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r ? -. _ L. '$[ . ~ ~ I ESTABLISHED 1844 I The Press and Banner ABBEVILLE. S. C. t _ . I Wm. P. GREENE, Editor. f; The Press and Banner Co. % Published Every Tuesday and Friday Telephone No. 10. fr v. f?'- ' " Entered as second-class mail matter at post office in Abbeville, S. C. Tarns of Subscription: n r. One year $1.50, fcbr months .75 W 17" " ' Three months .50 Payable invariably in advance. I ? * FRIDAY, SEPT. 6, 1918. ===? | THE TRAIL OF THE HUN. r . : . I ek . {Since we'declared a state of war existing between this country and Germany we have not been without tgj : r \ "I those, who, affecting to be willing to help France, have in mournful numbers told us how much we ought to hate England, and as between England and Germany we should not take sides, unless of course and perfhaps on the side of the Kaiser. Some of those who have so stated in their ?" . ignorance have been sounaing boards for traitors. Those reallyresponsible for this talk have had less of love for France than they have told us, and less real considerfation for their own country. Because as we have said before, it was not really England that made war on us in the Revolution, but Germany in fact, and among those who . came over to fight our forefathers, waging a war for independence, Were the hired Hessians, who fought f_ us for the money that wa3 in it. In confirmation of what we have \ been saying, we give our readers a recent editorial from the Greenville News, so ably edited oy non. iuon McKissick, at once a gifted writer tnd a scholar who knows what he is k talking about, as well as the way to pii: put the truth. Here is the way he tells it: The Kaiser and Huns of 1776. "Often since this war began the statement has been made, especially by Englishmen, that in the War of the Revolution, the people of Eng _ land opposed warring on their bro there in blood and ideals in America and that George the T^ird, then King of England,' was really a German. A most interesting statement by way of corroboration was made by Alfred Noyes, the famous English poet, in a speech this year at the dedication of the memorial to gv.-'is . American and British solciiers at Princeton, a Revolutionary battlefield. On this occasion he said: Bs&' * " 'It is difficult to realize, in these surroundings, that your countrymen and mine were once engaged here, on this very ground, in killing one another to make a German holiday; while a sound, very like those concussions which you hear now, in the distance, was once heard here in r w grim, earnest, a sound that meant iiot the mere blasting of stone from those quarries, under the hills, but the destruction of human life in war. ; % u *I said that we killed one an y other to make a German holiday, and it is something more than an attempt at an epigram or a time serving paradox. It is a plain historical fact that the Revolutionary ^nr was an earlier phase of the "war of today. It was a war of our Englishman, George Washington, j-/ against a German King. It is unnecessary to remind you of the familiar protests that great English "?? nira Phnftinm Rnd Burke made against that war; but, on an occa[ ' sion like this, it is fitting perhaps, that we should remember how representative those real men were of all that was best in the spirit of England. When Chatham attacked the war against the English colon. Ists in America as a "most barbarous, cruel, unjust and diabolical war;" when he said, "if I were an American, as I am an Englishman, I would never lay down my arms k while a foreign troop was landed in v'j tay Country, never, never . . he ' r;v ' was speaking hot only for himself, pV" Imt for all.true Englishmen everywhere. And When he said "a foreign troop/' he was not alluding to I ? I 'us own countrymen, but to the German troops, the twenty thousand Hessians whom the German King had been forced to hire, because the Englishmen had refused to do his dirty work. " 'The King's proclamation of the state of war, when it was read from the steps of the Royal Exchange in London, was received with hisses from the citizens of London. Their representatives made protest to the King, until he was forced to leave London to escape them. The four members of Parliament who represented London voted against the war. The Recorder of the city wore mourning publicly for the brothers he had lost, fighting against