Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-29

Mind you, / am merely surmising, now,
You might be just as bad!
Not Civilized at All.
A this talk about Dreadnoughts, is 1t
a symptom of civilization? Far from 1t.
1t is a symptom of childishness. We are
not civilized at all. We won't be. in your
time or in mine. We won't see the great
trend toward the broader outlook. We
won't feel the keener sense of brother
hood which must come when people are
brave enough to look facts in the face, to
realize that it makes no difference under
VIA part of the sky a man is born, that
he is brother to all other men of what
ever race or kin
I'VE are children in looking at only the
one side Of war. We see the pennants
flying and the music of the bands, and
we are interested in applying the very
latest discoveries of science to the need
of killing as quickly and in as large mum
bers as possible. War TO us means the
spectacular. We are of the Middle Ages
still.
But we don't think that drunkenness
Is spectacular. We think 1t is revolthlg
and brutal and disgusting. War is all
that. 1t is merely drunkenness on a large
scale. It is brutality en- masse. Until we
have a national conscience which we GER
tainly haven't got now, we will continue
to wage war.
II think you have nearly acquired one,
but II would not surprise me at all if you
some day faced a frightful war between
the blacks and the whites. My reading
Of your national life, Of which l nave had
no experience personally, leads me to tina
conclusion. Your war of the future, u
you have one, / assume win be along that
line just as ours will be of a socialist
nature, from within, not from without
We will not have a war with Germany Of
any other country that will amount L
anything, for it will not fit into the schem'
of European politics that England should
become the province Of another nation
particularly a German province, even as
Stunning that we could be defeated.
suFfraEettes "A
Il know my views are not popular OF
this subject any more than they are OF
that OF woman suffrage which l will no
go into detail about for fear OF the let
ters l might receive. and have to read.
will only say this, that consider the wo
man suffrage question and all that II ina
plies as merely a symptom OF a revolt tina
has been going on for fifty. seventy,
hundred years, and a revolt against ma
turo is ono that viii be punished by
force, slow, persistent, unforgetting AM
terribly just,
1t is a greater question than any W,
2 have mentioned, because IL Is a war o
sex, a war Of fundamentals, more i'm
lportant, more disastrous than a mer
battle between opposing nations to ad
Just temporary conditions External dis
eases are not so frightful as those tina
attack the delicate internal organizations
Il have never been in America and
do not know that / shall ever go. /
seems 10 me that il would be a terribl
upsettihg journey and / hate TO be upse.
1 know that ! should loRthe New Yor
Just as l loathe London, which hate $
much that / always write here. becaus
, there Is nothing 10 distract me. In IN
p place In the country near Salisbury. wh!c
/ love, there is so much 10 do ana s
many interesting things TO see and the M
e is 50 adorable that / have not strengt
e Of mind sufficient 10 cut IL all out an
n tie myself to the desk"
/ Theirs is q little pause, which Mr.. Hewle