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Show Holy And Unholy Wars g 'T'HIS was a good week for the Sons of the I American Revolution to have their annual ban- te quet in, for it is a good time to make comparisons tj between the war their ancestors fought, and the war that is raging over a continent 'beyond the seas. This week is an anniversary week for some of those weeks that were passed at Valley Forge. The same hardships prevail In the trenches beyond be-yond the sea, but the descendants of those who are fighting there, will not desire to celebrate the anniversary because the war, one incident of which was the gloom of Valley Forge, was not like the war that is being prosecuted now. The one was the struggle for liberty, and the right of men to be their own rulers, to have their own country, when all men should have equal opportunities, oppor-tunities, regardless of station, to win for themselves, them-selves, fortunes and high names, while this other Avar that is raging now, when analyzed, reveals nothing, save a desire for conquest and power, and invokes nothing but the selfish and cruel motives and passions of men. The fathers went to Valley Forge of their own accord. The purpose behind them was so holy that memory of it transforms y that lonely valley with its snows and cold and sufferings into a sacred place. In future the memories mem-ories of the condition of Belgium and Poland will make a photograph of sorrow on the glass of the ages. And the lesson of it all to Americans ought to be, that there must never be a war in this country unless behind it there are the same high motives that governed at Valley Forge, and which for all time will make it a sacred place. |