The Hattiesburg news., 1916-12-06
Peace, Progress and Prosperity


AS the yuetde approaches let hesitate moment and
count our blessings one by one.
The Old World is at war Its rulers have foroottan Cod
ana turned their backs upon the teachings Of the Prince of
reace, who into This world expounding the universal
doctrine OF the Fahehood of God and the Brotherhood Of
War is the synonym of all that is brutal and boodv and
destructive 1t calls the powman from the field happy in his
husbandy and compea him shoot to death fellowman
with whom he has quarrel against whom he has no grudge
It takes the shepherd from his flock and turning his crook
INTO an implement Of DEATH weds savage would his
tomahawk the heads of unofending men, It stalks sur-
y manhood at work in the shop the factory the ne and
cfushes 1t to death 1t crimsons the bridal veil with human
gore 1t sends bombshel into the family circle and wrecks
happy home robs childhood Of its natural protectors 1t
burres millions Of men in untimey grave and sends mil
lions more mpng through e without home or hope or low
ing hands to comfort them.
No matter by what standard you measure this war; it is
without precedent or parallel says William Jennings Bryan
is the biggest ever known by the popu-
aton OF the nations at 1t is also the biggest Of
which history tells by the number Of enlisted
who face each other upon its many batte6eds The e
mates from twenty to hirty-one millions Rather
than risk exaggeraon let take the lowest estmae it is
sufficient to make the impressive In fact the number
great that the mind scarcely comprehend it Let
translate it into everyday language by comparing it with
voting population. We have never many twenty
million votes at any election That that if all in
every who have day exercised the right of su
age could be gathered together place the
it would be- would fall several millions short of the
number actually engaged in fighting.
More than three million have been killed thus far If on
any part Of the globe hundred thousand persons
swept death by pestence food famine, the world
would stand appalled, and yet in little than year
than thirty times hundred thousand have been sum-
noned their God and every his death to the
deliberate and of feownan More than ten mil
lions have been woundedths will give you idea Of the
awful toll that this awful war exacng in life and suffering
1T is biggest too measure by its cos-nore than
four hundred millions each week They have borrowed forty
billions and spent enough build hundred Panama canals
If we the by the destructvenes of the inn
penens employed nothing horrible has ever been known
before They used be the earth surface for
the of war; they have taken possession of
the air. and thunderbos deadly than the thundebo of
ove fall if from the clouds unsuspectng people And
they have taken possession OF the depths we'll and
deah-deang torpedoes from the darkness multiply
the pers Of the They have substituted longrange rifle
for shortrange rife bigmouthed gun for ttlemouthed
gun deadnaught for bateshp and asuperdreadnaught
for dreadnaught which they have added the submarine
And they pour liquid fire on battle lines and suocate sol
ders in the trenches with poisonous gases Inventive genius
has been exhausted to find ways by which can kill his
feow-man
And the nations which are war barbarous
tonsthey among the most civilized earth neither
they heahen nations among the Christian nations Of
the globe They all worship the God and nearly all OF
them approach that God through the mediator They of
fer their suppcatons Heavenly Father and then
rise up to take each Others lives
Such a monster thing is warl
From its blight this country Of ours has been mercfuly
spared We peace with the world The Chief Executive
Of this Republic Christian who abhos and loves
peace and he there the sovereign OF than nine
million men and women who made Peace War the para
mount question summing up the issues Of this campaign
have made funeral pyre human bodies in their worship
the God of Mannaon President Wilson stood firmly for ths
right and saved his people and his country from the untoc
calamity Of worldwide war
For SO great blessing, the people Of the Nation shouc
stand with uncovered heads and prayeu hearts returning
thanks to the Giver Of all good gifts