The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1929-06-07

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Revolution . Frencf naasont d
rot yer have the right 70 kill
2 rabbit that was eating his gar
den and grain, because the rabbit
belonged to a member of the
aristocracy. Most of these rights
which we take for granted today
have been purchased at tremend-
GUS price. We must guard them
carefully.
In speaking Of the dangers of
this country, Judge Story once
said. "Never forget that you pos
sess a noble heritage, bought by
the toll and suffering and blood of
your ancestors; and capable, if
wisely improved and faithfully
guarded, of transmitting to your
latest posterity all the substantial
blessings of life, the peaceful en-
ioyment of liberty, of PROPERTY
of religion and of independence.
The structure has been reared by
architects of consumate skill and
fidelity; its foundations are solid,
and its defenses are impregnable
from without. 1t has been reared
for immortality. if the work of
man may justly aspire, indiffer-
ence and negligence of it's keep
ers, the people"
Clear Vision Needed
A Republic is created by the
virtue, public spirit and intelli-
gence of it's citizens. 1t falls
when the wise are banished from
the public councils, because they
dare to be honest, and the pro-
fiigates are rewarded because they
f1atter the people in order to be-
them.
There can never be much cor
in any country where the
people rule if the people + wide
awake to it dangers. Our child
rem must be taught from day to
day to think for themselves so
that they may guard their herit-
age as did the honored dead.
Let Us Carry On
The last ideal which | shall
mention was not attained by the
dead. 1t was left for the living
to carry on" and attain what I
sure was an ideal in the heart
Of every hero who made the SUI
preme sacrifice. This was the de-
sire to pilot the civilized world
out of the horrors of
1t is up to us to continue
searching for ways and means to
settle disputes which arise, with
out appealing to the God of War.
We are obliged to teach our child
en- that our heroes gave up their
ives confident that their deaths
help the world to lessen
II perhaps abolish great wars for
Ill time. We all join in the hope
hat the issue between nations
will in the future be settled in
he same way as between indi-
RITUALS through the peaceful pro-
,ess of a just court. War at last
s but a necessary evil. Peace is
ne ideal state for nations as well
IS men.
Sons and daughters of the vet
rams, Americans, lovers of Liber-
y, never cease strewing their
raves with flowers, but far more
Important is it that we dedicate
'ur lives to honoring, defending
nd, if necessary, sacrificing all to
old secure the ideals which our
.eroes have established.
And while we are thus honoring
he dead, let us resolve again that
hose yet living who fought with
hem shall not lack the comforts
f life, and that their widows shall
OF fail to realize, in the evening
f their lives, that a grateful re
ublic remembers them too. For
ne dead the battle is done and
hey have found perfect peace.
he ideals they fought for are not
orgotten. Those ideals still live
the hearts of those in the hos
itals, in the homes-they who
ave and yet live, who r still
The war is not over for
lem, nor will it ever be until
ley too, shall pass OIL and join
leir comrades and buddies for
HON they mourn today.
The Flanders Poppy
The poppy always brings back 4!
thought of those who sacri- /!
ced so much for us. On the
attleield of France and Belgium |
yer which the boys advanced in /
rs, the little red poppies were |
most the only living things to
wars destruction. They !
in shell torn fields. along
lie edges of ruined trenches and
Ter graves of battle cemeteries. s
he peoples have come to repre-
mt to the whole world the sym 4
u of war sacrificed lives and each B
Ear millions of people wear them 4
memory of the men who gave I
cir lives in the war. The poppy +
'ings a consciousness of those 1
sabled veterans to whom We owe 4
finitelY more than our gratitude I