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Wednesday, August 22, 1917.
AMERICA FOR AMERICANS.
In Union on Saturday Congress
man Samuel J. Nichols addressed th
voters in that county, answerinj
some of the utterances of those whi
would question the right of thi
country to defend its liberties, an<
showing why the United States ha<
been forced to recognize a state o
was as existing between this countr;
and Germany.
The speech shows that Congress
man Nichols is something more thai
a politician. His speech evidence:
the sentiments of a statesman, an<
of a man who is for his own country
first, and who dares to defend r
against enemies abroad^and traitor;
at home. The speech is so good anc
so complete that we give it at length
"When I received an invitatior
from your committee to speak in Union
County at a patriotic celebration
T ? ~ "11 KD/tQIlCC
1 W?S nuu <ao an out ?SJ.UV.U, uw~_w.
so far as the record shows Unior
County is the only county in the
United States which furnished more
than her quota of men before the
draft law was put into effect, therefore
you can see why I was not surprised
that patriotic meetings were
to be held in your county.
"I have spoken with much pride to
cabinet members, to senators and tc
members of the house about your
record and before I start my dicsussion
of the war proposition I want
N 1 ? J.L.
to again congratulate you upon trie
splendid record that you have made.
f. > "I feel that it is my duty today to
tell you why we were brought into
this war, because I think possibly,
holding the position I do, that I am
more familiar with the situation than
some of you are. You know, and I
know, that no man has fought harder
to keep this country out of the terrible
conflict across the water than our
noble president. Congress was behind
him in this matter, and to be perfectly
frank with you, some of us
thought that we had suffered too
. much before this wise man gave us
the word 'Go.'
Why America is at War.
"To begin with, when the Lusitania
was sunk and our men, women
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aim cimurcii wcic ooi&u iv on*; wwwwn.
of the sea the blood of every American
citizen rose in his veins and
clambered for revenge. Our president
said 'Hold! If there is any reasonable
way for Germany to explain
this terrible tragedy, let's give them
a chance to do it.' They tried to ex
plain by saying that American citizens
should not travel on ships of a
belligerent nation. We never conceded
this proposition for an instant,
but we did, upon their assurance, absolutely
sworn to by them, decide
that we would await developments
and see whether or not they would
be true to their pledge and not let
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ine ming occur a^am. iiumeruus
other cases of the same kind happened
and still we took their explanation
in each case, hoping almost
against hope that Germany really was
not trying to force us into the war.
"In the meantime Germany had
the effrontery to deliberately inform
our government that they intended
to sink, not only the ships of belligerent
nations, but the ships of the
United States, if they were caught
in certain zones, and immediately
after this notification they started a
wholesale slaughter upon not only
the property of American citizens but
the lives of your people and mine.
Even then, although the whole country
and the whole world knew that
we had every justification for declaring
war our president desisted, but
informed Germany that if these depredations
continued we would have
to declare a state of war.
German Perfidy.
'"While all these murders were being
perpetrated our secret service
men hud of course been trying to
keep up with Germany and find oul
their intentions. At this juncture il
developed, not by guess, but by direct
I written testimony, that Germany had
made a proposition to Japan and tc
Mexico to invade our country, murder
our citizens and take our property.
They had even gone so far as
to promise Mexico the States of Texas.
California and New Mexico ir
case Germany, with the assistance oi
Japan and Mexico, could conquer us
<-Have you ever heard of a more
j dastardly attempt to stab us in the
, j back? Here was Germany profess;
ing to be our friend and at the same
; time trying to employ other nations
to make war upon us. Even then
after knowing these facts, the president
gave Germany an opportunity
| to explain. He went a great deal
further than I would have gone and
a great deal further than the patriotic
citizens of Union County would
have gone m order to avoid tnis war.
| "South Carolina has never sought
- a conflict, but no man can tell me
* i truthfully that South Carolina ever
' went so far as to allow her most sacred
rights to be invaded without risj
| ing up to defend them. These matters
} I which I have told you about are what
) forced us into the war.
"I do not want you to overlook the
. fact that this country has never declared
war on Germany. We have not
! declared war on Germany. Your
congress has not declared war on
Germany. We have declared that a
j state of war existed between Geri
'many and the United States. It did
e not take senators and members of
? the house to come to this conclusion.
o[ War Without Declaration.
s "Any man that had two grains ot
3 sense knows that when our citizens
i are being murdered and our property
f destroyed a state of war did exist,
y and therefore it makes me tired, sick
land disgusted when people go over
-;this country stating that your representatives
should not have taken
s1 the action which they did.
1 "The proposition is simply this:
r! Under the law any neutral nation is
t entitled to the use of the high seas.
5 Citizens of the United States have as
1 much right to travel them as -you
: have to travel the roads in front of,
i your homes or the streets in your!
