World Democracy

Franklin Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 9, 24 January 1940, Page 6

World Democracy

WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN “The ‘partisan politicians’ who beat the ‘Wilson League" not only Party in 1920, as they were so ‘realistically" inspired to do. they defeated every soldier in the World War who had died to make the world ‘safe for democracy,’ and whose only justification of death was that war might die with them, and that the temple of World Peace might rest its foundation upon their graves. America’s refusal to join the League of Nations cracked the chalice that held their sacrificial blood! Absolute pacifism has been bombed out of me by the devastating finality of brutal facts! To-day as I walk down the streets of our peaceful village, without fear for myself or my loved ones, I feel the protection of the great arms of government as never before, and I breathe a prayer of gratitude for the heroic living, and dead, and dying, in our land and all lands, who have purchased, and are purchasing, my peace with their own sacrificial blood! The aims of England. France and Poland Ihunder in my ears as if they were guarding Ihe threshold of my own home!"— The liev. E. Dent Baccy, of Thompsonvitle. U.S.A.