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! WHAT GERMAN DONIN WORLD MEAN! At Sumter the other night Hon. John L?. McLaurift delivered a remarkable address to a large gathering ?f citizens. His address was remarkable because it covers in a plain and simple manner, the many problems growing out of the world war. It is a speech worth studying? the more you study it the more it mii*irattnt you. -file Herald is reproducing the speech from the Sumter Watchman and Southron: On Go?d Friday a great congrega tioa worshipping God in a church in : Paris were buried beneath the ruins by a German shell. How typical of; the aims and purposes of Germany j --the destruction of the foundation ( of civilization, in order that a new ; Kultur may arise upon the mangled and mutilated bodies of Belgium and France. Is history about to repeat itself? Itead in Crecy's 15 decisive battles of the world of the battle of Chalons near the site of the present . gigantic conflict Ve haven't heard much of the woru Hun until since the devastation of France and Belgium. How like the Kaiser was Attilla. The open and avowed puprose of Attilla was thy destruction of Christian civilization. H?? ovprran l-n ?>.?*? ?.>n iiig himself "the scourge of God." He boasted of the desolation following in Ins wake. He ordered his soldiers to outrage women, mutilate children and to ravage and destroy, so that other nations might be cowed into submission. Wives and Virgins were outraged in the presence of husbands, fathers and brothers and then either murdered or sent into slavery. Nor does the parallel stop there, Attilla like the Kaiser was no uneducated barbarian, hut possessed the greatest learning and highest culture possible in those times, lie was a statesman and general of great ability. Hear what the historian says: "Attilla relied less on the brute forces of armies for the aggrandizement of his empire than on the unbounded affection of his friends and the '.ears of his foes which his genius enabled him to ac- ' quire. Austerly sober in his private life; severely just on the judgment seat; conspicuous among a nation of warriors for hardihood, strength and skill in every material exercise; prsivh n nH H/?ll ? - ? " *?* ? ..uu uctiuciair ill i-uuncil, DUl rapid and remorseless in execution, he gave safety and security to all who were under his dqininion, while ( he waged a warfare of extermination ,< against all who opposed or sought to , 1 escape from it. He watched the na- i tional passions, the prejudice, the ': creeds and the superstittions of the (t various nations over which he ruled 1 and of those which he sought to re-ji duce beneath his sway; all of these t feelings he had the skill to turn to n his account; his own soldiers be- t lieved him inspire of God and fol- t lowed him with fanatic zeal. ' c He called himself "The Bread of.t the world," by the grace of God.jV King of the Huns and Goths." What ;a a pen picture of the present Kaiser, v telling his soldiers to make the name 1 German feared for a thousand years, f to rape. burn, pillage and destory in 's the name of God Calling a treaty t "a scrap of paper." striking at the.r life of nations, by forcing wiv?s and 'e virgins to motherhood; sending men ;d and women into slavery to work the , mines, till the soil and gratify the j p brutal lust of the Ileast in man; ii turning the world into a charnel I house that the ambition of one trnin t for world dominion may be gratified. \ Nor does the parallels between the 1 battle of Plcardy and Chalons stop with the character of the Kaiser and l Attilla. Attill'.i was lighting the i emhatt'ed hosts of Christendom and i staked bis empire on one stroke. < When the battle bey an to go against I him, he piled bis treasure in the oen | tor of the camp and placed himself on top of it, with the intention of i setting it on lire and dying in the i Haines So the Kaiser Iras staked till < on the success of the great German t LIVER DIDN'T I DIGES Says 65 year Old Kentucky Lady, After a Few Doses / Meadorsvllle. Ky.?Mrs. Cyuthia Higgiubotham, of this town, says: "At ray age, which is 65, the liver does not act so well as when young. A few years ago, my stomach was all out of fix. I was constipated, my liver didn't act. My digestion was bad, and It took so little to upset me. My appetite was gone. I was very weak... I decided I would give BlackDraught a thorough trial as I knew it wma highly recommended for this trouble. I began tak'ng it. I felt i better after a few doses. My appetite Improved and I became stronger. My bowels acted naturally and the least ( trouble was righted with n few IATION OF THE 5 TO FREE AMERICANS <lrivo. am^again Attilla and the mod em Huns will finally fall. Ex-Ambassador Gerard in his book tells of a conversation he had with the Kaiser in 1915. He spoke of how lie had studied the lives of Alexander. Caesar and Napoleon. "They dreamed of world empire and failed." "I too have dreamed of world empire and my mailed fist shall succeed." Once more on the Marne and the Somme, brave France is defending; with her manhood the advancing hun. Civilization can never pay its debt to bleeding fluttering France. She checked the Huns 1500 years ago, ?nd again 