The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-06-22
What Mr.. Knight Said.

speak to us in an unknown tongue?
Are they concerned only with the
events of yesterday, Or, in familiar
accents, attuned to the music of an
other shore, do they address them
selves here and now to the living is
sues of today?
"Phi Kappas, revere the constitu
,tion. Exemplify the motto on Geor-
gia's coat-of-arms-'W Wisdom, Justice,
Moderation illustrate the legend
upon her old colonial seal, 'Non,-sibi,
sed aliis, mot for ourselves but fori
others Preserve inviolate the ark of
liberty. indicate the time-honored
principles of jefferson. But lest there
be written upon the shield of Ameri-
ca what was written upon the walls
of Babylon, Meme, meme, tekel, up
harsin'-lest 'Ichabod' be lettered
above the door of the temple Of free
dom-be true Philo-kosmians Think
! in terms of world-leave not an I'M
/ finished task-keep faith with your
dead in France and uphold the arms
of your great president, Woodrow
Wilson!
"Aye, there's a name! In all the
tides of time no taller figure has aris-
en-. Call him an idealist if you will
visionary-but the god of battles,
at crisis in human history, has lift
ed him to the leadership of the ma
tons. No grander seer ever dreamed
of a worlds betterment, and with
only one divine exception, no broader
or sweeter has ever lowered in bene-
diction above this planet. Aye, not
since the cosmic dawn, when the spir-
it of God brooded upon the waters
and the evening and the morning
were the first day.
The Cedar of Lebanan.
'"All save life itself has this great
democrat sacrificed upon humanity's
altar, only to be reviled and malign-
ed, prosecuted and pilloried, by some
who call themselves democrats But
more un-American bunch, with a
more Teutonic accent never sang
The Watch on the Rhine What shall
we call them? o Webster, for word
Pigmies-hiding in the pocket and
dancing around the shoes of a recum-
bent CULVER! misunderstanding their
wings and buzxing in the blaze of a
great light which they can neither
comprehend nor extinguish.
"Villified, even upon his sick bed,
from which he may never arise! Be
it so but when his traducers have all
persisted with the ephemera of an
hour-every man among them relega-
ted to oblivion-this great democrat
whom they have wronged will flourish
, above their graves like cedar of
Lebanon and in hnreeelat
Lebanon and in the eternal substance
of his fame will tower like a Mat
terhorn among the Alps.
at is not to prolong but to end the
reign of bloodshed that a league is
demanded-not to send our boys to
Europe, but to keep them at home. If
wars are ever to cease; if the Golden
) Age of Isaiah is ever to come; if the
peace for which Timothy prayed is
ever to be realized; if an unending
, truce to battle is ever sounded
America must do her part to the fin
ish.
81 can find no other star of hope
on the worlds horizon. l can see no
other bow of promise on the cloud
, We must end this nightmare of sus-
: pense. We must wipe out the crime
: of the senate. We must regain for
our beloved country the prestige
which she has lost through her
Lodges, her Borahs and her Hiram
Johnsons. Without multiplying reser-
5 vations we must ratify. the treaty of
, Versailles, and that l believe will be
1 the platform of the great convention
which is soon to meet at San Fran
cisco.
Away with the fetish of America
for Americansp 1t belongs to a dead
past. Be this our slogan: America
for humanity! The fatherhood of
God implies the brotherhood of man.
He did not limit us to our own vine
! and figtree, nor cause our obligations
to cease at the waters edge. He
s made us the wardens of a world. Phi
3 lo-kosmians-
Go brand him with disgrace,
Whose thought is for himself alone,
And not for all his race
Stewards of Liberty.
eve are not the miserS of liberty,
, but its trustees and its stewards
! its proprietors, but its propagandists.
; Religion was given to the Hebrews,
NV W bC SquduuSISu dlOHe upon lne
seed of Abraham, but in pentecostal
power, to be held in trust for all-for
Jew, for Gentle, for bond and for
free. The Nazarine did not die for
one country alone-that country a
remote, diminutive province of the
Mediterranean; He died to redeem a
world from bondage. Nor did He die
alone for His friends, but for His en-
emies.
ct is a misconception of our role
, in the great drama of time to localize
, what belongs to humanity or to bury
the kings treasure in corner of the
, field. Liberty is the twin-sister of re-
llgion. She, too, has her Calvary and
her Cana, her Judas and her John;
and. she, too, even from her cross
cries out: And l, if l be lifted up,
will draw all men unto Ne. There
is a stewardship which we cannot de-