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Show NO TIME FOR DISLOYALTY. In a communication to the Standard, Stand-ard, Frederick Everett, 2-138 Madison avenue, offers a rebuke to men of the type of Dr. Dille, who would discredit the efforts of the government to prove to the world that the United States is a nation of strength, ever ready to maintain its honor and prestige. Tho communication follows: "Editor Standard: "According to special news service from San Francisco, I note that tho Rev Elbert R. Dille, of Trinity church Berkeley, took a straw ballot of his congregation, and announced tho result, re-sult, seventy votes againBt and thlrtv-six thlrtv-six for war. "Now, it seems to mo that Dr. Dillo has little to do to propose such an asinine process to discredit the President, Pres-ident, or in any way to create any kind of a record that may bo construed con-strued to give comfort and encouragement encour-agement to tho enemies of his country. coun-try. I say, HIS country, because I assume that he is a citizen. He and his seventy mossbacks holped to elect a President, who has made a decls ion, which seems to all loyal and clear thinking citirens to be the only hon-orablo hon-orablo course to pursue Now the seventy put themselves on record, in effect, charging that the President haB made a serious blunder. "Dr Dille thinks that there is no question of the loyalty of the American Ameri-can people This ceitamly applies to the thirty-six, but for the seventy and himself, I would most certainly recommend the copper helmet and Chinese jacket with a very broad yellow yel-low strip down the back as the insignia in-signia of their burning patriotism They should read the President's message, mes-sage, and get some Inspiration. They must realize that the most sacred human hu-man rights for freedom and indepen dent existence, the orderly continuity of history, and the future peace of the world itself are at stake in this gigantic world cataclysm "If they do not want to row, then let them sit fast, and not rock tho boat Sincerely, (Signed) "FREDERICK EVERETT" Now that the decision has been made, no man has a light to pretend to loyalty and at the same time so conduct himself as to weaken the moral forces back of the government in this war for human rights. Whether right or wrong in enter ing the European contuct, alter tne declaration of a state of war had been made, there was only one course for the United States to pursue and that was to make war so vigorously as to prove to the world, first, that this country is a nation of great virility, and, second, that to Incur the deep enmity of the United States means woe for any power, German, Japanese, Mexican, Russian, British, or Turkish. |