The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1918-05-31

off the firing line for us; that same
treachery which broke down the first
Italian army at the Isonzo; that same
German treacherous diplomacy which
was undertaken at Washington; that
same treachery Of the German guest
at the American table which has
marked that falthless nation all these
years-that same unvarying principle
In the form of a practical German
propaganda for the German cnuse
exists all through the United States
today. The country Is hOneycomhed
with German spies. 1t is time wasted
to have too much sympathy with hem
or those who back them and inspire
them.
Washington sent 100 alien enemies
out Of the city limits not long ago.
In Chicago court recently there were
more than 100 alien enemies on trial
at one time. These are men whom we
may call bolshevlki in America. They
are doing all they can to undermine
this government. They are doing all
they can here, there, and everywhere,
in countless ways in countless places,
TO kill the American enthusiasm for
this war and the American confidence
In our ability to win this war.
Those Worse Than Traitors.
This propaganda Is an enormous
thing and tremendously dangerous
thing. Any man who countenances 1t,
any man who apologies for these trail
tors, is himself worse than a traitor
to his country today. He sides with
the murderers of innocent women and
children. He indorses the German sub
marine, the German bombing of non.
combatant towns, the use of liquid fire
in war, and gas In war all those
abomlnable contrivances of cowardice
with which Germany has attempted to
impose her will upon the civilized por.
ton Of the world.
We Americans don't know how
many American troops there are on
French soil today - but Germany
knows; be sure of that. There is no
great move made here, nor any small
move Of military preparation, which
Germany does not know as well as we
do, or better. There has never been
in the history of the world so com.
plete campaign Of perfidy and
treachery and underhanded falthless.
ness as Germany has shown to the
civilized world In this war. Why be
patient with It? Why not root 1t out
Why not call spade spade, spy
a spy? And why not give to the spies
the things that we owe to spies?
I have heard the mayor of very
big clty-and a mayor for more than
one term, too-slt laughing at table
and say, just before one of bis cam
paigns, "What do care for the Amer
lean vote? To - with It'll l want
the German votel"
Well, he got the German vote He
was elected. He could be elected again
by the German vote. But l fancy thai
by and by 1t is going to be the ques'
ton of a good many of our Knownoth'
ings. What is the American votei
Does that really need to include the
spy voter
Depredations Of Spies
America is being stabbed In the
back all the time by traitors and BY
spies. II is not only the sort of rough
neck spy who blows up a munitior
plant or wrecks a railroad train. II 1,
the shrewder and more Machiavelllar
spy who attempts to wreak yet greater
ruin on us by undermining our owr
national spirit, by Installing a feeling
Of distrust of the government, of the
administration. of our army. of oui
country, of our aims and purposes IL
this war.
Our aims and purposes In this wal
are ratified by practically the entire
world outside of the central powers Of
Europe. If we had no other reason
in the world to go to war except tn,
sinking Of the Lusltanla. that reason
alone were reason enough.
The horrors of the German practice,
in France and Belgium are now being
placed gingerly before our American
readers. A few Of the writing men OF
this country have had these facts IN
inconteStable form. illustrated. proved
attested by chapter and verse and line
and word any time these months and
years. So far as these awful thing |
can be put in print. and. so far as the
American people shall realize them
there viii be enough even then tc
prove beyond a peradventure thai
never was any barbarity Of the wors
Of savages committed In their intens |
est frenzy Of war. which parallelet
for one moment the cold-bloOded, de
campaign Of barbarity prac |
ticed by the higher authorities Of Ger
many In this war. They parallel that
by their practice In our own country
The campaign against spies impends
II win have to be started and finished
some time In our history. / presume
perhaps. we may wait-perhaps. we