Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1911-10-26

smelling works and rolling mills.
where other men wear cut their lives
in heat that is well-nigh intolerable,
in order to make cannon and bullets
with which other men, son Of fond
parents, and against whom they have
no personal enmity, can be shot down.
The nations are picking out their very
best and ablest men and trainingthem
at large expense: and for wbat2 In
order that they may direcr these arm
les and navies in the work of shooting
down other men.
Again, the nations are spending un-
told millions in paying these men that
dig in the minef and work in the roll
ing mills. in the great factories and
%shipyards, and collecting the money
from those least able to pay it, the
laboring men and women, piling up
great national debts which they never
expect to pay, but upon which inter-
est must be paid by both capital and
labor for all time to come. Was there
ever idioCy more supreme and absurd
than this?
But this is not all: The aaticn is
Impoverished 10y paying pensions to
the manned whose lives have been
rendered useless by this horrid butch
cry of war, and pensions to widows
and orphans, until the nations are
staggering under this accumulated
burden oAwar.
And that is not all: Nations are
standing always on the alert, and sus-
picious lest some other nation should
get the advantage hv sacrificing more
men and more money, until today We
stand on the very verge of a volcano.
Any fool subordinate who might in
suit the flag of another nation could
bring about a war which would even
t tually become worldwide and set back
t civilization a hundred years.
What,a set.of bioumin' idiots the
/; human race must appear to a mar
e looking at this from the standpoint o
a c~ool-headed, scientific observer. w,
sometimes wonder at the patience anC
4 long-suffering OF the Father OF us all
and wonder. why He does not brin!
the business of this world 10 an un
timely end.
e Why cannot nations see that thu
time has gone by when war really &C
complishcs its purposes? Suppos'
n the German feet could ard did eros
n over to England in the night, blow u
It st. Paul's, Westminster and the Par
lament House, and loot the Bank c
England Whist woald nc the bencf
to them? The very victory woul
,r bring about a financial collapse tina
would make the earth trembie. fo
could not make Germans out of tres
T. Englishmcn; you could not wipe on
% the whole nation; you could not brln
:: them under a foreign government.
War seems to US to be a piece {
,e s,upendous folly and stupidity.
r our. children were guilty OF such foo
III ishncss we would spa'& them an
S, send them supperless - bed. There
tn fore. we welcome the day when Ii
~ living machines will sink n or nor
pc Dreadnoughts, blow up the Iortiii2a
ar tons of the best fortified city, and q:
n terminate an ARMY. 1t will requir
e, something IKE this to bring the staee
in men TO their senses and make thcu
he realize. that the only victories thai Al
lie worth while are the victories OF RICH
eousnes, ever wraag, the victor
he that a,e rendered possible through II
es teachings of the Mar Of Gall'le'
,rt whose teachings after all offer Il
MS only solution for the troubles ind
of vidual. social, civil, national or 'n;e
in natiopal-wi,h which the race