npraxi Its dMpMi sympathy at the
law of I Wee on board the I-usitania."
In July Um American Mnwr Lael
inw wai Hunk by ■ German submar
ine, ami in Auiuit the Arabic carry
ins 180 puHnpri of whom 2 were
Americana. Aram, with fawning de
ceit, cam* Germany'* tender of "sin
cerest »ympathie« to the American
government." In December, 1915 off
the coast of Crete the Persia was
sunk, and Robert R. McNeely, of
North Carolina, consul at Aden, and
about 200 others were drownad. In
the history of naval warfare such
piracy had never been practiced by
any nation pretending to ha civilized.
Meanwhile Dr. Berhard Dernberg,
the special emisary of Berlin to in
struct the American people in the su
periority of German "kultur," under
^took to change American opinion or
the origin of the war, and to lessen th«
hatred inspired by the invasion ol
Belgium, and its horrors. This mar
wisely returned to the "fatherland.'
Then came thick and fast discoveriei
of German's dark and direful plots
passport frauds, followed by perjur;
and conviction; an active campaign foi
an embargo on arms and munitions
incendiary ft res; explosions in indus
trial plants; bombs on vessels in por
or at sea; and strikes among seamei
and workers in munition plant!
Bernstorff amtwssaiTor and spy, Pape
military attache, Albert, German ft
nancial agent, tried t* subsidize Amei
ican publications, while the dull an
Xmwnca ifia* tiw c!ff*r*d 4
the wage of their hostility to ou
country. Each of t?,em merely "on
of a feather." Did not von Tirpit
admit to Ambassador Gerard -tha
Germany must hold Flanders as
base operation against Great Bntai
and America? Did not Bernstori
with "polished villainy" ask from hi
government $80,000 with whch t
bribe an organization to influence th
congress ? Did not Count Luxburg
German Charge to Argentina, implon
his government to sink the ships o:
the country to which he was accre
dlted "without a trace being left?'
And did not the kaiser conftde to hii
kindsman Czar Nicholas as disclosed
in the famous "Willy-Nicky," corres
pondence his purpose to do for Den
mark years ago what ha has done foi
Belgium? Slight wonder, then, that
" President Wilson, in answer to the
Pope's peace letter, should say in sub
stance, "There can be no treaty of
peace with the Hobe7i*ollems, because
the Hohenzollerns' oath is vanity, de
lusion, and hypocrisy."
uennany amDition, then, ii to iw
achieved by "diplomacy" and sheer
fore*. Incidental to force U fright
fulness—the frighttufness and bar
barity of the Hun. The Hun, ita ex
emplar, the German army, scorning
oath and treaty invading peaceful Bel
gium. The invasion made by decree
ef the visionary kaiser, opened the
way to all manner of brutality, rav
ishing, looting, maiming, burning, de
vastator deportation, old men shot,
women bound to a body of death, boys
mutilated, girls subjected to unspeak
able tortures. Compared with other
atrocities, the shooting of Edith Ca
vil 1 was merciful. With regard to
theee atrocities, let us pass the Bryce
report—no doubt worthy of all ac
ceptance—as of English origin, and
have respect to the statement of a
distinguished American minister of
the goepil. Dr. Newell Dwight Hillis.
He has recently made a tour of reg
ion! of France evacuated by the Ger
mans. He saye there can no longer |
be any doubt of the fact that the Ger
man armies have been gu'Jty of the|
blackest crimes charged against
them. He has brought from France
photographs, affidavits, and copies of
official records as the evidence of Ger
■u fcwTiialiL.ee. "Fur Cum yA
he *m, "G«bu AuiictiM km1 u
U h
Freock IqrpiirWw, tot thmt imy baa
pat (mnr. Whoa the wfr—nU
tlvee W tlM mUmm assmkls tor tka
Anal settlement, tkan will be laid ba
fora the rapraaantativaa at Genaaay
aflldavita, photographs, and other la
gal proof thai roakaa Canaan atroei
tiaa far batter eatabliahed than tha
acaipiaci af tha Siaos Indiana on thel
waatam frontiera, tha murders of 1
tha Black Haia at Calcutta, or tha J r
cnatea of tha Spanish Inquisition. On' r
a battla Una 900 miles loaf, to every ,
TillaKa thru whirk retreating Oar- d
mana paaaad accredited man hurried
to maka tka rarord against tha day
of judgement."
I cannot undaratand why any Amer
ican should ba indikerent in thla war.
—why tharo should ba any anti-war
•fcntiment. But there ia indifference,
and thara ia sentiment against the
! war. Thara are thoae who nay, "This
ia tha rich man'* war and tha poor
man'* fight." Thia ia tha stock phrase
of tha paciAat, the ailant ally of Gar
many. It ia fallacious—it ia falae.
