The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1917-03-02

CT Napoleon had it not been for the
! English channel, and it was beh:no
this bulwark that she believed herself
imprcYnaoie She "as impregnaole
as long as her population was propoi-
toned to the fruits of her own soil.
A hundred years ago, she could shut
herself up on her own island and DEFY
the world. But she is now the hone
of fifty million people. Her life has
I changed from agricultural to indus
trial. She has profted immensely as
the emporium of the world, and un-
der the belief that her navy would
keep the lines of traffic open during
the war, she has abandoned the soll
and become a nation of shopkeeperc
and manufacturers. Vast acres are
converted into preserves for game and
parks for the rich gentry who make
money everywhere and spend it in
luxury there. These fifty million pei
Eple cannot live for more than Six
weeks within themselves, and at this
season of the year nothing comes
from the soil.
Germany will carry out this block
ade to the letter. She will, indeed,
bring starvation to these millions Who
in cold blood fatter themselves tina,
they could starve the seventy million
people of Germany, and it will be the
irony of fate After these six weeks
the corpulent John Bull will suffer
a considerable reduction in avoirdu-
pois. The typical John Bull with his
fin", Ilcn. led | ea1s.cak color will SUI
fer a pathetic metamorphosis, and 1t
will assume lean and hungry look
We predict that in six weeks the
bull that has been believing for wal
will be mooing very gently for peace.
But peace will not come with the first
moo! Germany will demand cert, in
substantial tokens of the humility
which accompanies hunger. First,
the surrender of the British navy, the
seat and cause of the war, the very
thing which nerved Gray in his sub
terranean way to pull the Serbian
trigger. One by one the British navy
will file out of it's hiding place and
be delivered to Germany. When this
is done, Germany will say: "Not yet;
if you are really hungry, turn over
Gibraltar to Spain, from whom you
stole it some century ago, and like
wise Malta to France and so or,
down the long line of restitution, un-
til the seas and the straits thereof
break in freedom on every shore.
When this process is done, Germany
will still say: Just a while yet. II
you are starving indeed, at once re-
nounce the theft of Ireland. You be-
lieve in the principle of separate ma
tionaIities. There is a country sep
arated from you by geography, ny
race, by genius and religion, and tzal
you hold only by the power OF the
sword. You are starving now; re-
member how you starved Ireland for
seven centuries, how you infamineo
her people until they died on the hign
ways and byways; and how when they
rose in futile, unarmed rebellion, you
shot them down without remorse.
You believe in separate nationalities.
Release the two hundred and fifty
million people of India from the most
cruel slavery starving nation has
ever known You do not allow them
to keep even pocketknives, lest in d
moment of desperation they cut your
intruding throat. Give them back
their country, their arms and their
armies, and let them be free" And
so on until the whole catalogue OF
British sins has been expiated in hun
ger and humility. Then we can have
peace.
The little submarine. which will
give Germany the power to do this,
is not a weapon to be feared from
the standpoint of aggression. Ger
many can free the world by the sub
marine, aid will do So But she can
never enslave it, nor has she the de-
sire. For it is but the weapon of Da-
vid which was destined to bring the
Goliaths of the world to justice. It
is the sling by which henceforth the
monster of might will be slain by
the champion Of right. May God speed
the day.