Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1919 — We Must Be Prepared to Meet Organized Wrong With Organized Right [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

We Must Be Prepared to Meet Organized Wrong With Organized Right

i. Uaaad Suu. Anty

By GEN. LEONARD WOOD.

Wars are coming in the future just an in the past. It’s a great deal fairer to tell the probable trutlia than to deny the probabilities. There will be times when we shall have to break the peace or break the faith. The blood of the martyrs was the seed of the church not their words. If you believe in arbitration remember you arbitrate better when you are strong. I»ve peace. Love justice. But be ready. The world is as it if. We are going to try to make it a better world, but don’t forget organized preparedness. We must be prepared to meet

organized wrong with organized right. Verbal massage, no matter how skillfully applied, may keep peace for a time, but not for long. Toil have the gifts-The talents are yours. You’ve shown that If von wrap these talents up and don’t use them God pity you. Man will not. We must help ourselves or God will not find us worth helping. You don’t know the truth about your own wars. You’ve never been told it. And then this war! Try to realize what would have happened if you had been compelled to prepare unassisted. You didn’t have to. n forget England held the seas for you. France held. Our men rendered splendid service. They did what we expected they would do. But God pity us if we had gone in without the help of the allies. ~ . It’s always been so with us. It’s nobody’s fault. Its a national habit of mind. But are you going to throw away all the lessons and warnings? Some day you will throw away the last lesson, the last warning. Our soldiers when we scud them into battle have a right to a sporting chance—same as the enemy. We’ve never given them that chance in anv of our big wars. To the women: Wars will come again. Your men wiU have to hght. You’d despise them if they didn’t. Your men will die, of course. W hen the men ceaw to ho willing to die for the dug .nd the country then it U over with the country.