Salt Lake Telegram | 1908-06-27 | Page 16 | One Country; One Flag!

r 9 ONE COUNTRY ONE FLAG Gen Luke E E. E Wright who succeeds Secretary Taft P ft at the head of the war department was in his youth a captain in the confederate army arm but hut his promotion to the place of secretary of war vai is almost universally jO joyfully welcomed by hy the arm army officers because in the Philippines General Wright fright performed per per- formed splendid service serice for his country lIe He was not only a n superb soldier there but he showed that he had magnificent civil administrative ability and and the gratifying thing is that as one l by olie one the men n n of th south give up nursing th their ir prejudices and unite in ill iii the service ervice of their whole country the theold old ItI feelings will ill gradually die away in th the southern Section anti and some time the men there will all wake J ui tit I to be he genuine Americans with visions broadened so that the they that J can see there is sonic some country north of ci Mason lason and Dixon's Dixons line and a little liitle more v of or Missouri It will ill not be very many years curs i l til the whole Mississippi valley alley will bo enc enc- f of that valley from flum the lakes lales to the ther knIll r ul WN have common commo interests and anu as m soon as they the g g U L' L acquainted common friendships hips And nd this wi will will 1 4 ji JS J'S it ought to be and it will be of greatest inter inter- to the phI old southern slates states when he the fact is ree- ree V that this is iH and A N. N is m can cun bo he bit brt one A t I t y r k r great dl nJ of I the he old bitterness will vanish when prohibition becomes general in iii that section because the tho class of men who have kept it alive have as a arule arule rule been heen braced up by bj fire With the water fire gone there will be no inducement to togo togo togo go up town and talk politics there will be more time timeto to stay at home and read and think and the inevitable ble will bo be forced upon their attention that there is and can be but one country and one flag