The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1917-07-06
$50 AS FAR AS YOU LIKE"

| Otner memDer udu just SuSSoSleU
that telegram be sent President
| Wilson pledging support to the war
and urging him "to go as far as you
like" The first member was sug-
gested as the proper person to write
and send the telegram.
| Now, it so happens that the man
designated is above the fighting age
we're not talking about the con-
scription limit of thirty-one years
either. because that's only the limit
for those who don't want to fight. 1t
also happens that this man has no
son old enough to fight. The war as
far as he was personally and init
mately concerned was to be waged by
other men-we mean the real war.
the killing and being killed, not the
simulated war of few dollars do
mated to this fund or that.
So. situated. most men would have
been quick to seize the opportunity
of being prominently patriotic by ad-
yocatine a war to the knife - it
wasn't going to kill him or any OF
his family-but this man viewed 1t
from the proper angle. He declined
saving. "Let somebody send that tele-
gram who is going to be there Wnea
the war reaches the go as far as you
like stage" Needless to say, that
telegram wasn't sent.
Now, we could give the names Oh
these men. and you would know each
one Of them, but what's the use? we
only wanted to use the incident as
the means OF pointing out how dis
similar other men in your community
and ours act every day. We mean the
men who do not expect to fight, who
have no sons to fight, but who are
loudly and vigorously advising the
president, although he never hears
their wisdom, to 'fgo as far as you
like"
! It's easy to wage war with other
mems lives, brother, but have you
tried to serve in any capacity your
self?-Orangeburg Times and Demo-
crat.
We were present at the time the in
cident took pace to whitl our friend
refers. We thought it was a good
noint at the time, and as we stated
in the last issue we did not know
whether or not the resolution ever
passed Your are right, it is easy
TO wage war with other mems lives,
but the thing is to go in and do some
of the fighting yourself, if you hap
pen to be so elamorous for war. We
have said the same thing many times
since this war began, but we have not
observed that those that have been so
loud in their prostestations Of patriot
ism have gone rushing to the front.
It is unfortunately too true that
those who make the most noise
about war, and are clamoring for war,
are generally the ones who have
bomb proof jobs, or who find some
way not to go to the front, and who
never send any of their own to the
front. It is another way OF saying
what Congressman Kitchin said in
his famous speech against the war:
sIt REQUIRES neither physical NOR NOR
al sourage to declare war for some
one else to fight"
We did not know Dut that the reSo-
MUTTON had been sent, though we never
heard of it again in the association
We are glad it was not sent. We are just
as loyal as any citizen of this great
country of ours, but We would not be
willing to send telegram to any man
to go as far as you please and we Will
endorse your action. We would not
give all of our freedom and democra-
cy to the fellows across the seas. We
should at least keep a little of the
thing at home for our own use.
The thing now to do is to cooperate