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centuries. only dim1y conscious OF
the things they fought for. but
strong nevertheless in the convic-
ton Of righteousness.
Glorify war? No. Seek to end
war? By all means. yes. But shall
we sink to a subsection of national
spirit which would tolerate things
worse than war without fighting to
end them? Never. Memorial Day
must remain a day when the living
day for the preservation of the best
traditions of our national spirit, a
shrine for the nations soul.
We may hope and work for the
day when wal really will be i'm
possible. but as long as war is pcs
sible, the nation that allows its cit
izenship to become too soft and
pacifistic for its own protection is
challenging fate. Moral disarnIa-
ment by a single nation in the face
of a rapacious world is even worse
than the ~disbanding of that nation
armies and the destruction of its
battleships. Memorial Day should
teach that truth.
9tAto 10 " Il We htoo' ~
think that these lives have been
wasted. We must remember that
they have died in a great cause
died for our nation, for our prln-
ciples, for us, for the defense of
our country. We have never fought
a war of aggression or conquest, for
the gaining of new territory. but we
have fought for our own liberty and
unity and in the defense of the
weak against %autocracy, against the
forces which would undermine dem
ocratic government.
There are those who believe that
under no circumstances should war
be fought. There a II those who
believe hat we should fight only IN
defense, but | say to you hat no
greater service was ever rendered
humanity than an aggressive war
fought against those who would de
stroy and e a down every principle
of democracy and government by
the people. -
And when the Reds, who believe
there should be no organized gov
eminent, who would tear down and
destroy our government. destroy
property. burn and ~pillage. do away
with private ownership of property,
the home and even the right of
worship. then that evil must be
stamped out.
We see little of that here in this
West of ours, but their insiduous
propaganda has been circulated on
the east and west coasts, and in the
large industrial centers until they
have become Il real menace.
Their doctrines and teachings are
foreign to us. They hinder-never
help. With their h~alf-baked ideas
of a workers republic, dictatorship
of the proletariet, confiscation of the
tools of industry, communistic paper
money and other vagaries, together
with their preaching and practice
of every form of violence and crime,
they are a danger to America. They
teach that the working man has no
chance of advancement. that he is
an Industrial slave, that he has no
chance to become independent. and
with that doctrine they are doing
all they can to ruin the morale of
the man engaged in making a living
by the fruit OF his industry, and are
mathematician wborever tbev CON mic
areat rnnubI;c
We have ALWAYS been tauqbt that
this is - land Of onnortunitv and
from tho most bumb1a homes NO.
come - linear an Edison = parsh-
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life whether Il he scjortiGc nolit,-
cal professional ~ commarciol
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the dark instiIIinp this nrona panda
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