Bisbee daily review., 1918-02-23
GERMANY OF OLD
 GIVES PLACE ID
 CLANK|NG SADER
Nation of Poetry, Song, Litera- ture and Art, Dedicated to Iron Heel, Declares Gov ernor of New York.
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PEORIA. Ills, Feb. 22- That the ideals that brought victory to the Am erican colonies in the revolution and which stamped out slavery in the Civil War are again at stake, not only m this country. but throughout the world. was the principal theme of an address by Charles S. Whitman, governor of New York. at the Washington birthday banquet Of the Creve Occur club here tonight He said in part:
 The declaration of independence was the precursor of the emancipation proclamation It was only a matter of years when a people with the ideals Of our forefathers would banish slavery from this land. Either the doctrine of the fathers was true. or IL was false, ani the great man whom Illinois gave to the union spoke truly when he said: The country will be all slave or all free
 The outcome of the revolutionary war was certain from the beginning The armies of the king were fighting against an ideal Seven years or sey- enty years would have made no differ ence in the final outcome. The men who wore the blue were fighting for an ideal The men who wore the gray sincere and honest as ma1y of them were. were standing in the way of the onward sweep Of humanity
 Tt is vain to discuss in detail the events Immediately preceding the out break of the war in Europe In the last analysis there is just one reason which made this var inevitable HoT- rihie as has been the awful slaughter. the war had to come; there is not room enough in the world for the two ideas of government Once and for ever. God grant. the issue is going to be fought to the finish.
 This is EOt a Ear on the Gsrmsa people. nor is Germany merely making war on the people Of other lands. This is a combat between ideals of govern melt BeIgiam. broken but uncon- qaered; England, struggling as she has never struggled before; the sons Of France. singing as they bleed and smiling as they die. are just as truly fighting for an ideal as were the rag ged cOntinsntals at Saratoga or at Yorktown. or the men whose bloody feet left their impress in the snow at Valley Forge.
 T know that there was a Germany in the past that her sons and daugh- ters have had every reason to love-.a Germany of poetry and song, literature art. science and of education, but that Germany is no more It has given place to a Germany of the iron heel and the clanking sabre-to a mighty nation dedicated 10 the proposition that might makes right'-thst there is no such thing as freedom Of thought, freedom Of heart. or freedom of life; that slavery is the natural and proper condition of the human race"
 Governor Whitman then reviewed the conditions under which the na- ti0nal army WAS raised and expressed deep confidence in the troops
 They are all right" ne exclaimed, and continued:
 Somewhere in Frsnee-and by and by- just as truly as there is a God in Heaven. somewhere in Germany-they will demonstrate their devotion to the ideals which they have learned in Am erican homes IL is for us to see tO it that we the men and women behind the men behind the guns, act well our part; that nothing be done and that nothing be said to bring aid and com fort and encouragement to the enemies Of our land"