The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1917-08-27
LoMBERroN NORTH CAROLINA, MONDAY AUGUST 27 1s1z

integrity Of Belgium, calling it
scrap of paper, invade that happy
and historic little country, converting
the sites where stood it's splendid
! cities into international cemeteries,
| where today sleep the dead soldiers
OF many nations and many climes.
"We have seen them become the
| pirate of nations, and by the use of |
under-sea boats sinking and drown
ing non-combatant men and helpless
women and children. We have seen
them make desolate happy countries |
that have done them no wrong, and
leave to starvation their former citi-
zens; they have hammered down ca
the1rals and colleges with their can
non, trained their guns on Red Cross
boats and slaughtered sleeping men,
women and children by dropping dy-
Mantle bombs at night, their ven
! geance writing cruelty that would
have brought bushes to the cheeks
of the Goth, the Vandal and the Hun,
) all done while they were marching
arm with arm with the unspeakable
Turk, and boasting of the culture
!; and civilization of the Rhine.
eve have seen their representa-
tives in office in our capitol, under
the protection of our flag, entering
into intrigues to incite Mexico and
Japan to make war upon US. We
, have read of their efforts to incite
to rebellion the negroes of the South.
They drowned our citizens while as
serting their friendship for US. We
protested, but the outrages continued
unabated. They were making war
upon US months before we declared
that a state of war existed.
4 "Staggered by their disregard of
5 size and sex, in their efforts to stage
frightfulness at which barbarians
would shrdder, we wonder if Atilla
II the Hun, the scourage of God, would
n not lie dissatisfied in his grave, if
: he knew how they had surpassed him.
: : eve are told by some it is not our
$ war, and they pretend not to know
' what we are fighting for. Only the
II blind should fail to see, in this pan
T Drama of bloodshed and slaughter, a
o studied effort to float the flag of
It Prussian domination over every cap
E; ital of The globe.
a "Not an allied soldiers blood has
IS crimsoned the SHOWS of the Carpath,
u ians, not one died at the forts OF
l. Liege, not one fell at the Marne, anc
IN not one has fallen on the fields oi
1t Belgium and France, but whose blooC
O. flowed to preserve free government
m and freedom for man.
lie every American soldier who die
as on the battle fields of Europe shoul'
~ have floating over him the inscrip
r. ton:
He died that American lbert
might live:
t. He died to stay the iron hand o
Us Prussian despotism.
It. "Some say, from what motive W
as do not know, that we have no righ
ce to send our soldiers to die in Europe
" Appalling as the threatened destruc
r. ton is, it is astounding that Ameri
tn can citizens, descendants of me
whose blood on the fields of the Rev
ar olution, bought the liberties we en-
o. joy, should be weakening the arm
ne of their government, in a state Q
ol actual war, by creating distrust an
IS. dissention, and making utterance
" calculated to destroy loyalty and pa
MT triotism and give comfort to the er
de emies Of their country.
en- eff this government has not tn
aw power to put it's soldiers anywher
on to prevent it's own destruction, W
ar- are indeed a weak nation, and il
we constitution is rope of sand. Th
co.. suggestion would seem too childish
SITS merit consideration.
es- 81 am not without sympathy fe
the fathers and mothers whose sor
mt must go. CHASTITY as may be the RI
MS. Election, 1 admit many will go WI
les will never return. l am in positio
on to sympathize One of my sons
'ur in the army and has served on II
or Mclean border and elsewhere for
me year. Some morning I expect
St hear that he is gone. l have anotl
ms er who will probably be drawn I'M
. it in the near future. What the
the fate is to be 1 cannot know. cs
ian only wait and hope, and hope
os; brightest robes will be broidered Wi
red the sable fringe of fear.
every man who does not do h
my duty strikes blow at the heart
re- the land of his birth. We are no
the at war. 1t is too late for differen
to of opinion. The utterance of eve
OF man should be:
lth My country, my country, may 81
lth ever be right,
est But right or wrong my country
cit is no time for difference
en- classes or views. Some complaine
OF say it is rich mans war. The
ur- has been no war in which that stat
aid ment was not made. 1t was bell
ell said in England when the sons of t
ap- wealthy men were falling at t
ver front, while at the same nome
a workers in munition factories we
nen striking for higher wages. Aw
with such utterances. For better
of for worse we are in it. Except
Dor absolute loss of self respect we cot
not stay out.
ory "Instead of calling it Europe's W
nd in the language of General Wo
of at Fayetteville, we should thank G
son that we have the trenches of the