Arizona republican., 1920-10-27
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To the Editor:
 Tn the year 1904, a lecture on how God designed the United States of America to be a nation. which should be the light of the world and the prince of peace should rule it.
 This lecture was given by pr. I. D. Driver, the greatest theologian and the most profound biblical student and scholar in the Methodist Episcopal church.
 He said that God had hid away this vast domain for centuries. Even dat ing back to the time of Abraham that this nation should be the home of civil and religious liberties. a nation that should trust in God and to be His peo- pie and to be the most highly favored. of all nations, the choicest spot on earth that He could select for a na- tion. hid between two gigantic oceans from the old world, with it's petty gov ernments. with turmoils and strife and soil soaked with the blood of con- tending armies from a continent ruled by kings and emperors fighting for territorial conquest, and from a coun- try that was keeping standing armies to maintain peace.
 God designed that the United States of America should not be entangled with any foreign nation that there would not be any cause for war and contention, that this nation should be one and inseparable, with one God, one people and one tongue.
 Our pilgrim fathers begun searching in 1908 for this great country that God had hidden away for centuries that a nation might be founded and would trust in him, and in 1920 they landed at Plymouth Rock and placed their feet upon this land and founded this nation of civil and religious liberty of free speech and free press. the United States of America which should be the light of the world, the arbiter of peace for the waring nations of the earth.
 Then He gave us wise men to formu- | late a constitution that would guide this nations destiny through any dis sension that might arise among the people.
 He gave us Thomas Jefferson to write the declaration of American in dependence. which contained these words: We hold these truths to be self evident that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by then Creator with certain unalienable rights. That among these are life. lib erty and the pursuit of happiness.
 He gave us Washington to estab- fish this nation and God decreed il should be the light of the world and could not remain half free and hall slave and he chose Abraham Lincoln as an instrument in the hands of AL mighty God to guide this nation through the terrific maelstrom which 1t must pass, nothing in the history Of the world where God had decreed or given a mandate that had brought about such a terrific bloody struggle wherein brother against brother and father against son fought to determine whether or not this nation should per- ish from the earth"
 | Trophies of the Republican Party
 The greatest trophies ever won by mortal man were won by Abraham Lincoln; he saved this nation that God had decreed to be the light of the world and that it should not be half free and half slave and that it should remain one and inseparable Another trophy won, when God cheered his heart and nerved his arm | to write the emancipation proclama- tion whereby the shackles of slavery fell from the souls of four million slaves, two trophies whose radiant splendor is the greatest the world has ever seen.
 The Republican party, always mind | -ttt D- lAN AeaDoA III AAleI anu the poor and needy, passed the homestead bin. May the goth. 1862, and by this benevo. | lent act thousands of happy homes were established throughout the na- tion.
 The Republican party established | the national banking system. one of the best banking systems in the civil ized world.
 1 The Republican party established a { protective tariff system whereby this | nation became the most prosperous of any in the world All kinds of indus \ tries sprang forward by leaps and f bounds, the greatest boom in railroad building ever known in this or in any other country was the result. The l farmers were the greatest beneficiaries of this protection, as an Illustration:
 When the railroad companies were | paying SlS5 per ton for English iron rails at stations where the freight rate was 50 cents per hundred on wheat to l Chicago, under the beneficent working of the tariff our rolling mills were en- abled to produce steel rails at $33 per ton; the freight rate to Chicago on ! wheat was reduced to IT cents per