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OUR NOBLE AIM IN THIS WAR. STRUGGLING FOR THE RIGHTS OF MAN AGAINST THE BRUTALITY OF THE DESPOT. T^e United States is at war against Germany for two fundamental rea ons. For one thing, the present war from the beginning has been essentially a conflict between democracy wd autocracy, and a nation, "con ceived in liberty," as America waa, cannot look uncaring upon the tri- i umph of autocracy anywhere in the world. In the second place, we are fighting for the maintenance of human rights on the high seas. The sea is the "public road" of all nations. No country has a right to make it unsafe for people to travel the high seas of water, just as no man has a right to make it unsafe for other men to travel our highways of earth. One of my good friends said. "I am not in favor of fighting Germany until she comes within the three-mile limit of our Atlantic coast." Such a policy would mean the surrender of funnamental American rights and wen human rights. Suppose two neighbors should get mad with each other, and one should say to you and your neighbors, "If any one of you travels the public road passing by my house you do so at your peril. My enemy travels along that road sometimes, and I will dynamite without warning every wagon, automobile or buggy I see coming on that road, regardless of whether I kill you, your innocent wives,your sons and daughters, or babes suckling at the mother's breast. If such a threat were made, it is easy enough to imagine what you and your neighbors would do. If you lived in an organized, civilized community, you would have the man seized as a criminal, restrained from his purpose, and punished for any execution of his threat. On the other hand, if you lived in an uncivilized, fmntfpr rnmmunitv. such as the " Wild West" was fifty years ago, you and the rest of the people would join together to fight that barbarian until he respected the common rights of humanity. And then in recognition of a supreme need, you might iiet up constables, courts, sheriffs and jails to prevent any such defiance of human rights in future. It is just such a threat against human rights that Germany has not only made but has carried into execution. When she brutally sank the fallant ship Lusitama ana sent to the bottom of the sea scores and scores of non-combatant men and women, including mothers with little ones as innocent as those who prattle at your own fireside tonight? when Germany did this and a hundred other similar acts previously outlawed by the conscience of man-1 kind, she dyed her Macbeth-hands with murderer's blood, which not all her science and skill and boasted "culture" can ever wipe out. Now, if the nations of the earth were properly organized, there would be some supreme authority that would restrain and punish this murderer-nation, just as courts and sheriffsnow punish murderer-individuals. But since We lack such a "league of latiorfS to enforce peace" it is the inescapable duty of America to join in the voluntary effort of other peoples to go up against Germany until she renounces her murderous threats ?1 ~-n?.;ooo o'nMo hu atari. UU |/1 UUJI3CO bu a .'iuv ,?v _ dards which Christendom has estabb'sried^ And' then there is one other thing which all good Americans hope will follow the final victory. Just as the outraged citizens in the frontier community. after fighting the outlaw, might set up orderly government to punish all individual offenders in future,so we hope that the nations now allied against Prussian brutality will not rest until they have established a "League of Nations" whereby all the peoples of the earch will uDite their military and naval strength for the punishment of any individual nation which again breaks or threatens the world's peace. Ex-Piesident Taft is head of a nation-wide organization now working for the organization of such a League of Nations, and Presir J dent Wilson has eloquently pledged all the powers of his great office to* the accomplishment of the same end. Moreover, in France,in England, and in all the allied countries, men are inspired by the same high vision. As the great Frenchman recently visiting America, M Viviani.declared before our own House of Representatives: "And when by force we have at 1 * * 1 ??A^A AtlV iasi imposeu uiiuutry viuwijr, uui labors will not be concluded. Our task will be, I quote from the noble words of President Wilson, 'to organize the society of nations.' . . . . . We will shatter the ponderous sword of militarism; we will establish guarantees for peace; and then we can disappear from the world's stage, since we shall leave at the, cost of our common immolation the noblest heritage future generations can possess. The allied nations now at war with us, in answering President Wilson's note last December, declared their sympathy for "a league of nations to insure peace and justice throughout the world." And Premier LloydGeorge of England, possibly the greatest personal force on earth today, makes this prediction as to conditions after the war; "The nations will band