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THE REASON WHY ] THIS IS OUR WAR. < V ( The Manufacturers Record. < We are too much inclined to pat 1 ourselves on the back and say that we 1 are in this war to save democracy, to 1 save England and France and Belguim and Russia and Italy as well as 1 ourselves. We are prone to con- s gratulate ourselves upon our unsel fishness and our readiness to risk the J [y lives of our soldiers to make civiliza- 1 tion safe, or to make democracy safe < As a matter of fact, we are in this 1 war purely and wholly from the one selfish reason of trying to save ourselves and the women of this land 1 ~ . . from complete destruction. We did not enter the war to save i other people, and to that extent we are almost particeps crimiais with the murderers and outragers who for \ three years before we entered the war had been overruning civilization. kw ltlr/* t*rV?a cqut MK'-.'. / Tf C Obvvu wj ixnu vvnuiuo wuw wm ?f women and Children being attacked by brutes, but we were too anxious to save ourselves from possible injury to rush to the side of those who w^re fighting for these wemon, and who in doing so were standing between us and the brutes. We saw the Belgium overrun and horrors enacted such as the world had never known, but we raised no voice in protest. We saw France?beautiful France ?in the throes of the death struggle, but we raised no hand to save her. 1 We saw millions dying of starvation and suffering, but gave a beg- ' olmncl mrnn nf +V10 *IVWIIII5 VOW V V?I VUW V* w**v vast wealth we had accumulated to 1 help the dying and starving, the i wounded and all whose cry went up 1 in agony to heaven. . We saw millions of Christians bu; < ' chered in cold blood in Armenia, 1 but we shut our ears to the sound of their voices. We saw helpless babies butchered; i we saw children driven off into the < snow and ice, dying by the wayside, 1 their bones bleaching along hundreds 1 ' of miles of awful roads that led > through Poland and Russia and Ser- j bia and Armenia; but we drew back 1 and hid ourselves even from a sight i of these horrors. I We did not want to get a glimpse t of this inferno?by the side of which c Dante's was Heaven itself?break f in upon our comfort and ease and t our moneymaking activities.. t We saw England?the mother country of our language, the coun- \ try whose flag has for a century I meant law and order and civilization \ wherever it floated, the country of j t freedom greater than our own free-11 dom, the country which gave birth I to Milton and Bunyan and Shakes- t peare and thousands of others whose i names have been writ deep into hu- s man history?struggle to rally its i forces and create an army to save 1 itself from destruction and to meet r its responsibilities to Belgium and c France. x , a We saw the English fleet sweep < from the ocean German shipping, t ,and we saw that we were hiding be- ^ hind the English fleet, skulking in 1 the rear, knowing that so long as s that fleet held the ocean our cities along the coast were free from the i ravages of Germany's navy; and we i knew full well that there was no l other salvation for us but to hide t behind this fleet, and, cowards like, < we hid. i x We contributed little or nothing * out of our boundless wealth to help 1 the starving, while England * and ( France poured out their hundreds of 1 millions, even amid their vast war ' activities, to rescue the living and ^ feed the starving in Belgium and France. As a nation we gave no * word of comfort or sympthy to these ' nations who in fighting their battle were fighting for our life. ' And yet we sometimes dare to ( stand in the presence of Almighty God and talk as though we had been ' . . moved by a spirit of world patriot- ' ism and world sympathy and a love of civilization to enter the war. One ' may well sometimes wonder that the ' Almighty did not smite us with de- 1 struction as we gathered to ourselves the vast wealth that was being | 1 created, and which had been created prior to the war, and gave none of it, or almost none of it, back into His 1 service to the starving ones of Eu- : rope. Surely if ever a nation ! through smug satisfaction with itself, through a desire to shut its 1 eyes to the realities which face it 1 and shirk its responsibilities, deserved the condemnation of Almighty God, this was the nation. I laiK aoout woria-encircnng patri-M otism! We should be ashamed of 1 ourselves, and frankly admit that < this country went into this war for < the purely