Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1919-03-19
| eaoue OF Nations Was
Commended b Speakers

III foreign and many oE them in un-
known and unmarried graves Over
100000 more Of Ehesn In lesser or
greater degree bear she wounds. scars
and ravAges ne warfare: 2.200 900 Os
them crossed the seas f0 light III the
trenches of France. Italy and Belgium,
#at their cOnntry's calA
nIstegy Recalled
Shalt aIl klsse sacrifice and this serv-
lee have been made iii yaing We plead
with our mottefa and fathers to make
this sacrifica because this war, as
claimed ~ the League to Enforce
Peace, was necaanary war to pre-
vent future wars and 70 guarantee
the future peace os the world.
Let us briefly recall SONS recent
history For dscades prior To the be-
ginning cE this war oil Europe was
an army camp. Rnseia, Austria, Tur-
key. italy. Germany and even the
smaller states had been preparing for
d var which they knew would come
sooner or later. No one knew exactly
when Each country kept its army
close 20 It's border lines, and com
plete mobilization was question of
hours and not months Or years. The
injuries Of centuries were ever kept iE
memory BY some. while III Others
greed. ACKNOWLEDGMENT and covetOus-
ness grew apace as the years rolled by
while the ambition og the German
emperor and the German nation for
world domination awaited bat i pre-
text or favorable moment to iannch
form the greatest military organiza-
ti0n and power the world had ever
known.
Hand Of Destiny
Napoleon had proclaimed his cam
paign for the freedom and civilization
ogi the world. but william of Hohsn
zollern. like Alexander Of old. was
fighting for conquest and world do
mlfaion and for the establishment Df
an aUtocratic military government
farsf throughout Europe and then ID
be practically worldwide The old !
world ives but waiting Tor tlsa spara
and 10 ana behold, the murder OF as-
sasaEnation Of the uncle of the Emper
or Of Austria, without governmental
responsibility Of any kind. was made
the excuse for the beginning Of d war
long seemed foreordaIned and which
involved the whole civilized world
into the greatest and most destructive
conflict taht has ever been recorded
In the annals og the human race. Our
own country separated by 3 100 miles
of ocean from these European powers.
since our beginning aa nation, had
followed the advice 0f the father of
our government. and had avoided en-
tangling alliances with all the gov
ernmenss oF the old world From b
nation of a,O00, 900 We had grown to
be nation of over Loo, 900 900 of souls.
The hand 0g destiny seemed to be
ours. as Mr Taft sayR- We are the
greatest nation In the world. greatest
ir population OF q high average of
intelligence, greatest III natural re-
sources. and grsatesk as We have
shown ii France III our potential mill
itary power.
WC&AM NO 1A&ERkek
We were prosperous almost beyond
human belief and we we're On terms of
amfty and peace with every nation On
earth Rut when this war broke out,
NE found that the ocean no longer waa
d harrier. that distance and time had
practically become eliminated Iii the
intercourse Og the world, and DO what
We might that our country could not
remain aloOf when the civilization and
the Christianity and aIl rights og htl-
Enanity lay kremb bling In the balance IS
the stake 81 war. America kept afo0f
and when We entered we entered 70
as long as II was possible e do s..
overthrow forever ausocralic govern
nenk and establish np0n SIS rains g0v-
ernunsnts founded uSson the cohsent of
the governed. wlaers fhe rights aud
sgsOnfsnued On pags Two.