Show 01 VIAR ISSUES H NOW IN success depends upon realization 0 of vital interests that are at state NEED LOCAL organizations people cn can maintain Ent enthusiasm husla JIM through patriotic league in 1 each locality says jame james M deck becil dy by JAMES M BECK author of the evidence in the cae case 11 some week weeks ago it was my ply privilege to make a trip to the middle west at the invitation of patriotic societies in rochester ochester ll Buff buffalo aloo cleveland chicago and bt SL anul in each of these cities I 1 addressed large and re alive meetings rocc bluga on the issues of the var kar four of these cities clues had nn an ex large population of foreign birth or immediate ancestry that of cleveland alone aggregating as I 1 mas as ahomed af omed 75 per cent of its whole hole po population P ula bla tion As aj one who from the Le ginning of the war earnestly advocated the participation of the united states la in the world war III defense of tho the basic b n SIC tir of civilization I 1 naturally 10 looked 0 ked with nith great interest to the natu nature re of the response which I 1 might rece receive I 1 ve from audiences gathered in most cases by public invitation to hear a discussion of theeo issues if there is 1 any apathy in tho the middle west weg t these audiences gave no indication of it so far as my experience and observation in those cities justifies any opinion and I 1 appreciate how dan gerou berou cuch buch generalizations aro 1 I found it loyal and ungrudging intention ou the part of all classes of american citizens to support their coultry courtry r iry and its president la in this most righteous war was gratifying to see how the beet best of 0 tho american youth lind had arisen with vigor and enthusiasm to president wilsons Wll inspiring call to arms much to be done vc nevertheless crt helesa there Is much to be done if thu the interest 1 Is to be maintained and america Is to fifty MAY a large 1 anil and noble part in the grent it of all wars there are many i cyb u of developing this interest but I 1 know of none that Is so melt adapted to its object as the plan proposed by dr ellary 0 stowell the distinguished historian of coluin colum college ho noma u months ago commenced to develop del elop a patriotic service league la in his 0 own 1 r n congre ional district tho the principal a 1 object of this league 1 m vaa a 3 to gl alp t the civilian nn an opportunity port unity to support at homo home the work of his ills soldiers Eold lera in the celd and the result results which followed doctor stowell a mo movement v ement la in his own congress congressional lon district the nineteenth of new now fork york were mere eo so gratifying that a lar local organization mas commenced in the tho seventeenth district and the organization atlon has already made an excellent beginning it seems cy cry desirable that in every congressional district here there should be euch such a patriotic p a se arvice league corn com posed of its best citizens zens who aill unite to promote the objects of the war to secure enlistments to interest the masses in americas vital stake in tile war to combat sedition 1 to in subscriptions to governmental 1 oin and the red brosi and in all other mays to support the armies of america in the field war in its actual operations has become a matter of mechanics chemas try abid organization but fundamentally it remains reaal ns as a it has always been a question of psychology 0 no o nation eyer conducted a great war to a conclusion unless its heart naj maj in it for this reason a very sarious work vork remains to be done la in this country and that la Is to interest the american people as individuals at in the tho causes and issues of t this his titanic contest and ita its supreme importance por tanco to the future of the united states not all united ir A somewhat similar condition existed when our republic ne public was founded the great problem was to interest late reet the people of tho tile colonies la in the struggle that struggle has become such on an epic that ake e are apt to think that all americans had ednal zeal in defending tho the cOnstitution vil rights lights of tv t colonies f the fact unfortunately wae was to the contrary john adams lone long after the te t evolution had been betia brought to a successful conclusion est estimated imato that at the beginning of the struggle one third of the colonist colonists independence about one third were very much opposed to it and about one baird nere ere la in a ante of expect expectancy cy to see ou which ode do the balance would fall while adms adams was something of a chronic faultfinder and may way hare have exaggerated yet at the beginning ot of the revolution our people acre no more of one mind than they are now the great of the revolution men like hefft jefferson irson and washington and franklin formed what they called committees of correspondence in ey cry try different locality igind thu thus they coordinated the work of different localities and as the crisis developed there passed from community to community continually through these committees ot of corre the intelligence ii to what 1 j expected slid nd what would W quiren and as a a result when general genera gage marched upon lexington Lex logton and concord minute roen men mobilized at the gates of Ilov ditosto tosi within 43 boura hours an n amazing fact when hen one thinks ot of III the iiii limited ed population at that time it vae was the work vork of the committees of 0 correspondence the committees organized