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The Carolinas, Virginia, Georgia, and Floridao
FOUNDED 1886, AT RALEIGH, N. C
Vol. XXXIII. No. 16.
SATURDAY, APRIL 20. 1918
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1 government and political ideals as given in
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no one can doubt that America is fighting for
democracy, fighting for the right of the people
to rule. And in view of the facts about Ger
many's war practices and ambitions as gi"en this
week, certainly no one can doubt that America
is fighting for righteousness.
So America is in the war, battling for democ
racy and for righteousness. And we must fight
to a finish. As Judge Charles E. Hughes well
says: "We must realize that a nation which
cannot defend the principles on which it is
formed, is not destined to endure; and a nation
which is unwilling to fight for its principles
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cannoi enuure. i , . --
We must conquer and we must count no sac
rifice too great to make in order that we may conquer
in order that the world may be saved from domina
tion by a power which knows no god but force and
which would know no mercy for us as a conquered foe.
The money we are asked to LEND our government
in Liberty Bonds and War Savings Stamps is as noth
ing to the money we should be forced tQ,LVJ2he Ger
man government in indemnities if we should fail. And
the loss of life in a fight to the finish now is less than will be
the loss of life if the struggle ends without a decision. There
can only be a. truce and no real peace between Kaiserism and
us, between Democracy and Autocracy, between Force and Righteous;
ness. If we do not conquer Germany now, the world must remain an
armed camp through fear of her until she is conquered, and our child
ren and our children's children , may not see the end of this strug
gle. Rich or poor, high or low, white or black, therefore, let every
American count himself or herself a real soldier against Germany
until the war is ended no matter whether working with gun
cannon in the trenches, with plow and hoe in the fields, or as a
food conserver in the household.
Inspiring indeed is the thought that in this great world-crisis
every food-producer has "a place in the struggle for Right";
that the American farmer in the furrow can serve human
ity as truly as the American soldier in the trench. And the
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American farmer is doing it. Last year, as will be seen
irom jhe statement on page 10, he increased the Nation's
food acreage 30,000,000 acres above , normal, and every
where this year there is even more eager and determined
activity. As one friend has just remarked to us: 'in my
county, even the mules seem to be stepping faster than
ever before!"
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Let us remember, however, that we must save as well
as produce, and lend the resultant savings to America by
trying its Liberty Bonds and War Savings Stamps,
j roud indeed will everyone be to be called a Southern
armer if our farmers this year not only grow record
yields of fod and feed but also go "Over the Top" in the
Purchase of bonds and stamps.
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