The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1920-06-10

4 full nations of Europe in death strug-
gle with a power that had spent al
most a half century in preparing to
| subjugate or destroy all other nations
We awole to find ourselves defenseles
The common people aroused TO find
that those they had chosen to guard
| this nation from harm, were still
dreaming neutrality dreams, and these
| false sentrics had only reused enough
to gaze calmly and in detached way
upon the murder and rape and wreck
and ruin which the Hun was inflict-
ing upon Belgium and France. But
lethargy seems to have seized upon
the rulers, and it took the horrible
destruction of the Lusitania, laden
with American women and children,
sunk beneath the ocean waves by the
Hun submarine to awaken and con-
vince them that there could be no neu-
trality with murder-mad Germany
Then we see our brave boys cross
the great ocean, facing horrible death
in its invisible depths. They landed
on European shores in time to help
save great nations from threatened
destruction. BY their help the Hun
was driven back to his 'pent up Utica
where he is helpless, and liberty had
her victory over autocracy. By their
bravery these young soldiers showed
the world that they were the legiti-
mate descendants of sires who had
won IN the war of Independence, the
war OF 1872, in the Mexican war, the
Spanish-American war, and in the
great struggle for liberty and union in
which We did our small part TO break
the chains OF four million slaves, and
to give all who live in America the
right"to life. liberty and he pursuit
OF happiness.
But autocracy conquered is not au-
tocracy dead and buried. Its hydra
heads lit themselves up and watch for
chance to rule the nations OF the
earth and lead them to ruin. Let us
see to IT that the curse of autocracy
gets no foothold in this land Of the
free.
And now, my comrades, we have
come to the time when we cpunt for
nothing. We seem to be regarded on
ly as monuments to- mark the passage
OF the decades of time. OF the $780,
OOO men who served in the union army
there are now less than 100000 alive.
The great majority sleep in the great
cemeteries, in country graveyards, on
lonely hillsides and wooded glens in
the Southland.
Soon we must join them Not long
now until reveille will cease to waken
US IN TINS World nor assembly call US
.ofenier; II we couid, we would stay
= n.tle longer. our beloved country
- nov passing tnrougn the greatest
u:ah,geIs tnai eyer threatened her. So
elaiisnh, "a IN al us nldeous phases, from
lhe lnuruerImad anrachist VINO would
upes.ioy al iaw' ords1 ana decency, 70
p1isnevism, l. W. WIS and dozen
u.her nIueous orders, down, or up, TO
we gen.ie hammered, progressed philan-
lnroPistHas miid hammered man as
ever scctteu snip OF cut q throat
WHO wouiu only aestroy the govern
lhent ana ihe weaitny ana law ABIDING
ano take she properly and wealth that
was not uestroyed py IRE and brutal
insanity as ms own. we would stay
longer ana neip WIN our strength
40 oestroy this hydra headed monster
.his VICIOUS put iegitimate spawn OF
,lel., heip 70 wipe the slate clean OF all
piots OF disioyaity' socialism and all
tnaI II teacnes ana when we are call
eu hehce ,eave our country freed OF
an uisi9yaity ana purged from all Tor
e'gn aiilances'
we peneye that Jehovah Himself
hau as much 70 DO with the planting
and growth OF TINS United States of
America as He had in choosing and
guarding the Jewish nation and pro-
tecting it when it did right and pun
ishing it when it went wrong. He
punished it severely when it went as
tray after false gods, and finally des-
troyed it as a nation when He found