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LIFE, FORTUNE, HONOR. ■paach by Philip A.Fontaina at Mr m»ihHi Mtick IMl TW fact that MOM parsons, vilkwt t lawc aoltrtteri U 4« M, wlH aat hmf War .Itfinp ^tawp*, or Libarty BwUe. la Mich • Hraoga fact ta >aa that I faai compsllarf to ruaunaat upaa it 1k*t roUat W til trMuft oor ^KlirtlMD at Indapawd— re" «■* written by men who had the right e«o a4 human liberty. and civil nt, they had aJae nAml mrt(i to oMun ami Mcurtljr estab lish these two thinca permanently for themselves and their posterity for ever. In Um accomplishment at thta undertaking they labored and ioeght under greater and mora li ail vantage* in >MM respects than we in the pre aant war against German Autocracy are fighting. In the first place: They fought not against a distant enemy who was proposing to com* over to onr "hore« and ronquor ua and wrest from ua a united government of unit ed hearts and minds, but »ur fore fartir.— had <n ftrht and overthrow a form ..f gi.v«rnm-nt that hail already be - I< ng liml over them end up" n them, and 'if whi<h '.hey were at that tim<- an integral part. They foutfht not a» an independent and powrfui unitwi country, supported by powerful al!i<-t, re., pcctod, accredlt eil ami credited financially by all r.thn nations, hut they fought an I?eb •Is, weak and divuiftd among them selves, not reapected, nor accredits! nor credited by the nation* save one; and God Bless her now! inm nrni re«wn nriir -.nnum »ui flee to show the disadvantages under which they fought, bled and <lie<I, hut succeeded and succeeded so signally, no gloriously, *o nobly that the fame of their deeds wan heard in every land, Lma beer* heard, and to-day their praise* are sung wherever there is a human throat and their deed* recited wherever there ha* been a rosr um erected by human hands, and so lot x an people shall love liberty and have self-government on the face of the earth, that Ion* shall the "Star* and Stripe*" wave over many lands; and proudly fly over many seas, and where.er anil whenever it* staff shall he planted, there .-.hall the spirit of Liberty herself dwell forever and Self-Government, and Civil Govern ment shall sprint; up among those people, tho they be black as night and ignorant a* monkeys. How then was all this accomplished; if our fore fathers fought under t!l the disad vantages of whic-h I have .spoken? At the conclusion of this great writ ten instrument, we find these words, or words to this effect: "And to the performance of all this we have pledged our lives, our fortunes and our most sacred honor." Please observe: that these men did not say that they were going to pledge all these things or were willing to do so, but did say and affix their signa tures to the fact that they had al-, ready pledged all, and since that time' until the present, never has there been a deed, a mortfeaige, bund or notej tho duly and solemnly executed, ac knowledged and recorded in any luun nnupe in irus county, inai uiu a> j completely and unreservedly convey, all riirht and title to property as this' declaration of our forefather* convey ed ;.uay from them all right to live, all riicht to own property and all right tu claim to have honor if they failed or were ".-darker*" in the performance of the first two pledges. In exchange for this deed, (for such it really was, having l>een Killed and recorded) Liberty was to he given us/those of us here tonight; also our present form of government was to t>e preserved, and as far as I can ascertain from his tory, those signers did carry out the • performance of these pledges, (at any rate Lord Cornwallis has never dis puted the fact) that all these things he done that we might govern our selves. If it took a man's life, fortune, and sacred honor, to secure our present form of government, then what does the present war call for? The Kaiser has actually taken the lives, fortune) and sm rcd honor away from many of >ur American citizens that our fore father* fought and paid for and be queathed to us in the manner of which I hare spoken; he has also au thorised his soldiers to violate the