The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1895-10-25
IS 1T TO BE WARP

A Kansas Man Declares Him<-If for War
to Keep tho Piu"., Tered People Quiet
The old greenbackers used to say the
money power would beat the reform
movement if it had to bring on a war
with some foreign nation to divert the
attention of the people.-Missouri
World.
In connection with the above. read
the following Topeka, Kan, special of
October 2:
Hon. Eugene F. Ware delivered an
address to the high school of Topeka
to-day in which he advanced some un-
usual thoughts
1.-The occasion was the raising of a
flag over the high school building, and
Mr.. Ware opened his address with the
remark that it was the flag of the only
genuine republic the world ever saw.
Then, after a tribute to the stars and
stripes which fairly quivered with pat
riotism, the speaker said: The United
states never lost a dollar by war. We
gained our independence at home in one
war; in another war we gained our indie
pendence at sea; in another we acquired
the wilderness of California which it
was our destiny to fill. and we acquired
the EN- pire of the Pacific; we eliminated
slavery with another, and with each
war we got renewed patriotism and
after each the old flag represented
wider territory, nobler dream or a
greater destiny. l am one who be-
lieves in war as an educator. as part
of our common school system. We
should have war every generation so
as to make the people patriotic. 1t is
as necessary to teach the people patriot
ism as anything else. All education
costs money; patriotism costs money;
the flag costs money, but they are all
worth the money they cost. The late
civil war in its education and benefits
was worth twice what it cost. In ma
tions where war is too long delayed
the people forget; patriotism becomes
Renaissance, and the atmosphere
becomes superheated with avarice. Peo-
pie stop thinking of glory and patriot
ism and the honor of their country,
and its destiny, and go to thinking
solely for money, and everybody is
measured by his capacity to make it.
1t becomes to be recognized as the
qualification for honor, and greed seats
itself on throne and wants everybody
to work for it for nothing. But when
war comes greed is dethroned, and the
man who can do the most for his coun-
try comes to the front Sooner or
later the United States will have an
other war. 1 hope we will have it
soon. We need it; there is occasion
this very day for war, and we ought
to open it. In times of peace socialism
and anarchy assail the flag; in times
of war they don't. Socialism is simply
organized Incidence; anarchy is only
disappointed avarice.'"
Mr.. Ware did not explain to his hear.
ers where he believed the next war
would come from, unless his allusion
to socialism and anarchy be taken as a
guide. And it is unfortunate that Mr..
Ware did not explain who he meant
when he spoke of socialism and an
archy. Did he mean the masses of the
people who are writhing under the
yoke of capitalistic exploiters? Or did
he mean the anarchy of wealth, which
defes our laws, despises our rights and
corrupts our courts, and the socialism
of capital, which conn ines in trusts to
rob and spoliate the people? Who
knows?