The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1917-06-19

government Of nations; for they see
what immense strength the forces
of Justice and OF liberalism are gath
ering out of this war. They are en-
ploying Liberals in their enterprises.
They are using men, in Germany and
without, as their spokesmen whom
they have hitherto despised and op-
pressed. using them for their own
Observation-Disclosures, the leaders OF
labor, the thinkers they have hither-
to sought to silence. Let them once
succeed and these men. now their
tools, will be ground to powder be-
meath the weight of the great mill
tary empire they will have set up;
the revolutionists in Russia will be
cut off from all succor or coopera-
ton in Western Europe and a coun-
ter-revolution fostered and supported
Germany herself will lose her chance
of freedom; and all Europe will arm
for the next, the final struggle.
Intrigue Everywhere.
THE sinister intrigue is being no
less actively conducted in this coun-
try than in Russia, and in every coun-
try in Europe to which the agents and
dupes of the Imperial Germon gov
ernment can get access. That gov
ernment has many spoKesmen here,
in places high and low. They have
learned discretion. They keep with
in the law. It is opinion they utter
now. not sedition They proclaim the
liberal purpose of their masters;
declare this foreign war which can
touch America with no danger to eth
er her lands or her institutions; set
England at the center of the stage
and talk of her ambition to assert
economic dominion throughout the
world; appeal to our ancient tradi-
ton of isolation in the poiitics OF
the nations; and seek to undermine
, the government with false professions
of loyalty to it's principles.
viii Make No Headway.
But they will make no headway.
The false betray themselves always
| in every accent. It is only friends OF
the German Government whom We
have already identified who utter
these thinly disguised disloyalites. The
facts are patent to all the world,
and now where are they more plainly
seen than in the United States, where
we are accustomed to deal with facts
and not with sophistries; and the
great tact that stands out above all
the rest is that. this is people 3
war, a war for freedom and justice
and self-government amongst all the
nations of the world, war to make
the world safe for the peoples who
live upon it and have made 1t their
own, the German people themselves
, included; and that with us rests the
choice to break through all these hy-
pocrisies and patent cheats and
: masks of brute force and help set
the world free or else stand aside
and let it be dominated long age
through by sheer weight Of arms and
the arbitrary choices of self-constl-
tuted monsters, but the nation which
, can maintain the biggest armies and
; the most irresistible ornaments -
/ a. power to which the world has al
! forded no parallel and in the face OF
! which political freedom must withe1
! and perish.
."For us there is but one choice. We
{ have made it. Woe be to the man OF
group of men that seeks to stand in
| our way in this day of high resolution
when every principle we hold dearest
is to be vindicated and made secure
for the salvation of the nation. We
I are ready to plead at the bar OF his
tory, and our flag shall wear ne"
| lustre. Once more we shall make
| good with our lives and fortunes the
great faith to which We were born
! and new glory shall shine in the
face of our people"