purity of every T/oman. to blow up w«| kaapicl. to kaaM W) HWfrt, to p»t»l aad r»«rj . kild, 4 atek mrj ifcip aa tka mm wttkaut wnMj at »tdaigfct. Ik* u ba Mm wttk »atka» nunin* tWi tkaaa victim »n inw^i. foaa or urn trala, it mattm not; tkay mat ha tfliil aa ka wjr<, unlaaa tkay m •llafaiHa to kirn and unlaw kia black pirattral rug, that la tkinka la a fla«, wavaa ovar tka 1and oi tkair cHisan «kip, m fart ka >iu*in't rarofnixa any body hut "fiotf and kimaalf. I rkal ian (• any nna in tkla aodianra to man Uan a liagla daad. raaiark, policy, r»lan at uttarmiw" »f old Wn. Hal la hollartn tkat indira'aa in tka ramotaa* manui tkat HallaHnllartn •»« undar atanda a aingla piinripla tkat waa taug+\t by tka Mam »l S<m of Man. Ckriil xil: Blexiwd t •• the M»»k." Did you »ver hear of any meek peo ple If in it around nayinff "Ma anil Gott"" (Tirint «aid: '""-/Tor I.ittl# to Cr>m<> unto Ma." Old Bill Hellahollerin nayc "Fntiro littla «*Hil dren to roma unto ma " Whan children rama to ffcrtat ha hle«Md tham, whan thay rama to old Rill'* toldierx for randy thay war* poinonad ami <lia«l; in fart whan wa look up "OW Bill'« record" wa rapidly "nd* -fa that ha i* mora Itka tha Devil< t* in hrothar than liny < ther hairy fa«wd m >nit*r that ha*> f\rr **i.«ted inee rhona rf tha Greek and Roman myth*; and the hor rible truth i* that old Bill U no Myth; hut aomethinff even •nore horrible and dointc mora horrible deed* than tha monatarx that ware alain by Herrulaii, Pen en«, Janon and tha other releb ritien of that day and time. I.ife fortune! Honor: No, not to night froir. you who are present, there are tho*e who h«v« given and are giv ing these, but we ask only of you to buy stamp*, little piece* of engraved paper, that will protert the life of those of our flesh and blood who have given their live* to protect us; little stamp* that represent but an insigni ficant portion of our fortunes; little stamp* that will help Woodrow Wil son, that great man of great honor, whom we have placed in the highest seat of honor among the nation* of thin world, will help him maintain hi* honor when he declared upon his hon or a* a gentleman that he would de throne that Hellion that squat* on the German throne, tHo it should take every man and every dollar in Ameri ca to do it; every nation on earth heard him say it and every nation is spellbound watching him do it. When he declared this, he had not the money or the men, but he t runted to the honor of the men and women of America, who he believed would sup port his declaration. The men had honor and he ha* them; now come along with your dollars if you have any honor. These stamp* arc a question of honor; "therefore, now there abidetk ^heae three: "Life! Fortune! Honor! and the greatest of these is honor." When I recount our wrongs, our insult* and the murder of our women and children, and think of how the Kaiser has giver permission to us to live, under certain conditions, terms and stipulations all laid down by him, and a copy sent to our Presi dent for him to be -overned by, I be ing an ordinary and obscure 'man, am unable to express my thought ade quately. Our President's answer was a combination of the ideas expressed by all former patriots. It started out by -aying -omcthing likj "Sic Semper Tyrannis" then he casually alluded to "Give me Liberty or (five me Death," also ^aid he thought "Delce et decor um est pro patric mori" met with his approval, and that "Millions for de fense, but not a cent for tribute" had once before worked pretty well, and that hi* imperial Kaisership could pick out any or all of these expressions as the Piesident'* answer, aa they repre sented American policies, and were really the very cry*talized thought of the American conception! in »uch mat ters but. these expression* were mere ly preliminary in their character and only served to introduce our main idea or leading through! which was this: "Wm. Ilellahollerin, *ir: "The time ha* now. come, when the American nation ha9 decided, that God I helping th^m, they will take all the navjr, all the army, all the manhood in America, every dollar, every rail