The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1919-04-02
FREE MEN WILL REMAIN FREE

These are days when pessmist is embarrassed by the
richness and variety of the material made avabe for his
socaled logic If the temporary currents and eddes are
the only things to be considered easy show how the
world is drifting to the bad The peace conference is
bunging dilatory and disunted and quite palpaby in
adequate to its task The bolshevh exulting in al
legged extensions of territory. The Germans are well
pleased with the palsy that has afflicted the Paris confer
ence The allies squabbng and threatening war be
tween themselves and against the Paris press What is
known is bad and what concealed is believed to be
worse.
AL of this is true, and yet it is not all the truth
The most important fact of times the fact that
pessimsm cannot meet that free nations and the as
sassns of liberty have grapped and fought to finish and
lbery has won.
Nothing that can happen through human agency can set
aside this victory. 1t by the exertion Of the
strongest forces in the world moral and physical The
moral force the spirit of liberty, and the physical
force was the combined strength and intelligence of free
men.
Now if the forces of evil in any form tackle those tr
umphant for another round they will get what the
Germans got, but of it
Nturally when an enemy strong enough to threaten
human liberty actually attempts to destroy it, the world
will be disturbed 1t not be expected that hundreds
of millions Of human beings be shocked out OF herI
usual torpor without topping many brains There Is
mental disturbance ranging from anxiety to acute fren
zy and this disturbance large groups to behave IN
manner that abnormal say the least There are hui
man islands of volcanic eruption and whole archpegoes
that are rumblng and quakng Is it strange consider
ing what these human beings have experienced? The dis
covery by millions of them that they free quite toe
much for their nteects They become spendthrtts anG
rioters of freedom scattering their new riches like Coal
Oil ohnnies The foul birds among them the ghouls and
robbers stalk forth devour and burn In the confusion
many wel-meaning individuals mistage for truth
and are apt to trake their real liberty for counterets
and crooked inventions. Thus parlor boshcvism sezes
the slightly defective menaties and they shout with JOY
the discovery of gded baubes that shown to be
trash thousand years ago
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. There are
balanced and honest brains and strong wills The people
of the United States msed They stirred but
not mudded They watching and weighing events and
card Whatever strikes the security and independence
the United States they will destroy whatever its origin
and whatsoever its sponsor The United States has found
and treasured the nestmable blessing of liberty and has
Just indicated by the of battle What mistake
to suppose that the American people dissatisfied
with their governments end willing try experiments
with liberty! On the contrary, the people never
more determined to hold fast to their liberty and the in
sttutions through which it is safeguarded,
American liberty enlightens the world. American
agents are not America They make mistakes, but Amer
lea does not The victory Germany remains victory
for all time Nations have been made free. They will
main free. The drunken bolshevk will become sober
through suffering and excess. They temporarily mad
men, Let them rave The enemy conspires to twist vic
tory from the grasp of the vctors He conspres in vain
"Never again" is the epitaph of Prussiansm.
Humanity has taken wonderful stride toward unver-
sal liberty based on ordered law The tumut and the
shouting are not over but the victory Let one
mistake the temporary for the external tides
The shallow murmur, but the deep dumb Wash
ngton Post.