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John L M l aurin Says There . tits in the World To-Day Spokeuman for Democacy V lend of Autocracy and Fr Hon John M< l*?urin, o! Bennetts vlllv. former t'nitcd State? scnatoi from South Carolin.i. whose deciding vote In the senate for the acquisitlot and retention of the Philippine Is lands cast the die that made the United States a world power and forever put aside the policy of politi? cal isolation for America insofar as world policies are concerned, last night ?poke to a crowd of between four and five hundred people In the Court House on the war situation and the duties and responsibilities of loyal Americans. Mr. McLaurin having come to Sumter to make an address at the invitation of a number of his friends, had evidently carefully pre? pared his speech, and therefore did not speak with the fire and freedom that usualy characterize his extempor? aneous utterances. He spoke deliber? ately and seriously, as if he weighed each word, and sought to impress his hears s with his earnestnes rather tb in to arouse enthusiasm. The crowd gave ilm a close and attentive hear? ing, but it was a rather cold and un? demonstrative audience, until the speaker reached the part of his ad? dress that referred to Woodrow Wil? son aid the duty of all loyal cltixens to ghe him full confidence and sup? port without stint or limit. Then he was liberally and heartily applauded. The i ildress was as follows: On Good Friday a great congrega? tion worshipping God in a church in Paris were burled beneath the ruins by a German shell. How typical of the alms and purposes of Germany ?the destruction of the foundation of! civilisation, In order that a new Kul? tur may arise upon the n* mgled und mutilated bodies of Belgium and France. Is history about to repeat Itself? Bead in Crecy's 15 decisive battles of the world of the battle of Chalons near the site of the present gigantic conflict. We haven't heard 1U4M.O of the word Hun until since the devastation of France and Belgium. How like the Kaiser was Atttlla. The open and avowed purpose of Attilla was the destruction of Christian civil? isation. He overran Kurope calling himself "the scourge of God." He boasted of the desolation following in his wake. He ordered his soldiers to "utrage women, mutilate children and to ravage and destroy, so that other nations might be cowed into submis? sion. Wives and Virgins were out i i?ed in the presence of husbands, fathers and brothers and then either murdered or sent into slavery. Nor does the parallel stop there, Attil a like the Kaiser was no uneducated ? ii) hi p. hut possessed the greatest learning and highest culture possible In those times. He was a statesman and general of great ability. Hear what the historian says: "Attilla relied less on the brute forces of armies for ?ran lizement of his cmpirt than on the unbounded affection of his ti n ods and the fears of his foes wha h his genius enabled him to ac < uire. Austetel\ sober in his private life; severely Just On the judgment seat; conspn nous among a nation of warriors for hardihood, strength and skill in every martial exercise; grave and d? liberate in council, but rapid and remorseless in execution, he gave and set unt\ to all who were under his dominion, while he waged a warfare of extermination against all who opposed or sought to es i it lie watched the nation? al passions, the prejudice, the creeds and the superstitions of the various nations over which he ruled and of those which he sought to reduce be? neath his swar ; all of these feelings he h;.d the skill to turn to his ac? count, his own soldiers believed him to be inspired of God and followed him v. ith fanatic zeal. He calhd himself 'The Bread of the world.'' by the \\race of Ood. King of the Huns and Goths" What a pen pietnre or the present Kaiser tellimc ins soldiers to make the name Herman f ai d for i thousand >ears to rape, burn, pillage and destroy in the ii iin* of God. Calling a treaty "a errnp of paper" striking at the hf? or nations, b- forcing wives and virgin* to motherhood| sendnwr men and SJ+aseg Into slaverv to work tin mines, till the soil and gratify the brutal hi'?t of the Beast In man. tu? mm: the world into a chain*! house ih if the ambition of one man for wot hi dominion may be gratified, gfgg does the paialbds between tin battle of Plcardy and Chalons stop with th?? character of the KgtSQf ami Attilla Attilla was fighting tie embattled hosts of Christendom an i \re But Two Great Personal Wood row Wilson, Leader and and Kaiser Wilhelm, 1 he Arch ightfulae:*s. .<tuked his empire on one stroke. ?Vlini the battle begun to go against him, he piled his treasure in the cen? ter of the camp and placed himseli on top of it, with the intention of set? ting it on tire and dying in the flames. So the Kaiser has staked all on the success of the great German drive, and again Attilla and the modern Huns will finally fall. Ex-Ambassador Gerard in his book tells of a conversation he had with the Kaiser in 11)15. He spoke of how he had studied the lh es of Alexander, Caesar and Napoleon. "They dream? ed of world empire and failed." "I too have dr?unied of world empire and rny mailed fist shall succeed." Once more on the Marne and the Somme, brave France is defending with her manhood the advancing nun. Civil? ization can never pay its debt to bleeding suffering France. She check? ed the Huns 1500 years ago, and again 300 years later under