300 years later under Charles Martel. at Tours. She thrust back the Mohamendan hordes, who were overrunning the world. In 1776 when we were struggling for freedom. France came to ojr aid. 1 doubt if we would ha\e achieved independence at that time without the guns, ammunition an'd trained otlieers sent by France. France has kept alive the feeble spark of human liberty. In 1785 it sprang into a bright tlaine and struck the divine light of kings a death blow, to be almost drowned in the blood C the French revolutions, but flickering feebly she passed it through the hands of Jefferson and Franklin to the I'nited States. It is now symbolized b> the great glowing torch of the Statute of Liberty at the mouth of our greatest harbor. The eyes of the whole world are turned on that torch today. The HllllS art* lliroaloniniT t i\ fnvovnr quench its liKlits. Hut there are brave men from America from England and from France offering their lives a sacrifice on that same field of Chalons, and the same God who looked down upon its blood soaked ground still rules above. Again the despairing cry of a heart broken world conqueror will be wafted down the ages, a lesson and a warning. The lillies of France will spring forth again, whiter and purer, fertilized by the blood of brave men, and watered by the tears of true women. With all of her military power, boasted efficiency and 40 years of pre|*uration, these modern Huns will go down before the frown of God and the outraged conscience of a world in arms. Fellow citizens; ft seems to me that divine power was never more manifested, than in having Wood row Wilson in this great world crisis. Let us thank God for the liumble professor, now the foremost nan in the world. He says this is ? war for Democracy against Auocracy. The other day at Baltinore when the Huns were driving >ur lines back and dark clouds hov>ied on the horizon, he gave the vorld a message, the only message hat the Huns understand: "I accept he challenge, I know that you acept it. It shall appear in the uter sacrice and self forgetfulness in rhich we shall give all that we love ihi an mat wo nave to redeem the ford and make it fit for free men ike ourselves to live in. Force, nice to the utmost, force without tint or limit, the righteous and riumphant force, which shall make ight the law of the world, and cast very selfish dominion down in the est While developing a great military lower at home, one of the most eficient means Germany has used is ter propaganda creating German senimenl in all the countries in the vorld. When the otfice of Wolf von ngel at No. 60 Wall street was raid *1 by secret service men, they found iioof of plots to destroy ships, burn Munition plants and funds to organize tin* I W. W. They found where ight million dollars was given Dolo I'asha to bribe public men and newslaper^. In a secret speech of the Kaiser to a German organization read recently to a Congressional committee, lie said that he controlled I >t:< sixth ol the votes in the Cnited states and to go ahead that this adIPT 401 HON WAS BAD Who Tells How She Was Relieved of Black-Draught doses of Black-Draught." Sqventy years of successful use made Thedford's Black-Draught a standard, household remedy. Every member, of every family, at times, need the help that Black- draught can give In cleansing the sys em and re lieving the troubles that, come from constipation, indigestion, lazy liyer, etc. You cannot keen weBl unless your stomach, liver and bowels are in good working order. Keep them that way. Try Black-Draught. It ijurts promptly, gently and in & natural, way. If you feel sluggish, take a 'dose tonight. You will feel fresh tom'prrow. Price 23c. a package?One 'cent a dose All druggists. . J. 19 jmr> ministration did not dare go to war Look at the working of the system in Italy. Russia and the Balkans. 1 I do not believe that all Germans arc | disloyal to the United States. The Germans came here seeking refuge from tyrgnny at home and when the test comes the majority will be true. - Germans began to come here after the "thirty years wars" which made : Germany a howling wilderness. This i was a religious war. The Prostestant f armies robbed, burned and killed the Catholics and the Catholics did the same for the I'rostestants. You know ' when pious people get to killing each other for Christ's sake,they do it very thoroughly. The population of Germany sank from 16 to 4 million. Cannibalism reappeared, the gallows had to be guarded to keep people from d^VOlirincr tho nnrnooo Honnr1U? 0 |.uto uau^iillfi from the ropes. Where thriving towns had been wolves roamed unmolested. Degraded, brutalized and poverty stricken the miserable Germans fled from devastated fields and burning homes down the Rhine to Amsterdam where they sold themselves to ship captains for the price of passage to a new world. The rulers of Germany drove the people from the Fatherland, the stream kept up- men coming over to escape military service and heavy taxation. They were received with open arms, given the right of citizens. They have grown rich and powerful. St. Louis, | Milwakuee and Detroit are largely built by German energy anil thrift. This is a well considered attempt by Germany to dominate the entire world, and every nation figures in these plans. Russia is to be cut up into provinces; her ignorant peasantry is to furnish cheap labor and the I'kraine is to be the great food producing region. The Balkans are to furnish from their fields supplies of oil rnnt irnn ami r.wwl T..