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Show Condemns Bishop's Speech. Editor TribuneAfter submitting for two years to German intrigue, treachery and assassination, patiently trying to avoid war. not only because of its horrors, hor-rors, but because of our ill-preparedness to meet the issues of war, we are confronted con-fronted with alien animosity among those who have sworn allegiance to our flag and with brutal defiance by a war-crazed kaiser who orders us off the high seas. What are we going to do about it? Climb a tree and beg his pardon for being on earth? The president says that armed resistance resist-ance to insult and assault is no longer avoidable. Congressmen, aside from the coterie of filibusters who would hamstring the country in the face of attack, say that war is not only inevitable, but is being made on this country by Germany risht now. Every patriotic newspaper in the fritted States is loyally backing the president, presi-dent, and tho people are behind him almost al-most to a man. Of the hundred millions of citizens there are some traitors and some cowards. The hirelings of the German despot are trying to increase the number and power of the traitors. Professional agitators of the Rev. Paul Jones type are trying to increase in-crease the number of cowards and shirkers. The meeting at the Salt Iake tabernacle taber-nacle the other night was like the gatherings gather-ings of old when the patriarchs railed their people to arms in defense of home and of their ideals which have been guarded and handed down to the present generation as heritages from God. The timid protesters who gathered to hear the Rr. Rev. Paul Jones .ound the retreat presented a marked contrast. Hd our revolutionary forefathers taken the same 5(and. had the original Paul Jones of pat riot i fn me 1 -en cast in the same mold, where would our independence and prestige as a nation be today? And where would our country be? It is e nrouracini: to read ihe protest of the Episcopal vestrymen acainsi the whininc appeal for pea.'e at the price of honor made by their bishop. They sav. howpvrr, that it only represents his ppr-sonal ppr-sonal views. It may be so. but the position posi-tion lie holds in his church givps him a scope for evil that no man should have in times 1:ke those. For a "rreaer of the cospl." a "teacher of he younc; ;o trumpet retreat from dtner, to counsel coun-sel cowardice "hen courage is essentia: to life and honor, to call for cravens to nsspmble uinir his banner, is more dangerous dan-gerous and inimical to public welfare than for an ordinary individual to do so. Already twenty younc: men. banded together to-gether as a commercial club, of hizh school alumri. with a president by the name of Rohinson and a v:-e president named .Tohr.so-. ravo enrol d under the banner of the P.t. R" I.ul Jones tc serve as an excuse for crawling under their beds when the cannons begin to boom. Except for the baleful Influence of this misplaced "reverend," these young men would probably have placed country-above country-above their own hides. o the utterances of the Rt. Rev. Paul Jones are not those of an individual. So long as he is allowed to remain a bishop he will lead young men from the paths of loyalty and national pride and honor. WILLIAM PARK. |