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OW IT tVAS PONE. n American. can be 110 doubt that in the bf every American there is a f ancestral blood. Nor is this jmpatible with genuine devotion the United States. Our population of one hundred million is even at best *uit an aggregation of immense Eu ropean colonies of the first, second or third generation. Of course :i man loves the place ^"here he wa* born, not only ihv "country but the Slate, the city, the street. even tbp house and the very room, indeed the very bed. Tt is n mystical attachment for th3t combin ation of circumstances which gave The e~o that is within him its fir si appearance. T^iit in addition In the nlace of h*s own birth there is a call of blood hi Americans whose voice becomes ar ticulate whenever the native place of liis ancestors is attacked, to be <leai to which would prove him unworthy of the love of those who love him. Therefore, in this American nation which is but of yesterday, next to the love we have for it. for the flas: of our country, and its institutions, there is necessarily a preference for L* ne the land from which we sprung. That sentiment does not and should nor abridge the patriot's devotion for his native land. We do. and we should, love America first, with an al; em bracing loyalty; and should be glad to lay down our lives for it. Surely no true American would hesitate to throw* his body across the path 01 an enemy who came to de spoil our land or destroy our institu tions. Three years ago, while all Ameri cans had an active love for this, our ountry, t^.ey also had a legitimate, IriTTO -PrkT +"ho land <~vf thpfr \[ UlCOUt/U IV/ I V 1V1 WUV \? V* forbears. But there was probably no feeling of animosity against any Eu ropean nation, or perhaps any na tion. with the possible exception ot Japan. The last country in the worlo that we would have thought of fight ing was Germany. We have had repeated clashes with England, two wars and many diplo matic controversies, at times threat ening war, such as in the car.es of Venezuela and the Bhering sea. But on the whole ^the American peo ple for a long time have hail no feel ing against England and . attributed disputes merely to tlie inevitable re sult of world-wide British dominion, making it natural that as England "had so many points of contact, this contact led to controversy. This was the state of mind of the American people three years ago. when the war broke out. Germany and England were locked in mortal combat, about the merits of which America had opinions, but with the; outcome of which they had no pri mary concern. At this point, however, we began to observe ihe "call of that blood"' which, as we said, is under the skins of all Americans. Unfortunately for Germany, the Germans in this coun try had never sought political prefer ment to any great extent. The whole machinery of government was in the hands of the so-called "Anglo-Sax on,? branch of our population. The president issued his neutrali ty proclamation, but it was clear from the beginning that his heart - - ? : ? ?tliA hi /->/-> rl TvViinh De&l 1X1 lUUSUll v\ 1J.H uuc u.uuu flowed through it, which was British, pure and simple. He had selected a cabinet, net one member of which was of German extraction or sympa I tal kic the ( "Th< 1 thy nnd some of them born subjects of Great Britian. From the day. therefore, thai v:a: broke out, the president and these ] rc-i^iis" idvisers began to see th?: war from the Anglo-Saxon angle. !u sides they were sat. ;aled w i:h the Washington atmosphere, strongi\ pro-British, and their minds and the 1 political affairs tiere moved by a:, mei icp.ii p;e.-s *.ial were 99 per cent T'n f'ich Since tN* ^ar broke out Englan-l herself h.s been the best witness ,v:.ui mic ihiaks oi' the strength oi tho col] of the blood. She resorted to atrocious cruelties in her treatment of people in England who had even German names. Men of the third and fourth generation, descended from German on one side and whose trace! of German blood was very thin, were imprisoned for no other reason tnan that they might hear the faint call of Geiman ancestry. The head ot tlie British navy, the Dnke of Baiten 'burg, had about a sixty-fourth ot German blood in him, and so much) did the people clamor for his head( that he was compelled to resign his; post in disgrace. It has been inti- j ? nrrori iho TT r. <*] i cjli klHiT ' maLCU Iliac V I 1/11 liiv - C, might not be loyal, because his grand-; father was a German prince, Baronj Speyer, who was exalted into the i highest social position in England, i and who wore a proud English title.: had German blood in him. and he was. ?o utterly uetested cn that account i that his title was taken away and he ; quit England and csrne to America, I renouncing forever all allegiance to1 i a country that was so narrow to one | upon whom so many honors were : conferred, "but from whom they were j so ferociously taken away. A prominent English clergyman's I wife was born in Germany, but rais-J 1 ed in England, and was the mother of! a large English family. He and she i ! were put in jail, because the erst-1 j while clergyman w^as suspected of be-: ing a German spy. These are but e,ome of the instances ( i ^rViir?Vi rvrm-P the a-eieht. eiven in En?- I j :and to this question of blood. How j ! then could we expect the government; | of the United States to remain neu-i I tral when its whole personnel was j I either of English descent or of actual, i English birth? Would anyone sup-; ! pose that if three or four Germans ' j had been, members of Wilson's cab I inet Lansing would have dared tt> j take his absurd attitude, involving i the utmost special pleading, by which j ! Germany has been condemned andj I England excused at every turn? ~TJr\r,/-.r\ if ?c /" 1 n r I j U1 UUUISC nut. Jicnv,t Ik lo vivv>t i that the one hundred million Ameri- 1 . can people, only a small percentage' of which are of English descent, are being dragged into this war because J in the hours of her desperation Brit-; ain calls to British blood flowing in -Li ?f ~ " K n crl r\ Covnn i Ttl Or). i ine veins <11 rtii -T.ilt,ivy-in. ^<uv< > . can government. Do these condition?, therefore, not! make it more obligatory upon those] who may even yet speak, to challenge; livery ste^. to examine every foot of' the ground over which we have come, ! riurinff the last months, and especially; to implore congress when it meets In j a fewr days to sift through the finest: . ~ nnrlioTviotito rv onjilveic: til** ; i Mtrvr U1 uai uaiu^iibMi J | reasons offered why we should go to| i T^r? i Vny should we go to war? Of! , course a thousand excited so-called reasons might be given; but isn't it, T-praront that we have already done' enough for the allies? Surely this! ?i?? "ot ir? its inception our war.1 It was European, pure and simple.' The cry has been raised that the allies! ; are fighting our battles, and of course leres un lie drink tl Mies ac wel older ones afely enjoj ANT PO! NO CAFFEINE eres a that senseless and mendacio* argu ment ft as used even before despotic Russia became a transient republic. It cannot be that we are fighting for the freedom of the seas, because the first to assail that freedom, and which still assails it. was Knglana, In whose behalf we now arc (ailed to flight. Would not our duty, our pride. our honor and above ail. our human ity be vindicated if even today, in spite of the position which the presi dent and his cabinet took (but not ::.e American people) we should sa> to the warring nations: "Here are our goods. Come and get them, all you who will take the risk; but it you are afraid to risk your shirs, ami if you refuse to allow your women ami children to embark upon the seas, either through fear of German submarines on the one hand, or the British navy on the other, then sure ly we are not. called upon to complete the tragic circle of blood by plung ing our innocent one hundred million people into this terrible carnage." The call of blood lias led us up to war. It would be one thing if the blood that is to be shed by America were confined to the representatives of that ancestral blood which calls them. Why should thos "h>) have no reason to love the English gov ernment be held to the slaughter? It is a monumental iniquity, ana con sideration of this iniquity may yet s:> weigh upon the discordant el omenta of the American nation ar-. to prove in the long run the evil means of its undoing. It is a terrible thing for America to contemplate, that because of the unity of American citizenship they may be compelled to fight for a European power which means noth ing in their minds but a long record of bloody cruelties. TILLMAN FOR WAR, HE SAYS PLAINLY Augusta, Ga., March 