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CHAPEL HttL, N. C.
VOL. IV, NO. 49
beating the HUN WITH BONDS
COMMON-SENSE WARNING
As we go to the printers with this issue,
two weeks aliead of the date it bears, the
Manufacturers Keeord warns us that the
Kaiser’s peace talk is a more effective en
emy offensive tlian German guns and the
German will to conquer, because it con
centrates the attention of war-weary peo
ple upon peace, and weakens the will of
an outraged world to take the war into
German territory and to beat Germany
to her knees.
And also that it is the shrewdest pos
sible defensive movement left to Germany
as her beaten armies stagger back to the
Khine. Of course, the Kaiser would like
beyond anything thinkable to mass his
SIX million soldiers on shortened lines
safe behind tiis own borders, and give the
collapsed soul of Germany a chance to
recover itself in a heroic defense of the
Fatherland; to prolong the war indefi
nitely and to offer Christendom a choice
between universal bankruptcy on the one
hand, or peace on terms satisfactory to
Germany on the other.
The war is not at an end because the
Hun cries peace.
The South was beaten at Gettysburg
and Vicksburg in ,TuIy, ’63, but the
Johnny Rebs fought on for 21 months
longer with a heroism unsurpassed in hu
man history. If only the Germans had
the grit of Lee’s ragged veterans this war
could go on ten years more.
A weak little nation like the Boers
fought a defensive war long enough to
threaten a great empire with insolvency.
And a strong nation like Germany could,
as a matter of fact—if given a chance—
fight on defensively until the whole of
civilization falls into wrack and ruin.
And Germany must not be given the
chance.
Her armies must be destroyed this side
of the Rhine. Her border cities must be
razed to the ground, just as Ixiuvain and
Rheims and a hundred other cities have
been battered out of existence by German
guns. Not as an act of vengeance but as
a form of speech—the only speech the
German mind is capable of understand
ing.
A peace dictated in the imperial palace
at Potsdam, not a peace negotiated
around a green baize table in some neu
tral country, is the only lasting peace
possible.
The allies have a chance to settle the
issues of the war in the next sixty days,
and perhaps end it with a just and honor
able peace by Christmas day.
But not if the bowstrings of heroic will
in us are weakened by the Kaiser’s peace
talk.
And not if we withhold the billions
needed to pound , the German soul into
submission.
Beat the Hun with Bonds
The need for our billions of bond
nioney is greater than ever.
And true-blue patriots will buy liberty
bonds with feverish haste; or we will if
we’ve a shred of common sense left in us.
They are necessary to put us in position
to hand out to Germany the justice she
cries for and doesn’t want—the justice
that will force her to restore the proper
ties destroyed and stolen in 20,000 square
miles*, of France and Belgium—a little
item of five billion dollars; and to repair
the physical damage wrought in Serbia,
Koumania, Russian Poland, Armenia,
and ottjer areas blasted by the heel of the
Hun—another item of five billions more.
Sad to say, it is beyond the power of
Hermany to re-create the stricken homes
and still the cries of twelve million or
phans behind the Western battle front,
and to give Rachel back her children in
stricken areas of the South and East; but
Germany must not go unwhipped of .jus
tice for these monstrous crimes against
humanity.
Oh yes, Germany shall have justice,
but God alone knows what will be left of
her when she gets it—eye for eye, and
tooth for tooth!
The honorable peace that Germany
craves will be meted out to her with the
love of love but also with the hate of hate
that Tennyson sings. She shall not have
mercy without justice, nor justice with-
mercy.
But the Allies are not yet ready to
reckon with Germany in righteousness,
nor are they likely to be these ten years
if we fail to load Foch’s guns to the muz
zle with the liberty bond dollars of Amer
ica.
The defeat of Germany is in sight, but
the peace the world wants is not yet with
in the ken of any mortal mind.
Entered as second-class matter November 14.1914. at the ^Postomee at Chapel HIU, K. C., under the act of August; 24.1912.
I AM PUBLIC OPINION
All men fear me! I declare to you that
Uncle Sam shall not go to his knees to
beg you to buy his bonds. That is no
position for a fighting man. But if you
have the money to buy and do not buy, I
will make this a No Man’s Land for you.
I will judge you not by an allegiance
expressed in mere words.
I will judge you not by your mad cheers
as our boys march away to whatever fate
may have in store for them.
