Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1918-05-17
Standing By the President

lIlS through the state
press in this crucial time. That
Mjssissippians, always loyal to
the call Of duty, would rally TO
the country's call in its present
hour of need we have never for
one moment doubted. We have
not even believed that the
influence of false leaders
would deter our patriotic citizen
ship from the most loyal and
hearty support Of the Govern
ment in this crisis. Mississippi
plans are realizing Just as wildly,
Just as truly, just as unfaiIingIy
that the great war in which our
nation is engaged is a righteous
war as are the people Of any
other State in this great union Of
united States and united hearts,
But not only is it true that the
sentiment Of the masses of our
people at home is wholly in ac-
cord with the supreme purpose
that actuates our government in
waglng war against the most
helnous aggregation Of IIunnIsh
heIi0ns this world has ever
known, it is also a profound
pleasure to be able to realize
that in the National Congress the
men chosen to represent this
State have with but slight eXcep-
ton been loyal supporters Of our
great president in all the meas
ures he has taken to meet tn,
situation thrust upon him by tn,
ruthless conduct Of the German
cutthroats.
These men. our representatives,
esteeming the honor of our
country as a sacred heritage tC
be upheld and defended at what
ever cost were unwilling to bow
in submission to the astounding
demands Of an arrogant war lord
drunk on the blood Of defenceless
women and helpless children, and
as there was left this nation no
alternative but to fight, the Miss
iSslppl delegation rallied, almost
to a man, to the support not
merely OF our great and patriotic
president but to the support Of
the nations honor and of all that
we as a nation hold most dear.
To them it was a question Of war
or tame and ignominiouS submits
SION, and to men of patriotic inn
pulses to ask the question was
but to answer it. Yea, to them
1t was seen that more even than
that was involved. To them and
to us as well it was made plain
that this was truly a war of
ldeals-a conflict between abso-
lutely different conceptions of
life. They saw it as we saw it
to be a supreme struggle be-
tween the forces of ruthless and
heartlesS Might and those other
forces which hold that Right is
greater than Might; that Spirit
Is superior to Matter; that Li5er-
ty is vastly to be preferred to an
abiect submission to the most
hendiSh tyranny that ever scut-
tied ship loaded with a tender
freight of women and children.
that ever crucihed a helpless
prisoner, or impaled an innocent
babe upon a bayonet. In such a
crisis how could MisSissippians
act otherwise than our represen.
tativeS did in the main. in
heartily endorsing the presi.
dents soul-stirring appeal for 9
declaration of war.
The Beacon believes firmly
shat the vast majority of MissiSs.
ippians not only are firmly con.
vinced that war with Germany
was inevitable, but they are de
termined that Mississippi mus,
do her full share towards max
ing the future safe against the
tvrannical, imperial, blood
thirsty, ambition nhamed, wa
mad, hellishly cruel, heinously
treacherous. hunnishlv inhumar
gang at Potsdam who would hur
the whole world into the darl
ages of wretched subsection t,
the grossly unprincipled system
of Kultur that has made presen.
day Germany a stencil in the
n~ostrils of all decent people.
In such an hour our duty is as
clear as the MONDAY sun: Miss
issippians must and will stanC