The Prescott daily news., 1918-04-26
APPEAL TO PATRIOTISM
Prescott, April 26, 1918.
Editor Daily News.

These are momentous times. The ! entire world is shaken as never before and IS undergoing changes which are calculated to affect the lives of every man, woman and child. Just what will be the financial, social and relig- ious standing of humanity after this war is over no living being can fore tell, but we are sure of one thing, the world together with all its enterprises will have undergone changes that will be startling to it's most learned sur vivors. l am slow to believe that the United States, whose landscapes are peoples by those seeking freedom from oppression, and land where every man can worship God as seem- eth right to him, whose churches raise their spires towards the blue dome ! of heaven and bedeck the country like so many sentinels, could be respon- slble for this awful upheaval. Yet we can almost hear the thunderous tones of the cannon as it reverberates across the hills of France, carrying death and destruction in it's wake. eW can almost smell the odor of the poisonous gas as it is hurled promis- cuously by the German army at any object or people who dare to offer re- sistance to their advances. We can hear through a process of telepathy the tired footballs of our sons and brothers as they tramp, tramp, tramp, to the stern commands of the officers of our army, as they go forth to see that the autocratic rule of Kaiser Bill shall not wield his hellish tactics over the Land of the Free and Home of the Brave"
 Are We with them or are they fighting single handed and alone. It was the intention of the creator that man made in his own image should inhabit the earth and so live that one should not usurp the rights of the other, but after a life of usefulness to mankind and having accomplished the purposes for which he was born. when the time came for his useful ness to end, to quit this house of clay and enter into a felicitous habitation and chant the sweet anthems of an gelic choirs throughout eternity. But alas how far short or how far away he has wandered, from the paths of rectitude and right, you have only to glance about you to see. Surely our neighbors will not turn deaf ear to our drafted boys, nor a denial to the prayers of those aged, decrepid parents whose sons are already in the army; and surely there is not stacker in all our midst who would agitate the theory that we must fight this war to a finish while at the same time avoiding the duties of his own offspring.
 As for myself, if have at any time in the prosecution of my pro- fessional duties-or shall be called upon at any time, to render aid to my countrymen whose son or sons are in the war, that service shall be rendered willingly without price that l may at least in a measure be of some service to those in time of need, while they through sheer force of circumstances contribute their all to Uncle Sam. Is there equal rights to all and special privileges to none? Is the machinery of the universe so perfected that there is no missing cylinder? Is this human organism called man going to meas ure up to the standard of Uncle Sam and supply the tactics, the energy and the necessary equipment for the successful prosecution of this gigan- tic struggle, or are we still scheming. grating, wasting, and sleeping soundly while our best manhood is exposed to one of the most treacher- ous, formidable, educated, skilled vil- lans that ever breathed oxygen. In the early development of the United States while Uncle Sam was in his infancy, there came to our rescue an intellectual giant in the personality of