Charles Martel. at Tours. She thrust back the Mo hametan hordes, who were overrun? ning the world. In 1776 when we were struggling for freedom, France came to our aid. I doubt if we would have achieved independence at that time without the guns, ammunition and trained officers sent by France. France has kept alive the feeble spark of human liberty. In 1785 It sprang into a bright flame and struck the divine right of kings a death blow, to be almost drowned in the blood ot the French revolution, but flickering feebly she passed it through the hands of Jefferson and Franklin to the Unit? ed States. It is now symbolized by the great glowing torch of the Statue of Liberty at the mouth of our great? est harbor. The eyes of the whole world are turned on that torch today. The Huns are threatening to forever quench its lights. But there are brave men from America, from England and from France offering their Uvea a sacrifice on that same field of Chalons, and the same Ood 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, j fertilized by the blood of brave men, and watered by the tears of true wo? man, With all of her military DOW* er, boasted etllcicncy and 10 years of j preparation, these modern Huns will go down before the frown of God and the outraged conscience of a world In arms. Fellow citizens: it seems to me that divine power was never more manifest, than in having Wood row W t ison in this great world crisis.. Let us thank God for the humide pro- j lessor, now the foremost man In tlu world. He says this is a war for De? mocracy against Autocracy. The oth? er day at Baltimore when the Huns were driving our lines back and dark clouds hovered on the horizon, he gave the world a message, the only message that the Huns understand: "I accept, the challenge. I know that you accept it. It shall appear in the | utter sacrifice and self forgetfulness In which we shall give all that vre lOVa and all that we have to redeem the world and make it lit for free men like Otiraelvei to live in. Force, force to the u most, force wihtout stint or limit, the righteous ami triumphanl force, which shall make right the law of the world, and cast every selhsh dominion down in the dust." German Propaganda. while developing a great military power it home, one of the most ef llelent mean.; Germany has used i: i . propaganda creating German sen? timent in all tlie eountrles in the v. oi W ie n the offlCC of Wolf von Igt] at No. ?'-<? Wall street was raided bj sei ii-t service men, they found proof Of (do!-: to destroy ships, hum munition plants and funds to Organ? ISS the I. W. W. They found where lelwht million dollars was given BolO I asha to bribe public men and news paper.*;. In a sect et speech of the Kaiser lo ? ?'.erman organization read l eeenth to a < 'ongnssionaI commit ISO, he Bs Id that he controlled one -1 v. 111 ?i the votes in the t'niteo States ind to go ahead that this ad mlnlatration did not dare go to war Look at tlie workings Of the system in Italy. Russia and the Italkans. I d< not believe that ail Hermans are dls J loyal t ? I he United gtates, The <;,.. mans came here seeking refuge fr in lyrannj mi home and when the le I comss ihe majority will be true. Oer mans began tu come here nftsi tie "thirl years war" which m.?de Uei many a howling wilderness^ This was a religious war. The Protestant armies robbed, burned and killed the Catholics and the Catholics did the same for the Protestants. You know when pious people get to killing eacl other for Christ sake, they do it very thoroughly. The population of Ger? many sank from 1(1 to 4 million. Can nibalism reappeared, the gallows had to be guarded to keep people from devouring the corpses dangling from the ropes. Where thriving towns ha been wolves roamed unmolested. De graded, brutalized and poverty strick m the miserable Germans fted from devastated fields and burning home down the Rhine to Amsterdam where they sold themselves to ship captains for the price of passage tc 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 ot citizens. They have grown rich and powerful. St. Louis, Milwakuee and Detroit are largely built by German energy and thrift. Germany's Plans. 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 peasan? try is to furnish cheap labor and tho Ukraine is to be the great food pro? ducing region. The Balkans are to furnish from their fields supplies of I oil, coal, iron and food. Turkey is to be a gateway to the teeming million* of the Orient for the manufactured j products of Germany. The population of Belgium and France is to be de? stroyed 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 Cas? pian sea to the East. England Is to be shorn of her commercial power and her great navy come under Ger? man control. The part assigned to tho United States is to pay the ex? penses 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 tho power she will confiscate the British interests in Mexico. The great oil j fields at Tampico with the railroad j from the Pacific to the Atlantic will \ pass under German control; this puts' her between us and the Panama Ca? nal which she will seize on some pre? text. She will teach German^Jrtultui and efficiency to the peons in Mexico and keep a standing army in that ccuntry. She can conquer America and never land a soldier here. All j that she would have to do is to force j France, England and other Euro- i pean countries to adopt a German j system of finance and make American labor and products pay tribute*. 