Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-08-20
FOR AMERICA-OR GERMANY.

Fully come is the time for American
to shut down on men in this countr
who give aid and comfort to the enemy
whether the aid be merely verbal an,
the comfort merely of the printed page
or these things be expressed by strikes
anti-draft meetings, Kaiser Wilson
banners in the hands of foolish suffra
gettes, organizations which claim tt
be American but which are anything
else in spirit, and the activities of Ger
tain senators in Washington. The great
mass Of the American people is for
war. Americans know that it must be
fought to a finish, and that the prepare
ton of the blow that will end it must
not be hampered by enemy paid, or
foolish, or mouthy persons in this
country.
The time is not far distant when cas-
ualty lists will begin to come back from
France. There will be stories of efforts
o, American soldiers, on a battlefield
alive with bursting shells and machine
gun bullets to drag down the great
enemy of democracy, and there will be
stories of men who died heroically, and
of others who were wounded in the
discharge Of their duty. These things
must come to pass, but, perhaps, it
will require the actual receipt of cas-
ualty lists to make some persons IN
derstand that this is real war, and not
ia time for silly men who love the
sound Of their own voices above all else
to call meetings Of a few misguided
persons and spout language which Ger
many will recognize as an aid and
comfort" to her.
This is a time when the American
must either serve America or Germany.
There is no middle ground He either
is for America or he is for Germany.
II he is for Germany he is a traitor in
his thoughts at least, and if he ex-
presses those thoughts he is a traitor
woh can be easily recognized. Why
should Americans here at home have
careful regard for the feelings of such
spouters when sons and brothers are
in the lists of dead and wounded?
When an un-American United States
senator rears up in the senate and
speaks words that are sweet music to
the Kaiser's ear he may, for all he
know, be actually speaking the death
warrant of many American boys, for it
) such sweet music that will tend to
prolong German resisl ance-which
means the frightening of casualty lists.
| Georgia has not been without her
share of men who, let US hope, are
actuated more by their own lack OF
wisdom than by any desire to make
the war more costly in American lives
Can they not see that the war must &c
ali till the military power to the pres
, ent German government is beaten If
then, they cause the delay of that much
?desired consummation they are but
helping the Germans to kill Americans
because they are doing something t.
encourage the Germans to continu,
fighting. And what they say is magni
fed for German ears. What Senator
] LaFollette says in the senate tina
I pleaes the Kaiser is passed on the Ger
= man people as if Senator LaFollettl
really amounted to something and hat
, the respect Of Americans. Anti-draf
{ meetings of little handful of persons
: are magnifed for the benefit of tn
, German people into great riots wher'
the president is condemned and tn,
chances of raising a great army to fgh
tie Germans laughed at Let it be hop
Ell that ignorance rather than treason
is behind these anti-American doing
in this country, but whether it be 6
norance Of treason, the time has com,
to put an end to them.-Sayannal
Morning News.