Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1917-05-11
A War Worth Winning

Blood blinds When choec is struck he strikes back to
avenge the blow the insult that led to the quarrel When
thoughtess nation assaed it nseekng immediate
ance to forget all preceded the first clash Of and if
the end rumphs tmay exu in the brute its sodery
rather than the moral vndcaton Of its Victory then
more disastrous than defeat and war is douby damned
That danger conros America Ere months have passed.
the unweared wireless may bring that division of boys
has been hurled against the German lines and been thrust back
defeat Long lists of the dead of the manned and OF the missing
will be abled the papers Mourning will be in the
Weeping will be heard the homes And quickly the dng
are flashed passion will sweep the country Recruiting officers will
have appeal more Drafts VIII be unnecessary The instinct
that rs the viper will be aroused hearts thousands
and recruits will crowd the seconds seek for the
split blood of American youth Thereafter the flames of wrath will
the furnace Of till the e exhausted the enemy
consumed british victory and grapng may
But if sustain defeat with orude and triumph with
honor shun OF passion shun plague Of child
hood And do this must be by lifting the of the
nation above the incident OF battle the ends OF battle 1t must be
chilling molten fury to the cold see Of constancy emperng
with great ideal Memory support when wrath orgeul
Conviction must where turns Today and
day hereafter remember wherefore do battle and
to hat peace purpose way
To do this will the dam Of national patience mighty
has been the conux OF our prooeaJn puzzled neutral
listened yainy for word Of compromise from rmany when
word would have he'd the had Austria lpited against
feeble Serbia Still neutral in act a. IN name the
green thousands sweep boundary the German
had coyenaned respect We those thousands
pause batter down Lege and scatter like nations
unac large punder rayish terorze and burn We saw
the Belgian peasants driven kedmb cattle from paged ranch
Louvan in ashes and her treasures lighting ouac fires
deserted Brussels burdened With unlawful
levels andAnwep amingHke fiery highland torch We and
said perhaps there necessity 10 least the
passed But then Turkey joined cnta powers we
read agonizng letters IRON missionaries story of
Armenian bloody those d Phstne and deber-
ate as those of Genghiz Khan single from Berlin we
would have halted the Turkish aassns Their and
would have saved the remnant Of that cherished Christianity
before the Germans heard Of God That order Then
Serbia with ruthless ur wnene1
every crime of Mosem four huntred years Of cruelty Still
America neutral still at least part Of people believed
tragedy had grown the reading M hoped that reason
might prevail in nation that fahereI Kant and egel Two
ago yesterday that hope shattered when royal liner
princess of the bottom with eleven hundred
souls while the murderer speeded home receive from the kaer
hands the highest decoration of the empire Looking back
sinking of the Lusana hat day May 1915 wonder that
did then foreee the ndscrmnate submarine
fare the topedong Of hospital ships the bold defiance all
neutral rights the ensaemen of Belgian aborers the deportation
every innocent girl from the occupied parts Northern France
The last mad challenge of the world and God
We We rage the riddle of this ruthless
We read it 1t that every German soldier beast and
every officer depoer Of womanhood That thought absurd
that submarine murder and deportation and ghtunes and
the inevitable results OF national madness Just
physician administers mnm of poison desired reaction
he German people that soldiers the Belgian
Ter with song their lips and transformed farmers into pyro
naniac quiet academcans into lying ampheeer We need study
he symptoms long enough to dferentate hem then in the
of God and the knowledge of the seek the treatment
If the disease.
That treatment protect Germany and the world from the
Of auocray Could the British navy have been guilty of sink
Lusitana The very question insult For as the
discipline of that oldest of nave every sailor of the fleet would
muned before he would have served aboard pirate Ship
ou the French army have repeated the Rhine the crimes
Germany has committed Belgium? Could Cologne cathedral
ombarded the French Rheims the Germans? To ask
he question it Every every monument of
Germany would have been safe had Joe army two years
wept the empire from Metz kongDerg And why? Be-
American attest free government makes the
e and rights the humbst worker secure as those of the
oemos leader Where democracy prevails everposon
nation to profit by its mania.
This that Mr. Wilson had in mind when that appealing
address, the he declared that the world be made
ae for democracy This that every citizen must realize if he
make of this sacred duty and consecrated task THE
world must be made afeor smallest nation and the ebes
for the hopeful radical and for the calm conservative for
eope with vision and people with past for German and for
av for Serb and for Italian for African for Japanese
for all these because free for the development democracy
Once century and sometimes less often comes opportunity
nation came to Germany when Luther nailed his theses to the
ahedra door 1t Italy when the new learning began to
1t Spain when certain sailor produced curious
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