Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-10-04
INSULTING!

great body OF Georgia citizens VINO
live in the rural communities to say,
or even insinuate, that they are not
in sympathy with the approved poll
cies of the government in its partici-
patton in this war.
Yet, The Recorder is well
aware of the fact that the statement
is frequently expressed in certain poll
itical circles that the farmer vote,
to put it literally, is in accord with
the copperhead, yellow-dog policies Of
Senator Hardwick and are dead ag'in7
the selective draft act, sending troops
to France, and the war policy in gen
eral
Any person of average intelligence
is bound to realize by now, with even
casual study of the facts and condi-
tions, that the entry of the United
States into the war was imperative,
demanded by circumstances which i'm
periiled the very life of this nation.
The United States may be fighting to
make the world safe for Democracy,
but it is also fighting to keep the
hand of the Hun away from its throat.
1t has been conclusively proven, be-
You'd the shadow of doubt that Ger
many planned, and still plans, an
invasion of this country, after subju-
eating France, Great Britain and Rus
STA.
And the fact now is so true that it
can hardly be denied, that until the
United States joined issue with the
Allies, Germany had the upper hand,
and gave promise of triumphing over
the British the French, the Russians
and the Italians.
All this being true, how can any
mar say that the United States should
have kept out of the war?
With Germany's repeated. persist
ent and defiant aggressions upon us,
with its campaign of death and de-
struction even here in our own coun-
try-with its outrageous violations on
the high seas-with its traitorous,
n,urderous conduct towards us every
where-how was it possible for the
United States to have held aloof any
longer
Yet, here is that Hearst organ, the
Atlanta Georgian, the only daily
newspaper in Georgia with the temer-
ity to endorse Senator Hardwick, that
actually has the brazen effrontery to
say that the farmers Of this state share
the reasonable opinions that the
junior senator from this state has
expressed.
Lest there be any mistake as to
what the Georgian does say, we
quote:
Whether the majority Of the
people of Georgia are for or
against Senator Hardwick's views
of the war, there is no question of
the fact that there are thousands
Of the quiet people of Georgia
on the farms and in the fields Of
labor and in the professions also
who do agree with Senator
iardwick, and who are as loath
as he is to see thousands upon
thousands of our young men com
PEELED to go over to offer their
lives in the blody trenches of
France, and as anxious as Sena-
tor Hardwick is to bring about
| 9eace in any way that conserves
the real honor and safety of cur
country.
Nor is it by any means certain
that Senator Hardwick is in the
minority in Georgia in the atti-
tude that he has so outspokenly
assumed toward Americas duty
and policy in the war Behind the
excited clamor of the cities and
the sharp diatrbes of so many
city newspapers, there lives and
reigns the calm, quiet, reserved
judgment of the people of Geor-
gia-and that voice has not yet
been heard in the controversy.
That is an insult to the patriotism
and intelligence of the men who live
on the farms, but it is thoroughly in
keeping with the seditious, sneaking,
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