Jackson County journal., 1919-08-15
LAW ENFORCEMENT

arise in their might and determine
that the cause of righteousness, ed
ucation and good citizenship shall
no longer be trampled underfoot by
the lawIess element in the county.
When any law is suffered to be
violated with impunity it breeds
contempt for all law among the
people, and there is danger that the
notorious breaking of the prohlbl-
ton laws will lead to such a state.
1t is not question of whether we
endorse the principles of prohibl-
ton, but of law enforcement. II
the officers will execute the sworn
duties of office and the good citizens
of the county will assist the officers
the thing can be done. We are the
same breed of men who crossed
three thousand miles of ocean to
meet the forces of evil on a foreign
soil and who were unafraid as they
waged the battle for the protection
of home and civilization. Shall we
finch at the same task here? Who's
afraid of bunch of pesky block
aders and law breakers?
Brethren, let's get together on
this thing. Let's mobilize the forces
of good citizenship and fight this
thing out to cool finish.
Several weeks ago, advocated
through your paper, the erection OF
a monument on the Court House
Square as being a suitable memo
rial to the memory of the boys from
jackson county who gave their SER
vices in the great world conflict
just closed. have no information
that arrangements are being made
to erect such monument or to-
ward providing any other kind OF a
memorial.
While our Nation, with outstretch-
ed arms. is joyously welcoming to
its shores the thousands of boys
who are returning from the cory
Fields of Flanders" and properly
manifesting in a thousand ways its
deep appreciation for their unselfsh
sacrifice, and for their deeds of
valor and heroism, l cannot but
help think of the thousands who
went from among us as did these
boys, but instead of returning to
their friends and comrades amidst
the plaudits and benediction of q
grateful people and hearing sung to
their praise anthems of victory
their intrepid souls went dowI
either in the din and roar of battle
or on beds of anguish and theil
lifeless forms are now wrapped il
the sleep of the eternal under thu
poppy fields of foreign soil.
The civilized world solemnly rec
ognizes its obligation to do homag'
to the memory of these valiant SON
whs so fearlessly offered their live
upon Libersy's altar, land dauntless
ly marched through a Gethseman'
to sacrificial death in order tina
the hallowed principals of a jus
and righteous civilization should en-
dure among men.
While there have been a multi
tude of suggestions as to a memo
rial that would most appro
priately and effectively perpetual
the memory of those who CAV
their lives that this ond future gen
erations might enjoy the blessing
of freedom, it is still my opinion
that no more permanent and an
propriate memorial could be erecte
than a monument of granite O.
which could be chisled the name
of those who gave their service
for humanity's cause. Such a men
orial would bear perpetual testime
nv to future generations that whe
homes were desecrated. women out
ragged. children butchered. the age
murdered. even though they live
in lands foreign to them and spoh
with tongues unknown to them, tI
young manhood of Jackson Count