The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1918-04-05

When the resent confederation broke upo ts assenahedw world inNsl4' tn
arated us from Europe so far did our natona ideals, traditions and history sprate
s fs is@ fn a4 paSdpa ssaod h European %q a@s disputes s@ as it it had forbidden European assres-
Seas" and arbitration Of national disputes. With knship AM friendship for al ma
lions and ennty towardne ne'0 ur people settled tewn to a pen pye Of neutrality uSn syaa aeea
ths h hns of Fra rance
neee. Sus" such eb' ma as9" n sre' foy COW ssI by ear assSraae tn treaty with her, nd
a aa1S" Sey. rssah sd H rsfasss it's it's nshsr with 5 ss aneat ,n Of inbsraa ' ss se had had % uss
to ss join an lin in .sT;s9at, a Sessrnns for rs ss r ssoe5s had Of s fssfs ssip soa tes s sy tss s as
Of munitions IF wal to the Balkan States in 1928, protested against our trad in
eminent to accede ito this demand would be to put itself on par with a merchant who
would not sell his neghbor e rife to protect his home against a Desperate ' OF Gov.
h hss y aei IN" Gsm uHnv' s@n 1 asauat sha aI her submarine ssaSins upon the high seas to
became a pirate OF inc @a aa F ages s,r fesar hn nn mo mag, sa neSp ts shnso Of friend am and +" foe
Unarmed passenger ships, neutral ships, hospital ships, Red Cross ships ships loaded
with Amaieanc contributions for starving Belgian children, whose safety she had guar
MEN A call atdeshdp is the only craft these s% ,Drave heroes. nav" ha son mot ma of :" se smS
or warning, these demons sank the unarmed passenger ship I"*tan inland AM drowned 10
eopmtnery of the Almighty proclaimed a holiday for the school children, ordered
the sho % that's sent hess American citizens unhiven to eternity In all, Germany kill
ed nearly tmee hundred Americans meanwhile pr%estng for ush her warm friendship
and sending us diplomatic correspondence by the ream.
Nor was Germany content mt to make make wi va upon %.s Ss People %n 1nd ths s ssas a.dn te % ss
s1ueton Of our shipping and passengers tH at sea-. that onsempone Bernsoin,% VINO SAT-
friendly nation, wasa at thu same time directing the burning of our elevators the de-
iasos se e san a u aeS1 o. '%s 1 cenarea a at the SUSTAINING eb mGana' of p or pre ss the oasa rim of of er
Tms 1d do mss', ~r ss ' wba m as a ss" sn A 10ss an heh rsu ded ' se "@ country try Of his
host withs spies and sought to betay and ovethrow the Governmen he had oaensdby
spS eur President and Congress declared that a state Of xr existed. In the name Of
Heaven, could they have done less? The wal was in America long before mers"
was in the war. Germany had killed more of our people than we LOST in the whole
SpanEh-Amercan war; Notwithstanding these wanon and murderous attacks upon
us both at home and on tn high s@sw We still have pachmts among us mo protest .
against our making defense, nd urge the unconsnudonahty of sending our soldiers
and alors abroad to fight Have hese whining traitor never read of the pirates Of
the Barbary States ant of wgod I'D Thomas Jefferson, that most em"fauc OF
Democrats, sent Commodore Dale to the Medtenanean Sea with his gunsoas and
forcedt THEN equalization and forever stopped the payment of the tribute by the Amer
lean Government? If the handful of impoverished and struggling patriots composing
this nation moret than 100 years ago could thus defend their rights under Jefferson,
shall Woodrow Wilson and III, 200 900 American citizens submit to the piracy of the
German uhnaIne and nav tribute to the German Kaiser in the goth Century,? Have
these padfsts never heard of Dewey at Manila Bay of Sampson and schey and Hob
sn. and Roosevet-at Santiago? Some OF us have read the heroic history of 0r fore
fathers and know the couragea and vdr with which they defended their rights and won
our brothers rushed to the relief Of that stricken people twenty years y ago We are
fight to maintain our rights. protect or homes ant send aid to heroic Belgium and
bleeding France. Long live Belgium long i've France. II this is not a righteous war;
thns self defense is obsolete and cravens submission to outrage pMage and murderh has
become a vntue supreme. twenty-five years ago Imperial Germany announced her
purpose to rule the world ad We are today wagng war not for territory, not FOR gold,
honors nor enown, but to save our fair land from slavery under the Kasers irn heel
Our ports are ntb ockaded INC our commerce. is not dead because yonder stands the
thin line OF French and British sddiers holding back the German hordes who have
stiven in van thus far to break through, ad because the British navy prevents the
unfolding of German flag above the waves on any sea.
I ar oe who believes we should fight, even if Germany hat treated America
wiho bequiou soutesy. have no. always thought So. l knew that in Europe there
were gedd quarres and deepsated national pejudces Sefshness is notc harac-
teistc of Germany alone l was mIed by the multitude Of charges and counter
over to retaino ur friendship or abMeo our wrath. Fortunately We are no longer
in the lark From soldiers citizens nurses, ministers diplomats .consuk, shoolmen,
truthful unbhsed-we have unquesionable evidence as to
whose laundering voce CRIED war; while England and France begged for peace an ar
btraton. History will record buto me name responsible for this war; and when read
of the plage, the rapne, the devastation, the outrage. thu murder his soldiers have
committed on the blood oakedf ds of Belgium AM the shen-Sarreds opes of France,
every drop of blood in m y vens bos with martial fGvor want to fight.
Dr. Newell Dwight Hills the distinguished successor of Henry Ward Beecher
in Plymouth Church Brooklyn, brings back amdaNis ant photographs from Belgium
Germans placed machine guns in the tower of the church, forced 275 women and chill
dren inside, and notified the French soldiers that if they fired on the machine guns they
dms fr a few days, these noble women slipped a boy through thec church window at
midnight an babe their husbandsf fire upn the Germans in the befy, saying that they
destroyed the machine gun, but killed twenty of their w wives md children. At
the dead body If a young girl was nailed to the door of a cottage by herh hands
many other atrocities, the Germans tut # bothh hands OF boy OF sixteen. he Diary
of Eel Ander, a German soldier retes that en- Vendre all the inhabitants without
exception, were brought out and shot. The shooting was heart breaking, as they all
knt down and prayed. 1t is real sport, but it is terrible to watch"
lima and aoinE emanG soldiers have marchadu into hattie each shielded behind