Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1918-10-11
DR.. DOUGLAS FREEMAN
DISCUSSES war ISSUES
Urges the People to Buy Bonds
Now and Not to Think Of Dis
cussing Peace With a Govern
ment of Outlaws


ment of Outlaws
DR.. Douglas Freeman, editor
of the Richmond News Leader,
lectured in the Central school
Auditorium Sunday aftoornoon
on "The War in Europe"
The meeting was held under
the auspices, of the Liberty Loan
Committee of Halifax County of
which Mr.. C. A. Wyche is chair
man. A fairly large and an ex-
tremely appreciative audience
greeted DR.. Freeman. who was
introduduced by Hon. W. L. in
an appropriate and characteristic
manner.
At the beginning Of his lecture
DR.. Freeman took up the thought
foremost in every mind of his
audience - that of Germany's re-
quest for an armistice, of which
he said THE lust that ravished
women of Belgium has not cooled.
The minds that conceived the
treaties of Brest-Litovsk and
Bucharest has not changed. The
bestiality that made Northeast
ern France uninhabitable has not
been transformed. The Prussian
junker still lives. With him and
with his works there can be no
compromis, no discussion, no ne
gotiation. Like any other GRIM
inal, he must be apprehended
stripped, tried before the bar Of
world-j justice and be made ready
ror sentence. Then. if ever, hum
anity may consider the precise
terms of his punishment.
In a most interesting manner
DR.. Freeman described the situa-
tions of the war as they present
ed themselves from the first bat
tie of the Marne to that of the
second, on which occasion the
American Marines covered them
selves in immortal glory at
Chateau Therier, and when an
American officer, who had wit
messed the retreat of the French
regulars and French Colonials,
cody tore up his orders from the
commanding General to retreat
and ordered his men to charge,
with the results that the Huns
on-rush was turned back and
their retreat has keen continual
ever since.
The key note of DR.. Freeman's 5
address was struck when he said
''The most humane, the most
economical and the only mora
course is a prosecution of this
war to the absolute destruction
of Germany's armies, German in.
dustry and German ideals. Ger
many is pestilential. It cannot
be- cured: it must be wiped out.
Better far that the women and
children of Germany should build
a new state in a desert than that
a single German be left to pro.
pl,a,e his bestial kind. Better
world bankruptcy in Germany's
destruction than world immoral
ity in Germany's survival. We
democrats of three continents
will not sully a righteous cause by
duplicating in Germany the afro
cities that made Belgium a toni
of rayished women. We will no'
10 yer ourselves to the German
plane by emulating the German
hate.
That which we do will be done il
a knowledge of the German mint
and in n knowledge of the world''
necessity. 1t must be don'
thoroughly, but it can be done
coldly: German armies must b
destroyed eyond repair, Ger
mays sanity must be restored
by the stern regime of poverty
Germary'S soil must bear here
after, as it did at the end of th'
Thirtyyears' war, reminders for |
century, that hate is Improbable
We must echo that prudent slo
gan of a brave statesman, 'Wh.
should Germany ard Austria b.
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