The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-08-06
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- upon the vital spot that you
d 10y behoid the signs We testify to
Wu " you have any grievances now
4 NvFuck them We betray the conf
I hence OF our country to you. We re-
#eenl her secrets We show you the
xpox that Is vital. that is uncovered
Ana defenseless. This is your hour
40 strike. We invite you thai In the
xkr1iing down of our country We can
noint to II as the fulfillment of our
@rophecy that militarisnt was neces-
AIRY TO America and that she was
y unDrepared." They were willing 70
4 have their land despoiled by the in
vader. their ports blockaded. their
rit1es laid waste. their fields sfame,
tfAeir children strewn upon every
hillside and valley dead. TO have JUS
tined the charge they made hefore
the world against their own country
hat II was helpless and powerless
REPUBLICANS IN POWER;
COUNTRY UNDEFENDED
If 4, were hopeless in It's defense
iessness. the nation will remember
who was responsible for II. and that
ihe Repuhiicans were in power for Is
years unbroken and had le years 10
achieve that which. II necessary. was
necessary before their eyes, clear as
ID would have been before the Dem
ocracy or before any citizenship; ana.
IL not necessary, IL was imposition ana
crime upon the citizen and taxpay-
or to cry the danger whose burdens
already had become so great as TO
overcome him in his march Of Hfe led
nv Republican administrations 81 pro
Haecy and political pillage. These II
~ who CIV patriotism, national de-
eanse. who II is now condemn lis for
r-nd!nE the soldiery into the cn- ntry,
where before they said our ctfcnse
consisted in not sending him earlier
and in greater number Wrie pre-
tending to patriotism they condemn
every exhibition Of courage and hope
30 invite the scorn Of uo'ii6rs and
fathers against the Dcmoc lacy he
rause their sons have been called TO
tduy. Those who left the country
helpless against invaders and enc
mics row would leave Il defenseless
II by doing SO II could increase the
nations EN- barraSSmen and awaken
political following to its new doctrine
OF hypocrisy.
Now, they would awaken the re-
sentiments of every mother, the re-
sai.ation Of every father because
their son il upon the border bearing
the burdens of a national patriot 10
secure peace and to avoid war You
Republicans cry out the injustice, as
you claim, Of having these young
men In such condition Of inconveui-
elce and viclssttude you exaggerate
the conditions Of distress and mag
MY what are the possible sufrerthgs
they could endure And vet YOU now
prom ounce with a message to the
world that had you had your way In
making way against Germany and de-
claring war with the world for the
vindieation OF Belgium you would
have sent these young men. huddied
like cattle upon the board OF every
raft and vessel. expiring with sick
ness on shiT'board. hungering for
want Of food. expiring IN polluted
places infested with vermin. and
when landed on the opposite side Of
the American world. In Europe. TO
be met with the combined armies of
Europe, their ship bearing them
shot 10 fragments, Americas sons
killed in lerions. or II ever landed,
to be marched 20 hills and valleys,
where they were to lie down in death.
unmarked in grave where these
mothers and fathers would know
them no more nor hear their last
cry as they breathed out their young
lives in sacrifice to the barbarism Of
those who would have established,
America upon the doctrine OF mill
farism and send her children in mill
lions to die in foreign lands for con-
CT Af ly, "a