road, every business, every depart ment and Anally everything and every natural resource and everything we -mm M that wif aW a». mmd wa mrm gnimrn «a mmpUy all th»m to nddia« tka «rtk nf tha mum m'lmamm H«t ' nil (IM mvmr mvW ay M 1 itortjr throaa at a Hail-b»a»ttaa kiagaiuaa whara Ka not* aquata «<B haa hauarhaa and mUniMa to iiwuU Httvm, <tta rraca Hall, a' 4 <i*fj nviHcatiaa." And Ika Mrap at our PrMulant furthar mora «aid: "That whila aar urmy waa afUmitr to thia J ok, our navy would in I ha meantime Ana rarrxatlon and amuaa itnalf hy hsntliif far tha rowardly, *limy aaa nnnrtm that Kava haan in tha habit of hidtrg ba j r.eafh the watara until tha darknaaa of nifkt would hula thair <limy »iyiuta ! whan they rautioualy pokad them in , <n tha air, whirh thay undfad in avary rftrertlnn hoping to umall tha I'ood of ikfrn<«l*M women and ehildran, and I whan thay located tha whereahouta ana nirrri.mr ot cnnr imvoevvri, vu t nyi, t! ., awaited their oncoming chu-kling in n diabolical gleo, in the very antir • |>af'on of a deed, which whw fit r.e me ihinfca wnild rau>« every imp in Jlell U> hang hi» head in -hwmr, ami *hrn (ho frightened ■cr-'tm* of viniw, and the "itiful inrii-hul .-nes of Lrtle children tf«»|>intf and g-i rifl ing in th«-:r little throat* aa thev sunk ' • no.th the cold water* if loafh, foil upon the aatanir eai* of thone devil*, t mounded to them lilt# <»••( maaic: and whar the mam Hellion -Old iiill henrd of (hi* deed, he promoted them and hi* follower* and uhject* • elclirated thi* deed by rajoicinr pub licly everywhere. My God! My God! I *a"y thi* re verently; Men! Men! think of thi*. now hall Wmidrow Wilson preserve hi* honor* Shall he make (food hi* declaration made to alt the world when he -aid "Every man and every dollar ?" The men are accounted for, the la*t dollar i* still withheld; it re mains with you whether or not Wood row Wilaon will be able to get the la*t dollar or not. If he get* the men and the dollars, I pledge you my life, my fortune (such a* it ia> and my mint sacred honor that he will most certain ly rid the earth of him who now in sult* God, disgraces fTell and defies civilization, and that he will also make it poftAibM Ior tn« principles of riviii zation and humanity to again enter and control t!>c heart of a furious rag ing world, and calm that heart until the "Whit Dove of Peace" ran again And a resting place amyng the' habi 1 ration* of men. And he will make the uttermost parts of every sea on this earth no safe that any mother from any land may for all time to rome xit upon the deck of any ship any | where at midnight and rock her baby | to and fro and «ing him to uleep as , fearlessly as she does around her own ftresida at home. Are you willing to ' g<ve a dollar to nee all this dene? if ' so rome on with it and buy a few stamps for God's sake just for the | principle of the thing. I don't know if the President used the exact words in his reply to the Kaiser that I have tried to repeat or not; he has a lofty and grand style of writing and uses big diplomatic, edu cated words that sound polite and complimentary, no matter who he is writing to, and what he is writing about, but in my old fashioned coun tryfied way, I gave you. I believe, the sum and substance of his reply in or dinary common talk like 1 am used to and can understand tiettcr. What is Honor? Honor i a feeling in a man's heart that enables him and prompt - him to say this, and may all the spirits of d--ad patriots speak thi* for me arid through me, here it is: Rather than I should see Woodrow Wilson obey a single decree or heark en to a single mandate, or follow any advice that kar emanated from that fiendish monster who is disgracing the throne of Germany seven times more than 8atan has ever disgraced the throne of Hell, I would rather the > sun, moon and start would be hidden [ behind the cannon's smoke and the in nocent laughter and childish prattle of sweet little children and the song of warbling birds and the soft lullabys that mothers, sing to their l>at>e<i, be drowned in the cannon's roar, and all the sweet and gentle voices of nature that