The Wahpeton times., 1918-09-05

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The small folks have the money, too.
There is no money in Wall Street;
only pieces Of paper representing the
money. Rich mems money is out at
work-in the hands of the day labor
ers, mechanics, section hands, small
,tradespeople and servants. It is these
people who ought to be investing in
Big Business. For the financial pro-
blem of this country is not what to do
with a thousand dollars but what to do
with hundred.
And this time of stress has shown
us the way. When the United States
Government is not above soliciting the
Little People for their quarters for
War Stamps, and their fifty dollars
for War Bonds, Big Business will
learn its lesson. It Is learning It.
Ideals
The war Is bringing to clearer light
the necessity of ideals. For. after all,
It is q war of ideals. and that side
whose Ideals are truer, sounder and
more In line with eternal truth will
conquer. In the end Truth always IL
victorious-'the eternal years Of
God are hers"
For 1t is not true. what that chief
scoundrel and cad OF Europe, Freder-
ick the Great, said-that God to on the
side of the heaviest battalions. Rath-
er He is on the side Of the truest Of
Ideals.
Ideals are all we are fighting for in
this war. We want no territory, no
indemnity, no military glory, no pres
tige, no vengeance. All we want Is
Justice. We mean that peace, law and
order shall be established in the ends
of the earth.
That is the reason we are preparing
so thoroughly. We are raising armies
and building navies, not for this war
alone but for all time If necessary
We shall not quit nor sign peace
treaty until our Ideals are realized.
Humanity
This is the first war in history
where Humanity, the world as whole
has bee sensed. The very greatness
of the German threat has reused the
world to an appreciation of the one
ness Of it's interests.
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And we shall emerge from this war
a more religious people.
For the gist of what is good in reli-
gion is a sense of the Common Good.
It is realization that there is some
thing greater, higher. more authora-
tive in my life than my individual well
fare. And that little life takes on dig
nifty, nobleness and divinity only when
it is consecrated to the Common Good.
The soldiers boys are coming back
with knowledge of what a Great
Cause means, with a feeling of the
worth -whileness of great principles.
and with that spiritual adjustment
which makes men heroes.
The Common Good! It has sprung
suddenly into miraculous dominance.
It has sflenced the voice Of partisan
ship. It has turned the idle woman
of society into an earnest laborer. It
has descended upon the striking labor
union with a SOLDERING sense Of re-
sponsibility. 1t has brought to the
capitalist sense of his stewardship.
It has stuffed the Golfers Of the Red
Cross and the Y. NJ. C. A. It has TAX
en- over the railroads. It has plucked
the first-born from families and sent
them to camp and battle, with no draft
roits nor considerable opposition. It
has made housewives skimp and save.
It has made Offices cold and theatres
dark one day in the week. It has
touched us all, With its Tthuriel wand,
and we have risen up, no more quar-
.reling competitors, but knightly COM
panions in the service of the Common
Good.