The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-10-19
Thsiass We should Ever Remember.
tlsichard n. Edmonds, Editor Man
nfactnrers Record, Baltimore.)

AuslASs we SnOuiO Ever RememDel
tlsichard H. Edmonds, Editor Man
nfacturers Record, Baltimore.)
We should remember that we ar
not engaged in war as wars hav
been known in the past.
go This war bears no resem blance t
s1e Revolutionary War, to the war o
1872, to the Civil War or the Spanisl
War. It IS not war in the sens
That. they were wars. They wer
Wars Tor great principles, waged b.
civilized human beings.
In Europe we are fighting not /;
5 warsas wars have been known. w,
= are as a community trying to stop {
gang Of assassins, of cutthroats, o
saf'fsts and hooters from carrying mtt
effect the destruction which for hal
q century they had been planning.
We are not fighting soldiers as sol
diefss we are trying to overcome g
lpt4of assassins and rapists who
started out to destroy civilization and
conquer our community and all the
world IN order to murder, to enslave
and TO loot all other people.
Never let US for one moment
think of Germany and Of it's armies
from any other point Of view, because
unless we see the situation in the true
light we shall not fully understand
that peace with an uncrushed Ger
many would be peace with a gang OF
Ht1rderets and outragers and rob-
bers and would be a disgrace to all
ciyiltzation.
Does a community which has been
sataekedoby gang of murderers and
Noters and rapfsts accept their offer
Of peace terms in order not to punish
afescriminals and not to make the
saniliessof these criminals suffer?
Does "a community when it has
caught the red-handed murderer or
the Tapist say, I'VE must not punish
him because his wife and children
would suffer-"
Does; q community when its police
IaeT and its citizens summoned to
their help have been done to death by
Gang of cutthroats and robbers ac-
cept from, these criminals an offer of
peaee snrovided they return a part Of
tie loot leaving them free to wreak
their vsnseance upon the same COM
ity sins the future, and count the
mssfeci shown merely as pusillanimous.
sne5,Totic sentimentalism or as plain
coWardlsess lacking moral courage to
punish fheE eyil-doer?
Criminals know that they will be
pudshed If caught; they know that
any PITS which would forbid thei:
.ranisI.nsnts is contrary to the laws
Of God and the experience OF hC-
maaSf Yhey enter upon theirs
sshgIns :of murder and robbery with
their seyEsscpen, taking the chance nf
death fer the hope af loot.
GstnanY is IL ex:c,ly this si:ua-
tien TssReopis know that they are
murdsrers. h;ghwaymen, robbers and
outragers; who took the chance. hop
ing aud fully expecting to bring home
the spoiis. They entered joyously,
mfariously upon the campaign. They
cared not how much suffering other
people had to endure; they cared not
how many millions they murdered.
These things moved them not. AL!
they were after was robbery, indi-
viauaa and national, and no crime
WAS great enough to shock them ii
ttssbrought them nearer to their goa.
ot robbery and world dominion. ShaD
they net be punished in order tha7
civilization may be preserved th4SGgc
the centuries to cone?
In buying Liberty Bonds u are
helping to suppress and puni@ these
criminals and helping to %eave our
country from being turn& into a
made in Germany heHor into g
made in hell' Germas The terms
are synonymous. I've you bought
Liberty Bonds sq4 e utmost extent
II your power ??l