The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-03-23

RUDYARD KIPLING TELLS WHAT
GERMAN CONQUEST MEANS.
"Every Relation, Every Understanding,
Every Dccency Upon Which Civil
izatiOn Has Been Built Will &c
Washed Out"

Folkstone. England, Feb. IS (Cor-
respondent of The Associated Press)-
Nothing else under heaven matters
today except that the war shall go on
to victory" declared Rudyard Kipling
here today in a striking and pictures
que speech in advocacy of war saw
ings. ''The money we loan to the gov
eminent helps to set our land and our
world free" continued Mr.. Kipling
Our security for our loan is not only
the whole Of the British empire but
also the whole of civilization which
has pooled it's resources in men, mon
ey and material to carry on this war
to victory"
What is the personal aspect of the
case for you and me? We are fight
ing for our lives, the lives of every
man, woman and child here and ev-
erywhere else.
we are fighting that We may not
be herded into actual slavery such as
the Germans have established by
force of their arms in large parts of
Europe.
I'VE are fighting against eighteen
hours a day forced labor under lash
or at the point of the bayonet, with a
dogs death and dogs burial at the
end of it.
I'VE are fighting that men, women,
and children may rot be tortured,
burned. and mutilated in the public
streets. as has happened in this town
and in hundreds Of others. And we
will go on fighting till the race who
nave done these things are in no po-
sition to continue or repeat their Of
fence.
''If for any reason whatever we
fall short of victOry--and there is no
halfway house between victory and
defeat-what happens to us? This:
Every relation, every understand
ing every decency upon which civili-
zation has been so anxiously built UP
Will gO-will be washed out, because
1t will have been proved unable to
endure. The whole idea of democracy
which at bottom is what the Hun
lights against-will be dismissed from
men minds, because it will have been
shown incapable of maintaining it.
self against the Hun. 1t will die; and
it will die discredited, together with
every belief and practice that is base i
on it.
THE Hun ideal, the Hun root
notions of life will take it's place
throughout the world. Under that
dlspensation man will become once
more the natural prey, body and goods
of his better-armed neighbor. Women
will be the mere instrumnt for con-
tinuing the breed; the vessel Of mans
lust and mans cruelty; and labor will
become a thing to be Knocked on the
head if it dares to give trouble, and
"N'HNN ~ NSotil IL IL NlOcS IlOl. AIlu
from this order of life there will be
no appeal. no possibility of any es-
cape. This is what the Hun means
when he says he intends to impose
German Kultur-which is the German
religion-upon the world. This is
precisely what the world has banded
itself together to resist.
1T will take every ounce in us; il
Will try us out to the naked soul. Oul
trial will not be made less by the
earnest advice and suge cstions that
should accept some sort of compro
mise, which means defeat, put for
ward by Hun agents and confeder.
ates among us. They are busy in tina
direction already. But be sure o
THIS: Nothing-nohing we may have
To endure now will weigh one feather
weight compared with what we shall
most certainly have to suffer if fo
any cause we fail of victory"