Stocks and bonds have a market value—but Honor and Liberty are beyond price.
Spiritual life and power are of far greater value than vast material wealth.
It was the materialism of the Kaiser that started this war. He cannot stop it. Why? Because he is confronted by the millions of dead bodies on the battlefields of France whose spirits demand they shall not die in vain. He is confronted by the spirit of Jeanne d’Arc,—by the awakening spirit of 76.
These spirits are hovering around, stimulating, inspiring the living to yet nobler deeds of heroism.
Indomitable, incorruptible, they flock to the living who fight to the death, and every death brings forth another living soldier.
America, sunk in materialism, now hearkens to the call of her forefathers.
The spirit of Washington, Hamilton, Greene, Lafayette, Rochambeau, Lincoln, Sherman and Grant is calling us to the post of duty.
The stern hand of fate has elevated us to a level from which we can see the great ideals we have forgotten—Honor, Patriotism, Equality.
Those are the level foundation on which democracy rests,—not on wealth and inequality.
We must stamp out materialism and save the soul of America.