The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1919-06-18

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soclated powers was made perfectly
clear to German during the war, by
their principal statesmen. 1t was de.
fined by President Wilson in his
speech of April g. 1918, and explicitly
and categorically accepted by the Ger
man people as principle covering the
peace-let everything that we say, my
icllow countrymen, everything that we
henceforth plan and accomplish, ring
true to this response, till the majesty
and might OF our concerted power
shall fill the thought and utterly de-
feat the force Of those who flout and
misprize what we honor and hold dear.
| Germany has once more said that
force and force alone, shall decide
whether justice and peace shall reign
IN the affairs of men, whether right,
as America c0nceves 1t, or dominion,
las she conceives it, shall determine
the destinies of mankind. There is,
therefore, but one response possible
from us:
''Force, force to the utmost; force
without stint or limit, the righteous
a'd triumphant force which shall
make the law of the world and cast
every selfish dominion down in the
dust"
SFeecheS OF PrcmlerS.
Nj. Clemenceau in the letter also
quotes form speeches delivered by
Premier Lloyd George of Great Brit.
ain, himself as premier Of France, and
Premier Orlando of Italy, in. which it
was specifically declared that when
victory was won, compromised as to
peace terms was impossible and lust
pdrIshnlent should be meted out and
continues!
Justice, therefore, is the only pos
siOlc basis for the settlement of the
accounts Of this terrible war. Justice
is just what the German delegation
asks for and says that Germany has
been promised. But it must be Justice
for all. There must be Justice for the
dead and wounded and for those who
have been made orphans and bereaved
that Europe might be free from <Prus-
sian despotism. There must be Justice
for those millions whose homes and
lands, ship and property, German saw
agery has spoilated and destroyed.
That is why the Allied and asso-
GATED powers have insisted as car
dmal feature of the treaty that Ger
many must undertake to make repara-
ton to the very uttermost of her now.
er, for reparation for wrongs inflicted
IS Of the essence of Justice"
Ihat is why they insist that those
individuals who are most clearly re-
Sponslble for German aggression and
Tor acts of harbarism and inhumanity
which have disgraced the German con-
duct of the war must be handed over
to justice, which has not been mcted
out to them at home.
War on Industries.
THAT, too, is why Germany must
submit for few years to certain
special disabilities and arrangements
Germany has ruined the industries,
the mines and the machinery of neigh
boring countries not during battle,
| but with the deliberate and calculated
purpose of enabling her own industries
| to seize their markets before their in
! dustries could recover from the de-
vastatlon thus wantonly inflicted up
on them.
Germany has despoiled her neigh
bors of everything she could make use
or carry away. Germany has destroy
ed the shipping of all nations on the
high seas, where there was no chance
of rescue for their passengers and
crews.
at is only justice that restitution
should be made and that these wrong
ed peoples should be safcguarded for
a. time from the competition of ma
ton whose industries are intact and
have even been fortified by machin-
cry stolen from occupied territories.
If these things are harships for Ger
many they are hardships which Ger
many has brought upon herself. Some
body must suffer for the consequent
ces of the war. Is it to be Germany or
tie peoples she has wronged?