The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, June 28, 1917, Image 2
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
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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
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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
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"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.
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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.
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