Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1919-01-22

| tHe WOrlO--tno IDEA or sovereign
force, which accepts neither control
nor check, and the idea of justice,
which depends on the sword only to
prevent or repress the abuse of
strength.
Faithfully supported by her do
minions, Britain decided that she
! could not remain aloof from a strug-
gle in which the fate OF every coun-
try was involved. She has made,
and her. dominions and colonies have
made with her, prodigious efforts to
prevent the war from ending in the
triumph OF the spirit Of conquest and
the destruction Of right.
Japan, in her turn, only decided
to take UP arms out Of loyalty to
Great Britain, her great ally, and
from the consciousness Of the dan
ger which both Asia and Europe
would have stood Of the hegemony
of which the Germanic empires
dreamed.
Italy, who from the first had re-
fused to lend helping hand to Ger
man ambition, arose against an age
long foe only to answer the call of
oppressed populations and to destroy
at the cost of her blood the artificial
,, polictical combination which took no
account Of human liberty.
"Rumnnia resolved to fight only
to realize that national unity Which
was opposed by the same powers of
arbitrary force. Abandoned, betray-
ed and strangled she had to submit
TO an abominable treaty the revision
OF which you will exact
Greece, whom the enemy for
many onths tried to turn from her
traditions and destinies raised m
army only to escape attempts at
domination Of which she felt the
growing threat.
portugal, China and Siam aban-
oohed neutrality only to escape the
strangling pressure Of the Central
Powers.
Hun Ambition.
Thus ii was the extent Of Cor
man ambitions that brought so many
peoples. great and small, to align
themselves against the same adver
sary.
And what shall I say of the
solemn resolutions taken by the
united States in the spring of 1917,
under the auspices Of it's illustrious
President, Mr.. Wilson, whom ! am
happy to greet here in the name of
grateful France, and, If you will
allow me to say so, gentlemen, in
the name Of all the nations repre-
sented in this room.
what shall ! say OF many other
American powers which declared
themselves against Germany-Bra-
iii, Cuba, Panama, Guatemala. MIC
arauga, Haiti, Honduras-or at least
broke off diplomatic relations-Bo-
livia, Peru, Ecuador, Uruguay. From
the north to the south the new world
rose with indignation when it saw
the empires Of Central Europe, after
having let loose the war without pro-
| vocation and without excuse, carry
it on with fire, pillagc and the mas
sacre Of inoffensive beings.
Supreme Judgment.
'The intervention of the United
States was something more, some
thing greater than great politicl
and military event. 1t was a
supreme Judgment passed at the
lar Of history by the lofty conscience
ct free people and their Chief
Magistrate on the enormous respon-
Sibilities incurred in the frightful
conflict which was lacerating human
| itv.
1T was not only to protect itself
from the German megalomaniac that
the United States equipped fleets and
created immense armies, but also
and above ALTO defend an ideal of
! liberty over which it saw the huge
shadow of the imperial eagle en-
| croachfng further every day Ameri-
ca, daughter Of Europe, crossed the
| ocean to rescue her mother from the
humiliation Of thraIdom, and to save
civilization.
Americas Wish.
The American people wished to
put an end to the greatest scandal
that has ever sullied the annals of
mankind. Autocratic governments,