The average exemption among those
who are financially independent ia leaa
than it ia among thoaa who are not
ao well-to-do. In actual aarvioa there
ia the rich man'* boy beaide the poor
man'a aon. In thia war hereditary'
caate ia arrayed againat popular
right*, and tha poor man would ba
utterly kelpleaa in the Kaiser's grip
In effect he further aaya: "The pho
tographa of dead and mutilated girla
children, and old men tell no liaa * *
When the German army in Lorraine
waa refaated by one-half ita number
it fell aouthward, paaaing thru French
towna and villagea where there were
no Frenchmen, no guna, and where no
shots were fired. Going from one ruin
ed town to another, he talked with the
women and children, and compared
photography and recorda with the
atatementa of the wretched aurvivora
who lived in cellars. In one village
standing beaide their graves, he atud
• -II.. -# A#
lined up and ahot because there were
no young aoldiera to kill: heard the
story of a woman whose boy, fourteen
years of age, waa hanged to a tree in
11 the garden, freed by his mother, and
then aaturated with petrol and aet on
fire by a German brute who shrieked
with laughter as the burning boy stag
gered to his doom, while a German of
ficer—a fiend in uniform—held at his |
back the maddened mother's arms,
saw the picture of thirty aged men
lying aa they had fallen, ahot to their
death, and of chaste women stripped
and slain; stood before the ruined
belfry into which the Germans had
lifted machine guna, warning the sol
diers of France that an attack on the
belfry endangered the safety of 275
French women and children who had
been herded in the church below; saw
the photograph of aged priests whose
bodies had been staked to the ground
listened to the story concerning young
girls literally crucified and delirious
women with breasts destroyed; and
saw twelve bullet marks against the
stone wall where a mother aged 23,
with a babe on her brest, and her
sister and sister-in-law aged 16 and 17
were shot by German soldiers. Dr.
Hillis brought back copies of German
soldiers diaries. This is one: "Our
soldiers are so excited we are like wild
beasts. Destroyed eight houses with
their inmates. Bayonetted two men
with their wives and a girl of eighteen
The little one almost unnerved me, so
innocent was her expression." This
is another—the diary of Eithel An
ders: "In Vendre all the inhabitants
without exception we brought out and
shot. This shooting was heartbreak
ing, as they all knelt down and prayed.
It was real sport, yet it was terrible
to watch."
„„
t,..j «• »rr *i w»r witn Germany? ft
Because Germany is dominated by cl
Prussia, and Prussia by her "war
loads;" because in war they have no
ronscience, no sense of honor; because
in making war they bow down to the j tli
■atyrs and worship Moloch and deify | *
Herculc-; because with the instinct
ind passion* of the primitive man
hey are running amuk up and down
he earth; because with ranking hate
ind insane jealousy they covet domtn
on over Trance, Great Britain, and
in
eo
i Lea, bacau-S thc> have
e. 7%m
on of Bdcioai waa • step te tka t*.
11 mm of the United State*. W« ara
|ktin| to Hti America. to
ir liberty, to maintaia oar
Mat. te Justify car right to live. W*
ra fighting fo/ oar land, ■
:itutiona—fo* oar law*, oar rhurrhas,
■hoola, and homes; to «a»o oar boys
•om extermination, o«r KtrU from the
■ rem. and our woman from I
iting touch of Alula's savage
fs ara fighting because we have a
atinn's right to live. and Germany's
lad autocrat shall not take this right
way. Ws ara waging a war of
efrnse against »he <m««kr.i
taught of a bigoted paranoiac. Am I
ly brother's keepe> ? Wa are Agbt
ng, too for blading Belgium and
tricken France, and sturdy old Eng
»ml. Ws ar* fti'hting for liberty of
he world; and all the peoples who are
ree should flght tbb. r*nod fight until
he rattle of the German sabre, the
Kimp and flourish of the German iol
liar, the bomhfe*tic egotism of the war
ords, the swaggering of the Crown
'rince, and the grandiloquent aixump
ion of the Kaiser be shorn of their
>ower to convulse the world, and the
>ride of Prussia be laid in the dust.
Then there are those who say, "If
>ur country were invaded we shouM be
■rilling to flght." surely these people
knuw not what they sb?. Have they
Itcard of Prussian vandalism, rapine,
plunder and murder in Prance and
Belgium ? Do they wish their fa.lier*
literally nailed to the tree, their moth
ers dehauched, their brothers maimed
and shot and burned, their sisters de
ported—their infants tossed at the
bayonet's point from the pillage home
to the blood-sodden street, their dwell
ings razed, and the graves of their
dead descrated? If they do, let them
wait with stolid Indifference the fu
rious coming of the legions of Prus
sia.
mere are still oiner classes: mow
who are the "dupe*" of their own am
bitions or prejudice*; the anti-war ag
itators seeking to attain their own
I w>H«- the unconscious "*»oola
secret disciple* of Dernherg and Zim
merman who are devoid of the courage
to nay in public what they think in pri
vate. In this hour of world'* crises,
when the allied champion* of civil lib
erty ar» trying to break the autocrat
ic shackle* of the middle age* and to
set men fre»—when the peoples of the
earth are coming out of gret tribula
tion—he who obstructs or retards the
emancipation of humanity, whoever he
be whatever his place, is a foe to hi*
home, a dicgrace to rank, and a
traitor to his country.
