Arizona republican., 1914-11-08
WHAT OF THE GREAT WAR
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IfOnUer EXTENDED 10 the Baltic. Il
man West Africa will either be given
to Belgium as a partial compensation
for her losses of taken over by Eng
land. German East Africa, with
land or France. Germany will lose
all she has gained in territory on
the continent of Europe and all thai
she has added to her possessions
abroad during the last fifty years
Austria will be diSmembered Ga
licia, if the ear shall keep his prom
Use and create the new kingdom of
Poland, will be added to it, The rest
of the Slav population, including Bos-
mia and Herzegovina, will either be
created into a new nation or be given
to SerVia and Montenegro. The
Turkish empire will also probably be
dismembered, The major portion of
1t, including Constantinople. will fail
to Russia. Egypt will probably be-
come permanently a part of the Brit
ish empire
What the indemnity may be can
only be conjectured If Germany
vast as to make the five billion
francs paid by France to Germany
in 1871 appear insignificant. If Ger
many wins, her dream of Pan-Ger-
manism will come true and western
Europe and practically all of Europe
and much of Asia will come under
her influence. Great Britain will lose
prestige as mistress of the seas and
tie great empire she has built up
will begin ito disintegrate France
Will cease to be a great world power.
Russia must recoil upon herself and
await the time when she may engage
in another death grapple with Gar
MANY for the control of the Balkans
and Constantinople and an outlet to
the west. Turkey, the sick man Of
Europe, will be given a new lease of
life under German control and influ-
ence What will happen in the
ORIENT no one can say. If the allies
win, it may stimulate Japan to new
conquests on the continent of Asia
On the other hand, if Germany shall
win, China may fall within her
/ sphere of influence and the ambitions
OF Japan may be crushed for a gen
Grafton
If the allies win, England may
have no fears of India for many
years to come If they lose, any
thing may happen.
Whether the causes that brough.
on this war We're trivial and inconse-
| quential or vital and far reaching,
| the issues are now so tremendous
and the stakes now so important, we
| may not wonder that both sides ara
| expanding every ounce of energy they
| possess in order to win, and we MAY
| expect them to hold on with grim
| determination so long as there is any
| nope of winning. We hear a great
| deal said to the effect that the Euro
| pean war is a breakdown of civili-
| Zatlon. In sense that may be true
| but II is probably only half true. Civ
! ilization is not yet a completed pro-
duct. Humanity is still in the max .
! ing. 1t may be that civilization mas
advanced faster than the race and,
| therefore, is in danger of crystaliiZ-
ing before humanity grows up to it.
| Perhaps, in the grand scheme of
! things, certain nations have adj
vanced so far beyond others that the
balance of nations, as it were, has
| been upset and justice to the less IA
Nored peoples calls for readjust-
ment which war alone may bring
| Perhaps. under the softening and en-
ervating influences Of civilization.
certain heroic qualities were beng
lost to the race which war tends t.
develop and strengthen, such as
courage, endurance, capacity for self
sacrifice for the common good. Per
haps, after all, it is not civilization
that is breaking down. but those
things which tend to retard race de.
velopment and which make for de-
! generation, both national and indi-
| vidual. | think most of us are so
apt to view the thing as altogether
evil, as appearing to be merely de-
structive. We note the horrors of
war, the lives that are lost or made
Helpless by wounds the suffering
which it entails, the waste of wealth
and the poverty that ensues. to the
|
impossible to imagine anything good
springing from such a seeming race
calamity, but, after all, that is mar
row view to take Of it. If history
teaches us anything, it makes claar
to US that good results may not be
immediate, but. nevertheless. they
are certain. From contemporary
standpoint the French revolution was
altogether evil. yet | think the con
sensus of modern opinion is that
modern Europe owes much to that
seeming tragedy. The Napoleonie
wars destructive as they We're, re-
J suited in the spread of liberalism
and marked the beginning of demo-
cratic government in Europe. To
doubt that any good may come ont
of this conflict is to doubt any SUI
pernatural supervision and contro
! over the affairs of men, Civilization
| is not going to be destroyed The
recuperative powers of the peoples
engaged in the war will remain ans
perhaps only be stimulated by il
Our fears of -Germanism or Pan
Siavism are probably chimerical L
She pre- eminence of Anglo SaxoI
civilization is giving way to German
culture which certain German apol
ogists have asserted to be at stake
or if Pan Slavism is to prevail, i
will be by reason of the survival O
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