22.?Senator B. R. Tillman, in Augusta on private business today, said he will vole for war the first opportunity he gets. Hi3 opinion is that Germany has gone be yond the limit, and is now making war on this country, and be favors immediate action, tie Deneves uiu senate will stand by President Wil son and that action should be taken at once. Was Well Attended. Chapin Cor..Lexington Dispatch-News, 21st. The box party at St. John's school near Pomaria on Saturday night whs well attended and patronize:!. Tno school authorities derived a nice lit tle sum for the benefit of the school. The receipts from the sale of the rnU-fi-Tvalk and refreshments, amounted to something like $32.50. This certainly speaks "well as it shows the interest the people of that com munity are taking in their school. Miss Eessie Derrick, the teacher, de serves much praise in this get up for the school. Let others do likewise, and ere long we will have sufficient funds to run our schools longer an-i UeilKr results uail UC uuiamvu. Episcopal Laymen. Lutheran Church Visitor. One hundred and forty Episcopalian churchmen, delegates to the national missionary congress .held in Washing ton, D. C., met in conference and dis cussed plans for carrying forward the missionary enterprise. They pledged Vsq caiarr npppsssrv to Dav a secre tary of their denomination on the staff of the Laymen's Missionary Movement. f can / f(a ,VRI>S TO BE KECKriTEI) TO FI LL WAR STRENGTH (ioyprnor Manning Stilus That \?; V/itr f'nift will Uo ^n^iiniyc/l in , >1 I llfiti Tf *. * IVV M S<?uth Carolina l'n(il Present Or-; I conizations Are at Highest Nofen. I I Columbia, March 23.?No now units ' ' will be organized in the national | guard of South C'/rolina until tha i present organizations are recruited to , full war strength. Such is the effect ' of a statement issued by Governor Manning today. ; The governor will accept the resig nations of officers only when their; ;c:irc ::c:u :!:c service is re-! quired either by abnormal circum stances, or for the good of the ser : vice. 'fViA 11t Vi r.rit Tlnrf* ;t 1*. 1 lie illliltttljt 14.H i. * . ? . . I taking steps which ivill keep Soutn' ! Carolina in lino, looking towards a i declaration of war at any moment. ! The statement issued from the gov-j j ernnr's office is as follows: ' "The formation of new units in the; national guard of South Carolina has! | been set aside as individual at the' I present time by Governor Manning,! j commander-in-chief of the militia: . ? i i forces of the State, inasmuch as me limits now in the service are not re-1 , cruited to anywhere near their maxi-; I mum war strength. This decision is i in compliance with recent statements 1 from the war department. The gov-! ' ernor also has declined to eccept res- i | ignations of officers except under ex-| I ceptional circumstances or to grant! J discharges of enlisted men except as} ! strictly provided for in the national i defense act of June 3, 1916. Many Applications. "A large number of applications have been received by Governor Man ning, asking him for authority to or ganize new units in various branches of the service. While all these letters J 'vlao-Tomc! ~h a XTCi hppn filpd for ref dUU UAilU X1U ' V __ _ erence in case of a call for volunteers, no definite action will be taken on them until the present national guard forces are sufficiently recruited tu justify the expense of organizing and recruiting additional units. "The governor points out that one of the units of the State's militia ^as not accepted by the government in the mustering in last year, due to the fact that it was not recruited to the mini mum strength. Futhermore, as is shown by the annual report of New ton D. Baker, secretary of war, the removal of State troops to the Mexi can Doraer iasi summei w<ts LUUi^iV/i, j ed because of the exigencies of the; occasion and not because the units' were sufficiently recruited. While j the border and since mustering otu; the personnel of the units has beer* j j numerically diminished due to resig-' i nations and discharges, and the gov- j j ernor considers the recruiting of | I these organizations to their full i strength of far greater importance J than even the tentative organization I of new and unequipped units. Not Easy to Resign. "Governor Manning will accept only j those resignations of officers whostj retirement