I will judge you not by the warmth of
the tears you shed over tlie lists of the
dead and the injured that come to us
from time to time.
I will judge not by your uncovered head
and solemn mien as our maimed in bat
tle return to our shores for loving care.
But, as wise as I am just, I will judge you
by the material aid you give to the fignt-
ing men who are facing death that you
may live and move and have your being
in a world made safe.
I warn you—don’t talk patriotism over
here unless your money is talking victory
Over There.
the time is critical
President Wilson
Recent events have enhanced, not
lessened, the great importance of the
liberty loans, and I hope that my fel
low-countrymen will let me say to
them very frankly that the beat thing
that could happen would be that the
loan should not only be fully subscrib
ed but very greatly oversubscribed.
II e are in the midst of the greatest
exercise of the power of this country
that has ever been witnessed or fore
cast, and a single day of relaxation in
that effort would be of tragical dam
age alike to ouselves and to the rest of
the world.
Nothing has happened which makes
it safe or possible to do anything but
push our efi^orts to the utmost. The
time is critical, and the response must
be complete.
we pass along his argument to the farm
ers of North Carolina.
The mania for more land is sadly crip
pling the patriotism of many farmers in
tills and every other state.
I am public opinion! As I judge, all
men stand or fall!—Life.
surpassing that with which they fought
their way into Belgium and France.
Any thought, therefore, that this war is
at a end or that Germany will soon sur
render is, we believe, fraught with great
danger. Pro-Germanism will do all in its
power to create the impression tliat Ger
many is nearing its end in order to weak
en the fighting spirit of America and to
lessen the the enthu.siasm of this country
for Liberty loans in order to build ships
and to provide munitions for the great
work that is ahead of us.
Germany will fight a defensive war
fare, hoping that, even if it cannot win,
it can at least hold out long enough to
tire out America and our Allies and secure
better terms of peace than it could other
wise get.—Manufacturers Record.
THE ONLY FIT ANSWER
It is with a mingled sensation of wrath
and amazement that one reads the report
of the frustration of the loan campaign
in certain western communities by pre
mature rejoicings over a non-existent
peace.
To scourge such folly adequately would
demand the tongue of an old Hebrew
prophet. Truly the lambs wish to lie
down, not with, but liefore the raging
lion. They have changed their war-like
assemblies into one-sided love-feasts; they
are beating their swords into plowshares
while the enemy is still afield.
The only answer which a man in his
senses can make to such stupidity is—to
buy another bond.—J. H. H.
DO NOT BE DECEIVED
No greater mistake could be made than
to lessen our activity in subscribing to
Liberty Bonds, in increasing our army
and navy, and enlarging to the utmost
possible extent the output of war mate
rials and of ships, because of any thought
that the war is nearly over. In all human
probability the fight will yet be a long and
desperate one before the fiag of America
and our Allies triumphantly floats over
Berlin.
Though Turkey may surrender, and
possibly Austria may have to give up,
and Germany strive for peace on its own
terms, we must bear in mind that Ger
many is still a country of 70,000,000 people
united in one solid mass, determined to
fight to the end.
Germany still has an immense army
trained, equipped and inured to hardship.
When that army is driven across the
Rhine it will be behind one of the strong
est fortifications in the world. It will be
fighting on its own soil. It will compel
us to pay a tremendous toll in death for
the march on to Berlin.
German autocracy knows that it has
staked life itself upon the game of war
and its gamble for world domination.
German autocracy knows that if it is
finally defeated deatli faces the criminals
and the whole autocratic power of the
country. Therefore, the autocratic leaders,
from the Kaiser down, will spare neither
men nor material. There will be thrown
into the struggle, utterly regardless of how
great the suff'ering and ruin to the Ger
man soldier, the utmost power of the
mobilized forces of Germany. These men
will be fighting in a narrower territory,
in their owm cpuntry, and we may rest
assured that they will fight with energy
SHREWD MONEY-SENSE
“I’m buying liberty bonds with everj*{
dollar I can save, for two good reasons,"’ ’
said a fine, foreign born Jew in our pres
ence the other day;
“First and foremost, I’m investing in
America because it has given me freedom
and a decent chance to live and prosper.
And second, because I can now buy gilt-
edge securities with cheap money.
“What I mean by cheap money is this.
