Trench and camp., 1919-01-30

Au1iIdu DlCSSlIlS CIldL Is
~ worth much comes free. A
family and a home do not.
he that hath wife and chill
dren," says a wise man, hath
given hostages unto Fortune" If
you are going to have a family,
you have got to pay for it in sac
rifice of much that your unmar-
RED friends are able to get for
themselves. Instead of smoking
Havana cigars, you are going to
nave to stick to your old pipe
and your cabbage-leaf brand, and
use the money to buy more shoes
Tor Willie. Instead of a tile hat
TOR you, there must be a picture
hat or a peach-basket for her.
But you are glad enough to go
without, for his sake or hers, be-
cause of the blessing of a wife
and family-without which a
man.is but half a man.
So it is with the blessing of
liberty. It has to be paid for.
Our forefathers bought it for us
with blood and tears. We have
just seen it bought over again,
for coming generations, at a
price of untold loss and pain. Yet
no one of us--and no one of those
who paid the last great price
has any doubt about it being
worth all it cost. Some things
there are that are worth what
ever price they cost-and liberty
is one of these.
But is it not alone the price of
blood and treasure that purchases
liberty for men. There is another
sort of price that must be paid, in
addition. And that is constant, faith
full service and watchfulness; "eter-
nal vigilance is the price of liberty
This is the peace-time price, as dis
tinguished from the wartime price.
1t is just as essential and Important
as the other. And, as peace is now
setting in, it is this peace-price that
we shall consider chiefly.
We cannot get liberty for nothing.
Nor can we keep it without effort
We have got to hang on to it. And
we can do so If we will For liberty
is not cloudy something that is
picked out of the thin air and which
may evapOrate in your hand because
it is insubstantial. 1t is a series of
concrete facts that, taken together,
constitute the status of free man.
Liberty lies in perfectly definite in
stitutions, is embodied in them, and
guaranteed by them. Liberty per-
tains to what man shall do, shall
have, or shall be-perfectly definite
and palpable things.
For instance, guarantee OF our
liberty lies in the provision that every
man shall have right to trial before
o jury Of his peers; that he shall not
be taxed without being represented; !;
that he> shall not be prosecuted be-
cause of1is religion, and so on. But
If anyone thinks that these rights
were won easily, or without suffering,
let him read history awhile. They
are now safely embodied in the insti-
tutions of all free peoples and guar
anteed by their governments. To keep
the rights and the liberty that goes
with them, the citizen must uphold
the constitution, the institutions and
the government of his nation, and
also see to it that that government
does not cease to uphold and guar
antee his liberties.
We who live in high security OF
person and property, with self-de-
fsn0d rights. and no burdensOme du-
ties-with no privileges, either, en-
joyed at the expense of others-we
get easily into the habit of thinking
that these things take care of them
selves. We do not get worked up
about them, however loudly we shout