The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-07-10
Address of Colonel
John Temple Graves

Asheville, N. c., July 10.-One OF
the outstanding features of the con-
vention of the Southern Newspaper
Publishers Association, in session at
the Grove Park Inn, was the address
delivered last night by Colonel John
Temple Graves, editorial representa-
tive oft he Hearst publications. Colo
mel Graves, one of the most eloquent
orators in the country and for years
favorite in the South, reviewed in
detail the superb achievements OF
the American Government in the con-
duct of the war and the unprecedent-
ed results of its excellent prepare
lions.
81 note the amazement and inspira-
ton with which our allies in foreign
countries have followed the vigor and
expedition with which this great Re-
public has crossed the ocean to their
relief, and the staggering realization
of our imperial enemy that the United
States under the stress of necessity
and purpose has developed in night
| into a military power of irresistible
force and efficiency" he said.
Colonel Graves paid tribute to the
genius and devotion of President Will
son, the Secretaries of War and the
Navy, to shipping board, the ordnance
board and the provost marshal gen.
eral. He emphasized the resources
of the country andt he sublime devo-
ton with which they have all been
consecrated to the winning of human
ity's Armageddon. He set in order
the mighty and transcendent issues
for which the United States is fight
ing and made it clear that peace
short of achievement is a cowardly
surrender of all that is worth living
for and so abundantly worth dying
for"
Colonel Graves spoke of the lessons
this great war will teach, speaking
of it as stern and bloody school
master whose teachings will develop
character and alter all the future Of
the race.
ut shall be a nobler race" he said
more unselfish, more efficient more
patriotic, more helpful, more man.
loving and more God-fearing than in
all its previous history. There will
be an equality and fellowship among
the millionaires and the men in the
ranks who fight side by side and bleed
and sacrifice together. There will be
a fellowship of races and nations
| HONCI huUWH UelOTe.
England and France are bound to
the great republic in bonds that cen.
turtles will not dissolves. Italy is our
bond brother through the ages to
come, as the Czech-Slavs and Poles
and redeemed Russia will knit in the
grand brotherhood of man which
makes inevitably for the fatherhood
of God. All the thousand years be.
hind us will not have brought so much
or counted so far toward the ultimate
or the race as these bloody, heartless.
heartbreaking but triumphant years
that are about us now.
There is not a shadow of doubt in
My mind know that we are abso.
lutely sure to win this war. All the
prophecies of Holy Writ and all the
promises of God are above and he.
meath and beside America and her al.
lies, against the foe of all creeds and
all humanity. The sword of the Lord
and of Gideon in unsheathing now in
the providences of diplomacy and in
the dispensations of God. in the hun.
ger and discomfort, the reaction and
revolution of the Germanic nations
and In the more than natural power
which He is putting into the armies
OF the Republic of Liberty, whose
strength is as the strength of ten he.
cause his heart is pure to the cause
OF liberty and humanity. God All.
mighty is coming at last to take His
part in this war.
For our eyes have seen the glory of
the coming of the Lord,
he is trampling out the vintage where
the grapes of wrath are stored ;
Our God is marching on"
Colonel Graves concluded his ad.
dress with the great question of wbv
God permits this war, He recently
addressed a Bible class in Washington
on this subject which caused so mncb
comment that DR.. Charles Wood OF
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