The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-02-26
NORTH DAKOTA
LOYAL T0|C0RE
SAYS KRAABEL
Eight Thousand of Our Best Boys
in the Service Pledge Of
States Patriotism
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PRAISES DEFENSE COUNCIL
I
Declares Organization Is One That
HaS Proven Its Worth to
Commonwealth
PRAISES DEFENSE COUNCIL

North Dakota is loyal, aggressively
patriotic, essentially American. Its
pledge OF feaity to this great Republic
is 5000 Of the states best and bray.
est boys in the service OF Uncle Sam.
North Dakota is back of President
Wilson for fight to the finish with
autocracy, declared Lieut.. Governor A.
7. Kraabel, in welcoming the National
Council OF Defense speakers to North
Dakota. .,.. ..'
The people of this state are loyal
in every sense Of the word. The same
great cause OF humanity, the same
great issues of liberty, the same great
principles of freedom around which
the people of the eastern and more
popul0us portion of our nation are
rallying affect equally every home and
every man, woman and child here in
the wide agricultural west. The farm,
the factory and the mine, and all that
belongs to the exchange and distri
button OF their products must stand
or fall together The day is long past
when any class is sufficient 20 itself
In fact the war is rapidly teaching
that even a nation like ours occupy
ing the greatest portion Of q continent
is not sufficient unto itself, but is de-
pendent upon other nations in Y a
hundred ways. Unlessti1e world shall
start on downward march, back to.
wards barbarsm and savagery, the ma
tions who still respect the Ten Com
mandments must stand shoulder to
shoulder and must learn to cooperate
in higher degree than ever before.
Not only in our dealings with our
neighbors, but also in our dealings
with foreign nations must we learn to
be honest and fair. Our sacred and
written promises and pledge to them
must not be scrop Of paper, their
holy temples and works Of art must
not be a special target Of our cannon,
their land, their property, their help
less women and children must not be
looked upon as our lawful prey and
booty.
How America Got In
"While this war looked like strug-
gle for industrial advantage mainly
represented local European issues,
this country stood aloof, but now say.
agery and brutal instinct has refused
to respect even the accepted usages
and customs of war, now that interna-
tional law and the practices of thou
sand years have been tossed aside,
now that destruction, robbery and pill
age have been proclaimed the rights
of the strongest, our country has
thrown her billions of wealth and her
millions of men into the scale on the
side Of humanity.
"1he principles of the Declaration
of independence and the constitution
of the United States are not scraps OF
paper. Before this war is over, no
matter how long it takes, Kaisers, ty-
rants and all other blood soaked relics
from the dark ages of ignorance and
superstition will learn that three
hundred years Of American freedom
has produced nation that believes
in decency, law and order. Gentle.
men, our state Is farming state.
Practically nothing else, and as such,
nothing gives us as much pleasure as
tilling our farms, unmolested and in
peact. But we have at present 5000
of our best boys at the front, most OF
these boys born and raised in our
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