1 She would have a tariff and rate of ex? change so arranged that every pound of cotton that left these shores would be paid for by a bill of exchange drawn through the imperial bank o. Berlin/ a proportion of which would ! go in the German treasury. The cus? tom houses the world over would levy a tax on each article which came into or left the United States. When this becomes so burdensome that our people refused to submit she would have an army ready in Mexico to in? vade us from the South. No my friends this is our war and it is up to us to break Prussian militarism and to destroy the power of this modern Attilla while the other nations of the world are able to render aid. If we wait to meet this mighty force until after Europe has been conquered and all of the resources of the civilized world concentrated in Germany's hands, our children's children will b'? j the slaves of the most powerful and despotic government that the world I has seen since the beginning of time There are pelnty of American trai? tors, not all of them of German des? cent, who from avarice and ambition would welcome the advent of Ger? many and seek place and power undo her. These would be placed ill (barge of the confiscated property o: loyal citizens, and the government conducted through them. The Kais? er boasts of 160,000 German and Aus? trian reserves In America, ready to Strike When the word is given and they will Strike :it the Hrst opportun ity. Look at Russia, Belgium ? 'ranee. Siberia and Roumunia. Preparation. There has been some harsh criti ( ism of the administration for not a< OOmpllshlng more during this w:ir. This has come from two sources, o:i" headed by Bx-1 'resident Roosevelt Wha is probabl) sore because he was noi permitted to >:<? to France at the head of a division. No one doubts tie po - triotism of Col. Roosevelt. but I cannot help think thai his crlttolams are unjust and that he Is endea^oriu : to make political capital out ojf the war. There are others who weif op* ..i to out country going intp the Wat and who went is far as ; they .i ired in encouraging resistance jo the draft. Some of these men are il, tin pay of Germany and others hails be hind them a Gentian constituency. Others are going as far as they can and keep out of the penitentiary from sheer general cussedness. I liave put myself to some trouble to see what this country has done in one year of war. It is a marvelous record and how any man can take into consider? ation our total unpi eparedness and then criticise those In authority is beyond my comprehension. You may be sure those doing it are either I ignorant of the facts or have some ulterior purpose. They should be looked upon With distrust and treated as enemies until they prove other? wise. Listen, on April 6th, 1917 we had only 160,000 trained soldiers un? der arms and 9,554 oflicers; on April 8th, 1918 we had 123,800 officers al? most as many officers as we had men a year ago, and when you consider the fact that a modern war deepnds very largely on trained oflicers you realize what a tremendous work has been accomplished. The number of enlisted men is 1,528,9)4, sin increase in one year in the army of about 900 per cent. One year ago we had 84, 000 enlisted men in the navy and to? day we have 343,000 anx increase of 400 per cent. In the aviation service I a year ago we only had about 1,00a j men and today there is about 140,000 . j an increase of 10,000 per cent. Ou. experts have standardized the liberty motor and will revolutionize the air service. Twenty-live large compa j nies are manufacturing airplanes, 15 more are producing engines and 100 are producing accessories and sup? plies. We have produced 10,000 au? tomobile trucks. Machine guns arc being manufactured at the rate Of 225,000 per year arfd 3 1-2 inch guns at 15,000 a year. The ordnance sup? ply of the government is handling every month 10,000 car loads of ma? terial. Within two weeks after wai was declared contracts had been made covering the requirements of an army of 1,000,000 men. The govern? ment has taken over and is operating 260,000 miles of railroad, employing more than 1,000,000 men representing an investment of nearly 20 billion dol? lars. Outside of the loan to the Al? lies the United States spent 12 bil? lions of dollars during the first year of the war. We loaned nearly 4 1-2 billion dollars to the other countries engaged in this war. The government has instituted a system of war insur? ance to take the place of the worn out and rotten pension system and In one year insurance policies have been issued for millions of dollars and also about 20 million dollars paid in allotments to the dependent fami? lies of the sailors and soldiers. When it seemed that we would not be able to send our products abroad on ac? count of the high rates charged by in ? surance companies the government stepped In and gave us war risk insur? ance at greatly reduced rates and are actually making a large profit out of it. Cotton went from seven to thirty-three cents. The greatest achievement I think of the govern? ment is the conscription act. It Is thv most wonderful piece of legislation Of its kind that the world has eve.