| Show I TilE THE GR GREAT T O O In the tho face tace of Europe's ropes rope's boasted enlightenment despite the work of schools and universities under the spell of twenty centuries of Christianity Christi anity and In the name of or the master tho the greatest cataclysm of ot tho the a ages es broko broke out much like an electrical explosion From the Vol Volga a to the Rhine from tho Urals to the sunny Pyrenees the tread of the tho millions of armed men shakes the tho old world Tho The grape must deca decay on the vine tho the wheat be trampled under foot Coot and hoof tho gardens despoiled and anda a million homes destroyed while rivers of blood once again shall bear testImony testimony to the infancy of man S What hat hat a shame What WhaL a How flow inhuman how savage age Europe must bo ho set back hack a century In Its progress pro gress that a trio of selfish monarchs may gratify their lust last for honors devoid devoid devoid de de- de- de void of or modern manhood stained with tho the life blood lood of millions of honest toilers The happy peasant homo shall mourn Its loved ones buried buried buried buri buri- ed in some somo foreign trench Brother will twill grapple with brother while mother wife and s sw sweetheart vt theart sadly ponder the th lU meaning of ot it all and in tho lie years to come may never know just how the loved laved one died or where just how tho the loved one died or where his body was called to mother earth It is the tho sacrifice of all that makes life worth the living the till destroying l of hope of lovo love of progress Shall wo we consider this tile the dawn of or orthe the brotherhood of man Is It the culmination of despotic rule The the widow the orphan will bear witness to a cruel revolution In hi n this struggle human tiro wil wit be sol sold l like it was nev never r sold be be- fore fora When th the cannons cannon's roar has subsided and once more the rifle rille is placed in the peaceful barrack the flower of or a continents continent's may have perished and a thousand cities covered with human may a s slumber lumber dreaming of the day when war shall be no more when man s shall hall learn once for all that progress progress progress pro pro- gress with all Its attendants attendant is purchased only by union and cooperation co co- co- co o operation not not b by the shedding gf QC blood |
