New Ulm review., 1913-11-12
WARS FOLLY AND FU'TlLIIY
A. WRIGHT
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i WARS FOLLY AND An FUIILIIY
For thousands Of years the wise of the world have
ignored Agriculture engaged but little in industrial actv-
y devoted thought and to Conquest ana tne
ing Empires The hope of gaining military leadership wltn
it's fame the desire dominion with its and pageany
led men Of greatest capacity best to
themselves purposes and ends which degraded and
impoverished mankind instead Of enghtenng and enflchng
them.
the first to be learned and being developed For
soil prepared for seed with wooden ows drawn
by oxen often by the puny strength Of human hands
sticks tied with thes or thongs cut from unanned
Of sickle by hand Each buse of grain
hours Of fatgung hand work. Famines frequent sepa
a~s 1 e tsw 1n %
millions of people perished mseraby for lack Of food At the
most elaborate having military establishments consisting
OF great armies and naes The best strength Of the nation
countries DESTROYING ali other peoples for the upbuiidng and
glory Empe! The ler the soil was rother to the OK
sderaton.
Out Of and conquest has grown perversion of
thing nothing It is an invading host to seize upon the
Of the invaded thus sustain ITSELF and in the event
conquerng thereafter taxation
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its effect those whose hands the is noted
the with which agriculture has reached the crude
and results while farming farmers and results
In peaceful agriculture there is neither fame nor glory
great name endrney engraved on memorial tablet Of bronze
stone oHr1 is n not to be dug from the earth like busee Of wheat
great armies engage in carnage murderous desru
eo ed seas bSn M blood Men who % employ wit and
soil and thus despoi him, look his vocation with
thu s
turned of superior intelligence from agriculture and
miitancy as an organized profession possible.
without exception the heads of national agencies reinforced and
war That primitive peoples with little Intellectual
development low ethical and moral Standards devoted to rude
boring tribes in accord with their But
clearly incompatible with what might be reasonably expected
to pursuits in harmony With ethical and moral requirements
Of civilization having basis in religion Of love and belief
ons protesting Christians be accepted sheer
defamation and pretense
The records of the past present proof in abundance show
ing the utility OF war; but politicians and priests
s to sv s 9d sd e
lessons from facts The few who hold property and live
load kept busy sustaining mtancy getting
stiles for existence that they have time for inquiry
of the earth subject to conditions Of war; filled With
that Justice depends physical force and the
efficacy effectiveness obtainnent sought
passive resistance
aggression nothing itself to the spirit
whereby woudbe rulers Of mankind animated And yet
the few known instances where because of happy accident
intelligent design passive resistance has been made the
for obament of desired ends and has been resee
adhered it has failed of successful issue.
About the middle Of the 18th century few nonesistant
uakers less than twenty of whom active in offending
eed the power and authority Of Massachusetts,
They pursued arrested and prosecuted for time but Gov
Encott finally forced to admit the futty of it ALL
and to allow the onesstants with their work
hold their meetings unmolesed It true few made to
undergo grevous suengs They arrested tried and i'm
prsoned. In extreme had cut off, tongues
pierced with red hot ron cheeks branded and
hanged But the Quakers had elected meet force
with force? Their defeat would not only have proved certain