New Ulm review., 1913-12-17
WARS FOLLY AND FUTILITY
4 n.y. W.. S.sH
BY A. w. WRIGHT

Perhaps all of the that have been fought during
the past fifty would have been avered but in the light
presented BY souh achievement people everywhere would
have received intellectual and moral Illumination sufficient to
ambitions purposes alleged statesmen direction
Of who ae for the Lord and cmor
for war!
The institution Of African slavery would have for
time but + not @ long IT. % nj err had a
The development Of ethical and moral has de-
accept and adopt rules Of honesty dealing With
another until it became apparent that Honesty the
chattels slavery It viewed moral wrong until
economic became too to be longer
table the South had gained it's independence slavery could
not have been perpqaed The sentiment Of the world
however without violence without bitterness of feeling affect
ing anybody Master slave would been made to suffer
the fears error hardshps prvation involved in sudden
Termination as exgency OF war There would have been
In blood and suffering expiation for the sin of slavery
the people OF the whole country have been made to
ed at price involving actual enslavement Of aboh white
and biaeo the and upkeeR Of big military
voted to conquest and territorial aggrandizement.
The North American continent would have been divided into
the difference effect upon industrial activities the welfare
and xebeng Of the people because Of that would have been
heal The people North and South would not have been affect
ss a the pesss det If
years Of dreadful war; and the miserable years Of Of
an an
ormty to requirements of identity Of interest would have be-
mutual and reciprocal
The evils which grew out of the Civil War numeros
and in effect onstrous their cruelty and injustice and
them still persist with increased force and maevoence
Whatever the form nominal character of government
is engaged n everything must be made subordinate to
wars purpose and the government becomes resolved into
military despotsm after the beginning of the Civil
War; places throughout the North citizens
dsoyaly seized with considerable frequency
and without examination trial. turned to the military
and imprisoned in foresses By those authority the
gencies of made the and justification for acts
whereby all the traditions and former policies of
verted and complete political revolution effected From its
beginning and up the time of the Civil War it held that
the general of the United States of dele
gated owers that its sphere and limited to and with
the delegated While those unhappy the
claim and practice has been that and all power not
ressy inhibited by the Constitution may and shall be exer
;sed.
AS measure affected by influences which worked
nuly the Constitution, the Congress moved to
Itself with legislation whereby banking SYSTEM born OF long
of costly experience which rapidly growing into
ons Of soundness and splendid efficiency arbitrarily
destroyed and the mperecy devised National Banking
set in its place If there had been no Civil
prevalence of abnorna high interest during
period of than fifty years. and all the erors and fright
that have it's people because OF four
disastrous panics Conditions bordering financial disturbance
md panic have been manifested at time during almost
for than forty and there have been
ancs during which distress remained acute for more than five
ears The of 73 beginning with the failure of Jay Cooke
Company the other of 93 beginning with the failure of Bar
ng Bros. of London in 1890
To becon