-1 hi* a gateway to the teeming millions ol the Orient for the manufactured products of Germany. The population of Belguim and France is to be destroyed and the fertile lands turned over to German settlement. Germany is to extend from Berlin to Bagdad to the south and the shores of the Caspian sea to the East. England is to be shorn of her commercial power and her great navy come uuder German control. The part assigned to the United States is to pay the expenses of it all. There are some who scout at the idea of actual invasion of the United States by Germany. It is easy to see how this will come. Germany for many years has had her eye on South America and given the power she will confiscate the British interests in Mexico. The great oil fields at Tampico with the railroad from the Pacific to the Atlantic will pass under German contro?; ibis puts her between us and the Panama Canal which she will sei<e on some pretext. She will teach uermau '.\ultur and efficiency to the peon.; in Mexico and keep a stand'ng army in that country. She cri con ;uar America and never Land a soldier here. All that she wot'd have to do is *.o force France. England and other European countries to adopt a German | system of finance and make Amer-1 ican labor and products pay tribute.; She would have a tariff ' ia'e of, exchange so arranged '.hut every pound of cotton that left these shores ! would be paid for ' > a bill of ex-1 change drawn thivu.;h i!i?* ir?ii>< rin' ? Hank of Berlin a proportion of which ' would go in the Herman treasury.! The custom houses the world over would levy a tax on each article which came into or left the United States. When this becomes so bur-' densome that our people refused to ( submit she wjiuld have an army in Mexico to invade us from the South., No my friends this is our war and! it is up to us to break Prussian mil-] itarism and to destroy the power of; this modern Atlilla while the other nations of the world are able to render aid. It we wait to meet this mighty force until after Kurope hits been con.quered and all of the resources of the civilized world concentrated in Germany's hands, our children's children will be the slaves of the most powerful and despotic government that the world has seen since the beginning' of time. There are plenty of American traitors, not all ot them of German .descent, who from aval ice and am-| 'lotion would welcome the advent of j Germany and seek place and power I under her. These would be placed lin charge of the confiscated property of loyal citizens, and the government [conducted through them. The Kaisei boasts of 2T>0,00V German and I Austrian reserves in America, ready to strike when the word is given land tliev will strike at the lirst oiv |.oi t unity. Look at Russia, Belgium, ; Franca, Siberia and Kouuiania. I There Jias been some harsh critiiaism of the administration for not ac' eomplishing mora during this war. I This ha> coma from two sources, ona haadad by Kx-l'resident Itoosevalt who is probably sore because be was not permitted to go to France at the head of a division. No one doubts the patriotism of Col. Roosevelt, but I cannot help think that his criticisms are unjust and that he is endeavoring to make political capital out of the war. There are others who were opposed to our country |going into the war and who went as I far as they dared in encouraging re sistance to the draft. Some of these men are in the pay of Germany and have behind them a German constituency. Others are going as far as they can and keep out of the penitentiary from sheer general cussedness. I have put myself to some trouble to see what this country has .1 CITATION. ? i ij I Slate of South Carolina. ' > County of Dillon. > By Joe Cabell Davis. Probate Judge: j Whereas. J. A. McCorinoc made > suit to me to grant unto him letters < of administration of the Estate and ] ' effects of \V\ A. McCormas. deccas-' i i ed: || rr*i ;? 1 ?? ? - - " ' i ne mereiore 10 cite and ad ,3 monish all and singular the kindred .fi and creditors of the said W. A. Mc- J ? Carniac that they be and appear be-' ? I fore me, in the Court of Probate, to g j be held at Dillon on 16 of May next, j m j after publication hereof, at 11 o'clock i ? j in the forenoon, to show cause. If S iuny they have, why the said Admin- 2 j Istration should not be granted. 3 Given under my hand this *9th'g ! day of April, 1918. JOE CABELL DAVIS. J Judge of Probate Dillon Co. | I NOTICE OF FINAL DISCHARGE | Notice is hereby given that W. H. I 3 Campbell, guardian for Mary E.1S Campbell, has this day made appli- 3 ; cation to me for a final discharge as jsuch guardian and that Thursday, ? j May 16th, 1918, at my office at 11 j ; o'clock in the forenoon, has been ap- j w ] pointed as the time for the hearing ; jof said petition. ! < JOE CABELL DAVIS, Probate Judge Dillon Co. ? i 4-1S-41. I . 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