Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1918-03-22
ROUSE YE AMERICANS!
The Philistians are Upon Us And Seek
Our Ruin.

Kansas. and II IL well worth the most
serious and alarmed attention of every
American:
Unfortunately there is Rolshcviki
In the United States. as well as in
Russia. composed as it is OF persons
who are assiduously busying them
selves around the great environments
in INSCRIPTIONS and clever lying as
to our motives for entering the war
and our chances Of winning the war.
feel that in this hour OF our ma
tion's stress and strife there can be
no twilight zone in American pa
triotism. Every citizen must be either
for the president and for the flag. or
against the president and against the
dag
We are engaged in n great struggle
Of human liberty and human DEM
ocracy against military autocracy and
despotism. We are fighting to make
The world safe for democracy and
democracy safe for the world. We
are vindicating our rights and the
freedom OF the high seas sanctioned
by international law. We are pro-
testing against the fencing off OF the
seas the laying OF mines in neutral
waters. the violation of sacred
treaty of Germany with Belgium the
killing of defcnsclcss civilians. ana
the attacks on dcfensclcss towns ana
the ruthless violation of the sanctlty
Of womanhood. All rules of humanity
have been thrown away by the mod
ern Huns, who through the teachings
and demands and commands OF their
ruling classes deserve to be called
'thc scourgc of God" just as truly
as Attilla and the Huns were known
as the Scourgc Of God nearly l,ooo
years ago. In this great holocaust.
which has already cost approximate
iy 2O,00O.U0O men in killed. wound
ed. and prisoners. md the cNpcndi-
turc OF $l25.OO0. .00U.OOO. Germany
and Austria and the other central
Teutonic powers are making their last
stand for fcudalism against oncom-
ing democracy. This Is a war against
feudalism-thc right of the castle on
the hill to rule the village below.
Ireudalism plus science, thirteenth
century plus twenticth-this IL the
religion of the mistaken German that
has linked itself with the unmcntion-
able Turk. that. like its scholar. has
adopted the method Of Mohammcd
and the theory that "the state has
no conscience" and "the king can do
no wrong" With the spirit OF the
fanatic the dcluded people Of the CEN
sral powers believe this gospel and
that 1t Is their duty to spread 1t by
iorce. for, with the POtsdam dynasty.
Knight IL right and strength Is tri-
,imphant." With tar. chlorine. and
mustard poisonous gases that make
living n hell; with submarines that
aA.o worse than the devil carrying n
>snssAe-1i.r--iir-..sriitthA-lf+sPei ~ thIs+t
bombed men and women while they
sleep: with perfected and scientific
system of mans inhumanity to
man" that the modern world first
heard OF when German troops nvad-
ed hopeless Bclgium-Gcrman feudal-
ism is making war upon mankind
Let this spirit OF evil and autocracy
have its way and no man could live
in America without paying toll TO IL.
in manhood. and in mercy. We would
live, as France has lived for 40 years,
in haunting terror.
Our people need to be thoroughly
aroused as to the seriousness OF the
situation. We are confronted by war,
grim -visagcd war. Germany occupies
four times as much area and has
within the control Of her armies and
civilian population six times as much
food acreage as she occupied three
and n half years ago ut the outbreak
of the war, with 100000 Russian
prisoners to cultivate this food acre
age. She has conquered and holds
Roumania, Scrvia. Montenegro. Rus
sian Poland. the entire Russian
country up to Riga, many square
miles in Italy, S5 per cent OF Bel
GUM, and 246 square miles in France.
Until the real issues Of the war are
brought home to the German people
they will continue TO oversubscrib"
her loans and furnish the necessary
credit for the mobilization of her
troops and resources. She Is prac-
tically the only nation in the world
that has made census OF her man
power, which has been carefully Sc
lected with reference to occupation,
and we are told that she has fully
4O0, 900 carpenters and 100000 cleo
tricians and mechanical engineers
who have never seen the trenches or
the firing lines. Official authorities
admit that Germany can put into the
field 100000 men each year, and that
her average losses for the past three
and n half years have been only 4OO.-
900 annually. leaving tremendous
reserve power upon which she can
draw. In her .hree landstrums in
reserve we are told that there are
fully 12,000.0O0 men. With the COL
lapse OF Russia, and the estimated
withdrawal of 40 army corps. Ger
many is massing thousands Of troops
on the western frontier and Is pre-
pairing for a supreme effort TO break
the western line. She failed at the
Marne, at Ypres, and at Verdun: II
we properly support our government
the troops OF America, fighting
shoulder to shoulder with those OF
our brave allies. will see that she fails
at Scissors. at Champagne. or wher-
ever she may strike this spring.
But in order to accomplish this 1t
will be necessary for everyone of us
to break the alabaster box OF his
ointment of sacrifice. We must teach
our children and people OF moderate
means to buy thrift stamps and war
saving certificates: that a dollar saw
ed in the United States is patriotic
dollar; that a dollar boarded Is a