The Tupelo journal., 1918-06-28
The Fight Must Be Won.

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The Manufacturers Record Of Baltimore in {
recent number set in its usual virile style the sit
uation in Europe and gave to the people Of
this country a clear exposition of their duty un
der the flag we are fighting. The editorial il
as follows:
Until the Almighty makes peace with Satan ane
universe, and
Until Heaven and Hell are synonymous terms
America should not make peace with an unconquered
unrepentant Germany.
Unless American men are degenerate sons of noble
sires;
Unless American women are not of the stuff which
gave strength to the men of Revolutionary days, anC
unless, too, they have less Womanhood than the splen-
lid, heroic women of the South and the North alike
who between 1861 and 1866 laid their all upon the altar
of their country and never faltered amid the sorrows OF
that fearful four years of Civil War, then there viii
be no word or thought of peace with an unbeaten Ger.
many on the part of any honest-hearted man or any
woman loving wonanhood more than life.
What is life that we should count it Of more value
than honor and duty?
Shall we save life that we may lose it and honor
too, or shall we give life freely that we may gain a
larger, sweeter, broader, holier life for ourselves and all
the generations to come?
The Son of God might have saved His life, but
he chose to die that millions might be saved.
Judson and Livingston and hundreds of other
missionaries have gladly endured hardships unto death
that others might live.
Would Mary have called her Son from the Cross?
Would the mothers of all the heroes who have died
like Judson and Livingston for others, have called them
from the sacrifice and saved their lives at the expense
of others?
To ask this question answers it.
Our loved ones are offering their lives that others
may live; that womanhood may be saved; that children
may be kept from the power of the unhung brutes; that
civilization and liberty NAV not perish from the earth.
Would we call them back from such superb heroism,
such Christlke sacrifice made, that others may be saved!
The question answers itself-a thousand times, No.
The service flag is the noblest emblem ever given
to the breezes, as the Stars and Stripes is the noblest
flag which has ever foated over a free nation. And yet
that is almost too much to say of our flag as we stand
with uncovered heads before the flags of heroic, sub
timely heroic, Belgium and Britain and France and Italy
and Serbia. Their flags float over nations who preferred
death to dishonor, over nations whose men and women
have matched and surpassed in wonderful heroism and
sublime sacrifice all that tabled stories tell us of Greece
and other nations Of olden days.
God bless The hags-of these Allies of ours, as they
float over heroic men and women who have made human
history through unnumbered centuries to come the more
glorious because they have lived and suffered and died
for God and humanity!
Germany, the embodiment Of all that is false and
vile in humanity; Germany, whose people have reverted
to the type of her progenitors of old, who in their wild
carousals drank from the skulls of their war victims
Germany, which definitely planned for half a century,
taught it in its schools, preached it in its homes, and
thus nodded its people of all classes to begin a war for
world domination, has but followed out its own long
proclaimed plans of frightfulness in order to d%eterroth-
er nations from rsking its vengeance.
False to Gods greatest gift to man, except that of
His own Son, womanhood and ~babyhood, wifehood and
motherhood, false to all human liberty for all time to
come is even a thought of peace with an unwhipped
Germany. Then put away from the innermost thought
Of every soul any suggestion Of peace, any desire for
peace except that peace which can come only over the
unconditional surrender of Germany and her allies, over
the dead bodies of their leaders and over all the vile
ness that has made Germany a stencil for all time to
come in the nostrils Of God and man.
Germany will seek peace whenever its rulers think
that the awakened fury of an outraged. world endangers
their power and their individual lives.
But until Germany has within it's own confines seen
and felt the power of the armies of civilization until
every male of the whole Hohenzolern and Hapsburg
families and their accursed military leaders have been
hung or shot before the eyes of the assembled people OF
Berlin and Vienna, he who in America talks peace will be
false to all civilization.