the new tyranny at Lexington. " 'Lord North, the time-serving prime minister, confessed in 1779 that he always knew, at heart, that the war "fcould be ruinous. Barrington, the Secretary of State for War, called the po^cy of the King "madness." Shelbourne, after many vain protests, resigned from the Cabinet. The Duke of Grafton wrote to North protesting. His letter was ignored and he then obtained a personal audience with the King, with whom he pleaded in vain against the war. On the next day he made a public protest in the House of Lords. He was summoned to the pafcce and instantly dismissed from his office of Lord Privy Seal by the arbitrary command of the King, who was trying to revive the divine right of monarchs in England in precisely the same way as the Kaiser is attempting it today in Europe. The Duke of Richmond protested, also vainly, against what he called a "criminal policy." Grenville Sharpe, the great anti-slavery advocate, resigned a government post, upon which he was entirely dependent and was thrown without resources on the world. "Soldiers and sailors resigned their commissions rather than serve. Chatham removed his son, Lord Pitt, from the army, so that he might not fight against the Americans. The Earl of Effingham resigned his commission and received a vote of thanks from the corporations of Dublin and London for doing so. Sir William Howe, when appointed to the command of the British forces, accepted it only under protest and because he felt himself bound by his military oath. Colonel Burgoyne also accepted only under protest. General Conway not only resigned his commission, but moved an address in Parliament to stop the war immediately. Admiral Kep_ i + j x. a ? j i:~4. pei reiuseu to iignu Aim tut; not v? protests could be extended almost indefinitely. Does it not explain why the military maps on the so-called British side, the maps of the battle of Princeton, were all drawn up in German? You can find them in the Princeton library, if you wish to confirm it. "And look at the names that signed the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States. Will you find any Bernstorffs or Hindenburgs amongst them? Why, every name appended to your Constitution was made in Britain their very syllables were formed in Britain?Washington, Langdon, Gorham, Johnson, Livingston, Paterson, Franklin, Morris. All came from Great Britain, arid there is only one that did not come from that smaller part of Great Britain which is called England. "These are not fancies, these are plain historical facts; and when a German plaintively asks why, when he. becomes naturalized in America, he must prove his loyalty by learning "English," the answer is that he must do so not because it is "English", but because it is American, and we do not intend to return to the Tower of Babel. The various nationalities that have enriched your country and mine will gain nothing by trying to contradict historical facts. They have their own gifts to give; ttiiu iieitucr in jruui wuhuajt, nor in mine, do we deny those gifts; but neither can we deny the plain facts of history in this particular historical development. We are united by something stronger than the bonds even of blood. We are united by the bond of a common language, a language enriched by the associations of a thousand years. The great charters of freedom, frora Magna Charta to the Declaration ol Independence, have been slowly wrested from tyranny by those whc spoke our tongue." > * " l " i *? ,4 I SECOND PRIMARY. , i The second primary election will ;be held on next Tuesday. At that ,1 election the voters will cast their | ballots for a candidate for the short i term in the United States Senate, for a Railroad Commsisioner, and for a Commissioner of Agriculture. In addition to this a candidate for Comptroller General is to be nominated, Mr. Sawyer having died a few days before the first primary, and the Democratic Executive Committee having ordered that the primary for this office be held on next Tuesday. County Chairman, Wm. P. Greene a advises that the tickets have been) M shipped to him, and that they will in V all probability be received today, ^ and may be called for, as well as . those enrollment books which were returned. The managers of election I may call for these books and tickets, I or any persons in the vicinity of a I polling place may call for the same. I It is suggested