To this spirit of rebellion, when
ever its exists, what is the inner?
Loyalty and service—loyalty to your
:ountry in this crucial hour, and will
ing service. The patriot strive* for
he power that brings liberty and the
ibility to serve. The disloyal man
icorns in his heart the thought of al
egiance and in the guise of fealty be
ray* hi* country. The one i* the man
if courage and heroism—zealous for
he welfare of his country and the peo
ile it protects; the other, "the mon
rch of the remorseless day; the one is
i benefactor; the other a curse; the
ne like Lafayette, who would gaide
is country into the light of hope,
nd cheer and trust; the other, like
lapoleon into the darkness of des
air? Does the spirit of Lafayette
ispire the Allies? Will the arobi
ion of Napoleon destroy the Kaiser?
ontraiting the character of these two
len, Sergeant Smith Prentiss teaches
n appropriate lesson :"Their names
(cite no kindred emotions; their fata*
a kindred *ympathie*. Napoleon—
te child of destiny—the thunderbolt
f war—the victor in a hundred bet
es—the dispenser of thrones and do
inions • • • died and a faw old
srriors—the scattered relics of Ma
ngo and of AuaterliU bewailed their
iief. * * Lafayette—the volunteer
freedom—the advocate of human
Ithta—the defender of civil liberty—
e patriot and the philantropist—
e beloved of the good and the free
* * also died," and the tears of
civilized world attested how deep
is the mourning for his loss. Surh
and always will be, the difference
feeling toward a benefactor and a
■queror of the hunian race."
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all Im purred. the wheat r»mer*d,
• rhaff burnt. What aay you la
I* hour of tlx "arid tactV What
your creed? Whm~m do j«o ftond?
. e you a patriot or a "slacker?" By
•ir fruits ye shall know them. Aa
man thinkath in hia Heart so ia Ha.
Do you aak whan tha and shall I'll
>ma, and what it shall ha? It ||J
i tha downfall of International out
,wa. and it rhall coma in tha fullna*a
f time by the will of God.
A German offlrer waa wounded and
iptured by tha Atliaa. Ha a waited
6ath for waeka. Wh.:« French wo
ien cared for the dying man he aeirt
jr the Tlltip priest and told him
■at the Hindanburc line waa nearly
omplete, that tha order to retreat j
ad been riven that tha koae of
Uae aged woman who had eared for
im ao tenderly ahould be burned, and
ot one -hurch, houae, bam, vineyard
r orchard ahould be left. Then aa
* paaaed into the valley of the ahad
iw a rightaoua wrath burned in hia
iaart and Earned in hia eye, and he
xelaimed: "Ouraaa be upon this
irmy! Curaea upon our Kaiaer and
lia war staff! Ten thouaand euraea
ipon my country! Either God is dead
ir Germany ix doomed!"
God ia not dead--and Germany ia
loomed. And when Germany meets
ter doom a brighter day ahall dawn
ipon the earth, _for light of^ truth
»nd ma*ks of brutea force, and aet the
vorld free"— fr«e from the thralldom
)f self-constituted masters, and free
'rom Prussian autocracy and tyranny,
["here shall indeed be a new earth,
'or old things shall have paaaed away.
Jy our worlu let ua justify our faith.
'laces of Amusement
May be told to Close.
Washington, Dec. 17.—All theaters
rid other places of amusement and in
ustries not absolutely essential for
rar purposes in North Carolina and
ther states of the union are liable
> be closed within a day of two un
it after the holidays on account of the\
kortap of coal.
Federal Fuel Administrator Gar
eld in response to suggestions from
tveral state fuel administrators that
ich places be closed until after the
hristmas holidays, stated that they
tuld use their own judgement in the
atter and that they had his author
y to take such drastic steps of they
wraed it advisable. He informed
ef uel administrators of the several
ates that the interests of the con
mers of coal should first be looked
ter and that if it became necessary
close all other forms of industry in
der to accomplish, this, such action
uld be taken with his entire approval
The coal shortage in nearly every
rtion of the country is becoming
>re and more acute resulting in in
tse suffering among the people. It
realised by the federal fuel adminis
itor that something must be done to
eviate this condition of affairs and
has put it op to every «tate fuel ad
nistrator to take hold of the situa-|
n and deal with it as he sees fit.
forth Carolina, according to reports
ning to Washington, is in a serious
idition so far as coal is concerned,
y Manager Murphy, of High Point,
ed Senator Overman to help him
coal today and hardly a day pea
t some North Carolina City does I
appeal for aid.
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