The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-03-10
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ting forth the policy of isolation
and sentangling alliance" he lit,
tie dreamed how steam and elec-
tricity would bind together the
nations of the earth. so that
nothing important could occur
any where, that would not affect
the nations Of the entire world.
The Monroe doctrine came
later, dedicating the western
hemisphere to American iu-
fuences.
The closing of ocean transpor-
tations brings ruin to the cotton
planter, the declaration of a
blockade, sends wheat prices
tumbling, and then the wheat
and cotton planter brings in.
fuence to bear at Washington
demanding an open sea for his
products, hence the United
States is involved in a diplomat
&c tangle which may bring us in
to a European war.
z For eight months our million
men armed with the deadliest
weapons science can furnish
have been locked III a death
struggle, neither side seems to
be able to overthrow the other,
Germany has been on the offen-
sive. In the first rush. shenear
~ took Paris, then so far from
the base of her supplies, food
and ammunition ran short, and
she sullenly fell back to the
river Oisne. Then she moves
forward to command the Eng
s,lish Channel, but the allied
army stuobornly holds them.
In the East, Won Hindenburg
hammers away, routes the Rus
slams, who only fly to return
with another great army, and so
it goes.
It was Napolean who said an
army tcrawls on its stomach"
cut off the food supply and the
greatest army on earth will melt
away. It4. S Sherman's ''march
TO the sea" destroying the food
supply, not Grants veterans that
oTerthrew Lee. It was gaunt
hunger, and the wall Of starving
women and children that took
the heart out of the best army
the world ever saw.
Both Germany and England
depend on the outside for food
sappiy. Russia is the only ma
ton engaged which is self sus-
tsining; she is the largest stock
and grain producer in the world,
noteyen excepting the United
States,
England started to starve
Germany, she has the most pow
erful navy in the world and ear
II in-the war declared the North
sea as a war zone. Germany has
replied by declaring all the wat
ers around England a war zone,
and advise neutral vessels to
remain away.
England's excuse for declaring
food a contraband is that both
Austria and Germany. have
seized all grain in those coun.
tries, in order to ecoaomize in
its distribution. Now suppose
Germany in retaliation declares
food contraband, then all ship
ments from this country to both
England or Germany must cease,
or they will be forced to declare
war against sin order to main
tain. their position.
The United States must either
accept the declaration Of what
is contraband or reject and in
the latter case, it constitutes a
casns belli. The United States
has violated neutrality hereto
fore by permitting shipments of
guns and ammunition to Eng
land, and 1t is 10 wonder that
the sentiment in Germany is one
OF resentment.
The forcing of the Dardenelles
by France and England, is not
cnly to capture Constantinople,
! hut TO give them access to the
vast wheat and meat supply bot
tied up IN Russia. Germany has
no way to turn and with her
seventy million people, she must
bring the war to a speedy de-
termination or hunger will do
what English, French and Rus
sian guns have failed to accom-.
rlish