that there are men I on the jury from the several com- I munities and any of these may call | for the boxes and tickets for the I polling precincts at which they vote, I if they will turn the same over to I the managers. ^ "CHARLEY'S AUNT," g FAMOUS COMEDY, COMING I "Charley's Aunt," the success of I four continents, and positively the I funniest play ever written and pro 3 duced, will be presented at the*Op era House. "Charley's Aunt" is a I guaranteed sure cure for the blues I and all the ills that flesh is heir to. I It makes you forget where you are, H whom you are, wnat you are, ana assures you an evening of true hap- I piness, joy and pleasure, not prob- B lems. The tour is directed by Miller B & Risser, the well known New York 6 i producers, which means that all ad ' vance promises will be lived up to. B j STORE TO CLOSE AT | SIX O'CLOCK DURING WAR | We, the undersigned merchants of g ' Abbeville, S. C., do hereby agree to J| ! close our stores at 6 o'clock P. M., ? during the duration of the war. Saturdays and pay days at the Shops " j excepted: i Cason & McAllister. j i Parker & Reese. j J Haddon-Wilson Co. Wm. H. Cobb Co. The Rosenberg Mercantile Co. Philson & Henry. Mrs. Jas. S. Cochran. J. M. Anderson Co. L. C. Haskell. J. S. Bowie Co. Wholesale Grocers A. M. Hill Co. T. M. Miller. Amos B. Morse Co. W. D. Barksdale. F. S. Hill, Market. Kerr Furniture Co. Stark Vehicle Co. J. Allen Smith Jr. v W. T. Cason. T. H. Maxwell. Moore Bros. W. A. Calvert. Hot Hustler Racket. E. R. Thomson. | D. Poliakoff. L. W. Keller & Bro. - W. E. Johnson. R. L. Mabry. A. M. Smith. L. W. White Co. S. J. Link. R. Kirkwood. Dargan-King Co. Hall Investment Co. i' I THE KAISER LAUGHED AT. ) J The Kaiser never had a thing to jmake him so angry in his life. An j American moving picture company | took pictures of him in a series of | funny poses and thereby placed him in a class with Charley Chaplain and Fatty Arbuckle. Think of it! | The great and divine Kaiser, the [proud and egotistical monarch, crawl i !?< omntid nn Ho V>nr?Ha nnH Vtippr and thousands of people jeering and . laughing at him. It was enough to I make the old geezer cum. 1 Well, Mr. Glenn Kay once showed , a very special picture called, "The . Beast of Berlin." The same coms pany, which produced that, is offer i! ing a farce on that picture entitled, J "The Geezer of Berlin." If you r. want to enjoy> a. good laugh at the > Kaiser's expense, go to the Opera House on Monday, Sept 9th. t * . .' ????mmmmmmrmammmmmmjmmmmmmm?w> m.. mm* !? .^rnmrnmmmtm.Mi mmm* I wish to announce that I have or r*iinno an#1 Arcranc in flip sfatp. ! piUkAVU IA4i%t VA ^ v?*av MM M ?aav ? thousand dollars worth of musical I have over a dozen of the most now in stock. All pianos have the Pianos at from three hundred doll; Player Pianos at from five hundre dred dollars. I will have a playe:* hundred dollars. I have made a special order for here in October, which is sol d for n All of the pianos I have on hand and before the great advance in pi of what the goods cost. Pianos c what they were four or five years a Call and see my entire line. Act. may be secured. Coil A* urrifp ni? nKmnf? and I arm V/UXI VI fT A VA ? JOHN A. H The Greenwoc Reference:?The Bank of Gre( est Bank in Greenwood County. Tlia Raic^nhiPm 1 nil 11WVUUV1 & DEPARTMEf Abbeville, : 1 CLOTHING F MB???1 Buy good ones buy less often.... nni _ i i _ j.1 i ne Desi is ine t ' long run.... We are showir range in styles for men and y Hart Schaffner clothes.... Every dollar t comes back in and good looks. .....Let Us SI The Rosenberg J ? ?- ? ? ? ? | TWENTY I Bu THOUSAND I DOLLARS I worth of H PIANOS 1 and I ORGANS I l hand the largest stock of have approximately ..twenty 1 merchandise. well known makes of America price marked in plain figures. its to five hundred dollars, j id and fifty dollars to eight hun- \ in about two weeks at even five i/? i i . i a .sell player, wmcn win arrive h ire hundred and fifty dollars. 8 were bought early in the year . rices, and I sell upon the basis 9 i only a slight advance over B go' H ommodating terms of payment K i at your service right now. is iOLL AND I >d Piano Man. W mwood, the oldest and strong- % ran?gaa^m i?in m il Mercantile Co. 4T STORES South Carolina OR FALL.. =^= I and you will I heapest in the ig a beautiful and patterns oung men in & Marx good j hey cost you i good service I > j$S tow You..... I