The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1906-08-24
Death to Tyrants and Traitors |!

ficient organization of the armed
forces of the country and theil
prompt dispatch to the seat of war
is the extinguishment of the pro-
German propaganda which shows it.
self in many places under various
DISCUSSES, not all of them consciously
reasonable, yet every one of them
however masked and inspired, OF
dangerous menace to the unity OF
the Republic at home and its puts
sance abroad.
The "pacifst" is in his way as
criminal as the "reservist." The
conscientious objector" is ne better
than the Stacker" There is still
prevalent disposition to discuss the
why's and the wherefores, the rights
and wrongs of the war. Have we any
Constitutional warrant for sending
our soldiers out of the country? AS
if we require any-as if we sought
any when we sent them to Mexico
even TO China and Canada-but,
alike with the querulous and the dis
loyal, a text for confusing contro-
versy.
Why should we help France regain
Alsace- Lorraine? What interest have
we in faraway Serbia? What care
we for the Balkans? They are as
sealed book to the average Ameri-
can as the famous Schleswig- Hol-
stein Question, of which Bismarck
said, after me but two other Euro
peans ever understood it, one of
whom is dead, whilst the other is in
lunatic asylum"
There are the ultra Irish to make
cutlery against England. The Ger
man-American Alliance and the pro-
Germans very generally lie low and
keep dark waiting for their opportu-
nifty; but the disloyal German-Amer-
lean press looks to it that the
signals of the Vaterland do not flick
to keep us out of war" say some
''and now he is conscripting us-to
hell with Wilson," Say others, LET
us have peace" Yet, thus far, no
body has been hanged.
Next year when the shoe of war
begins really to pinch, the enormous
war taxes to mount and press; the
discouraging list of casualties to leak
thru the censors; maybe still indefi-
mite reports from the fronts; pos
sibly the rise of MISUNDERSTANDING
thus far happily avoided among so
or the year after, glory not what it
was cracked up to be and conclusions |
just as distant, then the voice of the |
croaker that is always more or less /
heard in the land-re-enforced by /
the clamor of crook, crank and trail
tor-Will have a resonance and
mean much and be hard to overcome;
certainly harder to overcome than if
we began now to be a little less
sparing of hemp.
There is still a certain apathy
among the people There are those
who yet have their doubts They
fail fully to realize that Germany
gave us no alternative
Let us never forget that we were
forced to enter the war in our own
defense. Hence it is not foreign
war, as those fancy who listen to the
whisper that we are playing the part
Of cat's-paw to Britain, but "our
war" They need to learn, to be pos
itively assured, that we could not es-
cape it; that it swooped down upon
rs after we had stood out against it:
hat we, and we mainly if not Who'll
~, will have to end it; and that, if
we are beaten, we are lost The
world will not be fit to live in If
Germany wins. 1t would only be
ruce If Germany could. make draw
IL IL. we are bound to fight and to
light to the bitter end. i
Truly says George Harvey:
The Kaiser has become his own a
and the fate of Ger
many now lies in the hands of the l.
ncorrigible militarists headed by the
Crown Prince, the sa-
anic Ludendorf and the bully Hin
enburg?
But one conclusion is possible. =
Germany would not if she could and
urely could not if she would make |
erms of conceivable settlement She
must, then, be beaten to her knees il
nust be fought and starved into sub
mission; must be treated as an out b
aw and permanently disarmed as an A
utlaw; must be driven out of France
nd Belgium and Serbia and Ru- y
lania and Poland; must give up the
tolen provinces of Alsace and Lor-
aine; must restore Luxembourg; :"