The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-04-27

many bowling wilderness! This
was a religious war. The Protestant
armies robbed. burned and killed the
Catholics and the Catholics did the
same for the Protestants. You know
when pious people get to killing eacl
other for Christ sake, they do It very
thoroughly. The population of Ger
many sank from 16 to million. Can.
nibalism reappeared, the gallows ha d
to be guarded to keep people from
devouring the corpses dangling from
the ropes. Where thriving towns ha
been wolves roamed unmolested. De.
graded, brutalized and poverty strick.
en- the miserable Germans fled from
devastated fields and burning home
down the Rhine to Amsterdam
where they sold themselves to shin
captains for the price Of passage &c
a new world. The rulers Of Germany
drove the people from the Fatherland,
the stream kept up-men coming
over to escape military service and
heavy taxation. They 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.
Germany's Plans.
This is well considered attempt
by Germany to dominate the entire
world, and every nation figures in
these plans. Russia is to be cut I'D
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 gateway to the teeming millions
of the Orient for the manufact ctured
products of Germany. The population
of Belgium and France is to be de-
stroyed and the fertile lands turned
over to German settlement Germany
Is to extend from Berlin to Bagdad 70
the south and the shores of the Cas-
plan sea to the East. England is to
be shorn Of her commercial power
and her great navy come under Ge,-
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. It
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 control; this puts
her between us and the Panama Ca
nal which she will seize on some pre-
text. She will teach German. Xultur
and efficiency to the poems in Mexico
and keep standing army in that
country She can conquer America
and never land a soldier here. All
that she would have to do is to force
France, England and other Euro.
pean countries to adopt a German
system Of finance and make American n
labor and products pay tribute. 4 She
would have tariff and rate or ex-
change so arranged that every pound
of cotton that left these shores would
be paid for by a bill of exchange
drawn through the imperial bank o.
Berlin, proportion of which would
go in the German treasury. The Gus
tom houses the world over would
levy a tax on each article which came
into or left the United States. When
this becomes so burdensome that our
people refused to submit she would
nave an army ready in Mexico to in
wade us from the South. No my
friends this is our war and it is up to
us to break Prussian militarism and
to destroy the power Of this modern
Attilla while the other nations of the
world are able to render aid. If We
wait to meet this mighty force until
after Europe has been conquered and
all of the resources of the civilized
world concentrated in Germany
hands, our children's children will b.
the slaves of the most powerful and
dcspotic government that the world
has seen since the beginning of time.
There are pelnty of American trai-
tors, not all of them of German des
cent. who from ayarice and ambition
would welcome the advent of Ger
many and seek place and power under