Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-08-19
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HOW WAR HURTS THE WORLD.
Killing of Heroes Leaves Cowards and
Weaklinus.

In the hell of war men learn to be
brave. From this fact it is argued
that war breeds physical and mental
courage, and that universal peace
would result in a race of unmanly
men.
But science tells us that the war
like nation OF today is the decadent
nation of tomorrow: that war does not
breed a rae" oF .eroes, but race
of towards and weaklings. 1t does
this by slaughtering the bravest of
the picked young men and leaving
the inferior individuals at home to
propagate the race.
This is a self-evident fact. No evil
dence is needed to prove it to be
true.
In the light of this conclusion, Milo
| Hastings, writing in the New York
American points out what disheart-
ening picture is the memory of all the
| hero worship and martial glory of
the past; what a loss, not alone to
those whose lives were wasted by a
blight of war, but to those of us who
| live here now in a world descended
! from the few survivors and the many
towards which the wars of Europe
left to beget her children.
We no longer believe in the inher-
itance of titles and privileges: nor do
we believe that superior mortality and
TlnS.
of society, but science has established
beyond bubble the fact that strong
and vigorous ancestry means strong
and vigorous offspring. and that from
] the weak and criminal comes Off
spring of like weakness
4 thousand reasons have been put
forth to explain the fall OF Rome,
but the fact that her strong young
ed leaving their sweethearts and wives
at home to live childless or to mate
with less courageous men and bear
inferior children, is reason enough.
| France. led by the fanatical egotism
| of Napoleon. spilled her best blood
upon the soil of Europe, and as a
result the French today are slight of
stature and inferior in physique.
The military world of few years
ago marveled because Japan, after
centuries of peace, suddenly lOOmcd
/ forth with n national character that
was the incarnation of all military
| virtues. yet the farmer who has bred
| his flock from the best finds no cause
! To be surprised should Il sudden test
prove his breed superior To the flock
which for generations has been sup
plying the Strengthening pen with its
SlcekrSt and best.
| No owner of stud horse or Il
flock of fowl would line all his best
1yOung males up to be crippled. dis
leased and slaughtered. The h0rS"
breeder races his stcedS and tn" pigeon
| fancier flies his birds to improve their
mpttlc by training. but he breeds from
the winners.
| The experience of the battlefield
may develop courage in the individ-
Iual soldier. but many would question
whether this is sufficient rcCnmp"nSc
for the i'll effects of fever infested
swamps. hardtack and cmbamcd beef,
taints of the diseases and immortality
Of camp life.
! But supposing that every soldier
who returns from war is improved by
the experience. the race is still the
loser. Acquired bravery is not in
hcrited. but only that which is in tn"
blood. The race improves by sclcc-
ton. and war selects the inferior To
survive.
! War may leave us heroes and proud
sons and daughters of our revolutions,
but what of the sons and daughters
] that might have ben descended
| from the bravcst of the brave VINO
| fell i'm battle or rOtted in camp with
! disease?