The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-23
Stuart's Address.

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" ,Stuart's Address.
"I v great privilege to have
t. ortunity to make some Sug-
g. as to the young men of this
state said Judge Stuart in address
ing the convention. This is time
for action, not counsel. This ma
ton is passing through the great
est war since the organization OF
the government. On the battle line
now are many young Americans,
and it is your duty who are their
brothers, to sustain them now and
hereafter This is an hour for med
itation, an hour for retroSpection,
an hour for sacrifice. This war
involves all of civilization. 1t is
good to inquire into the cause OF
it. Before the recent meeting OF
the State Bar Association | spoke
on the causes leading up to the war.
Let it be understood now that the
United States entered this war un-
der protest, after submitting to in
suit and oppression. The German
autocracy was waiting for an oppor-
tunity to strike. The leopard is
said to lay for hours without the
culver OF a muscle, waiting for its
prey. The anaconda will hang sus-
pended from the limb OF tree,
waiting, both willing to wait and
destroy. so this German autocracv
grew up, always a menace to mod
ern peace. The conhagration burst
forth after a little trouble in Aus
tria. Then Germany struck, beliey-
ing She would reach Paris without
obstruction. Then began the prep
aration Of its submarine warfare, the
most ruthless and cruel known to
man. Every nation under the can
Ons OF international law had the
right to plow the sea. The Ger
mans determined to press their ad-
vantage, to push on to Paris, to
subjugate Europe. Its next inten-
tlon was to cross the seas and sub
jugate the United States. You
young men who cannot go to the
war, but who must remain here. let
no one say to you that the United
States will ever become Il German
colony and see that he does not do
IT. The constituted authority OF this
government said to Germany when
1t began its submarine warfare, You
must desist, and when it refused it
was only left for this government to
say: This far shalt thou go and no
further. Congress declared state
OF war existed between the United
States and Germany and after that
any man or set of men who sought
to cripple the United States in its
purposes is traitor or traitors.
This convention represents two
things. You can first be patriots
and second, Democrats. We sent
a message across the sea TO Eng
land and said: We are the same in
birth and blood. We came from
the same parent stock. For every
man you send to war we will send
one, and we will feed them both
We said to Belgium: Young men,
remember the president says in one
of his demands Belgium must be
restored and for every drop of
blood, for every child mutilated.
for every woman outraged and for
every city burned, the Germans
shall be made to sweat blood We.
said to France: We know that in
our extremity you sent us a La Fay
cite and a Rochambeau, you waded
through a slaughterhouse from an
autocracy to a republic, and we will
send you a man for every one you
send to war, and we will feed them
both We sent another message.
We sent one to the German kaiser
and said to him You know that
every boy that goes to the bowels
of the earth to dig coal is digging
for your destruction; that every
engineer, every artisan, working
night and day, is working for your
destruction; that every American
cutting down food, every child cut
ting down clothing, is working to
destroy you.
Judge Stuart drew a picture of the
boys in the trenches and told the
young men of the convention to
keep this in mind at all times. He
said the soldiers must be fed and
clothed. He told of Napoleon pick
ing up the child of the woman who
was killed on the battlefield while
giving a drink of water to a wound
ed soldier. Holding it alott, he said,
"This shall be the child of the en-
pire," and said that every child
whose father was lost on the field
of battle should be the child Of this
republic.
He said some people are declaring
we are going to lose this war and
that some politicians are saying
President Wilson is another julius
Caesar. "My answer to them" he
said, is that Woodrow Wilson is
carrying the burden of this repub-
lie and those who seek to traduce
him are not worthy of common re-
spect " He paid beautiful tribute
to the president and talked of the
proposed war council. who shall
that council?' he asked.
He told of Lincoln'S war council
and how they destroyed Mcclellan
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