The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1920-02-26

dressed to you The prayers Of her
hungry children are petitions to you.
Americas policy-the answer of the
United States. will come from the
Judgment OF the people. No man or
woman can escape the responsibility.
Each OF JUS will contribute to the de-
cision. 1t isn't a hypothetical case
we are called upon to decide-lt is q
question involving the life Of human
beings, men, women and children who
are blood OF our blood. part Of he
great world family-the human race.
Shall we close down our shops, fac
tories, mills and mines bolt the doors.
stop production at a time millions Of
human beings are crying to US for
help? Can we listen to the thin,
bony hands OF children knocking at
our doors and sit in our comfortable
homes. leaving them to die on our
threshold? No call to arms ever had
so much right back of 1t. so much hui
mainly as the call to work has to-
day.
The house of Europe has been on
fire. 1t has been wrecked II is SCARED
and charred-a ruin. The cupboards
are empty, the people demoralized and
sick Winter is attacking them. Hun
ger has strange hold. They are In
rags. They must rebuild, and they
haven't the material for the work.
They turn to us. Their condition Is
their plea, our condition, our obIiga-
ton. If the golden rule ever had any
claim on our hearts and heads the
time TO prove 1t is now.
Our Comparative Plenty.
In our house things are well. We
have been saved the devastation Of
war. Our acres are ample, our yield
has been plentiful. We have an abun-
dance Of material. Our man power
has only been lightly touched by the
war. 1t is true that we gave nearly
seventy thousand lives that the Prus-
slams might not pass; that autocracy
might not shackle the world. II was
our best blood. Europe gave for four
years. and she gave of her youth IN
til her man power was almost e1-
hausted.
We cannot sacrifice Europe with I
out being sacrificed. II Europe falls |
America will totter. The storm OF I'M
rest that rocks Europe to ruin will /
shake America. We must work and !
give-loan, If you please.
The heart of labor is warm. Its
sympathy is born of suffering. The
gospel of the brotherhood of man is
the message that labor has always
taught. / am sure that If l could pic
ture the poverty of the children and
women and men of Europe-if could
only make people see what have seen
in Europe, our differences would seem
trivial by comparison with their suf-
ferings. Men would will to work and
find joy in the working. What greater
can come to conscience
than working TO feed the hungry, to
clothe the naked. to comfort the lowly!
If the heart of capital is stone and
cannot feel the message which comes
over the seas, let labor show that its
heart is humane and that II will suffer
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save flesh and blood, brother and sis
-er workers, on the other side of the
ocean. It's a crime against God and
nan to stop production at this mo-
nent-and extravaganza u this hour
S a greater immortality than prostitu-
ion.
/ did not stop with the gathering Of
igures, because / knew that while
igures are important they frequently
all to tell the full truth. OfBcial re-
,orts and statistics, granting that they
re accurate, are at best only photo
raphic. The photograph records with
eXactness the exterior OF
hings. 1t seldom gets TO the heart.
The photograph is the still picture ,
he picture of the motionless fact. I'm ,
ressions are more like oil paintings.
hey possess the human touch. T'ey
each the heart within. Back Of the ,
aubs of paint on the canvas are the
hrobs of heart. The Aim is only SEN /,
itized Mans brain is sensitive. The 7
reproduces the outline; the ,
ainting, the substance.