makes us better men, lie hushed with the din of battle and that the black mantle of death be over us un til all human rights were again es tablished and justice, freedom, and equality were given to every man. and if this could not be, then I would ra ATTENTION! Sick Women To «lo your duly Juiiuf these trying oxrhealth Aoddbtyoor first wWatioa These two1 how ther fw nd health. liUia, took LflU Plokhiim'i T«g. | " itililt Compound for frroat* tronMee md •» dl.v f -C *<4 >lii in—lit I f ett all ran do em and wae eery weak. ^ I had been treated by a pl.yilcimn wl'hont r* mlta, eo decided to giee r.frll* E. Plnkham'e Vegetable <'impound • trial, ami (•it better right away. I ».n keeping henm dnce laat April and Joint ail ®7 hoof w.-rk, w'ere ><-ton I wae unable to do any work. Lydla E. Ptnk!.*m'a Vegti. Cab la Compound la certainly tba beat medicine a woman rau , take when In thUeonditlon. I giTe you pernuaeion to puMinh this latter."—Hn. E. R. Ounrtnio, R. So. I, He"am. Pv Lowell. Mich.—"I differed from eramj* and dragrlig down pain*, waa Irregular and had feouue wfiuiim and dlaplacement. I began to take r.jrdla E. I ukhain » V. gn. table Compound which gnen me r-li'-f at onca and rr*t ir>-d By health. I aboold like to rerommend Lydla E. Plnkham't remedlea to a.! nuffm ..ig h - iwii «'»o are troubled in a simi lar way."—Mr*. ILuh*. II«g,K.9(i.<, EUisitf.Luwell.Mich. Why Not Try HDIA E. PINKHAM S ]J VEGETABLE COMPOUND LYDIA I MMHAM MtOtCIWC CO. LVKft.MAM. ther spent! my remaining lays alone wandering thru brnken-»rebe*, <tumb Hi.rf i-vrr fallen column.-., Lcii ...... shattered walls and Tinerlad ruins where there wa* no life, nave that of the viper and the toad. wh<»e ail and dismal cry I couid hear an it crept forth at <iu.sk from the cold and broken remain* of the hearth atone where my little rhildren were wnnt to rather and say their evening prayers, I would pillow my head upon the cold sand of the desert and I would have 'he cold rain beat upon my face an I lay there hearing the mourning wind infc over my dead countrymen the only funeral requiem ever unjf for them. British Louci is Men on th«. Wnlern Front 250,000. *V» Ku.li, j.*, 4. L..I h loN..e» in men kT,.**1, wounded, raptured and musing o.i the we*t«m front tince the (German "ffenmve beiran March 21 are estimated by the British Military mixtion here at nearly 250,000. Thi* estimate would appea' to be in rrmarkaMo contrsat to the «n->r 1 ~"'i' f)e-»"-" !->•-!»• in the drive.' The flerraan war office, of course, ha* •it disclosed what it* Ummm to the (Treat battle have been, hut the esti mate •! of allic ! ;hoerveri have placed •h'm at a «ta(rj*erinsr rtfpire. From the v :ry natu c of the flirhtinjr. mili tary expert! have pointed out, the In i of the attrckers were bound to be hei.. ler than those of def jnden, but in addition to that, the method of German attack, advancing troop* in »»»»» faster than machine gun* could mow them down, must, military ex pert* lay, have entailed enormous Inula. An inkling of how serious the Ger man losses are caffce mme time ago when it waji reported that the Ger man military chief* dared not dia cli.se their extent to the German peo ple, and therefore, were .tending the wounded to Belgium. Other reports have told of railway gateways being choked wih tram* of wounded, while the dispatches of correspondents at the front have toM how the battle field* were carpeted with gray clad bodies. "Of Unusual Importance" For You to Buy Your Wool Clothes Now Because it will be hard to gel all wool clothes next fall. The government has taken over the woolen mills of the country, and you can easily guess what that means. We have on hand a $35,000 stock of all wool clothes. We are now selling this mammouth stock at the old price and the same clothing would average from $10.00, to $15.00 more per suit next fall, and Boy's suits will average over $5.00 per suit more. We feel it our duty to warn you and then you can decide for your self. B"IT PAYS TO PAY CASH." OYLES BROS. I O. "Save the Difference" WINSTON • SALEM, NORTH CAROLINA.
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