The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1918-09-05
THE RISE OF NEW NATIONS

The thunder Of victorious guns and the sound Of the
Onrush Of allied armies through the enemy lines are
glorious music to the world The explosions cannot be
too loud the shouts Of the vctOrs cannot be too widely
spread along the front that is moving eastward Cvi
cation reoices in these evidences Of allied power and
halls the when the last enemy soldiers shall cross
the border Or fall before the pursuers.
But there is another event which means even more
now and hereafter than the current military advance
That is the recognition Of the CzechOsova
by the United States cObeligerent against the Ger
man and Austro-Hungaran empires.
The allied armies may be checked, or (GOd prevent it
they may be pushed back somewhat the fortunes Of
war may determine But the recognition of the new
nation will not be set aside 1t is now historic and
settled fact of the fundamental facts Of the war
which will dictate the nature Of victory and the nature
of peace
The United States has taken the hand of the new
ZechoSIovak nation, as nation that is and should be
and Great Britain had already recognized the de factO
government Yesterdays act Of the United States means
that the will shater the Hapsburg empire and knock
the Hapsburg throne. Peace will not come with the
CzechO-Slovaks Of Bohemia and Moravia remaining in
bondage to the medieval and corrupt Hpsburg dynasty
The Poles Of Austria-Hungary will have land and
flag Of their own before this war is over The Italians
under Austrian bondage, weeping like those daughters
Of Jerusalem by the waters of Babylon will be Joined
to their country again. The Jugoslavs CrOats and
Serbs Of southern Austria emerging an ndepend
ent nation, and will strike off the Austrian yoke during
this war; Finally the Roumanians of Pennsylvania will
be annexed to the land and flag of their forefahers
the of the dsmemberment of the Hapsburg en-
pire.
Even the Magyars oppressed by the insuferable
Teuton and their Junker accOmpces among the Magyar
nobility 1t is quite probable that when the natonaities
of the AustroHungaran empire rise in response to the
universal cry for liberty they will find berty-ovng
Magyars shoulder to shoulder with them.
It is majestic sight when nation like the United
States soops down and places its shield of stars and
stripes between struggling people and their merciless
oppressors That shield ypes the service which Amer
leans privileged to perform as partial recogni-
ton of the blessings that have been poured upon this
nation Liberty like truth and light in its quality of
universaty It cannot bear discrimination. It's widely
separated elements coalesce spite Of war; time dis
lance. Men who white, black yellow brown and red
equally entitled to liberty and are equally keen in
experimenting its presence absence The liberty Of the
United States without which Americans cannot breathe
is the liberty which the CzechoSovaks fighting for.
The enemy now writing under fire in France, is just
as universally the enemy of liberty it is the enemy
Of truth strikes at all nations that are free or trying
to become Free It's triumph means the death of all lib
erty not merely the death of liberty in small feeble
nations The MASKING of this enemy the safety of
liberty everywhere not merely in the United States
Free brothers in this war; wherever they may
be. They are brothers Of all men who are striving to
be free The allied nations are the means whereby the
spirit Of liberty may work its will against its last and
greatest enemy. Governments may come and go, but
freedom must not bulge while humanity exists
Hail to the nation whose are CALAMITY fight
ing in France, Russia and Italy! May Bohemia shine
with than its ancient glory, and may Americans
teach their children that it was in this day. in this age
that America gladly gave of her strength to make other
peoples freel-Washington Post