The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1917-05-09

they proclaim the gospel of fright
fulness for all who bar their path.
ihey intend to win the world and
force German ideals upon It with their
krupp guns and submarines. 1t is
terrible faith, when bacg Of il is Ger
man efficiency and the ar1ue'l prepar.
alton of 40 years. I remember about
20 years ago reading speech Of Bis
march, whom / consider one of the
worlds greatest statesmen. This
speech was delivered on his 10th
plrthday, and l was SO much struck
with 1T that | pasted it in a scrap-
book. Bismarck disapprovcd of an
neXing Alsace and Lorraine. His great
mind foresaw trouble for Germany.
After the death of Frederick when
the present kaiser came to the throne
he got rid of Bismarck as soon as he
could. The old man lived on his es
tite and on his birthday Il great crowd
came out to pay their respect. In
his speech he used this phrase: that
once arous i, not the whole world
could overcome the "FUROR TEU-
|TONICUS:" In view of what is hap
pcning now, it looks IS if he knew
his people. Let us not deceive our
selves. This FUROR TEUTONICUS'
backed by the genius, amazing re-
pre- will give Uncle Sam the tussle Of
his life. The kaiser aims at a new
nap of the world. In the pursuit of
that object he holds that treaties are
mere scraps of paper" and he who
Is not Tor me is agains5 me and must
be wiped out. 1t is an overbearinp
and cruel doctrine, and it will take
hard blows before the faith of the
German people is shattered in this
ideal. They have ten million men
under arms, and | do not take much
stock IN the starvation stories. - AS
long as Germany has possession of
the Balkans with line of railroad to
Constantinople and on far into Asia.
they canot be starved In short
time now they will harvest another
crop, and the figures show that Ger
many produces enough vital food to
care Tor her people. Germany has
suffered heavy losses, but from all
can read her spirit is unbroken, she
still has confidence in her ultimate
Triumph, England is the backbone
OF the Allies. Germany believes if
she can SO terify the world, that ships
VIII not enter the submarine zone.
she can starve England into submis-
sion. So far as the United States is
concerned, she has no real friends in
Europe. We should go into this war
strictly III self defense, to protect
our property and citizens on the high
seas and stop right there. 1t is not
altogether impossible that we NAV
md ourselves ptied single handed
against the greatest military machine
the world has ever known. This war
will not be on paper. We should
nave universal military service and
equip and train a field force of at
least two million men. The time for
disarmament will come after the war
IS over and the United States can then
lead the way. Our vast national
wealth, without an army and navy to
protect 1t makes us a prize to tempt
the cupidity of the nations who have
all OF their capital invested in mill
tary establishments. The founda-
ton of our. foreign policy has been
Washington's farewell address and
the Monroe doctrine. There was
never time when it was more i'm
p0rtant to avoid "entangling foreign
alliances" America has the men and
the money. We are protected by a
great ocean on both sides and we
should adhere to established Amer-
can doctrine. We can co-operate as
we did in the Boxer trouble in China
ana go no further. A foreign war by
this republic for conquest or for any
thing except the protection of Amer
lean lives and property or the main
talnance of the Monroe doctrine will
be the grave of republican institu-
tlons. Monarchies may flourish and
arlstocracies always fatten on war,
out the other course means a military
republic: America is the worlds
leader IN democracy. Germany the
worlds leader in autocracy. Our war
is not against the German people, it
Is to overthrow an ideal which if it
triumphs would enslave the Germans
as much as ourselves. There were
two autocrats in Europe. The ear
also a modification of the word Gaze
sar is overthrown because he was Sc
cretly trying to aid the kaiser. There
IS something wonderfully contagious
IN the spirit of democracy. 1t trav-
els on the wings Of the wind and is
borne on the rays Of the sun into the
dark places. Let us pray that the
air of freedom be carried westward
across the war swept plains of Poland
INTO Germany and ovcrturn this 9TH
er auuocrat. Modern democracy was
born in the free cities along the
Kline and there are three republics
now in the German empire. The re-
public of Germany would soon end
the war. That would be "peacc with
out victory" except the victory of
trath over error, and the triumph of
Germany's better self over tyranny
and selfishness. War round the world
stepped in love Of money, and greed
had smothercd mans finer instincts.
We will be taught unselfshncss by
war an dthcre is sure to be great re-
action and spiritual awakening. The