Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1918 — SAYS DAY OF WARS NEAR END [ARTICLE]

SAYS DAY OF WARS NEAR END

Lansing Declares Drive on Western Front Beginning of End. Auburn, N. Y., Oct. 11.—Secretary of State Lansing, in an address here, declared this period of the war 1 to be (lie “beginning of the end.” He spoke at a dinner Tn celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of Auburn Theological seminary. "For four long years the armies of the allies have heroically withstood the legions of the beast,” he declared. “These war-worn veterans, whose unfaltering valor kitows no equal, are today, with the splendid men of this republic by their side, sweeping back tile invaders, broken la spirit, sullen and hopeless. It Is the beginning of the end. The hour of triumph Is drawing near. The day of the war lords Is almost over.” The subject of the secretary’s address was “The Spirit of the Coming Era,” the era after the war. Peace will come, the secretary said, on the basis of the president’s terms; therefore, all should stand rigidly In support of the principles on which these bases are founded.