A dollar is worth what you can buy with
it and no more. A dollar today will buy
no more than fifty cents would buy four
years ago. Which means that our dol
lars today are tifty-cent dollars.
“When'tijis war is over our dollars will
return to their customary exchange value,
and the $4.25 of interest I get on a $100
bond today will then buy $8.50 worth of
commodities, or something like that. In
the end my 4 1-4 per cent interest be
comes 8 1-2 per cent interest. See?
‘I’d be a fool to miss a chance to buy
gold dollars with fifty cent pieces just as
long as I have a chance, and Abram’s no
fool, what ever else he may be.’’
Two things stand out in this little
speech: first, the splendid patriotism of
this German Jew. Long centuries of op
pression have made the Jew a lover of
freedom in every land and country. And
second, the shrewd money sense of his
race.
This Jew is keen enough to see that the
$6 of interest he gets today in the ordi
nary manner of lending a hundred dol
lars, will shrink to $3 in exchange value
when money drops to its customary ex
change level. For this reason, he’s mak
ing sure that the interest money he re
ceives tomorrow will be doubled in
stead of halved in value.
The Lust for Land
He concluded by saying with a shrug
of scorn:
“I’ve got a customer who won’t buy
liberty bonds; he’s buying farm land with
his fifty-cent dollars, and he’ll get fifty-
cent prices for everything he raises on
that farm when this war is over. He’s
paying interest on the money he borrow
ed, with fifty-cent dollars today, and he’s
too stupid to see that he will be paying
off principal and interest with 100-cent
dollars tomorrow. When I am getting
double interest he’ll be paying double in
terest. I’ll get rich and he’ll go busted.
See?’’
We could. At least we said we could.
Anyway, our Jew set us to thinking, and
THE ONLY WAY TO PEACE
All sane men long for the day of peace.
The supreme object for which men are
fighting by millions is peace. Every hour
of war consumes a vast toll of lives and
treasure, imperils and impoverishes the
highest interests of mankind.
Can we get peace now? Yes, a peace
of virtual surrender, such as could be ob
tained from the successful bandit, such
as might have been had any day these
past four years. A peace which would
consecrate crime. A peace which would
leave the criminal triumphant, no matter
how skilfully camouflaged by the diplo
mats. A peace which would sow bounti
fully the seeds of a worse war to be fought
by ourselves or our children. That kind
can be had for the asking any day. But
no sane man, when he understands what
it means, wants that kind of peace.
When can peace—a real peace—be had?
Not until those rulers of Germany who
made this war, and who have conducted
it like cynical barbarians, are wholly re
pudiated by their people. A few of these
leaders have been dismissed by the Ger
man emperor—those who were suspected
of harboring misgivings about the efficacy
of “the shining sword,’’who have betray
ed the slightest trait of liberalism.
The cynical gang that planned the war,
that broke faith with nations, that ravag
ed Belgium, that ruined northern France,
that defied every human decency, are
still all powerful in Germany. No peace
worth calling peace can ever be made
with the present imperial goverment of
Germany.
No Signs of it Yet
There are no signs yet worth credence
of their immediate loss of power. There
are no indications yet that the German
people are sick of these rulers; that they are
alive to the crime and folly to which they
have been committed for four years and
more. And what is worse there are as
yet no credible proofs that the German
people have repudiated in their own souls
the vile philosophy they have been subtly
taught and are now so brazenly practicing.
When the day comes as it must come,
when the German nation demonstrates to
the outraged world by repudiating its guilty
leaders and by plain renunciation of their
principles that it has at last awakened
from its predatory dream,—then, not un
til then, peace will come.
For all those who believe in the
possibility of an enduring peace among
nations, for all those who ardently long
for the day when humanity will substitute
law and reason for violence and trickery,
the way to that peace in which they have
faith is to fight steadfastly on refusing
to accept less than the full reward of their
sacrifices, and, by the ever closer union
of the peoples resisting the enemy’s pre
tentions, demonstrate the possibility, the
actuality of the cooperative common
wealth of humanity, wliere war will no
longer be tolerated.—Robert Herrick.
tilities into abominable brigandage, .seek
ing above all the ruin of agriculture, in
dustry and commerce in tliis country. ”
Reports show that Roulers and Thour-
out have been destroyed by fire.
