Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-06-22
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pedoing the vessel without warning
IThis fact is proven by the repeated in
stances of sinking by submarine since
then when ample time was given for
icrews and others to leave the ships be
fore they were either torpedoed or
bombed, and also by the fact that the
two submarines which awaited the
Lusitania were in no danger whatevef
from warships, for none was within
sight, fact amply sustained by the
many hours which passed before all
reached the survivors of the wreck.
Furthermore. that in this disaster ri
so-called civilized nation for the first
time sunk without warning merchant
ship, not to say a great passenger liner
upon which thousands Of men, women
and children were travelling, and the
bulk of whom lost their lives. And ye:
some folks, maybe because they have.
become more or less accustomed to
reading of the horrors of this war
seem to have forgot the awful shock
of indignation expressed in the whole
world excepting Germany and he:
equally brutal allies) Immediately fol-
lowing that colossal outrage upon hui
mainly instigated by the German En-
peror and done by his command.
Lest we forget the enormities Of
which the German autocracy is guilty
the Lusitania disaster should be kept
uppermost in the mind of every Amer
Jean. Studiously planned and delib-
erately executed by the fiends who do
the Kaiser's bidding with the intent of
striking terror into the hearts of their
enemies, it acted as a boomerang anil
recoiled upon the German nation in
the shape of the greatest army that
Britain has ever gathered together, and
that is now side by side with the leg.
ions of France, driving foot by foot the
hated minions of the Prussian king
backward to whence they came.
Let America bear the Lusitania
crime in mind above everything dur
the progress of the war, for it ex-
presses (probably better and more
strongly than any other of the awful
deeds of Germany the fiendish terror
that is really in the hearts of the men
leading her in the fray, and who sec
the advancing shadows of their doom
creep forward inch by inch toward
their citadel of autocracy to the demo-
lition of which the world has set its
face. Since Cromwell upset the doc
trine of divine right of kings in Eng
land democracy has taken no perman-
ent backward step, and the sudden
burst of Russia into the bright light
OF freedom, although accompanied by
disturbances, will not, we may feel
Isure, be followed by return to the
Ipolitical darkness which formerly en-
veloped that great and impressive
land.
Autocracy must go. But it is fight
ing bitter war in its dying, and il
will need all the resources of America
concentrated in resistless might to
crush the poisonous thing which has
made masses of men the playthings OF
a dominant few for centuries, to b.
thrown into war against imaginary foes
whenever it pleased the fancy of n
: sovereign to engage in hostilities, as ii
did the Kaiser when he saw the force
OF the Social Democrats in Germany
| gaining rapidly in political strength, SO
that his throne was in danger of los
ing rs most cherished prerogatives
He succeeded in uniting his subjects in
a war against k.arce and Russia which
looked like child's play to them at the
beginning because of the well-known
unpreparedness of those two nations
but which changed its aspect immedi'
ately when Great Britain, with its
huge navy and other vast resources OF
men and money, suddenly leaped into
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