The Big Sandy news., 1917-11-09
What We are Fighting Against


Among the supreme tragedies OF
earth we must make a large place TO
the spii itual suicide cf great men. ar:
nations There has been no century
nor ra ce bur has held the story OF som,
great man or city which has commit
led moral suicide and gone to the rub
bish heap = creation.
The pathway of history is strewr
with the wrecks of dead cities, Stand
ing upon the shores of Africa the trav-
eler finds the waves tossing thu sea
weed upon tile ruiI.ed steps of marbl,
palaces Lingering upon the shores OF
the Nile the pilgrim stoops TO pick VI
the fragments Of pottery that belonged
to Thebes. once glorious with its
Twelve gates on either side.
History is the graveyard Of nations
self slain. 1t ,s idle TO talk about Time
as the great destroyer. Time mas no
tooth Time mas no hammer Time
holds no flame. II is man who destroys
The square blocks of marble, found H.
the quarries near Athens have not
been inj1red oy wind or weather. thru
twenty centuries, and this tells us that
but .or mans haze and sin the mar
bles and temples and palaces coming
out OF the centuries would have madt
our earth kings palace of beauty
AMI delight.
Not time bu, man. is the great de
stroyer Mans hates is the hammer
that smites, mans envy is the flame
that consumes and the fall and de
cline or states is decline of the soul.
civilization on the outside is
simply an embtiyonment OF soul riches
on TIE inside The golden age af eacn
city is 'usfered in by the coming of
men of genius and spiritual manhood
Her poets prophets. heroes. reforms
With their visions Of better social or
Ter, made Palestine splendid and
when her great men fen and became
spiritual apos'ates. her temples tow
rs and palaces began TO crumtle
The beginning of Germany's apos-
asy was her military success. The
imp'e, gentle processes of the farm
he field. The factory and the shoi
,rsught small returns Of five or six
4 d eight and ten per cent upon the |
Investment. But early in her military
areer Germany learned that war wa.
national industry that pays thou
ands Of per cent upon the invest
lent. Her war upon little Denmark
-eas. without army or navy, gave
Germany l.er kiel Canal spoiled Dem
lark Of her richest provinces left her
handicapped, with her
anish subjects irritated and outraged |
,r the last fifty years by German
iethods which all Da,es to this day
lnsider outrageous Big Germany 5
tack on li'.le Denmark represents
le school bully stealing Christmas
-esent or fountain pen from little
lid.
German vs. war Upon Austria brought
ch treasures ard her deliberate aTd
owed plan 70 irritate France to the
mt Of war, that she might rob her
.aple OF her iron resources in Alsace
ID Lorraine. an5 = h,,ion dollars ir
Id represent other military success
. With Germany crime prospered
it does for every safebreaker until
TRACED society takes tire law into IL,
N hands.
No investment Germany has ever /
ade has paid dividends so la-ge as
r wars. For twenty-five wears she
8 been accumulst cannon. bullets.
ellis, military implements Germany
Lnted this war. prepared for this war
tnned this war, and has achieved
ormous rew.rds. It length bloc
mt TO Germany's head like drugged1 I
ne. For years she has been besid..
-self with military success. For tell :
ir.; she has been the bully among the
lions She has stood staggering and