- city. Germany has never been able
, to deny that this is the law in the
> case.
l "When, however, we sought to use
s the right given us under internation-l
> ai law Germany said to us there an?!
s certain streets and highways that you;
. can not use, even though you havej
. the right to use them, because you
;jare engaging in commerce with our
. enemies.
> "Let's get the proposition down to
|a plain case: Suppose any of you had
business with one of your neighbors,;
and suppose in order to transact this
business you wished to use the public
vaad, when there was no question as
to your right to use it and suppose
some man, who did not like your
neighbor with whom you were doing
business, stood at the side of the
road with a shotgun and told you
that you could not pass alor^ this
road, because he was an enemy of
tho man with whom you wanted^ to
conduct your relations.
Would Enforce Rights.
"What would have been the result?!
| Knowing you as I do, I know ycu
would have said to him: 'I have a!
right to use this road, and you have
no right to stop me, and I am going)
to arm myself and protect my rights!
and if you interfere with me we will
shoot this thing out.'
"That is a rather crude illustration,
but that is exactly what we have told:
Germany, and we are arming ourselves
and we are going to shoot it;
out, and when we get through the J
shooting you may rest assured tha^
j Germany won't block any more roads, j
"War is a terrible thing. None of;
| us wanted to get into it. I opposed
it as long as there was a chance for
us to avoid it honorably. The cost
in men and money, the broken hearts
the bloodshed, the suffering of those
at home who do not have to go, is appalling.
I could not but shudder and
sigh when I cast my vote as I did.
"This war was brought home to me,
two years ago, when the only brother!
I had, realizing earlier than we have1
realized the ruthlessness of these'
German tyrants, went to England to1
do his bit to stop them in their mur-J
/derous course. He today fills a sol-j
|dier's grave on the battlefields of
France, but I do not feel that his
work was in vain. I only wish that
he could have lived to have served his
country in this time of stress. I hope
you will pardon this personal allu,sion.
I merely mention it to show
to you how well I knew the suffering
J that this war would bring to our peo-|
pie.
;i Follow in Footsteps of Fathers. j
j "Your ancestors and mine - fought
. for the liberty which you ami I now
; enjoy. Your ancestors and mine by
. their blood and treasure established
; a government that has ever since held
. tha respect of the world. Will you
. stand quietly by and let a brutal gang
! of murderers take your liberty away
| from you, kick you around like a
football, and make you the laughing,
stock of the civilized world?
, "I know you will not. You are not
bred that way. If I thought you
would, I would resign my seat in congress
tomorrow, because I would
[ think it was a disgrace to represent
> you.
"Some people are making state.
ments criticizing the administration
; for declaring a state of war. Some
. people are criticizing congress for its
t action. They have a right to their
' opinion as to whether or not we
should defend our national honor,
> but that is past history.
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"The congress of the United State:
:has decided to defend its nationa
; honor. There is no looking back now
We are in this war and any man wh(
'does anything to hinder our succesi
; halfway ground. Every one of us i:
! his country and is not worthy of th<
respect of a patriotic citizenship.
''Before war was declared we al
'hud a richt to our ooinion. but sinci
! a state of war exists there can be n<
'halfway ground. Every one of us i
J either for our country or for Ger
many. There is no dodging the issue
People Are Loyal.
"Robert E. Lee was opposed to se
cession, but when his mother Stat
declared for it he resigned his com
'mission in the United States arm;
land drew his sword to carry out th
mandates of his people. You can'
jmake me believe that the people o
this country are any less loyal toda;
than they were in 1776. You can'
make me believe that the people o
(this country are any less loyal thai
we Southerners were in 1861. Am
I know you well enough to know tha
you will do your duty. The man tha
; deters his country at this time fo
any reason is the enemy of every pa
triot who lives in our broad land
Suppose that they should succeed ii
' blocking in any- way the early tsrmi
; nation of this war. Every dr.y wil
mean thousands of lives lost, everj
day will mean millions of dollar!
spent; and can you tell me that a mar
who takes this position is a frienc
of his country?
v "There have been* differences o1
opinion as to the way of raising the
army to fight this war. I personally
believed in and fought witli all th<
might that I possessed for the volun
teer system. I gave my reasons ir
a speech which I made and which ]
mailed out to you for my attitude ir
this matter. The majority of the
house and the administration differ
ed with me, and as between the drafi
system and the volunteer system vot
ed for the draft system.
Stood by Majority.
"After I had been defeated foi
the volunteers I voted for a bili
which followed the ideas of the ma
jority. It was a question of voting
for this bill or not having an army
with which to fight this war.
