Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1918-08-21
"A POLITICAL REVIEW.
From IL Man In Nowbcrry Who Has
Five Sons In Service.
| understand that Dominick claims

! understand tnat DOM mick claims
that he has been misreprcscnted.
admit misunderstood the purpose of
the soldiers credit bill, and as the
letter was published in four papers
it was cut out In three papers and
would have been cut out in the State
had it not been too late. However
he voted against the bill, which was
voting against the administration.
FcllOw-citizcns, ] am not writing
in the interest Of any man or friend,
but to the interest Of our country
and humanity. We should now cast
our ballots for the man, whether he
be Il personal enemy or friend, who
believes in the righteousness of our
cause and emb0dies the principles
our fOrefatherS freely shed their life
blood to establish.
Our boys are now in the midst Of
the conflict and their hearts beat
high with thc.spirit of freedom. They
are animated with the justice of their
cause, and while they grasp their
weapons, they look back to us for in
spration and encouragement and up
to heaven for assistance. Can,-you
picture their feelings Of distress and
anguish, should We tell them they
are fighting for an unjust and hellish
cause, but as we are in 1t they must
fight 1t to a finish? This is what you
will do should YOU vote for a man
who does not believe our cause is
just and right.
Heaven forgive me if with too re-
scntful and impetuous a scorn, | de-
test submission to people who have
either ceased to be human or have
not virtue enough to feel their own
servitude and abasement.
You have never heard Dominick
say that our cause is just and right,
and If he be consistent you will never
hear him say SO.
After our President had exhausted
every honorable means to keep free
from the conflict, he sorro wfully, but
dctcrmincdly, informed Congress
that we would either have to submit
or fight. Now what did Dominick
do? | find in the Congressional Rec
ord that on the 9TH Of April, 1917,
Dominick voted against war, or to
submit to Germany, and against the
draft OF men to create an efficient
army. May 4th, 1917, he voted
against putting brides on the dis
loyal. or the espionage act. May 81. =.
9lS, he voted against the censor
bin to suppress news that would aid
the enemy. March Is, 1918, he yot-
cd against daylight saving bill
have been told that the Christian
denominations OF our district, know
ing that hundreds Of thousands Of
people were starving and that the
whiskey interest was converting mil
lions OF bushels Of grain into an ally
or the Kaiser and the devil prayer
fully petitioned him to vote in the in
terest OF humanity, only to learn that
1t was about as easy to separate
cause and effect as to separate atiini-
ties, for on December /, 1917, he
voted against the national prohibition
bill.
Fellow-citiZenS, we are now stand
ing at the door OF our real greatness
and If we measure up to the standard
Of Justice for which our forefathers
freely shed their life blood to cstab-
lish, the star Of America will shine
before all the world to light up the
path to liberty and we will be loved
for all time to come.
How can this be accomplished by
sending man to Congress who does
not believe in the righteousness Of
our cause and has demonstrated his
hostility to the administrat ton be-
Sond any doubts? There is no way
of Judging what he would do in Con-
gress, but by what he has done; there
are only two sides to any proposition
the right and the wrong. If he Is
right, then we should have submit
ted to the Kaiser and acknowledged
to the world that we we're unworthy
Of the lagacy handed down to us by
our forefathers.
(ady.) GEORGE p HILL