Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1916-12-13


tion of rescue and succor that God
and humanity can lay upon the con-
science OF civilized people?
Is it not true that men are right
fully members Of one great family
knit together in the bond of uniyer-
sal br0therhood2
And can we stand excused and
guiltless before the judgment bar of
all this woe and agony Of the other
pcOplcs-nay, worse, if we continue
to provide the means Of more slaugh-
tor. to make profit Of accumulated
aEonies, to coin the blood and tears
Of humanity into gold that Is as ac-
cursed as the shekels for which Judas
sold the Christ to the tormentors?
There lies before us as a nation,
dear friends, the plainest path OF
manly and courageous conduct that
ever beckoned peoples feet to
splendid and glorious achievement.
We are strong people. a very
strong people indeed, and in a Just
cause and with our backs to our
homes and our wives and our little
ones, We might face the world IN hos
tile arms. and trust that we should
enemy feet.
We arc very rich people, and
without the stores Of our granaries
and our warehouses to load the ships
that come to our shores, it would 90
hard with many Of those who are
Staying and destroying instead OF
creating and producing.
Above our strength and numbers
and riches we POSSESS far more
splendid possession. which is the
moral prestige that not even these
two unhappy years have been able to
shake from its seat Of power and in
hucnCc among the nations.
And our most noble and most clo-
rions opportunity is to employ all the
accumulated and compacted weight
and potency OF our strength, our
numbers. our wealth and our moral
prestige and influence to promote
speedy peace in distressed and sad
dcned Europe.
Let us all, with one accord, urge
upon our own President that he
speak, in his great place, to the war;
ring governments the words Of medi-
alton ard fricndliest concern which
are in the hearts Of all American men
and American women who are wor-
thy to wear the bright badge OF citi-
Zcnship in this. our dear country.
Certainly. it is our right to offer
mediation.
If we have sinned in some ways,
we have nobly and unselfshly played
Il righteous part in other ways.
We have not closed our ears to the
appeals Of the suffering. We have
given freely Of our wealth, and made
no question Of race or creed. We
have avoided quarrels and sought
peace, and if some among us have
stained their hands with the price of
blood, for the most part we have done
what we could to bind up the wounds
of the peoples and to succor the ago
nized and despairing.
Therefore it is that our President
has the indubitable right, and, in our
fixed Judgment. is in duty bounden to
speak the sentiments Of his fellow
citizens in an earnest and weighty
appeal to the warning powers to ac-
ccDt Tho friendly Offices OF cur great
nation, to the end that war may
cease among the peoples and peace
reign over them.
What a happy, happy Christmas
this would be if the herald angels
could indeed and in truth. on it's
blessed eve, sing above the rejoicing
world the song the shepherds heard
as they kept their flocks long. long
ago beneath the stars that shone on
Bethlehem town:
"Glory to God in the highest.
On earth peace. good will to men,"
Before the war there were 500. 900
government employees in the French
republic.