The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1918-05-11
United and IndomitabIe.

the forces that seek overthrow the government
The struggle at bottom attempt by the military ele
ment to obtain and assert dictatorship over the British
empire This attempt is made with good motives and
for justfabe ends" the purpose being to consolidate
the strength of the empire and thus defat Germany
But the civil authority of Great Britain founded upon
centuries of struggle with tyranny backed by military
force is determined that the institutions of free govern
shall not be subverted under the that
it is necessary to create absoutsm order to cope
with the absoutism of Germany
The citizens Of the United States who students of
history and who narrowly watching the evolution
of governments deeply interested in the situation in
Britain They earnestly desire the triumph of the civil
power as personfed by Premier Lloyd George Ameri-
cans are not unaware Of the tremendous strides made in
America toward the consolidation of powers in the hands
of few This tendency, however, does not present
the sinister face of usurpaon of power by the military
and there is indication that the military branches Of
the government will have the hardihood to ask for die
tatorial powers President Wilson's timely and emphatic
suppression of the to cothe the military courts with
power to seize and try individuals charged with sediton
lis sufficient evidence that he commandernchef of the
army and navy is not seeking fundamental changes in
the government He has extraordinary powers, powers
never before conferred upon President but there no
ground for supposng that he will exercise them in such
manner as to strengthen the military branch at the ex
pense Of the civil authority In the meantime the mere
fact that the powers granted novel and unpreceden
ed is sufficient to many acute and studious Ameri
can citizens to watch with vigilance the exercise of these
powers.
1t is fortunate for the close cooperation of the United
States Great Britain France and Italy that the crisis
in England has emphasized the determination Of English
men to hold fast to the foundations of freedom. The
war is sweeping many from their mornings that
the widest hereses preached and the most absurd
doctrines accepted true. There solid truths
however which will not bulge. One of these truths is
crysaized in the phrase, eternal ggance is the price
of liberty" Free men must guard freedom after having
fought for it and won it. They must guard it against
themselves and other free men, who would destroy it
through ignorance other weakness.
The German empire is united and military machine
is wonderfully effective But the Italians wittiy have
said Germany wins battles and loses wars" nation
must be more than military machine, it will lose in
the military game The unity of the Germans is not the
unconquerabe unity Of the American States which has
been proved by fire to be spiritual and moral as well as
physical union The enemy league does not present unity
that now inspires the souls Of the allied nations The
enemy nations having poned only for selfish schemes Of
plumber are already beginning to quarrel among them
selves over the pos and Austria is fantng because of
hunger and war sickness The entente allies on the other
hand are compact than ever heartily joined in
unsefsh mutual help. They not fighting for spoils,
and thus have no for quarrel. They fighting
for liberty and the more liberty they achieve the less
excuse they have for quarreling.
It is an earnest both of the glory and the certain tri-
umph of the allies that every stroke they make for the
weak as well as the strong the oppressed well the
Free Eternal right is the moral force that sustans every
musket every bayonet every gun, every snip and every
man on the allied side. AS the light trumphs dark
ness the batering of allied nations is breaking down
the barriers that have kept mankind from freedom Cc-
tory ahead of the allied battle lines, and flashes
the message of doom in the eyes of the enemy hordes
The wouldbe shacklers Of humanity know they trap
ped condemned and sentenced to destruction Their day
of execution is coming In their last days they des
perately striving through the steel net vainy hreaten-
ing that if they must die they will carry down civilization
flaming into the pit of annhilaton Their threats
as vain their assaults They cannot carry down civil
ization Civilization the form of France Great Brit
ain Italy and the United States indomitable and
conquerng union which has resolved that the world shall
not only resist German encroachment but shall strike
off the remaining shackes of humanity The brute force
and unified control necessary to make this decree eff
fectve are now in possession of the aesWashington
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