The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1918-11-13

Their avowed and concerted purpose
is to satisfy and protect the weak as
well as to accord their Just rights
to the strong.
Mr.. Wilson'S Comments
The humane temper and intention
OF the victorious governments has al
ready been manifested in very prac-
tical way. Their representatives in
the supreme war council at Versailles
have by unanimous resolution assured
The peoples of the Central Empires
that everything possible will be done
to supply them with food and relieve
the distressing want that is in so
many places threatening their very
lives, and steps are to be taken in
mediately to organize these efforts
at relief in the same systematic man
ner that they were organized in the
case of Belgium. By the use of the
IDLE tonnage of the Central Empires
it ought presently to be possible to
lift the fear of utter misery from
their oppressed populations and set
their minds and energies free for the
great and hazardous tasks of political
reconstruction which now face them
on every hand. Hunger does not
breed reform; it breeds madness and
all the ugly distempers that make
an ordered life impossible.
For with the fall of the ancient
governments which rested like an in
cubus upon the peoples of the Central
Powers, has come political change not
merely, but revolution, and revolution
which seems as yet to assume no final
and ordered form, but to run from
one fluid change to another, until
thoughtful men are forced to ask
themselves, with what governments
and of what sort are we about to deal
in the making of the covenants OF
neace. With what authority will
they meet us, and with what assur-
ance that their authority will abide
and sustain securely the internal ar
rangements into which we are about
to enter? When peace is made, upon
whose promises and engagements be-
sides our own is it to rest?
Let us be perfectly frank with our
selves and admit that these questions
cannot be satisfactorily answered now
or at once. But the moral is not that
there IS little hope of an early answer
that will suffice. 1t is only that we
must be patient and helpful and mind
ful above all of the great hope and
confidence that lie at the heart of
what is taking place. Excuses ac-
complish nothing. Unhappy Russia
has furnished abundant recent proof
OF that. Disorder Immediately defeat.
itself. If excesses should occur and
lsorGcr for time raise its head, a
sober second thought will follow ana
a day of constructive action, if we
heln and do not hinder.
The present and all that it holds
belongs to the nations and the peo-
pies who preserve their self control
and the orderly processes of their Gov
ernments; the future to those who
prove themselves the true friends of
mankind. TO conquer with arms is
to make only a temporary conquest;
to conquer the world by earning it's
esteem is to make permanent con-
quest. | am confident that the nations
that have learned the discipline Of
freedom and that have settled with
possession to its ordered practice
are now about to make conquest of the
world by the sheer power of example
and of friendly halpfulness.
The peoples who have just come
out from under the yoke of arbitrary
government and who are now COM
ing at last into their freedom will
never find the treasures of liberty
!ncy are IN Se2rch OF II they look for
them by the light Of the torch They
will find that every pathway that is
stained with the blood of their own
"othcrs leads to the wilderness, not
to the seat of their hope. They arc
now face to face with their initial test.
We must hold the light steady until
they find themselves. And in the
meantime if it be we must establish
q. peace that will justly define their
place among the nations, remove all
fear of their neighbors and of their
former masters, and enable them to
i've IN security and contentment when
they have set their own afafirs in or
der. |, for one, do not doubt their
purpose or their capacity. There arc
some happy signs that they know ami
Will choose the way Of self-control and
peaceful accommodation. If they do
we shall put our aid at their disposal
IN every way that we can. If thny
90 not we must await with patience
ond sympathy the awakening and re-
c5overy that will assurcdly come at
last.
Washington, Nov. 12.-Gemanv
loses entire fleet of submarines un-
der the armistice terms as amended
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