I remier Olemenceau has written a sting
ing commentary on German practices in
a letter to Deputy Margin of the Marne
department. He says:
German rage attacks not only human
beings but tlirows its blight on our cities,
our firesides, our sacred monuments, our
arches and history and even upon the
trees of our fair land. The drama of
Chalons where a German airplane bom
barded the principal hospitals, killing
flftyffour persons and wounding forty,
manifested again the enemy’s rage and
savagery.
All international conventions and tra
ditions of nobility in armed, conflict have
been cynically swept aside by Germany
when she thought herself strongest, and
with hypocritical tears when she felt the
shudder of defeat.
Taken by the throat and driven back
ward he still seeks to vent his hate upon
the country from which our soldiers drive
him foot by foot. But the blood, ruin
and incendiarism which he is leaving be
hind will have retribution of which he
will soon feel the weight.”
LEE’S WAY AND THE HUN'S
We make war on armed men only, was
Lee’s proclamation to the people of Penn
sylvania in ’63—an order scrupulously
observed by his ragged, hungry veterans.
Over against the nobility of this peer
less Christian knight and his men, set
the Kaiser and his beastly hordes in
France and Belgium, as portrayed in the
Associated Press dispatches of yesterday:
“A startling picture of destruction *s
drawn by an official eye-witness who has
visited the neighborhood of Lens since the
Germans wltlidrew from that city. Rail
roads and tramways are torn up and con
verted into huge piles of twisted rails.
Mayor Basly of Lens says that the city
has been virtually levelled. The Germans
blew up entire sections of the town to es
tablish their trench systems. The popu
lation of 35,000 people is entirely Ger
man and the city is dead. Water fills the
galleries of the coal mines which used to
turn out three million tons of coal a year.
The National Committee on War Dam
ages thus sums up the devastation;
‘ ‘Despite the reprobation of the world,
the German war practices are constantly
being accentuated and intensified. These
odious proceedings have transformed hos-
PRINCE MAX IS A FRAUD
The hand of the new German Imperial
Chancellor is the hand of Esau but his
voice is the voice of Jacob.
He pats the rising Democracy of Ger
many on the back by professing a belief
in responsible, representative govern
ment, by proposing to accept President
Wilson’s peace terms, and by calling on
him to arrange an armistice to stop the
fighting meanwhile.
But what Prince Max really thinks of
go\ernment by the people—unless the
leopard has suddenly changed his spots—
appears in ids address in Baden on Au
gust 22.
“Mob rule, lynch justice, boycotts,
pogroms again.st foreigners, and whatever
else may be tlie names of all the despotic
customs of the Western democracies will,
we hope, always remain as foreign to our
to our nature as our language,” said he
at that time.
“It may be that the French, English
and Americans really believe in the dis
torted picture that has been presented to
them by their agitating propaganda. We
know our enemies as they do not know
us and do not wish to know us.”
And as for peace, what he really wants
is not peace, but a pow-wow about peace,
until the German armies can get back
safe across the Rhine.
Then his plan is to divide the Allies at
the peace table if possible and to break
up the conference by fanning national
jealousies into flame, to fire the fainting
soul of Germany with the real patriotism
of fatlierland defense—the sham patriot
ism of the ar Lords liaving play
ed out, and to hold the world at bay
long enough to exact a peace that satis
fies the Feudal lords of Germany.
Prince Max is a fraud.
‘Looks like Maxie’s got something up
his sleeve, doesn’t it?” a ten-year-old
said to us Sunday morning.
‘■WhenHeinie throws up his hands,
don’t turn ’round, or you’ll get a knife
blade in your back, ’ say our boys at the
front.
If Prince Max cannot fool the kids over
here or the Sammies over there, he is not
likely to fool our President.
Better than anybody else in America
he knows that we are face to face with.
Carlyle’s conclusion about Charles the
First. “Beware the liar,” said he,
“either you must make way with him or
he will make way with you.”
When Germany makes way with the
Kaiser and a handful of kaiserlings in the
little German states, and gives the world
a chance to deal with a federated group
of German republics, we’ll have a lasting
peace—and not before.
When this simple fact bores into the
brain of the Teuton, it will be short shrift
for the Kaiser and all his tribe in every
land and country.
While Foch is beating the German ar
mies with his guns at the front, Wilson
is beating the life out of Kaiserism be
yond the lines with his pen.
And verily it is hard to tell which is
mightier—Foch’s sword or Wilson’s pen!