Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-05-29

forces westward and became the DOM
inant power in graf mineral and oil
regions. with an efficiency in the pro-
duction and the using OF foodstuffs
matching that of their fighting ma.
chine. they have gone on until they
have probably made defeat, except by
the United States, an impossibility.
England and France and Italy and
Belgium have been pouring out their
life blood in the most heroic contest
known in the worlds history. Their
fight has been our salvation. Their
navies have been the shield which has
saved us from destruction by our en-
envy. Behind their navies we have
lived in safety, and but for their navies
the vandals who have wrecked and
ruined and outraged so much of Eu-
rope would have firmly planted their
feet on American soil. Our salvation
is in fighting them on Europe's battle
ground. If we would not be overcome
Or have for years on own shores such
ruthless, frightful horrors as have
marked the work of Germany and its
unholy Turkish ally in Europe, Ger
many must be defeated in France and
that heroic couAfry and PROSTATE Bel
GUM must be saved
1t is we'll that President Wilson has
moved with all the celebrity he could
command in democracy such as ours,
hampered as any administration must
be by the smalless of many petty pol
iticians who are in office, and is pre-
pairing to send abroad the first contin.
gent of an American army
American soldiers will go to hold the
torch that lights the world to human
liberty.
They will go in a holier cause than
that of the Crusaders of old.
They will battle for the worlds civ
ilization.
They will fight against the power of
Evil that it may not forever continue
to master that which is Good.
Their struggle is not simply to save
human liberty and democracy to man
kind, but it is to save all that makes
life endurable and existence worth
while.
Their fight will be to save this coun
try and protect the women and the
children here and save them from the
awful, the unspeakable horrors ofI
the conquered portions of Belgium and
France, and from the depravity which
has made the streams of Armenia run
red with the blood of Christians, whose
lives have been given to sacrifice be-
cause they were Christians and be-
cause Mohammedanism is an eternal
fight against the gospel of Christ
Allied with Turkey in the effort to
call forth a so-called holy war" that
the Moslem world might oyerrun the
Christian world, Germany has, through
its whole course in this war, written
upon the pages of human history the
blacklist career the world has ever
known
If all the blackness and all the ho~-
rors of warfare in days of barbarism.
before the dawn of civilization and of
, Christianity; if all the blackness OF
the horrors of the world, savage war
fare of the Indians of early days could
be combined into one page of human
history, it would be spotless white as
compared with the blackness of Ger
many's warfare of the last two and a
half years.
1t is against such an enemy as this
that this nation has gone forth to war.
i would be unspeakable folly for rs
not to recognize that into millions of
homes there will come sorrow, that
sacrifices such as we have never known
before is to be ours; but that service
such as no nation has ever before rend
cred unto civilization is to be the priv
ilege vouchsafed by the Almighty TO
America.