he can destroy,
that man is traitor to his country abso-
lutely, and nothing else, and should be
treated as such. For traitor there is
one effective medicine-taken standing
against the wall. Let him have it. Not
as at Collinsville, illinois. That must
not be- Lynching, under any circum-
stances or conditions, is crime. 1t is
crime against judgment and justice,
reason and righteousness. 1t is an assault
on our most sacred institutions. 1t is an
affront to the accumulated wisdom of
past ages. 1t is condemnation of Chris
tianity. To resort to it can be justified
on no ground. 1t merits the excoriation
and detestation of every high minded
citizen, and must be forever prevented in
this country.
Sacrifice, yes. Yours and mine, yes.
We are in company today where we do
not have to apologize for real heart pa
triotiSm.
Impossible things have to be accom-
plished. A few years ago, stood at the
fountains at Versailles. They played
day, at cost of some $40, 1000. They are
not playing now l hope the day will
soon come again when they do. But
there heard the story of how Louis XIV
wanted to build the fountains of Yer
sailles when he built that great palace,
and he called his architect who said, "IJ
is impossible sire, there is no water"
And there was not. "The word impossi-
BILE is not in the French language" said
the king. And so it is here, the word,
'Tmpossible'' cannot be in the American
language and will not be until this war is
won.
Sacrifice, yes. And why not sacrifice?
When we think of this country and what
it stands for, of its glorious past, its mag
nificent present and it's sublime future,
of the anguish, the heart throbs, the
bleeding and the dying which it took to
conceive and preserve tive must be
stirred to the depths of our souls and
moved with an impershable determina-
ton to keep it where our forefathers
with Gods help have placed it.
L
soldier of the Empire that lay, sorely
wounded and they were probing for the
bullet, probing very close to the heart.
The poor fellow, feeling that the probe
was ending his life sooner than the bullet,
cried IA little deeper in the heart, a lit
tie deeper, and you will find the En-
peror.'
All, little deeper, a little deeper in
oF ba
lie, pray God tonight that there may be
engraven the image of the Stars and
Stripes, and as these awful days and
months go by that are ahead of US, |
pray that the image of the flag and the
principles for which it stands shall grow
brighter and brighter until the love of it
and them shall become part of our be-
ing, an ingredient of our very hearts
blood For then, and then only, will we
know that our institu ions shall not per-
ish and our country shall endure forever,
forever, for in the love of its people and
only in the love of its people, is the safe
ty OF the nation. do not appeal to you
at all from any altruistic standpoint or
ideal, but as practical, successful men
of affairs, LET Us PUT THE SOUL OF
AMERICA INTO THIS WAR. 1t has
not been touched as yet. Let US have a
little more every day of that love of
country that counts not cost.
And, as we 60 about our business, my
friends every day let us keep our eyes to
the front and let US keep our eyes up, be-
cause we will need to keep our eyes up IN
this travail ahead. Let US keep our eyes
up, on Him.
"From out whose hands,
The Centuries fall like grains of sand. "
sIord God of Hosts, be with US yet
Lest we forget, lest we forget"