French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1918-06-06
WHY U. S. AT A

H~SS OsI-#E
died to a v the land of Lafayette :"
for England, the Mother Country, to
whom we owe our standards of life,
the ideals that have made US the
"Giant of the West;" for Russia, pur-
blind, deceived, enslaved: for all the
manhood of the world, tortured and
manned; for all womanhood, desc
c~NFed -" dehled; for innocent, help
less childhood, starved, mutilated.
{ are llgnCIng for Humanity against
world wide militarism, world wide
plotting and spying, world wide
hatred and distrust." We are fight
ing for Humanity against ga power
which would make the world a mill
tary camp, and every nation an or
gained val machine" a world of
fear and d~istrust, where hatred and
revenge must rule, a world in which
might would reign supreme, where
the clanking chains of slavery and
the cries of those in servitude must
assail the very throne of God.
But more than this, we are fighting
for Christi nity.
He maketh TO cease in all the
world"
He maketh wars to cease?
And yet, we sec the battle-fag I'M
furled,
And lost our dream of Peace!
Oh Prince of Peace, we call Thee
King of kings,
Yet kings the carnage plan
That mocks Thv rule and bold def
ance filings,
Against Thee, Son of Man!
Before Thy face they 1aunt their hui
man pride,
| And bare their thirsty sword;
Was it in vain that Thou has died,
o meek and lowly Lord?"
We are face to face with a people
who believe themselves charged with
a God given mission. A people led
by a ruler who, believing in "Divine
Right" and ~proclaiming himself di-
vinely called to the task, has gone
mad with a vision of world conquest
and world dominion; his mission to
impose German Kultur and Philoso-
ply upon a Prussianized and Prussian
governed people. "The world of
Christ, a neglected but not rejected
Christ. has come face to face again
with the world of Mahomet, who will
ed to win by force" A religion of
force in which "the state can do no
wrong"-A religion which in very
truth, "bold defiance filings" against
the teachings of Him who died upon
the Cross, and degrades man to the
level of the brute. A religion which
declares that "War is the noblest and
hottest expression of human activity"
oo1 &ho& GGThn 11oo1 of noTnofITo1
peace is not only impossible but i'm
moral as we'll"
And so, we are engaged in a twenti-
eth Century Crusade. Constantine,
the first Christian Emperor, was re-
puted to have seen in the sky a fam
ing cross with the letters Gin hoe
signo," by this symbol you shall win.
Today, too, that sign is written upon
the sky of nations, and in that sign,
we too. shall conquer. Conquer that
peace may reign in all the world.
Such is the cause for which we
fight. the task to which we have
"dedicated our lives and III fortunes,
everything that we are and every
thing that we have, with the pride of
those who know that the day has
come when America is privileged to
spend her blood and her might for the
principles that gave her birth and the
happiness and the peace which she
has treasured"
"God helping her, she can do no
other"
And to that end we shall use:
Force to the utmost limit!
Force of a holy cause
Force of a righteous anger,
Force of a nations laws.
Force of a peoples manhood,
Force of a right to live;
Force of the strength to suffer,
Force Of the will to give.
Force of things we have lived for,
Force of the things we love;
Force of the Faith we cherish,
Force of the God above.
Force? Aye, Force to the utmost.
Force till the task is done;
Force till the Beast is beaten
Into the dust, o Hun!