each locality appealing to tho the man at hie his home and thus a patriotic sentiment was developed which bich made of this country a gnat end und in dependent nation and so powerfully did thi this impress itself upon the inas was ter mind of thomas jefferson that lien he lie was dying on the fiftieth an niver alver sury of the inclination of independence pen dence dente ho lie seemed aluin to kemem br bir those days of stress and trial at the beginning of the revolution and was heard to try in his ills delirium az x elatedly cit elt edly varo aarn the committed committees warn arn the committees I 1 people lust 11 know issues we will not make full fall reee in ili ahli war until wo ie can bring home to the people to their very heat htone lint that not only ie Is this as vital a context us AS any an y that america was its ever en killed in tut lt that Is one that affects the happiness prosperity and the lion or of the american people remember the fine lines of if tho the no blest hymn ever written for any nation in the hour of battlo I 1 mean julia julla ward holes no wes battle blymn of tho the republic and nothing in any literature has n more martial movement than that most stirring of 0 all battle hymns he lie has ha bounded sounded forth the trumpet that hall shall never rail call retreat he ile li Is sitting out the I 1 aarts of men before III hie judgment se eat oh be wife roy my soult t to anair him be jubilant roy my feet our clod god Is 1 marching on Is rs our soul swift to answer our call are our feet jubilant to enter into this contest it not note then the nation Is in peril this war will III not be a matter of months and sooner or later the mere patriotic submission to a peu il vill action of a government erni nent will spi 1 ta ts force A people must have hale a definite enthusiasm if it Is to give the best beat blood of its youth to any cause you will not find that spirit aall all reach the individual Amie american rican and teach him that he has a vital and personal interest la in this particular war rule of force mut must go our people must te brought to realize vitally tally and practically that this war involves the sacred principle of righteousness in international affairs the tile rule of reason la in the commonwealth wealth of nations and that unless this be vindicated by a peace pence with ith victory all I 1 talk of the pacification of humanity mi whether lether hy by the hague tribunal or paper treaties ir cr leagues of peace or in any other way you please Is to all rainbow and moonshine unless there can be first established the great principle of right an aal I 1 reason the principle of law dominating sovereign nations a liberal civilization will perish irish I rish from the earth when germany and austria attempted to crush serbia without rhyme or renown in ii a out opportunity for discussion groit batain B etain france and sla said let via s reason abort it and germany said NO nol I 1 thet give us a little time 11 no nol I 1 then let lie us have a conference no not I 1 then let us have arbitration bit ration nol not let us have me Cl atlon nol not let us it in any way you please by any cepo ditus you may select you can aade beig ade and occupy it us as a hustace ho stace stare but for god a sale do not split the best blood of the world needlessly germany and austria said not you will do our will or you will have a universal warl if that of force a as the ultima ratio is to prevail the world will go back centuries even to the cave tl dullere ellere because if it jou ou to io back oven even twenty centuries the law of komo rome bad had at ijac t of justice and of the obligations of law lav in its maintenance te rinnes of the worlds peace pence whereas in this case you have hay e a br brutal U tat and primitive negation of any principle of right or wrong wron you have simple the assertion that might and might alone govern he the affair affairs of men most sacred cause there never waa wag a more sacred cause fought for since the world began than that for which franco france and great britain and their allies have hitherto so freely etyen the test blood of their youth I 1 ilo do not n nant ant to lire live in this world if this world Is to be dominated by bru tal force whatever optimism I 1 might have had three months ago I 1 have not in the same measure now I 1 think the issue 0 this titanic co conflict n fl act la Is ve very ry doubtful it Is a a itic and death grapple between the two reat gnat powers of tight and might but I 1 want to lay say advisedly and deliberately that it I 1 saw clearly that the cause of the allies was going down to defeat that we were to be involved in that defeat that we were to suffer its grievous and burden penal penalties tle I 1 would yet thank god that the united states went into the war and fell and uttered with the righteous rather than it should re main neutral and brodt by other peoples buffe juffe rings I 1 have no regret that ve e entered into thi this war ther waa vms ot 17 one thing tor for a nod and belt elf respecting nation to do and I 1 rejoice with all her many cisal vantages Tan with respect to her genaus population its diversified geographically speaking taking IP conditions condit tons hrs had the uie soul to accept her sho hire a of tho the burdens burden of a dist meted 1 tation to recur to my thesis let a patri otic oue service league under whatever name be formed in every district and then let le the I 1 he cry be warn the coin com j matt for low as in th thil part pa 94 eternal is the price of 11 arty |