The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1917-08-23
THERE is ONLY ONE ISSUE
The United States is Going to Lick
Germany or Germany is Going to
Lick the United States

The United States is Going to Lick
Germany or Germany is Going to
Lick the United States
Governor Beckett at Asheville.
There is only one issue. The Unit
ed States is going to lick Germany
or Germany is going to lick the Unit
ed States.
The question is, under which flag
does man fight, and that is one
of the great questions that is pre-
senting itself to every American cit
iZen.
j William Jennings Bryan is lover
Of peace. He does not want war. But
the day after war was declared Bry-
an volunteered his services. Claude
Kitchin spoke against war and voted
against war, but the day after war
was declared he took off his coat and
went to work on the bill to wage the
war and his son enlisted in the army.
That is the way North Carolinians
always do.
i In the present emergency no mat
ter what mans private opinions
might have been, before the war was
declared, if he is an American he
will give power to the arm that is
raised to strike.
= The time has come when war be-
tween enlightened and civilized ma
tions is worse than savagery. 1t
means the using Of brute force by
men who claim to have risen above
the brute level. 1t scorns the sub
iett of logic and savagely asserts
that the gun should be the supreme
arbiter of nations life. For thirty
years with tireless energy and match
less skill, the imperial German gov
eminent has converted every either
into a soldier and every industry in
to an arsenal. This completed, i
suddenly demanded Of a startled worl6
new place in the sun.
We are fighting to send Prussian
ism to the scrap heap of civilization
for the simple logic Of justice an<
peace against the logic Of fire anE
sword. There will be no peace TO-
this world until the strongholds o
autocracy shall have been laid Low
and on it's ruins a Christianized de
mocracy built.
One Of the puzzling facts Of his
tory is that nations lay far behin
individuals in mental and moral per
ception. Maybe this is the reason
that Congress and the Legislature
/ pass what individuals believe to b
| SO many fool measures. This is NOR
| striking in moral than in a men
tai sense. For a thousand years di
| plomacy was simply an art of du
| plicity. This was so until John Ha,,
| Lifted the whole worlds diplomac,
| to level of truth and honor it ha
| never known before.
I say the real issue in this war i
whether or not the ideals of Prus
sianism are to direct the civilization
of this world for one thousand year
to come. I have nothing but feeling
of sympathy for the down troddel
people Of Germany. l trust no MAJ
will let his feelings drive him to a.
act Of injustice against those poo
follows quartered down there at He
Springs.
If Germany wins this war ever
nation will be converted into mill
tary camp and every citizen will
drilled for model soldier.
We owe our very existence to tn
nation of France, and it is no NOR
right to stand and see it overthrow
without cause, than the strongest ma
has right to stand by and see
helpless woman attacked by a savag
brute.
| We cannot stay out Of this figh
one minute longer and preserve
semblance of our self respect.
[ rejoice to hear that calm voic
in Washington saying as quietly a
the Master babe the stormy seas t
cease that "the world must be mad
| safe democracy. That sentence wa
| heard around the world. The Kaise
| heard it, and for all of his legion
| he was afraid.
II They are coming from "Greenland
lev mountains and from midas c.
: raj strands" to fight the Goliath {
= democracy.
II can see the divine rights of king
flutter and fall before the divir
right Of men.
| The world must take knowledge {
Christ land His righteousness, fo
then and not till then, will the wor
be "made safe for democracy" ar
the nations know a great and lastin
peace.