Show DUTIES VERSUS privileges when the present conflict burt bunt upon the world humanity demo cratic humanity was as asleep li it was a sleep asleep that gad had lasted sinan washington and his ragamuffin at ai my had first made the world sate salt for democracy v his work ha bar been done and well done and A me ricans had for more than a cen tury been living under the delis delusio sint i that there was nothing more to d in the cause of human freedom re edoin from the establishment of thi th republic orators orator and walt writers hav bay never tired of ringing the change on the gl 91 ri n us u pr v leges begres of anni can an citizenship they are instill d lot inthis us from he n to the coil efre 1 ney are the dai pub up in n rt on our americanism is nourished the boril cataclysm tonal is int mak maeng anz a fet ah of our aghta end and privilege leze we a ere ex jealous of them and resell ted any infringement of them with the fierceness of a brooding hen we were proud of them and naun flaun ted led them in the face of our less fortunate neighbors across the wit wa ter but one thing we had forgotten namely that someone had paid a price for these priceless blessings of liberty somebody had purchased them and we were not that some acme body or some bodies they had been purchased by blood but as aa we had not shed that blood we had never fully appreciated the values of the purchase and we are a only illy just beginning to grasp the fact that our revo lui sires when they had marched through blood to the goal a of f their inspiration bequeathed to us their descendants t not only the glorious blessing 0 oe f liberty but by bv the side of oe it and hand in hand with ity 14 the he duty of it in lie pur iti as receded that duty bassine has never been lifted from on our shoulders and never will be unless we shall so far fall short as aa to cease to value the fruits of the sacrifices so cheer fully made by those old heroes of the long mg ago this duty is looming larger and larger clearer and clearer as the days go by we are beginning to recognize the eternal truth that if all 11 would old ej enjoin all 11 must serve you yet and I 1 should either be favored at the expense of the other othera your boy and my buy boy have hava not both been the recipients of the same pro pre lection and fostering ca care an and hall my A son refuse to make ell the besita sacrifice while your son bares barea his breast to the storm there is a theory that gold eold the most precious of metals was waa at one time deep deep hidden in the center of this thia globe but that the violent in t anal convulsions to which the old ball bail has been subjected have thrown it to the surface if the present secial convulsion shall be the means of bringing to the surface of human card clax cler acter the pure gold of sacrifice and an appreciation of the duty of tue toe individual to society great good will comit come of the trials we are called upon to endure |