"It was such a case as would be in
our election system, when in the primary
I could not win for my man,
and, although I thought that he
should have been elected, I voted in
the general election for the candidate
whom I had.opposed. I think this
explains to you my position. After
the draft bill was passed it became
the only law in this land for raising
an army and I propose to uphold the
law in every way within my power.
"I have talked to you longer than
I intended to . I hope I have given
you our reasons for getting into this
war. We may have been wrong. I
do not grant that; but, right or
wrong, I am for my country, and I
have no respect for the man who is
not."
As Mr. Nichols so well shows, no
country ever had more cause to
make war than this country had to
make war against Germany, no country
and no Chief Magistrate of a
country was ever more long suffering
and plenteous in mercy than was
the President of these United States.
He sought by all honorable means to
avoid war, he went almost to the
length of humiliation in his eiTorts
to avoid it. Our people were murdered
on the high seas, on the public
lanes of travel, where they had a
right to be unmolested, and without
notice. Not only men, but women
and babes were sent to their craves.
We protested and Germany, -recognizing
that we were right, promised
to obey international law, ^and to
respect the rights of the people of
this country om the high seas^ But
the promises were only made to be
broken. Time and time again our
people were murdered, and as often
a chance of explanation was given,
and all doubts solved in favor of
peace.
Finally, when we had borne 8.11 too
much, the German government informed
us that we could not travel
the high seas except on days and by
routes marked out by that government,
and then only when we painted
our ships to resemble barber-poles,
and otherwise acknowledged the right
of Germany to dictate to us on the
manner in which we should enjoy our
rights and the liberties of our people.
Under these circumstances, just
r.3 Jefferson penned our Declaration
of Independence of Great Britain, so
Woodrow Wilson penned the new
Declaration of Independence of this
country against Germany. The congress
of'the United States has declared
a state of war to exist. The
flower of the nation has taken up
arms already and others will join
the colors. The people only need to
understand and they will understand,
liosniip thr> vnipf of the enemv in
our midst.
The war will be fought to a successful
conclusion. The American
people will assert their rights, and
that man who has at last put his
hand to the plow will not look backwards
until we are again free, and
our freedom for the future guaran
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The German war lords may talk;
peace, and the Pope may offer a
( German peace, but there will be no Co
peace on the basis that the murderer
go free and be given back his pistol.
He must be whipped to his knees and
| made to pay the penalty of his misdeeds.
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A firm faith is the best divinity; i
a good life the best philosophy; a jai
clear conscience the best law; honesW
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ORPHANAGE WORK DAY.
1 C.,
Announcement has been made toN cid
the effect that the Thornwell Or- sor
plumage at Clinton, the Connie Max- Wj
; well Orphanage at Greenwood, and ^
the Epworth Orphanage at Columbia, P0?
will ask all the friends in their va- P^a
. rious constituencies to observe Sat- ^
I unlay, October 13, as a Work Dayjdit
, for orphan children. The plan is
simple and has been tried for sever-J
; al years with great success. Thej
, idoa is that on this special day every;
friend of each institution will devote ^
th? income of the day or the procesds
of labor done that day as a
contribution to the orphan boys and;w?
girls. We are sure the scheme will
appeal to many of our people. !res
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A BIRTHDAY fAKir.
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Miss Emily Morse was six years he
old on the fifth of Augusut and as the
she was away she could not cele- pre
brate until she came home, so last,sir<
' F:*iday, 17th, she issued invitations,so.
tc her birthday party. When the ne(
lii;tle girls and boys arrived games she
of every kind were played on the(to
lawn, after which came the refresh*-j sir <
ments of ice cream and cake, which
was enjoyed by the merry crowd. I
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LECTIVE DRAFT LAW
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nstitutionality of Act Upheld in
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ie was that of Albert Jonedy a ne>,
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MR. BARKSDALE RESIGNS.
rhe people of the county will re>t
to learn that Mr. J. C. Barks
!e, the county farm demonstrator,
o took up his work here a few
eks ago, has been forced to resign
position and leave Abbeville. His
ignation is brought about by the;
Iden and unexpected deatn of his
her on last Sabbath morning.
Mr. Barksdale in the short time
was here made many friends in
s county. The people were imsssed
'with his evident sincere de2
to serve them, and ability to do
His discussions of subjects con-|
:ted with farming in this county
iwed that he had a keen insight
farming interests, and that he dejd
to be of real service.
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WORKING FOR THE CITY.
Gibson Edwards has the position
'with the Electric and Water Plant
until recently held by Mr. Deadwyler.
Gibson has finished in the Abbeville
High school and is a bright and
energetic young man. Everybody ( ,
wishes him success in his new work.
WORKING IN GREENVILLE.
Mr. C. L. Deadwyler, who has taken
a good position in Greenville
with a big plumbing establishment,
was at home Sunday visiting his
family. He is pleased with his new '
work and expects to move his family
soon to their new home.
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