The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1917-10-27

ket 1t becomes a drug upon the mar
ket and it's value is nothing.
There are II thousand cotton mill
operatives in South Carolina whose
daily bread depends upon the run
ming of the mill. If you close the~seas
against the manufactured product
these people are without homes, with
out bread, without opportunity to
educate their children. No class of
people will be more directly affected
than will the mill operative of South
Carolina. He must find an outlet for
his labor and that means an open
sea.
There is complaint that our boys
have to go to France. 1t is no fur
ther. as an Outgrowth Of modern in
vention, from Sumter to Paris than il
was in 1860 from Sumter to Bull Run.
These old grey haired Confederate
soldiers did not complain that they
had to leave their homes, and their
boys are not going to do it, and their
boys do not thank the demagogues
for complaining for them.
The French soldier that saved the
patriot army when this young ma
ton was struggling for it's liberty, did
not complain to come to us. We are
going to pay our debt to France with
interest doubly compounded. We
are going to lift the awful menace of
Prussianism from over her, and Per-
shing is to be to her in this her aw-
full ordeal what Lafayette was to us
in ours.
They say it is a Wall Street war
1t is lie. They say that Wilson
brought on the war. That is a lie
Did Wilson and Wall Street outrage
Belgium? Did Wilson and Wall Street
blow up the munition factories al
over this country? Did Wilson and
Wall Street write the Zimmerman
note? Did they fill our land with
spies? Did Wilson and Wall Stree,
plant bombs in our very capitol? Did
Wilson and Wall Stret send the Lusi
tania with her freight of souls into
the depths of the deep? This accu-
sation is miserable German lie
and the hearts of those who repeat
| Ttr q 70 III, lit
are as black in disloyalty as was the
heart of Benedict Arnold.
There are those who say that
American should not travel on these
ships and in the danger zone. Am ]
to cease to travel on the Coast Line
because the Southern is at trouble
with it?
| We are in the war. There is nc
half way ground upon which mer
can stand. The time for criticism is
past We are either for or against
our country The day of hyphenisn
| is no more.
| We must win this war for the vim
dication of our own rights, and
that the world may be made safe fol
democracy. We can win it only b.
giving to the government our whole
hearted support. Money will not wir
it. Men will not win it. Food will
| not win it, These are all necessar,
parts of the machine. We can win il
only with these and the completes
loyalty to the purposes Of the gov
| ernment.
The nation faces the supremest
test. Your boys are going to the
| front to fight for the civilization
which trembles in the balance. We
| who remain at home must make OIL,
sacrifice, little as it is in comparison
with theirs.
Hundreds of thousands of brave
| and true boys are mobilizing in theii
| camps throughout the country prep
| aratory to entering the trenches be-
yond the waters to fight and to die
that this nation, "the land of the
free and the home of the brave
shall not perish from the face of the
earth forever. They are going to
tight and die to avense the deaths O.
| our fathers, brothers, mothers, wives
and babies They are going to fight
and die in France that this free LAND
'f ours may not in. the near future
suffer the horrows Of Belgium and
Northern France. They are going to
fight and die in France because it is
better that they fight there than tha;
we permit the enemy to land here
upon our own soil. They are goiny
% fight and die in France that the
ever threatening menace of Prussian