The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1918-07-25
"Ye Serpents, Ye Generation of Vip-
ers, How Can Ye Escape the
DamnatiOn of He'll"

All our business and domestic life
has been upset; all our fond anticipa-
tions for the future of loved ones
must now be supplanted by the ever
present realization of their danger,
their certain sufferings and their pos
sible death; sorrow and anguish are
everywhere, the nation is in turmoil,
a land of peace has been suddenly
transformed into a war machine; the
daily toll of death grows steadily
longer and soon will be doubled and
quadrupled and reQuadrupled; sor-
row and breaking hearts are every
where.
And why all this suffering and sor-
row, why these breaking hearts, why
this awful toll of death and disease?
Because Germany for the aggran-
disement of its autocratic, despotlc
rulers, and for the wealth to come
from looting the world, for years
definitely planned to turn this peace
full world into a hell of woe. Cold
bloodedly these murderers set about
their plans for war upon their
neighbors, intending when they had
been destroyed to push across the sea
and cohquer America. They even
planned the terms for exploiting Can
ada, which was to be one of the in
IDENTITIES to be paid by England.
The whole world has thus been
turned into a mighty armed camp;
millions have been killed and millions
have been MANNED; the blind, the
armless, the legless will soon be in
evidence all over our land as they
are in England and France and Italy.
Millions have died of hunger and
hundreds OF millions have felt the
pinching power of an ever-decreasing
food supply; hundreds of millions
have for nearly four years lived in
agony of heart as by day and by night
their ears are ever strained for the
dreaded word of the death Of some
loved one.
For years our Allies endured hor-
rors surprising the widest fight OF
Dante's imagination as he pictured
the Inferno, and day after day, month
after month, from their bleeding
hearts went forth the never ceasing
cry: "How long, o Lord, how long
will America sleep on in fancied Sc
curity?"
And why have our Allies thus suf-
fered and why must we now give our
millions, the very flower of our civil
lization, to endure these sufferings
and death in all it's fearful battlefield
forms?
Because William, the accursed, and
all Germany-not the military lead
ers, only, but all Germany-set out
on a prearranged campaign to muir
der millions in order to enrich them
selves by looting the world.
These murderers, these looters,
these outragers destroyed woman
hood, slew hostages, shot down in
nocent civilians, to protect them
selves from the soldiers of the Allies
placed women and children in ad-
vance of their fighting line, poisoned
wells, spread disease germs, all for
the purpose of making their prede-
termined plan of ''frightfulness" their
greatest weapon to make nations
tremble before the very thought of
arousing German hostility. And all
this for their own personal enrich
ment and planned out for many
years.
At last, thank God, America is
awake, and never again will it slum-
Der until those who have created
this hell on earth have paid the full
penalty of their crimes.
And Jesus said
eye SERPENTS, YE GENERA
TION OF VIPERS, HOW CAN YE
ESCAPE THE .DAMNATION OF
HE'LL" L."-Editoria Manufacturers