Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1918-05-23
HOPE OF THE WORLD.
From the London Observer.

On April G was celebrated on both sides
,f the Atlantic with solemnity and thank
.ulness and renewal OF VOWS. an anniveE-
sary which will stand forever among the
great dates of time. AT Baltimore. Presi-
lent Wilson took up the German chal-
'enge anew In the sternest of all his
speeches. To force the enemy appeals.
and to force it shall answer. Nor will
The Germans ever be quit of this
measured, u~nrelaXing, formidable man
until he has reckoned with them in such
sort that all time shall remember it.
Since President Wilson ranked himself
amongst the foremost makers of history
by an epoch making decision. the more
'nfieAible because delayed; since congress
ratified that deciSion; since Il then I'M
armed yet proud and mighty people hailed
1t from ocean to ocean in their upris-
ing against shameful insult, intolerable
wrong, and the threat of Il vet more
sinister and perilous sequel should the
original allies fail-since then there have
elapsed II months of strange and tragic
vlcissltude unexampled in human annals
Today America knows the everlasting
responsibility and the full cost of dis
charging 1t as even IL months ago these
things could not be known to any man.
Yet the president and the republic face
the second year of conflict with Il final
sense OF comrnittal as OF righteousness.
and will, the profound determination un-
der Coz that the war shall not end until
it has been carried to the issue for which
it was declared.
In that spirit .of devotion TO the task
which must DO pursued and accomplished
unless the name of the United States. like
our own. is to be abaSed. her flag lowered.
her tradition broken. and her future
diminished and ie%oparlized, American
soldiers on the battlefields of France.
side by side with the soldiers OF the allied
democracieS, are attending the purpose of
their country, not with breath but blood.
Taken IN common by these three leagued
and fraternal democracies of America.
Britain and France. this blood now out
poured in common is-let us dare to say it
the binding sacrament of rededicatton
10 the cause of freedom. That cause must
be upheld with invincible faith and re-
solve until it is not only more sacred and
forever more sanctifieu where it is
already planted, but extended throughout
the world. These high aims it is we'll in
the power of>the allies. with America. to
nchieve, despite the present menacing
proportions of the temporary German adj
vantage. 1t is not exalted idealiSm but
the level certainty of reason to say tina.
unless the allied denocracics do indeed
secure and establish, by victory and
guarantee. the purposes for which they
took up arms, the: will surrender their
dearest interest of body and soul. they
will capitulate to despotic force and
crime. they will betray thoss who have
died for them. they will make = sale OF
their safety as well as a market OF their
honor. and they will betray the whole
future of the world. Catastrophe would
be fulfilled upon them and their children
and they would not only have suffered
their calamity but would have deserved
It. This shall not be. Instead. we will
all embrace at need the utmost %alterna-
i've of determination and sacrifice.
.Asce to every man and nation comes
the moment to decide.
In tk:s strife 'tw':t Truth and False
hoo.; Cor t.s-e good or evil side.
HAese are American lines. They are not
the less apt because they have become
hackneyed since the. civil, war. They 60
70 the 'hesst Of this buEfhess, as TO that.