The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-05-25
THE CASE AGAINST WAR.

In ;ho Vanguard. b Katrina Trask The Nae.
milan Company. Publishers New York.
The case against war Is so conclusive
mat the only problem Is how Il can be
presented most effectively TO the thought
iess and the conservative. Norman An
gel; IN his Great Illusion" showed mos,
an an argument which one would have
thought certain TO convince this sord!d
generation, but the publication OF this
| book has been followed by three awful
| wars, and the present diabolical sugges-
| ton OF a fourth.
Mrs, Trask has attempted TO win con-
Vicuon IN quite a different way. and we
are inclined TO think that her play. "In
me vanguard, may accomplish more
than Mr. Angels impressive work
In the Vanguard" is rcmarka BILE In
sermon without Violating the canons of
| art 1t treats OF the most hideous sur
ylval or 5arbarism with grace and gen
tieness. 1t makes a most valuable con-
tribution to ethics without being senti-
mental by translating the heroic brute
courage of the past into the ennoblng
moral courage possible today. .
| A nation Is engaged in war In defense
OF It's national honor Its men enlist.
and It's women, even more patriotic than
( us men, desplse any who show signs Of
| coWarolce: The conventional clergyman
accepts the popular opinion end forgets
| that his Master said that the peacemak-
ers and not the war makers are the
blessed. Only one man keeps his head.
social service. and knows that obedi-
ence TO that call demands greater cour-
age. and offers harder fight. and prom
ises nobler victory, than the call to
arms. He denies that there is any logic
In behaving abominabiy ourselves to
punish other nations for behaving abom-
Ina bly, TO some one else" How the hero
IS brought TO his senses and transformed
from a military hero into a moral hero.
and how the eyes OF the girl are opened
to love him all the more. the play ex
plains.
Even telling arguments against war
are expressed In the stage directions: "a
room that was once cxquisitely dainty is
bacco smoke, Delicate feminine articles
lie solled or broken on the floor. A SOL
dler Is lounging In plush chair, his
have fallen several pieces OF bric..a-
brac He has In his hands a dainty lit
tie fan, with one end OF which he is
stufhng tobacco into his pipe Four 9th
er soldiers are playing cards at the table.
Philip In uniform sits at an open plano
and drums upon the keys"
Surely that is as dreadful a picture In
all that 1t suggests to the Imagination
as Victor Hugos Waterloo
Every one who is interested In the
Peace Movement should read "In the
read IT. F. S, SPALDING
Note by the Editor.-But In all this
the absolute necessity for a nation 10 be
able and prepared TO resist aggression,
must not he forgotten II that nation
would preserve It's existence as such.
The awful warning Of helplessness, the
humiiating lessons Of aggression against
the defenseless, and the eNactIons i'm
posed upon nations and peoples who are
at the mercy OF the pugnacious. give
stern warning that only those countries
that are fully able TO protect themselves,
may live. AS in evolution II is the flttest
that survive, so among nations those
able to resist assault and meet aggres-
sion with fighting power. are the ones
that survive and advance civilization and
righteousness upon the earth,