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“FOR GOD’S SAKE, HURRY UP”
(From Manufacturers Record)
If a brute had attacked your wife
and murdered j'>me of your children,
would you, while his hands were drip
j ing red with the blood of your loved
ones, talk peace with him?
If such r. Oend wanted to d : scuss
peace with you while still attacking
your daughter :, would you fight, v.th
all the power 4 k' 4 Clod pave you, to
throttle the beast, or would you par
ley back and forth and suggest that
the matter might be settled on some
basis which left the rapist and mur
derer unpunished and free to take all
the 100- of which he could rob your
house?
On the battlefields of Europe our
loved ones are being murdered for
remember Germany’s war is a definite
war of murder and outrage- and ev
ery electric spark that sweeps across
the Atlantic from the trenches in
France will bring an ever-increasing
list of these murdered men who have
gone out to save us from the attack
of the murderer and the rapist.
Our allies, who for nearly four
years, with superb heroism and at a
fearful cost of men and money, have
stood between us and Hell, are calling
to us, “For God's sake, Hurry up,”
ere it be everlastingly too late.
Ifut we talk about peace, v*hen
there is no possible peace except the
peace of death to us or death to Ger
many’s fearful hell-begotten power.
Some men and women do not yet
comprehend the meaning of this war,
some are pro-Germans, some are Ger
man spies, some are cowards who dis
grace the mothers who gave them
birth, and some are simply plain ev
eryday fools who should go out and
root and live with the swine of the
field until the appointed time to be
killed for the good of mankind.
Peace! There can be no peace be
tween Heaven and Hell, between God
and Satan!
Peace with the unrepentant, unhung,
rapists and murderers!
Peace with the vilest criminals v>ho
ever blackened the records of man’s
history!
Peace with the outrager of your
wife and daughter as you look on!
Peace with the cold blooded butch
ers who murder your beloved son and
the sons of millions and millions of
others!
Is there anything on earth so cra
ven, so bereft of soul that it would
claim to be a man and yet be willing
to parley with these accursed murder
ers and worse led by the William,
the accursed.?”
“Is life so dear or peace so sweet”
that we are willing to permit any
word of peace to be uttered until vie
have throttled the demon and fought
him to a finish? And then, when he
cries for mercy, let there be no mercy
except such as he pave to Belgium
and France, no mercy except mercy
to all civilization for all the centuries
to come, expressed through the gal
lows as these foul blots on mankind,
the Kaiser and his associates, pay
the just penalty for their unspeakable
sins.
Then and not until then should we
have one word more to say to Ger
mans or to Germany. Now our su
preme and uty is to fight, fight to kill,
kill until these brutes realize that a
mightier power than theirs has been
sent by God to do lliswork in their
utter destruction.
They are murdering our loved ones,
-very day brings the toll of death and
every day for months and perhaps for
years we must suffer the awful agon
ies which our Allies have endured,
and there is no power to lessen this
toil of our innocent loved ones, ex
cept we kill and keep on killing the
murderers who like vr.ld beasts are
seeking to destroy the world.
This is our task. Let us forget all
else, let.us make sure that no word or
thought of peace shall be uttered in
this land; let us determine to create
the mightiest fighting machine ever
built by man and to drive it with all
the power of one hundred million
freemen who seek to save ourselves
and the world from the destruction
of Hell’s most active workers.
If President Wilson and Secretary
MeAdoo want to make the Liberty
Loan go with a rush, if they want to
quicken with superhuman power the
energies of this country, let them call
the nation to the struggle on this de
finite basis and on the basis of death
to every German spy and life impris
onment to every pro-German and
say that not a word of peace shall be
uttered in America, not a word of
parleying, directly or indirectly, shall
be held with these red-handed mur-j
derers—then the nation will leap for
ward to war and to victory.
THE JACKSON PROC.RESS-ARCUS. JACKSON. GEORGIA, FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 1918
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•*- * sivo against ike German forces!
j the cjovernment wants to |y
tke ffekt. I
{J Uncle Sam wants to send waw
coin to back up the tkousands oi toft
Cf Yon invested in tke first Lkefci
in tke second bond issue. I
Now comes a tkird call for T*l (
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q Don’t be a QUITTER! Vets
• INVEST NOW IN THE
U United States Government BsMt
in the world. You can buy them W
banker now. I
§ Let’s ho OVER THE TOP *
Carmichael Drug & Book Cos.
Paul Nolen & Company
Etheridge, Smith & Company
Jackson Mercantile Company
Jackson Banking Company
Jackson National Bank
Newton Hardware Company
A, A. Howell
McKibben Buggy Company
Carmichael-Mallet Company
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