The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1917-07-06

tnem having contracted tuDerculOSl
for want of food and because of ex
posure. He said these men were car
ried away to Germany without an!
regard to their families at home O
how many were dependent upoi
them. He paid a high tribute to thu
heroism of the Belgians. He sale
that while their country was overrun
they were game and that they would
never acknowledge the rule of tht
Germans or do anything that woulc
gratifv the German vanity. lie sale
that the Belgians thought American:
were almost celestial beings when II
comes TO power or doing things. anc
that frequently they would appeal tc
the American Commission to do what
under the circumstances was the I'M
possible.
He spoke of a trip through Ger
many and of his having see several
hundred thousand German soldiers
transferred from the eastern to the
western front. and be said these men
looked callous and cadaverous. That
they seemed to realize that a destiny
was sweeping them into something
that must be done regardless of its
terribleness. He contrasted the splr-
it of the German troops with that OF
the French who, he said, were anil
mated and cheerful. He said the
British troops looked rather lank,
but that they bore no such u%ninviting
demeanor as did the Germans. He
said that the Canadians were among
the best soldiers in the British line.
IL -~al.1 e HI hH,-inn aSlod cnmQ
Canadian and Australian troops in
London what they were over there
for. what were they fighting for.
Were they fighting for the King?
These queries, he said, he PROFOUND
ed TO several different groups of SOL
diers. The answer was emphatic,
"H-. we're fighting for no King: we
are fighting for freedom And he
said that was the spirit animating the
Allied forces and that il was the spirit
that America must get to win this
war. Mr.. Percy said that Germans
were different to any other people IN
the world. They have been taught.
he said. for generations that their So
called "kultur" was the thing for the
world. for all humanity and that they
had q sort of indefinite idea that the
Kaiser and God were partners and
that they felt it was their duty to
force their government and their
ideas on other nations. He sadi they
We're arrogant and dicatorial. He
contrasted them with Americans and
said we knew we had the best govern
ment ave designed by man but we
believed in letting other people alone
SO long as they would let US alone.
That Americans for once
thought of forcing Americanism on
any other nation. Mr.. Percy gave it
as his unqualified belief that if the
war should terminate favorably to the
Germans, we of Mississippi. indeed
Of the whole United States, would
have experiences such as are now
wringing tears from the Belgians snd
devastating that country. He said
that last winter he suffered from cold
more than he ever did before in a
winter in his life time; that there was
but little coal in Belgium, because of
the fact that the Germans approp-
rated it to their own use. He plead
for Americans to wake up; if they
did not he said they would be awak-
ened at last by the Germans at their
gates and by a loss of all that was
dear 20 an American heart-freedom
and family and home. He deprecated
the spirit toe often expressed in many
quarters. oh. the war is going to be
won; there are plenty of fellows who
want to fight" He said there was
something for every man, woman and
child. too. of any size, in America to
do to help the cause of the war. II,
he said. one can not enlist. or per-
chance has no member Of his family
who can go. he can give of his money.
The women. he said. can do Red Cross
work, In doing Red Cross work, Mr..
Percy said, he did not mean that the
women must necessarily 90 to the
battle lines; they could, he said. make
bandages for the wounded and such
other things as the soldiers must have.
He told at length of what the Red
Cross nurses were doing for the
wounded and the dying and what a
horrible fate would come to many,
many thousands of the wounded but
for the Red Cross nurses who, he said,
were in and near the firing lines and
who watched for the wounded just
as a mother would watch for her
child. These nurses. he said, must
be fed and clothed and otherwise
cared for and he pleaded earnestly
for the most generous liberality in
providing for the Red Cross. He said
the wal was every Americans war.
That Germany had set out on a con-
quest of the world and that it was
their prime intent to overrun France,
then England and next America and,
he said, the man must be asleep or
Indifferent to the future for himself
and for his wife and his children that
did not see that we had been forced
into a war that was aimed to undo
what Washington and our other fore
fathers had framed for US with their
blood during the Revolution. He
said France has done her utmost, she
has no more men; that England had
brought all she had and laid it down
and could do no more; it vas there
fore up to .Aemricans, up to Missis-
sippians and those of every other
state in the Union TO stOp the on