* known. What becomes of those that were running around over the coun? try crying out against the draft act and predicting all kind of evil? There lias been no riot and in less time than three weeks the men of this country to the number of 10,000,00?? presented themselves before these board! and were registered at a cost per man for those accepted for scr I vice of $1.90. Our weak point lias been the lack of ships, we were pro vented by narrow partisan politics from developing an American mer? chant marine. The great trans-con? tinental railroads postponed for 30 years the construction of an Isthmian canal and an American merchant marine. It was their purpose to force the movement of freights east and west instead of as nature intend? ed north and south the way that our mountains and rivers run. Their in? terest was at Boston and New York and not at South Atlantic and Gull Ports. I know to my sorrow what it cost. 2 5 years ago, for a man in the United States senate to advocate ship subsidy with both parties dominate! by this selfish railroad trust. In on? year the subsidy principle hfl ; brought into the service of the coun? try 1,145 Steel ships and 500 wooden ships aggregating about 10,000,000 j tons, an increase of about 800 pe ???nt In one year in the American mer? idian! marine With the plans now I on foot, it is safe to say that at the ?ml of another year We Will have a ' Heel of ships that will exceed that o. any Other nation on earth and that never again will we witness the hu? miliating spectacle of American pro-1 ducts depending on, foreign ships to find the market. When this war I over American ships carrying Amer? ican products manned by American seamen will be seen at every pori is the world, The World Needs WiUoii. This war is changing our very form of government, we have found by practical experience that a republh with its lull liberty to the individual 'citizen i* unaMe to wage a successful* war with an autocracy. To a great extent a new government is btllUI built up outside of that provided in the constitution. The government has charge of the railroads and ships. It is fixing the price of pro ducts and telling us what to eat, wh*m to cat and what to pay for it. In an Other year of war the government o; this country will be practically in th? hands of this extra-constitutional ma chinery. It is going to take the wisest statesmanship. the keenest sense of justice and the most exalted patriotism to do this successfully. We need brains for this purpose a I much as food for the soldiers, and executive ability as much as guns. Russia had 15,000,000 soldiers under arms, countless guns and more raw material than any nation on earth and yet she is today from a lack of constructive statesmanship prostrated with the heel of the Kaiser on her neck. There can be no peace between German and American ideals of gov ernment. We are fighting today for the principles of the Democracy fo? which Christ died on the hill of Cal? vary. The right of every nation to live its own life in its own way. Wc are now writing the most tragic chap? ter In the history of man and all the nations are being punished, but out of this supreme agony new nations strong in youth and energy will arise not even Germany can destroy the spirit of freedom. 1 believe that ou. of this war will come a great brother hood of nations. There is a deep significance in the appointment of an army composed of the flower of the troops from the Allied nations. Tho ideal which found expression in the world's peace congress at the Hagur failed of its immediate purpose, be cause of the lack of some concentrat ed power to protect the weak againsi the strong. When this war is over it will find a great army commanded by Gen. Foch which will represent all the nations; it will find the council ol Versailles composed of the wisest statesmen from all the nations. It was the supreme wisdom of Woodrow Wilson which gave us this council with an armed force to back it. Here is the machinery developed by ne? cessity" to hold a fretful realm in awe" the time has come when the na? tions "shall meet in the parliament of man the federation of the world." In one hundred years from today when the history of this war is being written and the eyes of men are not dimmed by the carnage and smoke of battle, it will be realized that this action of President Wilson is the most important in its effect on the fu? ture of mankind of any one thing that has occurred since the crucifixion of Christ. It was an inspiration from on high, as much so, as any message ever delivered to the children of Israel through the mouth of Moses or Samuel. I look with dread on the ef? fect of a political system which in the midst of this great crisis wdll de? prive us of the wisdom of our great? est prophet. We have with wonderful adaptibility broken the political dog? ma embraced in Washington's fare well address and the Monrone doc? trine. If this war goes on the wisest tiling that the people of the United States can do is, for the time it least, to refuse to be hampered by the custom of not electing an execu? tive for a third term. Woodrow Wilson was elected the last time not by the Democratic party but by th* uprising of the people which carried nearly every State. I believe that If the Democratic party will meet in its national convention and adopt a plat? form with just one single plank in it, Wood row Wilson, that the common sense of the people of this country will assert itself as it did in 1916. There is a great deal of truth in the saying "never swap horses crossing a stream." Conscription is becoming popular in this government. Presi? dent Wilson is conscripting our boys to light the Germans and I think we ought to