from the service is requir- * ed either by abnormal circumstances) or for the good of the service. *A plea (; of normal personal sacrifice in fol lowing the color-: will not be consid ered a sufficient reason for accep tance of a resignation, inasmuch ab the business and personal sacrifices I r>f oniietpr) men. often more acute j than those of the commissioned offi- j cers, are not sufficient justification for ! a discharge. "Dicharges for enlisted men, other; than those authorized by the presi-i dent or secretary of war, or by a gen-! eral courtmartial, will be given onlv j oct r,mvidA/i in the national defense! act of June 3, 1916. These provisions are briefly: On account of physical disability; on account of sentence of imprisonment by a civil court, wheth er suspended or not; on account of <x bonafide permanent change of resi dence to another State and for the, purpose of enlisting in the regular army, navy or marine corps. Dis -i +Vi5c inst nrovision are tMliXi gca unuci uuu c discretionary with the governor, who may cease to grant them if it be comes apparent that the national guard will be disrupted. Engineering Companies. Adjt. Gen. W. W. Moore received a communication today from the chief of the militia bureau suggesting ana I urging the organization of two addi I ?n?nnperine companies in order I LIV^i-1 UkrX to relieve the battallion organizations of tliis State from this branch of the service. The letter ?0 the adjutant general sets forth that it is not practical to maintain a smaller organization than a battalion, and that, therefore, there ko auflPv-'ip.nt engineering com-1 panies in the various State organiza tions to form battalions of their own. Persons interested in the organization of the proposed two new companies of engineers are requested to com municate with Adjt. Gen. W. W. Moore at once. The women of Soutn Carolina are i becoming enthused, in view of the j war situation and many of them are j offering their services as Red Cross I nurses. Women Organize. Miss Follin Porter, of Columbia, i colonel-adjutant to the women's aux- | * - ' ^m /v i iliary of the national guara ui mc j State, has written Governor Manning ; j a letter in which the services of the I women are offered in this regard, j j .Mrs. Manning is chairman of this wo- 1 j men's auxiliary. Governor Manning replied as follows: ".Miss Follin Porter. Oolonel-Adju- i , tant, Columbia, S. C-: "My Dear Miss Porter: Replying to! your letter of the 19th inst., T would say that I consider no work of great-, er importance for the women of our j State than their training in Red Cro3s ! work, and especially so at this time,! r.prmpnv spems immi- { nent. T fee! that throughout the j State steps should be taken by both j men and women to prepare them selves for an eventuality, so that South Carolinians can offer their ser vices to the president as a unit. ''As State chairman of the Red 1 Uro35 work I call upon our citizens, j especially the women, ro unite in lo-1 cal organizations and st udy such in- j structions as may he given them by j physicians and nurses in regards to | bandaging and first aid measures. In j just such units our women will h<?vb' the opportunity to receive that spec-j ial training which is required for ac-j tual service. The dues are only $! a; } ear and no previous service is ryj-: quired for entrance into a unit. The i work has my heartiest indorsement \ .;nd I hope that the women of the -late will avail themselves of the op- i iiuitiuiny oi uuiiig oi great service to j the nation. 'Terv truly yours. "RICHARD I. MAXIXXG, "Governor.'' i ANOTHER AMERICAN LIFE ENDANGERED Washington, March 23.?One more American life was jeopardized in the German submarine zone when the .'Norwegian tanker, Malmanger. was! sunk without warning. Col. Weslej Frost, at Queenstown. reported to the state department tonight. George W. Stead, of Chester, Pa., was aboard the Malmanger when she was sunk. Consul Frost's report said: "The Norwegian tanker Mulmanger, 3,810 tons, from New York for Avonmouth, with a cargo of kerosene, was sunk by an explosion six miles east or Fastnet at noon, March 22. She re mained afloat until 5:30 in the even ing. No injuries or loss of life. No J warning or attempt to escape. The explosion may have been a mine. The vessel was under escort. 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