The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1918-04-18
The Last Foe of Liberty.

Somewhere in France is held, not unknown, winch Is
destined to be trumpeted by fame to remoest ages
the field Of Armageddon the field where mankind dealt
Gratis claiming divine rights and supported by millions Of
fanatcal worshpper The warfare progress leaves
nothing to the imagination so far the forecast Of
events is concerned With the punctualty Of fate it.
self German nilitarsm marches to its humiliation The
unseen hand of God is driving the enemy forward to de-
sruction The German emperor and his satellites and
sayers literally follow the program of fate that they
fulfill every detail, down to the manifestation Of the
pride that goeth before fall In their blindness they
now think they are reaching the peak of victory, from
which they expect to broad pastures of fat plumber
and illimitabe indemnities
Many battle has been fought the soil Of France
some Of them turning points in the worlds history At
Tours the hordes Of Islam stopped and the cry Of
defeat echoed in Cordoba and Damascus The Mosem
armies magnifcenty brave, intelligent than
the Germans chivalrous and honorable but the natives
of France would not have them as masters.
At Lepanto the Turks gathered an armada of unprece
dented size and prepared swoop down upon and rage
civilization John Of Austria, supported by fleet of al
lies and by such hearts Of oak that which throbbed in
the breast Of Miguel de Cervantes dealt killing blow
to the nfdeA The Germans of today are not better
ed or more numerousy supported than the Turks Of
Lepanto in proportion to the strength of the respective
intended victims.
The task of conquerng the civilized world is too
pcated and too difficult for any ruler to accomplish
matter how bloody his mind, how wolfsh his lust for
for their affairs and their fires for their wives and babies
they fight like angels and devils combined France, being
flee and determined to remain Free is immortal Free
nations will not harm her. and they will see that other
nations do not Stay her. England is land Of men who
made themselves free thousand years ago. and they have
spread freedom the earth England like Prometheus
is undaunted and unconquerabe because she knows she
cannot die
The German hordes batter against British and French
breasts and allied guns The barbarians make head
way-another step toward their destruction. But
their progress deceves them and lures them on just it
deceves faint hearts in allied nations and whispers defeat
in tmorous ears If the rulers Of Germany in their
Senses instead Of being committed to destruction they
would regard their progress in the enemy country in its
true light step toward the humiliation Of the Ger
man empire. But they plunge forward to their doom,
according to the decree Of fate.
The allied nations gather fresh strength with every
disappointment They strong the are at
this moment and as harmonious in council. The
magnitude Of their dangers the spirit that is
required marshal their forces and make them stone
walls. Every hour increases the assistance which the
United States sending from its inexhaustble
Of men and material The Germans have provinces to
draw upon the allies have world From America the al
lies are beginning to hear the unmstakable note of
academic set of phrases, but the shr of
the eagle robbed Of her young.
During this week in April in ITS, the colonists of
America gathered with IL field pieces and $4,000 pounds
of salt fish and resolved fight for liberty On the 18th
Of the month the enbaed farmers red the shot heard
round the world" The reverberatons Of that shot
still echoing in the robber castles Of autocrats Berlin
hears it. America blessed by the divine favor the home
and guardian of liberty has reopened the battle Of Lex
ngton in order to defeat the last challenger and asaant
of freedom
When this battle is ended there will be further at
tempts in this world to prevent men from governing
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