Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 133, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1917 — 1776—1863—1917. [ARTICLE]

1776—1863 —1917.

If Abraham Lincoln were alive, facing this new crisis in the history of the country he loved so unselfishly, what would be his plea to you, his fellow citizens? He would make-a new speech at Gettysburg. He would say: “Seven score and one years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. The most arrogant military power ever organized by craft and efficiency is trying to kill that proposition. We are confronted by the active hatred of a nation conceived in oppression and dedicated to the proposition that might makes right. Against the desperate leaders of that nation we must fight a great war to test whether our nation or any nation conceived in liberty can long endure. On the battle fields'of Europe are the graves of millions of men who have given their lives that freedom may survive. To the peaceful homes of Europe have come gaunt starvation and the death of innocents. The time has come for men and women of America to carry speedy help to the brave souls of Belgium, of France, of Great Britain. For they have been fighting our battles. Let us now be dedicated to the unfinished work so bravely advanced by our fathers in 1776 and 1863. It is for us to take increased devotion to the cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion. Let us now highly resolve that the men who died at Valley Forge and Gettysburg and on all the torn battle fields of Belgium and France shall not have died in vain—that the free nations of the world, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”—George Ade.

The following named merchandise we are now selling for less than wholesale prices: Men’s and boys’ clothing, muslin and knit underwear, rugs, shoes, women’s and children’s dresses, all kinds of hosiery, dress goods, ginghams, percales, calicoes, etc. —The G. E. Murray Co.