Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 January 1918 — Loyalty Is First Duty of Every Citizen of United States Today [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Loyalty Is First Duty of Every Citizen of United States Today

By JAMES CARDINAL GIBBONS

In the present emergency it behooves every American citizen to to uphold the hands of the president and the legislative department in the solemn obligations that confront us. The primary duty of a citizen is loyalty to eoun- .4 try.' This loyalty is manifested more by acts than by words; by solemn service rather than by empty declamation. It is exhibited by an absolute and unreserved obedience to his country’s call. " Both houses of congress, with the executive, are charged and sworn to frame those laws that are

demanded by the present crisisf Whatever, therefore, congress may decide should be unequivocally complied with by every patriotic citizen. The members of both houses of congress are the instruments of God in guiding us in our civic duties. It behooves all of us, therefore, to pray that the Lord of Hosts may inspire our national legislature and executive to frame such laws in the present crisis as will redound to the glory of our country, to righteousness of conduct, and to tlie future permanent peace of the nations of the world.