The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1918-06-07
MUST BE LOYAL

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Illinois recently there was wild dem
onstration OF approval on the part Of
the spectators. This indicates the
sentiment of the patriotic people OF
the nation in this crisis. Scores oil
German sympathizers have been
tarred and feathered and subjected
to other indignities by loyal Ameri
cans. These outrages against the
i law, for they cannot beadefended, will
continue unless the courts administer
speedy and condign punishment to
those who are disloyal In word
thought or act to America. now. The
Herald never defends mob violence,
it has been and is the earnest and con.
sistent advocate of a government of
law and order as the only sheet an.
Choir for democracy, but 1t realizes
that people who have their all in
this struggle against the arch foe of
democracy and Justice will not long
stand on the orderly processes Of the
law IL to do SO lends encouragement
to the traitors at home.
4 There is not the slightest excuse
for any form Of disloyalty to this ma
ton and the principles for which it
is pouring out its blood and treasure
now. Everything that the. people of
this country have and enjoy; all Of
their glorious heritage. that cost SO
much. in blood and treasure, is at
stake. We are sending our sons by
the hundreds Of thousands to the en-
sanguined plains of France there to
make the sublime sacrifice to safe
guard what we enjoy. The enemy has
brought the war to our very doors
BY attacks upon ,iharmed and defense
less ships more than two scores of
American lives have recently been
sacrificed along our own coast line.
Maury county blood has been shed on
foreign fields In this contest We owe
it to our gallant sons that while they
are giving their lives bravely facing
the enemy armed as he is, with every
conceivable instrument Of destruc-
ton, that our lives and property may
be protected, that they are not as
sailed in the rear by traitors in our
own midst. Surely, surely, the peo-
pie of this nation will protect their
soldiers from these cowardly attacks
in the rear.
Tennessee has wonderful organi-
cation for war. It's people have re-
sponded splendidly to every call that
has been made upon them, but there
are too many disloyal people at large
and unpublished. Too many still are
deaf to all appeals, blind to their
duty; false to their obligation to
country. We have the food hoard
ers, the profiteers and worse than all
the outspoken apologists for German
crimes, the socalled conscientious OBJ
jectors" to. service for the nation that
gives them the only guarantee that
they ever had or ever will have for
any sort of conscientious freedom.
In this hour of travail, when our
sons are pouring out life's blood in
our defense; when unnumbered thou
sands Of others are being weekly
called to the training camps to pre-
pare to give the last full measure of |
devotion" The Herald confesses that
it has no federation for or patience
with those who make conscience"
cloak for disloyalty. who dodge be-
hind any sort of organization as a
refuge for treason. Christian civili-
cation, its supremacy in the world or
its utter destruction, is the great is
sue of this conflict. To save that |
great structure, the creation of the
ages. we must pour out without stint
the best blood of our devoted sons,
and loyal Americans must view with
scorn and contempt those vino are not !
giving our own on the far flung
battle line every encouragement,
every support and every act of devo-
ton within them to give.
The Herald appeals to the loyal citi-
zens OF this and other counties In
Tennessee to stand behind and with
the officials Of the nation and its war
activities in their campaign against |
all forms of disloyalty. 1t asks every |
citizen. as he Is duty bond to do, to re-
port every disloyal act or utterance |
coming to his knowledge; to assist in
preventing food boarding; to aid the
fuel administration; to assist in the
campaign against slackers Of all sorts |
and kinds: to become witnesses for |
the nation in all prosecutions for dis
loyalty. This paper pleads with loyal
citizens to place their obligation to
preserve Christian civilization above |
every personal consideration: to sacri-
flee il necessary ties Of friendship, |
for the truly loyal can have no fell |
lowship with the disloyal, in order |