selfish reason of trying to 1 save itself from destruction. We did i not'have the manhood to enter it in 1 the interest of Christianity and civ- < ilization until we saw that we ourselves were doomed unless we joined ' the Allies. Not until war was being < made upon us vigorously and aggres- i sively, and not even then did we-go i into it until we got an intimation t that possibly a defeat of France and i Sngland would mean, a transference >f their fleets to Germany as a part )f its indemnity, for that has been >ne of the things which Germany has lad in mind, in addition to Gernany's hope, in addition to the fleets ;o claim Canada as indemnity. Germany thought that it had the world beneath its feet; that it could set its own terms, and that by destroying the power of England and France it could plant its feet upon this continent and do to the United States exactly what it has done to the overrun parts of France and Belgium. We shut our eyes to these facts, though from the day Belgium was invaded we should have been able to see them, for a study of Germany's military and philosophical teachings for the last quarter of a century should have given us a glimpse into the determination which had been ruling in Germany for more than a third of a century to Germanize the world. And Germany came 'desperately near succeeding. The Battle of the Marne was the fateful hour in human civilization. Had the French failed then, all France would have been 'doomed, England would have been conquered, and then straight for this fcountry Germany would have carried out plans for its invasion which it had already made. We stood by and saw France with the most tremendous heroic work stem the onrush of barbarism, but we made no move to help her. At the Yser we saw the soldiers of England and her colonies, literally mowed down by machine guns, with which they were not equipped, stay the onrush of the,.Huns to the coast of France, and thus to England. But we lifted no hand in their defense. We saw Belgioum?heroic, superb ?offer up its life rather than sell its honor, and we utteited no word if portest against the rapists, individual and national. We gave no lelp to that little nation in.' the hour vhen it looked as though all civilir*ion of all the world "hung in the valance. Belgium held the barbarans in check until England and France could gather enough soldiers: o meet the men who were the pro-j luct of a military machine which 'or years and, decades had been >uilding for the purpose of crushing he world and Germanizing it. And America raised no national 'oice in behalf of Belgium. And yet some people talk as though ve had entered this war to save he Allies from barbarism! Let us >e decently honest with ourselves. )uty and self-preservation demanded hat we should have entered the war n its early stages and fought by the ide of those whose fight was saving^ is from ruin; but lack of foresight, ack of world patriotism, lack of hunanity kept us quiet, and we wentj >n living in peace, selling foodstuffs md munitions to the Allies at exorbitant prices. Their lifeblood was , minn* t\aiivo/1 nnf fa qqvd 11a Knf tua |/VW&VU VUW WW WMT V MM) ?? V vere pocketing with eager, greedy lands the profit on what we were telling them. Here and there were heroic souls vho could not be tied down by this ialse neutrality. They went to Europe and offered their lives to France ;o Belgium and to England. Many )f them died, and to their everlastng honor and to that of those who jave them birth their names should je forever enrolled upon the pages )f history aa the men who loved hunanity, not simply for themselves, jut for others, more than they loved life. We are now in this war to save jur country from being overrun by barbarism. We are trying to save the women > fthis land from what the women jf France and Belgium have endured. We are trying to save the infant from being dangled on the bayonet, as was done in Belgium. We are trying to save the wealth of the nation. But what is its wealth of ntoney worth by the side of its manhood and its womanhood and what it has stood for through its history of human liberty, civil and religious? Let us put away from our thought even the shadow of an idea that this is notour war; that this war is not specifically and directly and selfishly for our own salvation from eternal damnation. It is for this we are fighting. It would have been glorious for this country to have stood at the beginning of the war alongside of the countries who now are its allies, battling