Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 191?-19??, 1915-12-23

failed to realize with what derisi0n
and, in many cases. contempt and even
hatred, our position in the worlds al
fairs is now regarded.
We are SO pacific in our intentions
that we cannot understand the racial
hatred OF those nations Ut war. This
nation loves peace and we believe
there Is no difference in the depth OF
love Of country between those who
wish to enlarge our defenses and thcg
who wish to wait until we are attack
ed. The difference Is one Of expedl-
ency. believe that We ought to pre-
pare to save ourselves from such over
whelming disaster as has recently
overtaken Belgium, and from such ca
lamity as overlook our citizen soldtery
in the Spanish war from the ravaSes
!, Of typhoid fever.
The regular army of the United
States is about the same size as the
police force of New York City. In
event of war where would our oficers
come from? How many of you boys
| know anything of camp life? Warfare
IS now highly developed science and
| the sword and spear and the pistol
and rife FAUST give way to high power
| ed machine guns and explosive bombs
| and big guns that carry projectiles
| Weighing ton for over twenty miles.
| md these can be handled only by
| ,rained men.
Every new means for destroying
| life strikes terror into the hearts OF
| ,)eace loving men, and makes them
| imagine whether civilization is about
| % perish: yet history has recorded the
act that the best armed civilizations
| are on the whole the ones that have
.urvived longest. Idealism is q beau
| lfuI thought, but it may be the price
| 4 humiliation. We must meet the
| Eorld upon it's own terms and not as
20 would wish them.
/ A little over half q century age many
Of our daddies and our daddies' daddies
| we're taking home a piece Of that ia
| nous Appomattox apple tree and pom
y dering over the message of theiF be
loved and peerless Commander, Rober
e. Lee. What was this message?
/ Grave comrades our cause is lost
Accept peace, lay down your arms, g.
} home and make q crop"
81 You boys know from hearsay an,
from history something of the horror
! of that struggle. You know from th
same sources something OF the hor
, rors of reconstruction, that period 0
} several years following tha wer Whel
, There WAS no safety-to- -prcYsrtsF, n
: protection to womanhood, and deatl
81 stalked the land. It il too horrible t
t talk about even though 1t is so IA
4 behind US that few people living to
l day remember it. Horrible as wa
, that war, 1t was q war between Amer
, leans. How much more horrible Woul
| it be for this country, "the land Of tn
1 free and the home of the brave" wer
J. it overrun with the riffran of Europ
I or the yellow men OF the Orient
: Speaking of that immortal struggl
commonly called the civil war, bu
0 more properly, the war between tn
: States, has it ever occurred to 20
that that war was unnecessary? I al
: not going for once to tell you that tn
Il South did not think it was right; an
t. our glorious Old North State, the Las
t. to secede, was the bravest of them al
But am going to tell you as rea
u history, that war was unnecessar
t, because, the issues involved shoul
: and could have been settled withol
l. war. You ask me why it was not 1
o settled, and will tell you. It was b.
st cause the United States was not pr'
n pared to defend itself from attacl
J. external or internal.
n When Fort Sumter was fred upC
the regular Army OF the United Stat
n was less than $4,000 strong. The b
of ginning of the war was merely the a
.e of few impetuous men, small sig
mob. A very small spark can start
IL big fire. The army of 1900 men W