Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-07-17

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~41y4xEW things; Daniel. the
AM@%w politi c al idealist.
~ who had only God
and trusted Him.
Daniel proclaimed God in politics:
The Most High ruleth in the kingdoms
of men. NebuchadneZzar denied it. We
have multitudes of Nebuchadnezzars
in our modern life in all the walks of
life. Many respectable people are
saying today. politics are so rotten we
will have nothing TO do with political
issues. Even some ecclesiastical bodies
declare that the sanctuary Of God is
too holy in which to mention the is
sues which pertain to the cleansing
of the pool of politics. Every pro-
vince of life is sacred to God and He
wants every part of life to become
holy ground, made so by the recogni-
ton of His presence.
The event proved that the prohet
was the better politician, and that
Sunday school politics was the better
working principle. The Hebrew pro-
phets, again and again. emphasized the
need Of recognizing God in the life of
the nation. There is still a crying
need for such emphasis today. We
ought to thank God for the men in
politics who do thus recognize God.
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doms of men. William Allen White
has written an article in Golfers
Weekly. What is the Matter with
America? in which he makes a plea
for the international mind and a more
penetrative view of actual conditions
in our " country. If America
would save herself, she must think of
others as well as herself. Fifty years
ago. he goes on to say, we thought of
our country and what we could make
of it. but today We think in terms of
what We can make out of it, and fur
thermore that the greatest tragedy of
Of reverence for our laws, constitution
and government in high as well as the
lower Stratas of society.
"Ex-President Theodore Roosevelt.
the American idealist, said: We well
come the German or the 1Tishman who
becomes an American. We have no
use for the German or the Irishman
who remains as such. We do not wish
German-Americans or Irish-Americans
who figure as such in our social and
political life: we want only Americans.
we do not care whether they are Of
native or Irish or of German ancestry.
We have no room in any healthy Amer
lean community for a German-Amer-
lean vote, or an Irish-American vote,
it is contemplate demagogy TO put
planks into any platform to catch such
votes. We have not room for any peo-
pie who do not vote simply as Amer
leans and nothing else
ITO the mothers of our beloved ma
ton there has come the mightiest chal-
lenge of the ages, to make the God of
righteousness potent in our civilization,
by using the Cog given right of the
hQIlnf which iS an hnpnr rnnfarro6
only in a Christian nation.
"Zane Grey is not only one of the
most popular writers in the country,
but breaches the gospel of a simple and
strong America. He says. in part:
Nothing wrong in you or life today?
Nothing for you women to make right?
Nothing wrong when sane women with
the vote might rid politics of partisan
ship. greed, crookedness? Nothing
wrong when prohibition is Knocked by
women. when the greatest boon ever
granted this country is derided and
beaten down and cheated Nothing
wrong when the mothers of this great
country let their children 60 to the
dark motion picture halls and night
after night in thousands of towns over
all this broad land see pictures that
the juvenile court and educators and |
keepers of reform schools say make
burglars. crooks and murderers of our
boys and vampires out of our girls?
oh, there's nothing wrong with Amer
lea except that she %staggers under a
titanic burden that only mothers of
son can remove.
1T was said of An ancient Hebrew
maiden, Who knoweth but that thou !
art come to the kingdom for such q ;
time as thisE' ;
observation-disclosures declares for poll /;
tics without God: o, peoples, nations. :
and languages, at the time We Tea. the !.
sound. the coronet, the illt", harp. :
sackbut, pSaltery. dulcimer and all =
kinds OF music. We fall down and wor- :
ship the golden image:-and whose a
falleth not down and w%orsnipeth shall !,
the same hour be cast into the burning !;
fier" furnatt;-and who is that lod =
shall deliver youT' '
This is an Oriental boss in the DO !.
litical realm ordering the public to q
listen for the music from the band wag- ="
on and then vote the party ticket r
regardless of conscience and Z
God. Just so today some would have
Us stand pat, worship gold and sue
ress. and mock the idealist with the
Did taunt, Who is the God that shall g
ieliver| y
Just now men are making a laughing h
OF the eighteenth amendment to 81
The constitution. The Brewery-Sanity al
has been organized to defeat al
Try candidates and elect wet ones. 81
They are for the constitution. so thev f.
say, but they want beer and wine r.
the constitution prohibits; thew n
a law under which men may be
drunk and legally sober. n
sour national self complacencv is 81
Patriotism is too often a r.
conceit of bigness. security and b,
supremacy. 1t is not the wick Sc