The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1918-11-14

other hundreds of thousands per-
ished in the forests of Bussia and
in the mountains Of Serbia.
Thousands poured out their
blood on the hot sands of the des-
ert of the East. But the Germans
persisted in feeding the fires Of
their war engines. They were
fighting for the Day. It would
surely come. They willed to win.
In the course of years the Uni
ted States came in. But the kais-
er still believed in his star; his
war lords told him that all would
be well and that the Day was
merely postponed.
In the spring of 1918 the final
supreme effort was made. The
Germans were beaten. The field
marshal knew it, but they still
lied to their kaiser and he stilled
dreamed of Der Dag.
In Russia a czar was killed, his
wife and his little children were
murdered. The wife of the kais-
er, a mother of seven children,
saw these things come to pass,
and, being mother, she began to
fear what might happen to her
own. But the kaiser still dream
ed of the Day.
A few weeks ago, after Luden-
dorff's armies had been driven
back from the sea coast, and after
British and French and American
had hurled them away from Lens,
Rheims and Verdun, this kaiser
went before his people and
preached sermon. He exhorted
them to be faithful and to be 10y
al. He pleaded to them to contin-
ue to fight and die in order that
the Day might arrive. During
these months a small man sat in
a small room and weaved threads
Of fate and these threads ware
strong. In lis good time the III.
tie man wound these threads a.
round the throats of all Of the
kaiser's soldiers and then he drew
the thread tight and all these
soldiers began to choke. Then
came the Day-MONDAY, NOV.
the 4th, 1918.
William of Germany, who DOOM
ed London to destruction, who liz
tended to tickle his nostrils with
the smoke of burning Paris, who
in his soul decreed that the walls
OF dying France and dying Eng
land would fall as sweet music
on his ears, is an outcast. He il
. vagrant without a home. He is
man without neighbor. He
has not even name. He is des-
pissed by his former subjects, ha-
ted by some of the members of his
own household, and deserted by
his field marshal, dukes and
princes, who, in years gone, ae-
claimed him as the All-Highest.
On The Day England lives
France lives. The Day acclaims
their imperishable glory. The
Day marks the end of the Ger
man empire.
The fires of the great struggle
have burned the dross out Of the
English and French and they are
better and stronger and moro
high-soulded than they were four
years ago.
Germany, whose people were Of
the same mind of their emperor,
like murderers confined in a burn
ing prison in their efforts, each to
save himself, are numbering one
another.
The Day is here. Williams
flashing simulacrum of glory is
gone. He is not a great man cast
down; he is low fellow not
worthy of pity, fit only for con-
tempt.
The Day is the ending of autoc-
racy, the ending Of the divine
right OF kings, the ending Of abso-
lutism.
The Day is for us the begin
ming Of new order which, estab-
Used, will guarantee the survival
OF the civilization Of the world
ana liberty under the law for all
who are of good heart and who
love the Lord God of Hosts.