The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1917-09-06
We do care what sort of cOun-
try this will be after we are dead.
Dc you?
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Bamberg complains Of leaking wa
ter spouts. Come to Newberry and
walk IN Friend street from the Her.
aid and News Office. and in other
parts of the city. when 1t is raining.
-Newberry Herald and News.
Correctly stated, except that Bam-
berg's drain pipes do not leak. They
pour.
Bamberg's first contingent in the
national army carries with it to the
cantonment in Columbia and to the
front in Europe the best wishes and
pravers of the people of the county.
Everybody joins in the hope that
each one of'them will return crowned
with glory after the glorious victory
is won.
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Sheriff Huckabee, of kershaW
county, who died some months ago,
is alleged to be about $4,000 short
in his accounts, and an effort is be-
ing made by the county authorities
to collect the shortage from his
bondsmen. 1t will be recalled that
Governor Manning attempted to dis
miss Sheriff Huckabee from office a
year or two ago, but the supreme
court decided that the act under
which the governor took this action
was not constitutional.
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The opposition in this country to
the draft and to the administration
in general, is no doubt, fostered by
the German government. We don, t
doubt for a moment that the kaiser
knows all about it, and that he regu-
Iarly receives reports on the progress
made in this country. Germany has
from the beginning of the war con-
Quoted the most insidious propogan-
da in this country that the nation
has ever heard of. 1t takes money
to conduct the campaign that is be-
ing waged in America today against
the war. Where does the money
come from?>
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Which flag are you sailing under?
You are either an American or an
anti-American. There is no such an
animal as German-American. Such
a person is either German or an
American. We have no sympathy
with the so-called German-Ameri-
cans. If this country is good enough
to live in and if this government
is good enough for Germans
to seek privileges from in times
of peace, they should be COM
PEELED to be loyal in time of war;
else be treated as ordinary traitors.
Even at that, we think the disloyal
Germans in America are entitled to
more consideration than those parad-
ing as Americans, and at the same
time stabbing the country in the
back under the guise of "American-
ISM"
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The following paragraphs are TAXI
en- from booklet written by Otto H.
Kahn, of New York:
There appears to prevail amongst
not few people the strange deluslon
that Americas entrance into the war
was fomented by moneyed men, in
part, at least, from the motive and
for the purpose of gain.
Were there any such men, no pub.
lie condemnation of them could be
too severe, no punishment would be
adequate. l am absolutely certain
that no such hideous and dastardly
calculation found lodgment in the
brain of any American, rich or poor.
Moreover, is it not perfectly mani
fest that any rich man in his senses
must have known that his selfish in
ISr6SL was USSt OIOuiOteu Wy luS COA-
tinuance of the conditions of the last
three years in which America fur
nished funds and supplies to Europe
at huge profits, whilst our entering
the war was bound to diminish those
profits very largely indeed, to en-
tirely eliminate some of themO, to
interfere with business activity in
many lines, and to compel the imposi-
tion of heavy taxes on wealth?
We do not know Otto H. Kahn;
perhaps he is one Of the 'moneyed
men, but it does not make any diff
ference. The point is good one.
We have always said that it may be
true Eve do not know it to be true
or untrue) that the moneyed interests
may want the war, but if helps them,
it is only incidental. Either war or
peace is bound to help some people;
that is no argument against or for
the war. 1t does appear likely, how
over that the mOneVed men, if they