on high and holy ground for civilization and democracy. But we did not do it. Let us admit the fact, and, as we shamefacedly recognize our national shortcoming in this, let us now atone to the utmost Bxtent of our power for our failure. And now as we try to save ourselves?for up to this hour the Allies ilone have saved us?let us throw nto the contest the utmost power of nen and money, the utmost force of ;he oation, morally, physically, spirtually and financially, and let us not be blatant about what we are doing jor what we can do, until we have surpassed the sacrifices of France and Belgium and England and Italy and Canada and Australia and Serbia and Russia. They staved us. Not until then shall we measure up to our responsibility. TEUTONIC INTRIGUE MORE FULLY SHOWN (Continued from page 1.) i ; time it came into possession of other telegrams forwarded to Berlin through the Swedish legation at Beunos Ayres is not disclosed. Several days ago press Teports from Buenos Ayres said a sensation had been created there by publication of a dispatch from Rio de Janeiro saying the Brazilian foreign minister had made known that translations of the Luxburg messages revealed a German plot to invade South Brazil. The Argentine newspapers demanded then that their government either publish the dispatches or "authorize their publication by a foreign government." "The reorganization" of South Brazil referred to by von Luxburg is assumed here to refer to the ac; tivities of the Hamburg Colonization Company in connection with a large German element already located in that section. Several months before this dispatch was written there were reports of plans for a Grman insur recuon. The break between Argentina and Germany, which von Luxburg apparently was expecting in July, has no tyet come, and latest advices from Buenos Ayres do not indicate any intention on the part oJ: Argentine government to join Brazil and other South American nations on the side of the allies. Von Luxburg, who was kept in a detention camp for a time after his exposure, is expected to sail for home November 1, the allies having agreed to grant him safe conduct for the voyage. vvvvvvvvvvvvvvw V V V LOWNDESVILLE. V V V vVVWWVW vv^wv LowndesvilH, Oct 31.?Mrs. E. W Harper has returned home from a visit to Mrs. W. W. Keese in Greenville. Miss Aileen Hammond spent the week-end with her cousin, Mrs. J. N. Land of Starr. Mr. A. V. Barnes, Miss Alpha Barnes and Master James Barnes were guests of Mrs. R. H. Moseley Sunday. Mrs. J. H. Lawrence and daughter, Miss Ellen of Pendleton, were Mrs. Sam Cook's guests for the week end. Mrs. Annie Moorhead has returned ot her home in Atlanta after a two week's visit to relatives here. Messrs. Ed and Gamewell Lemmon, Geo. Bell, W. H. Bonds and Luke Loftis were an automobile party to Greenville Sunday, visiting Camp Sevier. Mrs. W. M. Speer- is at home after spending two weeks in Atlanta with her sister, Mrs. W. C. Tennant. Mr. J. M. Baker, who spent last week here on business, has returned to his home in Washington, D. C. Mr. and Mrs. D. L. Bairnes, Mrs. A 1- H/r T J J T> IT Anine iriuureneuu turn iur?. xv. xi. Moseley were on auto p&rty shopping in Anderson last Monday. The second number of our Lyceum course will be presented on Friday evening in the school auditorium when Mrs. William C. Chilton will appear. Mrs. Chilton pleased a large audience here before and we know there is a good time in store for all who attend this number. AMERICANS TAKE. GERMAN PRISONER | First Captive of War Dies From Wounds. With the American Army in France, Oct. 30.?The first German prisoner of war taken by the American expeditionary forces, died yesterday in an American field hospital, having been shot when he encountered an American patrol in No Man's Land in front of the American trenches. He with another German was discovered Saturday night by the patrol and was called upon to halt. The Germans ran; the patrol fired and one of the enemy was hit. The pris j. i._ J _ j .i. ! uxier was treaceu au a urt;&aiug ?>uaticn and removed to a field hospital where the combined efforts of several surgeons failed to save his life, j The prisoner was a mail carrier and letters of some value were found on him. He explained his presence near the American trenche:s, sayinghe had lost his way in the dark. He declared that the German soldiers uiu nut hiiuw Liictt ninci ileitis were on the front or in France., the officers telling them nothing. 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