Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1918-05-09

Third Liberty Loan:
Words fail to cypress to you the depth
of my gratitude for this cordlal anu gu
erons reception, and espc rEHg III ~ ~
more than peneroaS tribute Which Nv
B'shoD has been good enough 10 pay me-
] d. not take It. however, as al an per
sonal To myself. but as mIrEed fesp.r.
for .he great office with which you Inc
neople If the limited states, have honored
me: an office which / am endeaNoilns ~
III for the advantage OF my country va
office which / cam nv WIN aoNutI'i,a
To our country unless | can continue 10
have the confidence and support OF So''
the people Of America. (Applause')
The thing that distinguishes our Sieas
democracy from the Prussian Ihli''t
autocracy is the fact thal we nav oeonic
masters in America except the peoPIs
themselves. (Appause). Inc on 49,
of your Government are not the mas. iiitS.er ~
of the people; they are the stINdn,9 A.,
the people And the issue petwudIH free
Prlssian military autocracy ana Iee
America, the champion of dem.craty %
day, is whether or not the maSterslllP y,
the people of free America snaH glTe No.
TO the mastership OF the hais seporira ex
pressed in the faces of you men, "ot WIZ
and children who stand before me 'pyHS-
is the answer to this foreign tSraH'' N1P
plause). ,,r wifi, Ger
MANY today is because there Is net room
enough in the world Tor the Gei ,a'o','
Kaiser and free America. lApplauH ,,,,
We need not qubbie ap t;nns ' nf those who
undertake in this day to test thf for ~ me
of this war by saying; I'VE are loI do rr,u
war, but condemn this, ana conueiiIr
that" and who are always conueIniliii,I55
the things that are essential to enape
us to save free America. we nave iS
bate with such as those. Applause can
At this time. my y friends non on ,heI be one one
that lS Are YOU ~
American" (ApplauseJ. And II you AZ ro
not, for any reason, quit our son anu 81
where you belong. (Applause). -, o,o
| want to advert just monlenl 70 NON, ant
of the issues of this war because l VIZ
To bring it home to the people Oh s AiiI
lea: because unless some ~ riiI i,nder-
sruentals of the war are clearly nnt,go
stood, we do not get proper g,hicb
sitSer nnon action or the spirit in when
we should press this war forward
Germany's lnsoience.
On the 31st day of January, l9ll, yo tua
c.overnment at Washington received tls
most insolent mandate and order eNgl
presented in the history or all me WI
by a tyrant to a free peop'e. w ma tsar
It? An order from the Eetllia ai,,i sea-
I don't exaggerate that order. lie Htel
al1v told us to discontinue our comIne n.t'
with the four great nations OF tle &C" a,J
Great Britain, Belgium, fI ,,,tn,cs done
the Ia rrest amount of American business
I don't want you to think l am puttlnF
this argument upon material Co.
First of all, let me readvert ~ .m1 tbe
Koiser and America is whether lne .laS
of Germany, upon winch is elilplaH tin,,,
the skull and croSs-bones' an e f;I,
tho+ symbolizes the Kaiser latnnE .
, ,ia[ his soldiers carry on their pen
nants when they go into pattie' wme
y, not the flag of the German empe,r,4er r
which means destruction OF liberty. ~
and hanpiness which means rutnIesSS
,srfora and barbarities upon men, wom'
an and children, whether mat nag san
,an,ain in the world and, at the SAM
time. the Stars and stripes anu an 'ro'
stand for. (Applause).
That is a fundamental issue nv
friends. but on top of that fact. inc
other nations of the world, the IRE soU Ot
people in modern times IS oe nd ex.
mon their ability to produce ana eM
Change freely the commerce or the "oIiu
WHY Is that true? Why, because WI,
modern invention and science tns h.Sl
seas have been conquered anu u, nrstrn NV.
tion Of the universe. one nation Is hlessen
with the natural ability to produce Ger 5
tain things needed by other nations any
ability to produce things needed by thQse
other nations, and in order that Wy
scheme of civilization may be carried ou I'
II is essential that there can pc an eN-
change of those commodities va 49,
is blessed with more natura, reSotil t,es
Than any other nation on the face OF the
earth, and CIR existence Is more uepet ~
ent upon the ability to dispose Oh .I9
smrnlus in the open market of the woTlu
4han any other neople on the face OF the
earth That is the reason why America,
when another nation chaHeneeu ler
rights to the freedom OF the me s won t Tho
freedor,, of the seas in our war VIII"
Great Britain in 1912. (Applause)'
Freedom Of the Seas.
without the freedom of the seas; my
friends there is not man VINO plttntS
cotton in the state OF Mlsslsslpepl S Miro
can make a living. Without the Ireeoo ,ia
OF the seas. the American people couio
scarcely survive. We must ,preserve
those high seas for the material beneilI
Of our people as well as for their actuai
life as a people. People cant i've WIZ,
nut prosperity You may survive pane
neriods YOU can go through SUFFERING
and hardships, at any time, but unless
Won have the prosperity to enable you o.
earn more than, it costs you 10 t5V tri sGo
an that in order to maintain hlgh iuells'
In order to further the cause OF De
nnocracy and freedom throughout the
world we must have underneath the
strength of the peonle that comes from
the ability to sustain ourselves ana we
nan't sustain ourselves ana keep stIunS
as nation If we surrender any VIA
RIGHT that DPlOUSS W N.APt'N
rhe proposition does not admit OF zargu'
ment. l care not how skilful the dema
rogue or how seditous the pro-Germar
NAV be, or what kind of camouflage ne
NAV put over the argument
SO. the Kaiser said, Give up the com
merce with these -four great nations,
AXE your ships off the high seas: That
is literally what he said. 10 did that
without even giving us notice. Why, II
saws you must keep your boats OIL
the high seas, for four or five hundred
miles, which belong to us just as much
ps they belong to any other nation on the
earth. and if those 500 miles of high seas
flrround the four great nations. orl
Allies in this war, with whom we do the
LUX Of our commerce. and upon the con-
tinuation Of which comT1orce orr pros
perity depends as a people, why don,
GU see he might as well have ordered
us to keep off the high seas altogether;
What value would 1t be- my friends, II
] send shin out of New Orleans or MO-
bile with the stars and stripes at the
'oremast. loaded with cotton TO" Great
Britain, having the right to send 1t under
International law, if, when the ship got
within 500 miles Of Great Britain, she had
70 turn around and come back here!
tMould that be any advantage to us !
we don't send our ships out under the
american flag merely to joy-ride on the
'hlgh seas. We send them out for Dust
ness and to protect always the might
,and majesty of America. (Applause).
The kaiser's generosity"