What Are We Fighting For?

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · May 17, 1899

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 25, No. 20.

What Are We Fighting For?

Two Nebraska soldiers are quoted as expressing a sentiment of some strength in the army, as follows:—

"I am not afraid, and am always ready to do my duty, but I would like some one to tell me what we are fighting for." "I do not approve of the course our government is pursuing with these people. If all men are created equal, they have some rights which ought to be respected. . . . . In a word, I believe they should be accorded all the rights that we claim for ourselves. As for myself, I marched into the battle to make them free—not to make them subjects. I understand our mission is to be one of humanity and for the cause of freedom, but our offering on the altar of liberty has been prostituted."