Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-03-20
|PAC|FISTS and WOMEN
| SUBJECT SEWALL ADDRESS
|TO D. 4. R. OF MAINE

Bath, March 19-Hon. H. M. Sewall
addressed the meeting Of the d. A..
K. here today. His subject was PA
clfsts and Women" In opening he
said:
There never was a time in your
history when your creed was needed
az now. In that creed we are all
Fundamentalfsts 1 speak from the
sincerity Of profund confiction.
What may be the wording OF your
creed, do not know. but 1t can have
only one meaning-that Is q devotion
to your Country commensurate with
the sacrifices OF the Revolutionary
Fathers. If were to put their creed
and yours into words, would use the
closing Of their appeal to the opinion
Of mankind, wherein they pledge
their lives, their fortunes, and their
sacred honor. And these ought to be
II part Of the makeup Of every Amer
lean.
Our sacred honor! I am back from
the fetld atmosphere Mt Washington.
What might we have been saved had
al Americans kept that pledge, and
TO even n greater degree what sense
Of outraGe-that frenzy by the mere
mention OF names should cast sus-
ricion upon the most Honorable in the
land,
We were drifting from our moor
ing before the war. That brought us
back. We gave of our lives-the lives
Of our sons, though every father
PRAYED that he might have taken
their place. We gave OF our for
tunes. and then cheerfully bent our
backs to the yoke OF taxation. the
P.nd of which we cannot see. .And our
eacred honor! We held fast to that.
We refused to take our BOYS from the
trenches until they had finished the
W ork to which they had consecrated
themselves. We refused that dishon-
|orable peace. which Roosevelt said
WAS n peace sought Ito be imposed
~ heroes battling against infamy,
Conceived In the interest Of the au-
thors of that infamy." Yet every
|hour of every day that the war was
prolonged. brought to our homes
|puspcnsc of agony almost harder to
Dear than the dread fulfllment Of
death itself Our sacred honor took
|,iE into the war. and brought us out,
Without a dollar or an acre OF the
|lateful fruits Of victory. =. .. i,
But now. where are the lessons OF
|the war? Assuredly. we are moved by
Il auscs that sometime seem impos-
IFible. No longer can it be said that
II. Is among the hot blood OF the
fILafins, that the pendulum Of public
opinion swings most swiftly from one
Icxtrcme to the other. One would
Ilave thought that the war would
havc brought us to a greater jealousy
For our Institutions. which by our en-
france into the war we had saved
From worlds cataclysm. One would
|havc thought we would have learned
hour lesson from our wicked unpre-
|Iarcdncss. that cost us so much trea-
|surc. the dearest and costiliest OF
(which was tho lives of our boys. But
|loth our institutions. and our nation
|al defense are now in jeopardy as
|DcVcr before.
| anticipate the pacifist reply to
fhiS. II has already been made-that
|the Reds and war scarcs are only
o my friends! A situa-
|i!on conrronts us which cannot be
Whitfield away by any such talk from
Whatever source 1t comes. Only the
|rthcr night $4,000 people crowded in
|fo Madison Square Gafden. and in a
edlENH or tongues OCH1aHueU u oO-
|Nict America. the only American ~nSs
|thorc draping nicturc of I.enine--
|uCnouncing captitalistic America
|hut not a word of the 100 millions
|tcnt over to the starving Russians on
pho Nolga. Or the instructions from
Pie Communist Internationale to the
Workers Party Of America, 1--WE hope
|1hat the party will step by step con-
|quer the proletarian forces OF Ameri-
lea. and IN the not distant future raise
ahe rcd flag over the White HouseI"
y DO not dwell on this.
Tho overthrow OF our Govern
mont either by ballots or by bull
lets. Is too hideous ever to taAe
Iroot in this section OF our land.
and your voice to protest would
never reach these people. Never
|thcless. Mr.. Frederick J. Libby. the
mead of pacifist organization
which bounded at the heels of tho
Washington conference because 1t