Arizona republican., 1918-04-21

car is so lively and So smart.
 against heavy odds and save itself, and
 grow again, an dthen go out and save
 the world And now, all the holy truths
 and purposes that brought together
 the continental congress are about fully
 to function.
 Always With Vision
 When the founders of this republic
 instituted their experiment they were
 laughed at by the wisest men of the me, scoffed at by all; yet they con- 1 tinued building. always with the vision l that in this country there should be created a temple of lawful liberty. This country is no accident. The } hand of God Almighty has been in the making. Dedicated to the proposition that all men are equal, consecrated by
 the tears and the blood of loved ones,
 it continued firm in the midst of that
 desperate revolution, and withstood the shocks of that awful civil war, until ! today our shores become the step-
 ping stones to freedom, our laws the
 very offspring of justice and our flag an inspiration to men of all climes. Today we are living in an epoch in , all the sons of Gods time. All of Eu- lOpC ID III otl uupl COnifICl drunk With blood, and the contest has
 reached a point where the issue hangs in the balance (and most seriously now
 does it hang in the balance) and only
 by the interferences of this country , with it's pure motives and unselfish
 purpose only by this country going
 into the aWfulness of that conflict, can
 the situation be saved ;. only to us is 9 it given under Gods guidance to go $ and rescue the future of mankind. l Now. if this country does that, and this l country will do that, then the mission , of America will have been accomp- ? lished.
 What We Are Fighting For : It is not necessary 10 discuss the . causes or the issues of the war They are multitudinOush, they are eternally right and the future of humanity rests on the outcome. There is nothing I
 can say in this distinguished presence
 that will give any more adequate idea , of why we are in the war, nor impress f you more deeply with the necessities of successful contamination.
 Q What are we fighting for? There has s never been a moment since August, I 1914, when the entrance of this country
 into the war was not inevitable. And I the duty of all of us is as clear as the task is stupendous. The trampling I upon American rights by the imperial . German government was an expected and necessary step in the proceedings, l and we have gone to France to fight |. because the battle is there to be fought e on French soil first, and if not fought
 there it will have to be fought and y won here. The world has become too small for autocracy and democracy to
 exist together and one has to die
 What are we fighting for? Say, men y and women, red blooded representa- !. tive Americans American men, yes thank God, American men-what are
 We fighting for?
 Il A British army officer in Indianapo- l. lis the other day said to me, himself a Il captain. whom any of you would know l. no doubt twenty times wounded, this ,. man, the last time five hundred yards behind the German trenches, when
 they were occupied by Germans, on his e way back now to the front has beer T. home getting well-that much for the y authority of the information-this mar !. said to me at Indianapolis that on . u certain day naming the day, in a cer, ie tain place, naming the place, in French
 territory captured by the Germans ant T retaken by the French, he stopped at - lCliNll DtdSdilt NOlldI IOuSG 10 Ee 's a drink of water as he marched by. Ht '. said that by looking at the woman ht 'l could tell she had been in trouble anc = he said Madam, the Huns have beer -s here?' She said Yes. do you see tha V, spot on the floor?" The captain sait u T stepped back and I saw the spot oi the floor, which I knew was blood i- which the poor woman could not scou1 lc from the pine boards of her floor witt q her brush, on her knees. I said "Yes III Madam, this blood" She said Yes ie that is where a German soldie It stamped the head off my twelv, 'e months baby.
 The Nurse from Belgium . Say, what are we fighting for. men
 The other day on a train from Chicago
 rode young woman, intelligent an,
 weet sitting with her arms folded | Opposite in the Pullman a friend sav
 Ter get off, and took the seat wher he girl had been and my friend sai, 9 him Why the acclaim at the station. hat is the occasion? This man said Did you see the young woman wh, \ 1t in here?" Yes" he said "Re, v ross nurse just back from Belgium ives here. and all out to meet her. Fine" Did you notice her hands,
 No, l didn't notice her hands. Sh
 at with her arms folded" "Yes,' sai II he man. She has no hands, a German
 oldier cut off her hands,"
 iI What are we fighting for In a
 Indiana city tonight friends have talk
 en to raise two little Belgian girl ,ourteen and fifteen years old res oectively undersized, and both 0 III hose children pregnant Just bac III from Belgium.
 'V What are we fighting for? By tn | ternal, men. we are fighting to mak l 'ertain that this kind of bushes li mot longer go on in God Al ghty's world.
 And we will continue to fight, un
 victorious American arms hay rever ended the intolerable arrog
 nee of the scientifically traine rutality. We will have peace--bu
 nly peace by victory and never
 peace by compromise bargaining.
 What is sacrifice? What is sacri