New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1913-10-22
The Inia,ny Of War

War is despicable, infamous, no
glorious. War is organized murde
and pillage. It is barbaric in Origin
and tendency. Whatever advanc'
imam has made in refinement and to
wards decency, has been accomplish
ed in spite of and not At al because
of it.
Wrong cannot be righted by War
War determines only who shall ruiz
and pillage or who shall be ruled anG
pillaged. No other question arises
nor can arise where appeal to arms
is made. Those who take up arms
for defense may be easily out gener.
allied and shot into submissiveness
Only people who are intelligent
enough and brave enough to refuse
to fight remain invincible and un-
conquerable!
War is destructive, never anything
else. In its presence effective indus
trial organization becomes impossi-
BILE. It attracts and kills off the
strongest and most capable, leaving
the weak and incapable to breed and
perpetuate the race. At any rate,
the strongest and most capable are
withdrawn from industrial activity,
transformed into agencies of rapine
and destruction, want satisfying pro-
duction is diminished, perhaps stop
ped, the condition of people made
thereby less comfortable, less hap
|spy, or they are reduced to pinching
privation and misery.
War debauches, degrades and i'm
poverishes both victor and vanquish-
ed. An army for defense will ex-
haust the resources and impoverish
those it defends, an army of inva-
sion cannot do more! An appeal to
arms for purpose of revolution, if
successful, will effect change of rules
only, and fasten upon the people a
lean and hungry set of parasites in
place of the fat ones who have long
fed upon them-it is impossible that
revolution should accomplish more.
War enthrones might as right! 1t
fosters and develops, if it does not
produce, the type of nature which, in
the conqueror becomes the bullying
despot, in the conquered, the cring-
ing slave. 1t exalts lying pretenses,
artful concealments, treacherous de-
ceits. 1t destroys every human at
tribute, brutalizes every impulse, de-
grading noble manhood to the level
Of lupine and vulpine carnivora. Its
educative effect is to glorify whole
sale murder and .pillage, to teach
mankind to look upon honest indus
try with aversion, and treat those
engaged in it with contempt. 1t
stimulates predatory impulses, de-
velops moral and ethical standards
the getting of something
for nothing is approved and COM
mended. 1t becomes needful only
that predatory design and activity
shall be legalized, whereupon people
nay prey upon one another without
init!
War is to the existing State what
he Devil is to Ecclesiasticism. With
Entomology taken from theology, the
PRIESTS vocation is gone. The De-
non of War with which the profess
ional politicians conjure and affrig ht
'eople taken from statecraft, and no
xisting political government could
ndure. Organized and legalized
would remain impossible.
The body polite would not be infest-
d with parasites. Shorn of power
o tax and plumber, Politicians and
'lutocrats would be on an economic
evel with the common herd, reduced
o the horrible alternative of engage
ng in fair and open contest with the
orces of nature instead of preying
lpon fellowmen.
A. w. WRIGHT, Pontiac, Mich.
-
NETCHRORTY HINT