The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-04-10

Wouio you, while his hands were drip
ping red with the blood of your loved
ones, talk peace with him?
If such fiend wanted to discuss
peace terms with you while still a..
tacking your daughters, would you
night, with all the power that God
gave you, to throttle the beast, or
would you parley back and forth and
suggest that the matter might be set
tied on some basis which left the ra
pist and murderer unpunished and
free to take all the loot of which he
could rob your house?
On the battlefields of Europe our
loved ones are being murdered-for
remember Germany's war is a definite
war of murder and outrage-and ev-
cry electric spark which sweeps across
the Atlantic from the trenches in
France will bring an ever-increasing
list OF these murdered men who have
gone out to save us from the attack
of the murderer and the rapist.
Our allies, who for nearly four
years. with superb heroism and at a
fearful cost of men and money, have
stood between us and He'll, are calling
to us, For Gods sake. hurry up" ere
1t be everlastingly too late.
But we talk about peace, when there
Is no possible pecce except the peace
OF death to us Or death to Germany's
fearful hell-begotten power.
Some men and women do not We,
comprehend the meaning of this
war; some are pro- G ermans, some IRE
German spies. some are towards who
disgrace the mothers who gave them
birth, and some are simply plain ev-
eryday fools who should go out ana
root and live with the swine of the
field until the appointed time to be
killed for the good of mankind.
Peace! There can be no peace be-
TWEEN Heaven and He'll, between God
and Satan!
Peace with the unrepentant, unhung
iapists and murderers,
Peace with the vilest criminals who
ever blackened the records of mans
history,
Peace with the outrager. of your
wife and daughter as you look on.
Peace with the -blooded butch
ers who murder your beloved son and
the sons of millions and millions OF
others!
Is tfere anything hearth so crav-
en-, SO bereft of soul that 1t would
claim 70 be man and yet be willing
to parley with these accursed mur-
derers and worse. led by William,
The accursed?"
rs life so dear or peace so sweet
that we are willing to permit any word
OF peace to be uttered until we have
ihrottled the demon and fought him
20 finish? And then, when he cries
for mercy. let there be no mercy ex-
cept such as he gave to Belgium and
France. no mercy except mercy to
all civilization for all the centuries to
come, expressed through the gallows
as these foul blots on mankind, the
Kaiser and all his associates, pay the
just penalty for their unspeakable
SINS
Then and not until then should we
have one word more to say to Ger
mans or to Germany. Now our su
preme duty is to fight, fight to kill
kill until these brutes realize that a
mightier power than theirs has been
sent by God to do His work in their
utter destruction.
They are numbering our loved ones
Every day brings the toll of death
and every day for months and per-
haps for years we must suffer the aw-
ful agOnies which our Allies have en-
dured. and there is no power to les
sen this toll of our innocent loved
ones, except we kill and kill and keer
on killing the murderers who like wild
beasts are seeking to destroy the
world
This is our task. Let us forget al
else. let US make sure that no worG
or thought Of peace shall be uttered ir
this land; let us determine to create
the mightiest fighting machine ever
built by man and to drive it with al
The power of one hundred million
freemen who seek to save ourselve!
and the world from the destruction o
Helrs most active workers.
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