The Washington times., 1921-03-04

Representative Government was In
tended 10 guaranty these inaiienAble
rights OF men through the enactment
and enforcement OF laws calculated
TO preserve aad promots equal end
exact justice 70 AZ msqi Rengions
die because Priests humble th1fr
creeds but have no faith In their
gods Goysrnmeats go TO wreck be-
cause their statesmen shout aloud
their shibboiaths. but let . friendly
enemy pass the ford
RIGHTS OF PEOPLE.
u freely grant the. right OF this
people 10 change our form of Gov
eTnm~rt and TO adopt other basic
principles. but, n IL 10 to be done.
let IL be done decently and directly
SO that all OF US may know IT. The
old faith has. already too many sleek
and smiling Josbs asking of It. Is IL
well with thee. my brotherr
while the old order endures let
representatives represent the old
ideass; let II be understood that they
are not nero bellboys. subject to calls
for Legislative cracked Ice every time
the victims of q debauch of greed.
gambling. or improvidence feel the
favor OF frenxied mead.
THE life In more than meat and
the body more than raiment II L. of
minor Importance who holds the
wealth OF the nation IL tho hearts of
all Its people beat with true historic
American throb. The clothes may
mark. but the clothes cannot make
the gentleman. The economic reha-
Utilization of America Is OF vast mo-
ment. but the rehabilitation of the
ancient faith which upheld the ragged
Contjnentals. emerged In pristine
glory from tho throes of civil war,
and hurled it's smiling and undaunted
face against tho grim engines Of ty-
ranny Upon the nelds Of France. II q
far greater work
'Tt IL enough-perhaps too much.
Who am ] TO suggest. even with
shame faced timidity anything TO
you. For eight long years. dtowded
with events which have forever
history. have been with you.
come to the end OF them with feeling
OF heartfelt gratitude to you all for
those little, nAm~iesa, unremembered
acts OF kindness and charity which
have marked your fNendship and
good will. You have been good to
me- Tho. order of your friendship
will sweeten any air that ! may
breathe. Not one OF you can wish
for himself a kindlier fate than i
would give you II I were omnipotent
Is COMPOSITES VOICE.
"I go but you remain. leave with
the same inarticulate cry in my soul
with which I came to you: My coun-
try. II is no now nor unusual cry
for tho American, but II has. fear.
myriad concepts To some 10 means
broad acres and fertile fields: to
many. opportunity for personal pre-
ferment: to a thoughtless few. the
right to utter every vagrant word
which finds lodgment in q miId dis
ea, ed: to the half educated, that de-
mo ,racy should be governed as soon
by the infants cry a. by the prophets
warning.
But to mo Il is but the composite
voice of all the good and wise and
sef-sacrificing souls who trod or
tread its soil, calling for that liberty
which Is law encrowned. preaching
that doctrine which seeks not it's own
but the common good and. above all.
warning us by the memory OF the
dead and the hope Of the unborn to
close our ears to the mouthings of
every peripatetie reformer who tells
us that the way to sanctify the Re-
public - to remove every landmark
which has hitherto marked the bound
aries OF national and individual life.
CREED THAT Is NEEDED.
TT ID no new religion we need
Our creed should be: One Lord, one
faith, one baptism-the Lord of Jus
tce, who WAS with Washington
at Valley Forge. Grant and J. re at Ap-
pomattox. Pershing on the fields Of
France: tho faith that under a re-
publican form of government alone,
democracy permanently can endure !;
the baptism OF that spirit which will
not be content until no man is above
the penalties and no man beyond the
protection of our laws.
Let him who goes and him who
stays remember that he who saves
his life at the loss OF his country's
honor. loses II, and he who loses his
life for the SAKE of his country's
honor. saves II"