1918 Yearbook
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1918 Yearbook
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ing havoc with the European lands. We were free from that frightful calamity, and fain would we have remained free from it, but alas! suddenly the laws of nations are unceremoniously replaced by militaristic tactics. Our
rights are disrespectfully sneered at, our ships are sunk, and American
life is ruthlessly taken. The world wide war has seized us in its grasp.
There has come a moment in our history, when self defense is so necessary,
that it is almost superfluous to declare that we have taken the right course.
Our noble president, as the exponent of humanity, has eloquently expressed
the answer to those who preach the inhumanity of our entrance into war.
"God helping her, she can do no other." There now rests upon everyone
of us a grave responsibility, a duty of love and of justice. Let us willingly
enlist in the cause and stand united in devotion and in loyalty to the flag.
Today we are engaged in a war of democracy against autocracy, fighting to preserve the liberty and independence so gloriously acquired by our
Revolutionary Fathers, striving to preserve the ideals and institutions so
dear to the heart of every American citizen, earnestly endeavoring to keep
the hateful militarism from wielding its power on America's sacred soil.
We are now enlisted in the strife, not because we love war, but because
it is so much more noble than the ignominious submission of our inherited
and inalienable rights. Our war today is that we may destroy war. We
must then enter into the struggle with the one resolution to make our
cause triumphant, so that this nation, "conceived in liberty and dedicated
to the proposition that all men are created free and equal, shall not perish
from the earth." With such a noble end in view, with such a commendable purpose for our struggle, we may reasonably hope that this war will
proclaim the coming triumph of democracy and the abolition of hereditary
monarchy—and then the evil spirit that teaches, might makes right, will
be destroyed, and peace will be established in the world never more to be
broken by the clash of war. And we may all earnestly pray with an
eminent orator of the present day, that when such a time has come, when
such a victory has been won, that the Parliament of Man, a Federation of
the World, will write across the blood stained earth in letters of a fire, which
shall never be extinguished, those words, with which the Angel of Hosts
welcomed the sweet Saviour of Mankind, "Peace on Earth."
rights are disrespectfully sneered at, our ships are sunk, and American
life is ruthlessly taken. The world wide war has seized us in its grasp.
There has come a moment in our history, when self defense is so necessary,
that it is almost superfluous to declare that we have taken the right course.
Our noble president, as the exponent of humanity, has eloquently expressed
the answer to those who preach the inhumanity of our entrance into war.
"God helping her, she can do no other." There now rests upon everyone
of us a grave responsibility, a duty of love and of justice. Let us willingly
enlist in the cause and stand united in devotion and in loyalty to the flag.
Today we are engaged in a war of democracy against autocracy, fighting to preserve the liberty and independence so gloriously acquired by our
Revolutionary Fathers, striving to preserve the ideals and institutions so
dear to the heart of every American citizen, earnestly endeavoring to keep
the hateful militarism from wielding its power on America's sacred soil.
We are now enlisted in the strife, not because we love war, but because
it is so much more noble than the ignominious submission of our inherited
and inalienable rights. Our war today is that we may destroy war. We
must then enter into the struggle with the one resolution to make our
cause triumphant, so that this nation, "conceived in liberty and dedicated
to the proposition that all men are created free and equal, shall not perish
from the earth." With such a noble end in view, with such a commendable purpose for our struggle, we may reasonably hope that this war will
proclaim the coming triumph of democracy and the abolition of hereditary
monarchy—and then the evil spirit that teaches, might makes right, will
be destroyed, and peace will be established in the world never more to be
broken by the clash of war. And we may all earnestly pray with an
eminent orator of the present day, that when such a time has come, when
such a victory has been won, that the Parliament of Man, a Federation of
the World, will write across the blood stained earth in letters of a fire, which
shall never be extinguished, those words, with which the Angel of Hosts
welcomed the sweet Saviour of Mankind, "Peace on Earth."
Publisher
Wagner's Printery
Date
1918
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St. Ambrose University, 518 W. Locust St., Davenport, IA 52803
Identifier
http://cdm16810.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16810coll2/id/6704