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Show vs i ' "BLESSED ARE THE PEACEMAKERS!" rri HE peacemakers of today are the fiighters! for decocracy. A man may be high' in the councils of his church, he may be aj so-called captain of finance, he may be kind to his! family and esteemed as a man of affairs, but if hej is not doing what he can to fight democracy's battle bat-tle for peace he is not a man of peace ; he is not a peacemaker. Some of the influential men in communities by their selfish acts against em-i ployes, and employes who are continually demanding demand-ing unreasonable things, thus fomenting trouble, are the worst disturbers of tile peace. Coningaby Dawson, writing home to his father from the trenches, says that he can aim at the enemy and shoot him without the leant hatred in his heart, that ho foeli that his shot is for the welfare of mankind, and even in the long run, good for the enemy himself. And that is the spirit spir-it in which Americans should fight. It is the same Old light of the powers of righteousness against the powers of the evil one in whatever form your individual ideas may shape that master of hades. The popular form just now of this hell master lias a shrivelled left arm, a haughty air of assumed power And a characteristic upward curl of his mustache. mus-tache. Strength to the arms without hatred in the hearta, of those who light the kaiser and his evil hordes. Beaver County Press. |