The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1918-02-26
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THE BLACK FLAG
TO THE BLACK HAND

ously by the Entente Allies and the
United States until a peace based on
tn principles of freedom, justice and
res ,.ct for international law is OBJ
tanned This is the decision OF the
iSupreme War Council of thecountries
in arms against the Teutonic allies
Paris Cable.
Certainly it is. How could it be
otherwise? Why be constantly tier
ating and reiterating it? One might
fancy there is a hitch, halt or doubt
somewhere.
The war is to be prosecuted until
we win it 1t is to be prosecuted un-
til the Hun is licked to frazzle and
out of his bloody boots; until the
allied flags are triumphant over
Potsdam, Yuba Dam and Hell-for-
Sartin; until old Hindenburg and old
Tirpitz are made to dance the can
can in the court yard of the Schloss
to the ragtime of Yankee Doodle. 1t
is to be prosecuted until the boys.
having crossed the Rhine, razing
Erembreitstein to the level Of the
stream, and swept onward to Berlin,
march through Inter den Linden TO
the music of "The Star-Spangled Ban
ner," each mothers son shouting,
We'll hang Kaiser Bill to sour
apple tree!" 1t is to be prosecuted
until. Germany is regenerated, the
HMarseillaise" substituted for ode
Wacht am Rhein" as the national an
them. each individual German is
taught to say in his prayers in al
ternate French, Italian and English.
In the same cablegram from which
we take the above we find the fol-
lowing:
"The high sounding phrases in the
recent speeches of the Imperial Ger
man Chancellor and the Austro-Hun-
garian Foreign Minister were entire
ly thrown into the discard by the
council at its session at Versailles,
and it was decided. that the war
would be vigorously prosecuted until
that time comes when there is justi-
! fcation for the hope that peace may
be realized in accord with the poll
cies laid down by President Wilson
and David Lloyd George, the British
Premier"
Classification for the hope!" May
the devil fly away with the son-of-a
i-gun who wrote that! The policies
of President Wilson and David Lloyd
George-what policies? Not "peace
without victory" surely?
NAY, Pauline, nay!" The end Of the
war is to be wrought not by penwork.
however clever, but by the sword Of
the Lord and of Gideon; the terms"
are to be delivered out Of the mouths
of cannon; the lazy sons Of peace
who are too good to live and too
proud to fight will have to put on
something more than war paint ami
feathers before they can be trusted
in the final equation to handle re-
suits. Down with tommyrot!
There are a few other things to be
considered than freedom, justice and
respect for the principles of inter-
national law" We shall not treat
with the Hohenzollern at all, nor
with Germany, until Germany is born
again. Meanwhile there are scores,
many and bloody scores, to settle;
the Lusitania and the Sussex; the
Belgian horrors, especially the muir
der of Miss Cavell; the murderous air
raids upon London and Paris and the
undefended coast towns and hamlets.
Even as we have suffered the Hun
shall suffer.
1Vengeance is mine, saith the
Lord" but Heaven has heard the
shrieks OF drowning women-has seen
the tiny hands of children stretched
out in dumb entreaty from the bot
tom of the sea-and, in answer to
both, another voice eXclaims above
the din Of the tempest and the roar
of battle, Smite the Philistine hip and
thingh!"
If we equivocate we are lost. Free
dom in the United States requires
not only the destruction of autocracy
in Germany but the total annihilation
of militarism and the military spirit.
If any power is left intact in Ger
many to make treaty with any other
power we are lost. If all government
in Germany be not 'blotted out even
as the Southern Confederacy in Amer
lea was blotted out we are lost. We
have fought in vain, and all our sac
rjficas in h1OOd and treasure will go