The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-04-24
DANIELS SPEAKS IN BOSTON.
TELLS YANKEES THAT HUNS
CANNOT WIN THE WAR.
temporary Success by Germans Only
Inspire Allies to Continue to Fight
For DemOcracy-NO Let up Until
Victory Has Been Won.

Boston, April 19.-These 'tem-
porary successes" of the Germans on
the Western front mark their last
desperate stroke and whether it sue
ceeds or fails does not mean a final
triumph for Germany, Secretary Dan
iels told the thousands of young men
who greeted him at the Harvard ra-
dio school today.
The great school which has sprung
up at Harvard University to turn out
hundreds of skilled radio operators
for the navy was only one of the
scores Of places visited by the secrc-
tary as he was caught up in the swirl
of this city's celebration of the State
holiday commemorating the battle Of
Concord and Lexington.
standing in this home of history
on the. anniversary of Concord and
Lexington, where the embattled farm
ers fired the shot heard around the
world he said to the boys at the radio
school, we have borne to us from
across the seas the roar of guns IN
which Americans are fighting another
battle for liberty even more momen-
tous than the struggle Of the colonies
for independence.
| For half century the military
despots of Germany have been de-
veloping their plot. They have plant
ed spies in every land and planted
their outpOsts in the uttermost parts
Of the earth. BY a generation OF
propaganda they had poisoned the
minds Of their countrymen and in.
stilled them with the idea that the
Germans were destined to inherit the
earth. and that no other peoples ha,
any rights German must need.
respect or regard
AT the same time Germany wa:
sending her scientists to America, sh,
also sent her skulking spies. BehinC
protestations of friendliness, we know
that Germany was plotting the ex
ploitation of other nations. Her e6
ucators were teaching the doctrines
that justified autocracies. Her scier
lists were concocting poison gas. He
statesmen were studying the weakness
of her neighbors, conspiring to seiz,
the territory.
While other nations were pursuinl
the path Of peace, she had forged tn,
mightiest military machine the worl,
has ever seen. Can we wonder tha
when the kaiser decided the day has
come that he expected speedy victory
But even those who fathomed tn,
purpose of the Prussians could hard
ly have brought themselves to believ.
that any civilized nations would hav,
decended to the depth Of cruelty tha
marked the passage of the HUI
across Belgium and into France.
THE flames that burned Louvai.
blazed up from the fires OF hate tina
have been kindled in the German
heart. But that fire will never be al
lowed to consume the earth. TIL,
people themselves will not forever b,
misled.
1.-The might of militarism may pre-
vail for time, but right and human
ity must triumph in the end. The
forces of the allies have suffered no
a few reverses. But these temporary
successes no matter how great the.
may be, do not mean that the enc
my will win in the end. 1t is his las
desperate stroke. He must strike now
before America can throw her full
strength into the fray or he can no
win at all. All Germany know tha
it is the supreme effort But wheth
er ii succeeds or fails, it does no
mean n final triumph for Germany.
For America and the nations allie
with her will never lay down THEN
arms until this menace to the worif
is removed. No matter how long il
may take; no matter how great tho
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