The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1918-03-02
line to relieve their exhausted armies.

address full Of patriotic fervor and
calculated to set every right-thinking
person in the audience to see the fol-
ly of any halfway measures in our
stand as true Americans in this war.
He showed in a concrete manner
many ways by which the people can
show their loyalty, one of which is to
back up the Government in its en-
deavor to ser its food supply
for u soldiers in Europe and for
our Allies. The Governor related q
number of incidents showing the
spirit of loyalty of our soldiers in
training camp, en- route to Europe,
and on the firing line. His remarks
were frequently and roundly APP
plauded. and he was especially good
at the point in his speech where he
showed that the American soldier
boys yer the last ones who wanted
or asked for any sympathy from the
folks at home, but that they wanted
nothing better than a good oppor-
tunity to get at the Kaiser. He
concluded his remarks in a happy
vein by describing the reception of
Our troops upon landing in France
when they were met by the French
band. whose leader having been pre-
viously misinformed by a Canadian
who was standing near in regard to
our National hymn. struck up the
somewhat appropriate song of Hail,
Hail. the Gangs All Here"
Closing the speaking of the even
ing in a masterful address that will
long be remembered by those who
heard him, A. Grant Miller held
his audience by the magic of his
words and frequently stirred them
to demonstrations of long and con-
tinued applause. Prefacing his ad-
dress. he stated that the State Coun-
Gil of Defense had been furnished a
special train gratis by General Man
ager ]. E. Sexton. that Mrs. Sexton
had put up an unusually fine lunch
for them. that the engineer had CIV
en- his engine some extra punches.
all of which made possible their ar
rival in Eureka, in spite of their pre-
vious delay and missing connection
with the regular train.
Allowing the applause which greet
ed this statement to subside, the
speaker at once entered upon his
main address. and for almost an hour
had the audience completely under
the spell of his oratory. At the out
set he drew a clear distinction be-
tween the cause of the war and the
pretext upon which the Central pow
ers seized for starting war. The
cause of the war he stated to be the
grasping for power and the inordin-
ate ambition of the Kaiser to rule
the world. Since Cain slew Abel to
| the present time there has been go
ing on this struggle for power and
rule by one man or class of men over
other men; and the present war is
the last chapter in this great struggle
between autocracy and democracy.
The rule of kings by divine right is a
theory long since exploded and given
up by the rulers of all enlightened
nations except those of the Central
powers, and this is the death struggle
between the divine right of popular
rule and so-called divine right of
kingly rule. This is a holy war, he
declared, and it is the privilege of
America with the other democracies
to strike the shackles from the be-
nighted peoples of Germany and
Austria and give them an opportuni-
ty to assert themselves and take
their places among the liberty-loving
nations of the world. "The King
dom of God is within you" he ex-
claimed. in reaching one of the eli
makes of his address. when he had
shown that an autocracy developed
the individual for the good of the
State. while a democracy developed
the individual for his own welfare
by giving him opportunities of
Growth till he could reach a state of