The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-06-02

And as these were, according to US
tom, the best among the yeomanry, SO
in their homes since then the genera
tons have arisen from the inferior
stock. By the character and fate of
the common man and the opportunity
offered to him, the nations must be
judged. On him the fate of the ma
ton depends, and the waste of No
Vara is a waste which is enduring. 1t
is like cutting the roots of a tree while
it's flowers and fruitage continue. The
roots of today determine the fruitage
or the future. Those nations who have
lost their young men in war have in
so far checked their own DEVELOPMENT.
Not one NoVara could work ruin to
any nation. But no NoVara ever stood
alone. Down the road in Lombardy is
the little town of Magenta. You know
the color we call Magenta, the hue of
the blood that flowed out under the To-
Gust trees in the park, the blood that
stained the river below the hard
fought bridge. Here the French came
up from the west. In due time the
Austrians fled from the bridge to the
park, from the park down the long
street toward Milan, and at last out of
all Lombardy. Here in a c~loister of
the old church of Magenta you will
find the pile of skulls-skulls of brave
men. You can know it by the bullet
holes which the spiders for half a CEN
tury have vainly tried to heal.
You will go down the plains of
Lombardy, eastward to Desenzano, on
the lake of Garda. Near acre is the
field of Solferi, the bloodiest Of all,
where some 10000 killed and wounded
men were left by the cowardly armies
for three days on the field, INTENDED
save by flies and mosquitoes. It was
here that Henri Dunant of Geneva, a
tourist in Verona, organized the work
Of relief which grew at last into the
Red Cross society. Dunant was almost
the first to see a battlefield with mod
ern eyes. To him it was not a field of
glory but a European calamity. He
died at Heiden on Oct. 81, 1910, but
not until he had earned the Nobel
prize, not for his work for peace. but
for doing his part to MAKE war a bit
more human and less horrible.
What now of Germany? She has
had her share of the d%esolation and
the degradation of war. 1t is said
that in the Thirty Years war the
population of Germany was cut down
from 100000 to 100000 people. 1t
is said that not before 1870 was Ger
many able to regain the ground she
held in 1913. 1t is, moreover, claimed
that while Germany is military she
is not Warlike. While there is no ma
ton SO dominated by the professional
soldier with his medieval scorn of
commerce., science and all civilian
things, yet there is virtually not a
man in the German army who ever
saw a battle.
What shall we say of England and
of her place in the history of war?
England has made this a British
world. Her young men have gone TO
all regions where free men can live.
They have built up free institutions
which rest on corporation and com
promise. She has carried the British
peace to all b~arbarous lands and she
has made it possible for civilized men
to trade and pray with sayages. What
does he know of England, who only
England knows?' For the activities
of Englishmen have been greater by
manifold than within the little island
from which E~nglishmen set forth to
inherit the earth.
What has all this cost? 1t could
not be done unless lit was paid for,
and we must not wonder liz such
strenuous effort, such sacrifice of life
and force, has left her with something
like exhaustion.
There's a widow in sleepy Chester
Who mourns for her only son.
There's a grave by the Pabeng river,
"a grave which the Burmans shun.'
IF we would know why Chester lis
sleepy. we have only to turn to her
great cathedral. The long north side
OF her red sandstone walls tells Of