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for them, they would have earned for themselves and for us the scorn of the nations of mankind.

The words of Lincoln will live forever only because they were made good by the deeds of the fighting men.

So it is now. We can make the President's message of April 2nd stand among the great state papers in our history; but we can do so only if we make the message good; and we can make it good only if we fight with all our strength now, at once; if at the earliest possible moment we put the flag on the firing line and keep it there, over a constantly growing army, until the war closes by a peace which brings victory to the great cause of democracy and civilization, the great cause of justice and fair play among the peoples of the world.

FAME'S TRUE APPLAUSE

GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY

It cannot be that men who are the seed

Of Washington should miss fame's true applause:
Franklin did plan us; Marshall gave us laws;
And slow the broad scroll grew a people's creed,-
One land and free! then at our dangerous need,

Time's challenge coming, Lincoln gave it pause,
Upheld the double pillars of the cause,
And dying left them whole, the crowning deed.

Such was the fathering race that made all fast,

Who founded us, and spread from sea to sea,

A thousand leagues, the zone of liberty,

And built for man this refuge from his past,

Unkinged, unchurched, unsoldiered; shamed were we. Failing the stature that such sires forecast.

STAND BY THE FLAG

Stand by the flag, its folds have streamed in glory,
To foes a fear, to friends a festal robe,
And spread in rhythmic lines the sacred story
Of freedom's triumphs over all the globe;
Stand by the flag, on land, and ocean billow;

By it your fathers stood, unmoved and true:
Living, defended; dying, from their pillow,

With their last blessing, pass'd it on to you.

Stand by the flag, though death shots round it rattle:
And underneath its waving folds have met,
In all the dread array of sanguine battle,

The quivering lance and glittering bayonet;
Stand by the flag, all doubt and treason scorning,
Believe, with courage firm and faith sublime,
That it will float until the eternal morning
Pales in its glories all the lights of time.

THE CALL TO BATTLE

GILBERT SHELDON

If through the dust of conflict thou descry
The shining of the standard of the Lord,
Do thou arise and buckle on thy sword,
And follow where it leads undoubtingly.

Thou hast the Light: see that thou walk thereby! Exceeding great and sure is his reward

Whose purpose with his vision doth accord, And as his soul speaks so his acts reply.

THE CALL TO BATTLE

And if it shall be told thee that the foe

Beholds the banner that thou deemst thine own
March in his van to battle, be not wroth.

The truth is other than the truths we know;

His cause and thine are laid before the throne,
And God inclines to neither and to both.

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-From The Nation

THE WORLD SIGNIFICANCE OF THE WAR

WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

England, France, Russia, Italy, and now the United States, as allies, are engaged in the greatest war of history to secure permanent world peace. With twenty or more millions of men at the colors, with losses in dead, wounded and captured of more than twenty-five per cent, with debts piling mountain-high and reaching many, many billions, they are fighting for a definite purpose, and that is the defeat of German militarism.

If the Prussian military caste retains its power to control the military and foreign policy of Germany after the war, peace will not be permanent, and war will begin again when the chauvinistic advisers of the Hohenzollern dynasty deem a conquest and victory possible.

The Allies have made a stupendous effort and have strained their utmost capacity. Unready for the war, they have concentrated their energy in preparation. In this important respect they have defeated the plan of Germany "in shining armor" to crush her enemies in their unreadiness.

But the war has not been won. Germany is in possession of Belgium and part of northern France. She holds Serbia and Rumania, Poland and the Baltic Provinces of Russia. Peace now, even though it be made on the basis of the restoration of the status quo, "without indemnities and without annexations," would be a failure to achieve the great purpose for which the Allies have made heartrending sacrifice. Armaments would continue for the