The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1917-06-28

dent Wilson has eloquently pledged
all the powers Of his great office to
the accomplishment of the same end.
Moreover, in France, in England, and
in all the allied countries, men are
inspired by the same high vision. AS
the great Frenchman recently visit
ing America, M Viviani. declared be-
fore our own House of Representa-
tives:
And when by force we have at
last imposed military victory, our
labors will not be concluded. Our
task will be, l quote from the noble
words of President Wilson, to or.
ganize the society of nations. >. i
We will shatter the ponderous
sword of militarism; we will establish
guarantees for peace; and then we
can disappear from the worlds stage,
since we shall leave at the, cost Of our
common immolation the noblest heri-
tage future generations can possess.
The allied nations now at war with
US, in answering President Wilson's
note last December. declared their
sympathy for "a league of nations
to insure peace and justice through
out the world" And Premier Lloyd.
George of England. possibly the
greatest personal force on earth to-
day, makes this prediction as to con-
ditions after the war:
The nations will band themselves
together to punish the first peace
breaker who comes out. AS to the
armies of Europe, every weapon will
be sword of justice in the govern
ment of men. every arm will be a
constabdlary for peace.
In other words, America is now
fighting 'awar against wal" war to
prevent forever hereafter such wars
as that which now RACES. But the
German ideal is militaristic. AS re-
cent authority has declared, she
subordinates the civil power to the
military power. she glorifies war and
believes it not only to be necessary
once in awhile but to be a legitimate
instrument of policy" AS a nation
she has no patience with the ideal of
a league of nations executing judg-
ment in righteousness. Such an ideal
to her is effeminate. She has freed
herself, she declares, from the con-
temptible sin of weakness. Force is
to her as a god. The iron hand" or
"the mailed fist" is the familiar
phrase that springs to any well-in-
formed mind when German policy is
mentioned. Bismarck. we'll called
"the Man of Blood and 1ron," was
the real father of modern Germany,
and he has stamped the impress Of
his warlike and unscrupulous nature
upon every feature Of the nation.
A long list of German philosophers
and teachers have reiterated his
views until the German mind is thor
oughly inoculated with them. Writ
Ing in the dispassionate years OF the
early COS, twenty years ago, DR. A
Lawrence Lowell, now President of
Harvard, correctly described the trend
IF German thought when he said:
THE Emperor is indeed an ardent
believer in the new monarchial theory
which has recently come into vogue
n Germany-a theory that decries
universal suffrage and proclaims the
military monarchy as the best posi-
Die form of government-thus fur
oishing one of many examples of the
way the end of the century is reject
ng the principles and reversing the
conclusions that have been laborious-
y developed during the last hundred
years. The fact is that ever since
,he battle of Sadowa profound
change has been coming oyer the
German character. The dreamy, po-
,tical, mystical temperament has gly-