The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1918-05-09

ministration did not dare go to war
Look at the working of the system
in Italy, Russia and the Balkans.
do not believe that all Germans are
disloyal to the United States. The
Germans came here seeking refuge
from tyranny at home and when the
test comes the majority will be true.
lGermans began to come here after
the thirty years wars which made
Germany bowling wilderness. This
was religious war. The Protestant
armies robbed. burned and killed the
Catholics and the Catholics did the
same for the Prostestants. You know
when pious people get to killing each
other for Christ's sake they do it very
thoroughly. The population of Ger
many sank from 16 TO million.
Cannibalism reappeared. the gallows
had to be guarded to keep people
from devouring the corpses dangling
from the ropes. Where thriving
towns had been wolves roamed un-
molested. Degraded. brutalized and
poverty stricken the miserable Ger
mans fled from devastated fields and
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Amsterdam where they sold them
selves to ship captains for the price
OF passage to new world. The rul-
ers of Germany drove the people
from the Fatherland, the stream
Kept up-men coming over to escape
military service and heavy taxation.
Ihey were received with open arms,
given the right of citizens They have
grown rich and powerful. ST. Louis.
Milwaukee and Detroit are largely
built by German energy and thrift.
This is we'll considered attempt
by Germany to dominate the entire
world, and every nation figures in
these plans. Russia is to be cut up
into provinces; her ignorant peasan-
try is to furnish cheap labor and the
Ukraine is to be the great food pro-
ducing region. The Balkans are to
furnish from their fields supplies of
OIL, coal, iron and food. Turkey is to
be 4 gateway to the teeming millions
OF the Orient for the manufactured
products of Germany The population
or Belgium and France is to be de-
stroyed and the fertile lands turned
over to German settlement. Germany
is to extend from Berlin to BagdaL
to the south and the shores of the
Caspian sea to the East. England is
to be shorn of her commercial power
and her great navy come under Ger
man control. The part assigned to
the United States is to pay the ex-
penses of it all There are some who
scout at the idea of actual invasion
OF the United States by Germany. Ii
is easy to see how this will come
Germany for many years has had her
eye on South America and given the
power she will confiscate the British
interests in Mexico. The great oil
fields at Tampico with the railroad
from the Pacific to the Atlantic will
pass under German controI: Ibis
puts her between us and the i.anama
Canal which she will seize on some
pretext. She will teach GERMAN hLl-
tur and efficiency to the peoEs in
Mexico and keep a standing army in |
that country. She cII con.;ua ar Amer
lea and never laId i soldier here.
III that she void have 10 d. is 20
force France, England and other Eu- |
ropean countries to adopt a German
system OF finance and make Amer |
lean labor and products pay tribute. |
She would have tariff rae of
exchange so arranged that every !
pound Of cotton that left these shores |
would be paid for ., = bitl of eX-
change drawn thr,uch In" imp, rial !
Bank OF Berlin proportion of which !
would go in the German treasury.
The custom houses the world over
would levy a tax on each article |
which came into or left the United |
States. When this becomes so bur |,
densome that our people refused to
submit she would have an army in
Mexico to invade us from the South. !
No my friends this is our war and !
it is up to us to break Prussian mil |
itarism and to destroy the power of !
this modern Attilla while the other
nations of the world are able to rem
der aid. 1t we wait to meet this
mighty force until after Europe has
been conquered and all of the re-
sources of the civilized world CON
centrated in Germany's hands, our
'hlluleh 'hliuIcn VIII De the slaves
or the most powerful and despotic
government that the world has seen
since the beginning Of time.
There are plenty of American
traitors. not all OF them of German
descent who from avaIice and am
bition would welcome the advent Of
Germany and seek place and power
under her. These would be placed
in charge of the confscated property