conscript him to tell them how to do it. This war can only be wen by a great statesman, combining the ideal sim of a Kerensky. with the prac? tical wisdom of a Bismarck. Out schol teacher president is filling this role, lie is something more than president of these United States, he is spokesman for Democracy the world over. He is the only man to whom all the nations listen. He will he needed when the terms of peace are to be settled, and we owe a dutv to the balance of the world. In every great movement, the ideal of man is always embodied In human form. Wood row Wilson is the embodi? ment of Democracy, the Kaiser of militarism, just aa was Washington ol the revolution and Luther of the reformation. There is no middle ground. The eyes of the world are turned on W ilson as the exponent of Democ? racy. No man is to he trusted wh<? talks patriotism and in his heart hates W ilson. He cannot strike Wil? son and not strike the cause for which Im stands. My friends, 1 sa*y let us make the test in South Carolina. 1' Bjn willing to stand or fall with Woodrow Wilson. There has conic down the ages, the speetaele ol Nero fiddling whilo Rom? was burning. Our men in dying on the battle fields of France; the world If on fire with a fever of lust and hat*. What do our petty personal nd factional politics amount to ompared with the great issues at Stake. I would rather die than remain aafe at home to take advantage el the situation to make money or eriej cheap political glory out of the blood of our youth and the sorrow of cur land. No man has a right to be governed by personal hate or political ambition. In times lika these a true man will rise above it. A SOLDIER OF THE SKY. An Added Attraction to The Cliau i. a qua Program. Captain I eorge Frederick Camp? bell, rightly named "A Soldier of the Sky," the man who brought down eighteen Ilua aeroplanes in two years* HyingT on the western front and who lost his entire family?father, moth? er, brothers and sisters? in the great war, is coming to Sumter on the sixth night of the Redpath Chau truqua to tell of his thrilling ex? periences. Campbell's father was the first of his family to fall, killed in the me? morable retreat from M?ns. At the battle of Loos his brothers, Bruce and Jamie Camnbell, both lieutenants, fell with their aces to the foe, and in a trench raid not long after his remain? ing brother Capt. Bluikic Campbell, was killed. Campbell was already a soldier of the king w hen the war broke out in 1914. A li utenant stationed in In? dia, he wj'.m ordered at once to the European front. In a few weeks he was fighting to stem the Hun ad? vance on P ris. At the battle of Neuve Chappelle In 1915, Capt Campbell was severely wounded, 1 is hip bone being shatter? ed by a bayonet thrust through the abdomen. Several months in a hos? pital followed. On his recovery he was declared unfit for further duty with his regiment. He then sought and found further service in the Royal Flying Corps. For two years, until again severely wounded, he fought the Hun in the air. Probably no man alive has seen more fighting on the ground and in the air th;.n Capt. Campbell. Today C mpbell shows few outward traces of his wounds and his sor? rows, though the effects remain. And while he is incapacitated for active service in the air, the doctors having forbidden nim to fly at high altitudes, he would gladly return and "do It all over agair." if he could, for his heart and soul I re in the war that has cost him all h\s loved ones. Now in the United States, he is do? ing what he can to aid the British Canadian recruiting missions, urging all his compatriots domiciled here to do their patriotic duty. For, as he says, no man with red blood in his veins should fail to heed his country's call, and :his war is for humanity. "He Accounted For Seven Roches With His Pistol." "Dr. J. EL David, Dillon, S.| C. "Dear Dr. David: I feel that I should Im mediately convey to you an excerpt; from a letter just receiv? ed from my son Daniel C. Roper, Jr., whom I ifer from the letter was in the same trenches and near your son when he was killed. My sou states: " "tou a/ould be surprised to see the number of men killed over hero through their own carelessness and recklessness. Just the other day a friend of mine was killed in this way. You will be proud to know of anoth? er case of a South Carolinian, son ot Dr. David, near Dillon, South Car? olina, who met a different death?a glorious one?it was necessary. Ho was overwhelmed by the Roche, but he had a pile of human flesh In from of him. He fought liko a tiger, ac? counted for seven Boches with his pistol and then was fighting with an empty rifle when struck from behind. My frie**d was a Citadel man and h fine oil.i r." "This is ? splendid encomium an I the record sjiould greatly sustain you In the loan. It la a wonderful thing to have rontributed such a ?or. to th_? defense of Christian civilization. While * pressing my sympathy for you In t le loss of this relationship. I congratulate you and the State on having eared such a son. Such in? stances should be brought to the at? tention of the American people as they Will inspire and unify our peo? ple in t> is war of defense of humani? ty and democratic principles. With kind,personal regards, I am. Sincerely yours. "Daniel C. Roper." < \ I.ICO KM A EARTHQUAKE. San Jncinto, April II ?Two more earthquakes occurred during the, i ieht. ne at I and another :,t mld ' ulght, So datuagi was deessi