Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 130, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1919 — If the English-Speaking Union Stand Together, True to Their Ideals [ARTICLE]

If the English-Speaking Union Stand Together, True to Their Ideals

By WINSTON CHURCHILL

British Secretary

It has been well ssid the price of safety is eternal vigilance! The forms of efforts change but the battle is never over. The life struggle is unending, and the true measure of nations iq what they can do when they are tired. The hardest test of all is the test of victory. AY e Englishspeaking communities of the world must endeavor now, however hard it may seem, to meet the new perils, the new responsibilities of our immense position with a new fuud of resilience, of buoyancy and of resolution. I don’t quite see what can happen to harm us if the English-speaking union stand together, true to their ideals of freedom and humanity, and resolute to work together in a spirit of practical comradeship for the stability and progress of civilization. , If we fall apart there is the end of everything. All that we have achieved in common in this struggle will collapse in -ruin to the ground. If we fall apart there is no limit to the evils which might be unloosed upon mankind. ’ But if we hold together the larger hope that good will come out of the convulsions of the war is fortified and consolidated in an extraordinary degree. Together we fire safe; together we are unassailable; together, with our gallant ally, France, we shall, if we pursue a wise and honorable policv emerge from th 4 horrors and the anxieties of the present tijne, and preserve for the benefit and the admiration of future ages the glories w« have won long and cruel war.