The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1917-07-05

ment, 1000, and she needed the Iron
deposits OF Belgium and the newly dis
covered iron mines in northern France
Germany was tired also Of paying I'm.
dustrial tribute to Rotterdam, a CITY
that has grown more rapidly than
Hamburg, and she desired to obtain
the mouth Of her greatest river, the
river Rhine, while the pane German
scheme also involved the railroad from
Hamburg to the Persian gulf.
America Has Spoken For Democracy.
Now the point of emphasis is slowly
changing. America has spoken for de-
mocracy, and the attacks Of the Ger
man leaders upon democracy and self
| government are increasingly numerous
and bitter. But nothing can stay the
rising tide. When that spring broke
out I'm Prospect park engineers filed It
with cement, but the hidden waters
pushed the cement away; then wall
or masonry was built, and when the
FROST went out Of the ground the spring
pushed the whole wall aside; finally i'm
| despair the engineers gave up the con-
| test, built curb around the spring
and put In drain pipe because they
| realized that the waters of the north
ern ridge Of Long Island were pushing
on that spring. The forces Of democ-
racy are rising, lifted by the spirit of
GOD, even as the tides are lifted by
yonder orb that flashes I'm the sky.
Passing in review, therefore, the
wiilful course and the deliberate plot
ting OF Germany and her allies, 1t has
become plain at last to every Ameri-
can, including the rank and file Of Ger
man-Americans who are loyal, that,
now that we have taken our stand on
the side Of justice and democracy, the
duty OF the hour is the whole hearted
prosecution Of the war. public opin-
ion Is all but omnipotent," said Ed
mund Burke, but public opinion rep
resents an atmosphere created by loyal
citizens who In their conversation in
the office, on tho street car, in the
streets, bring their loyalty to bear
upon their fellow men. In these crit
ical days many young men are asking
what we can do, since as yet we have
no army to send abroad and, after two
and half years Of delay and drifting,
have no navy. Well, one thing can be
easily donc-we can start in and build
ships with which to provision England
| and France and Belgium, and build
them four times as rapidly as the Ger
man submarines are sinking them,
with this added benetlt-that when the
war Is over the United States would
then have great merchant marine
and recover It's place upon the seas.
We Must Use Our Strongest Mon.
Bryce In his American Common
wealth" once snf that If this republic
| ever fails 1t will be overthrown by the
present party system. A great ma
ton means government by its greatest
men. This country has entered upon
the greatest war In history. The re-
public needs the organizing genius Of
its greatest statesmen.
Better days, let us hope, are coming.
Men hitherto asleep are now fully
| awake and alert. There has been q re-
viral Of loyalty and patriotism. Trai-
tors who have been nourished in our
cities have already felt the rod. In
such an hour the true soldier strikes,
| takes the offensive, filings his helmet
into the thick OF the enemy and fights
his way thereto, never standing on the
defensive. The charge that the repub-
1 lie cannot defend itself and is unwieldy
will be disproved. America has shown
other nations that a free and self gov
erning people can develop education,
property. finance. Now the time has
come to show that the republic in times
OF attack can make 10OOO0,0OO Of citi-
zcns to have but one mind and that
mind true to the great principles of in
dependence and SELF government; that
1OO.OOO,OO0 people have but one heart
and that heart beating in sympathy
with despoiled lands like Belgium; but
one arm and that arm oElnipotent to
strike for the freedom OF the seas. The
German critic sncers at the republic,
calling the fatherland a battleship and
the republic n raft, but let Herr Zim-
mermnnn remember that one cannon
/ ball sends battlcship to the bottom of
the sea. while thus far nobody knows
how to sink raft. Take no counsel.
therefore. OF crouching fear. Just now
. the sun Is under an eclipse, but the
hrst strokes OF war are beginning. and
they will be like the stroke OF the north
wind that will sweep away the low ly-
Ing clouds. and again the sun will
! shine out. If the republic Is to teach
the nations Of the earth free institu.
tons. we must reasscrt. revindicate and
re-establish the fundamental princi-
pies OF independence, freedom and self
government and maintain the rights of
small nations. the freedom Of the seas
and protect the life. property and in.
| stltutions OF our own people against all
who would seek to destroy them.