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ing to crown American womanhood with
the right of complete suffrage. Applaud

ing to crown American womanhood with
the right of complete suffrage. Applaud
that sentiment please. THANK yea. Do
you think that the masses in Germany
| VIII ever again give their support to a
war undertaken for subjugation and con-
quest after they have become imbued
with the spirit of real democracy? Never
How long do you think the saloon will
with their ballots? Only till the next
! election. The women will vote to pro-
tect themselves and their rights precise
ly as the politician votes TO protect him.
interest if from no other. Therefore let
the war go on. The interests at stake
concern the whole world. Let it be set
tied no half way and settled right.
And it will be so settled. am proud
of the quiet and resolute fashion in which
our country is making its war prepara-
lions. All hail to the spirit of America,
unselfish, earnest and bold. All hail to
cry demand made on them in these days
of great trouble. My hat off to the Red
Cross, mother and nurse of the fighting
army. My hat off to the women of
and late, and praying. praying, praying,
night and day, for the brave boys in the
trenches. Who can beat that combina-
ton? Not all the Hohenzollerns, dead
or alive, and the house of Hapsburg
Thanks for the manifestations of ap-
,proyal. 1t is so easy to speak to con-
verified congregation. Now don't back
path of duty unflinchingly. Many severe
trials await us. Many anxieties and
great sorrows are in store for us. Many
of our boys will be killed, and those who
die never come back and leave no hope
behind. Yet grieve not for them-they
died that sceptered tyrants might fall
and liberty live.
Some day a lasting peace will be made
A. 11s.I --1-.
benefit Postwar America will not be
quite the same as was pre-War America:
Whereas before the war we were peo-
pie of many tongues anc IN sentiment
divided after the war we shall be a peo-
pie of one speech only and entire devo-
ton to flag and country. Our poets shall
seem sweeter and our statesmen greater
than ever before MADE in America"
shall be a better label than made any
where else. Educated in America shall
mean infinitely more than educated
somewhere abroad. Our merchant ships
shall dot the seas, carrying our products
to all the quarters of the globe. We
shall have an army and navy fully
able to protect and defend us from foes
within and foes without. Americas boast
shall be that it has given freedom to the
colonies, freedom to the slaves and free
dom to the world And then indeed shall
the Star Spangle Banner wave, proudly
wave, DER the land of the free and the
home of the brave.
Inc opera mousse was handsomely
CARRIED. The stage was a mass of
flowers of various kinds and leaves
and ferns were in abundance. The
Stars and Stripes were in evidence
everywhere. Five veterans of the
Civil war, E. T. Champlin, F. S. Hem
ingway, Chef Bailey, J. H. Robinson
and A. M. Hannay, occupied the first
row of chairs nearest the stage. On
the other side Of the center aisle
were seated the members of the Red
Cross in their snowy white uniforms;
also the w. R. C.s4..
Prior to the meeting parade
headed by the Amboy band and made
up of the Boy Scouts, w. R. c., Red
Cross, and the school children march
ed to the opera house. H. C.. Krause,
county commissioner, was marshal of
the day. IS .es
The days program was given un-
der the direction of the Sons of Vet
erans The committee in direct
charge was made up of R. G. Champ
lin, chairman; Dan Thew, Mrs. Glad
VS. Halvorsen, Mrs. George Gray, Miss
May Robinson.
Following the exercises at the OPP
era house, the parade was again
formed and it marched to the GENE
terry where the graves of the heroic
dead were banked with blossoms of