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Show STRONG liS BY LIEUT. B. H. ROBERTS SALT LAKE, Aug. 27, Wrought up to a high state of patriotic fervor, the audience at yesterday afternoon's tabernacle services all but broke into applause at some of the burning utterances utter-ances of Lieutenant Brjgham H. Roberts, Rob-erts, chaplain of the First Utah light field artillery. Ab It was, the rumbling murmur which overspread tho vast audience au-dience was sufficient notice to the eloquent elo-quent speaker that his words had struck a sympathetic chord in the hearts and souls of his auditors and that perfect harmony of sentiment pre-i vailed between orator and audience. I Particular assertions made and sen-i timents volcod by Lieutenant Roberta,! and which brought his audience almost, to the point of breaking precedent of, late years at religious gatherings in the tabernacle by giving way to shout-, ed approval, were in part as follows" "A great crime has been committed by someone against the civilization of the world. " 'Who Is it?' is the question that Is before the nations today. "Imperial Germany has committed that crime, and she knows It, "The Mephistophelcs of this great world war is no less a person than Kaiser William of Germany and tho world Is now In arms to summon him before It to answer for his great crime against tho civilization of tho twentieth twen-tieth century. "I pray God that these nations now engaged in the task of bringing this t villian to judgment will not engage in conferences that will bring to pass a prematuro peace. For one, I want to see this thing settled once and for all time and all peoples. If peace shall come prematurely the sacrifice of millions mil-lions of lives will have been In vain and a future generation will have It all to go over again. "No! Go on! Go on, even though the sacrifice to como shall be ten times that which has gone before! I would like to see my posterity free from the possibility of another such conflict as wo have been witnessing during tho past three yoars. To my mind, tho purpose of our war is that it shall bo the end of all wars. "Let us now given notice to Germany that the pursuance of her unholy ambition am-bition to dominate the earth is resented resent-ed by every element of decency In the world. When peace shall eventually come, let thero bo a league of nations which will not permit disturbance of the peace of any through the aggression aggres-sion of anothor: The world Is now adopting a Monroe doctrine of its own. We are going to the front to do our part and to demand our proper place In tho settlements of this great world difficulty." Lieutenant Roberts had led up to this point by tracing tho preparations made by Germany for the mighty conflict con-flict which has been thrust upon the nations, and In which tho United States has finally been forced to take part, he said. His remarks on this point .began with tho ascension of "the fire brand, Wllhelm," to tho Imperial position of omporor In 1888. nn |