themselves together to punish the first peace breaker who comes out. As to the armies of Europe, every weapon will be a sword of justice in the govern* ment of men, every arm will be a constabulary for peace. In other words, America is now fighting "a war against war," a war to prevent forever hereafter such wars as that which now rages. But the German ideal is militaristic. As a recent authority has declared, "she subordinates the civil power to the military power, she glorifies war and believes it not only to be necessary once in awhile but to be a legitimate instrument of policy." As a nation she has no patience with the ideal of a league of nations executing judgment in rignteousness. Such an ideal to her is effeminate. She has freed herself, she declares, from "the contemptible sin of weakness. Force is to her as a god. "The iron hand" or "the mailed fist" is the familiar phrase that springs to any well-informed mind when German policy is mentioned. Bismarck, well called "the Man of Blood and Iron," was the real father of modern Germany, and he has stamped the impress of his warlike and unscrupulous nature upon every feature of the nation. A long list of German philosophers and teachers have reiterated his views until the German mind is thoroughly inoculated with them. Writing in the dispassionate years of the early 90's, twenty years ago, Dr A Lawrence Lowell, now President of Harvard .correctly descri bed the trend - * ^ ? iU/v?i?Uf nrUon QQlH * ox ueriuau uiuugiu. ni?u ?v ?..u. "The Emperor is indeed an ardent believer in theneWmonarchial theory which has recently come into vogue in Germany?a theory that decries universal suffrage and proclaims the military monarchy as the best possible form of government?thus furnishing one of many examples of the way the end of the century is rejecting the principles and reversing the conclusions that have been laboriously developed during the last hundred years. The fact is that ever since the battle of Sadowa a profound change has been coming oyer the , German character. The dreamy, po- ^ etical,mystical temperament has giv- ^ en way before the hard, practical, organizing spirit of the Prussians. * The unity of the Fatherland, which 1 the dreamers failed to accomplish, was brought about by meens of the 1 drill-sergeant, and hence the nation 1 is ruled by his methods." 1 Let us consider, for example, the 1 teachings of one typical German phil- ' osopher of recent years, Treitschke. ' Like many others of his class, he preaches that war is necessary for the elimination of weak peoples; ana ' that the government need respect no promises, no moralities, when they stand in the way of its progress. Let us quote his exact words: "The state has no power to limit its own power; hence no treaty when it becomes inconvenient can be binding; hence the very notion of arbitration is absurd; hence war is part of the Divine order. I In matters of difficulties with other rw^JSBESBSS i a mn 38 Ilna* lev; as l ry . yg o. ' [I? Ig 1^2 rrrg i 1 On 11 hi is Hjj gsg M SI || M ijlHraSS LafJ- MUBP.'itUJ? ?? governments, he declares, "it is absurd to bluster about morality, or ?xpect the state to confront them with a catechism in her hand." Nurtured on such teachings, is it my wonder that Germany, wishing to drive through Belgium to attack unprepared France, calmly ignored the treaty she had signed solemnly promising never to invade Belgium? contemptuously dismissed the "incon- ' venient" treaty as "a scrap of paper" and declared that necessity was sufficient excuse for her action? As a matter of fact, the modern German Empire is built on fraud. The war with France in the 70's by which Germany established and enriched itself was brought on by an admitted lie and forgery by Bismarck himself. The Quinine That Does Not Affect The Head Because of its tonic and laxative effect, LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE is betterthjn ordinary Suinine and does not cause nervousness nor aging in head. Remember the full name and look for the signature of E. W. 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We have chosen tx , until the last possible moment. xe to be substantially increased >ur cars will continue to offer mor< ilue than any other cars on th< a purely comparative standpoin >een under-priced?and they wil :ar the commodity prices may ad ials, our production between nov ily be limited. We have appor 'aige dealers throughout the coun ders until their individual allot this matter of price, please re 3 long since demonstrated its in elds." American men and womei luse of the price tag which is at >f its well established reputation ai rays represent a preferred invest ollars and cents will always be ai er secondary consideration. r $149J> f. o. b. Detroit $1375. f. o. b. Detroit $il fi> t. o. d. ueirou $1695 f. o. b. Detroit lger - $1175 f. o. b. Detroit $2750 f. o. b Detroit $2300 f. o. b. Detroit $1775 f. o. b. Detroit $2750 f. o. b. Detroit ir Co., Detroit, Michigan. CO., Sumter, S. C. Local Agt, Kingstree, S. 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