The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1914-12-04
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three years had its source In the feck-
lesshess o7 Europe. Our congress and
or president had no part whatsoever
In creating Il. It Is part OF the I'm
certainty Of, all, business, In the faco
OF tho crimes and the horrors which
have actually come.
Security Is Essential to Prosperity. 4
what the farmer wants. what every
good Citizen most wants, Is security.
The armed peace the truce AMONG
aif-banlrnpt nations armed TO the
teeth, Is not peace. 1t is not security.
As security. armies and navies have
proved the ghastliest and costlfest
failures In history
The Balance OF Power, another
form of the same Great Illusion, now
breaking up In measureless disaster,
has failed over ard over before. Each
trial and each failure is more terribis
ruinous. y sSsis;.s =,
The war system. ths system of sab
er rattlers. war traders, war scares,
war robberies, and war corruption,
has risen through our neglect. The
people who pay for 1t must learn to
put It aside. and they will.
The war system smust go. No re-
form is secure while this system lasts.
We must find some system OF national
defense less hideousiy dangerous to
the interest It prstends to protect.
-. Law, is for the weak; force is for
the strong: law Is o makeshiYt; war
is a reality" This dictum OF the
group or men called n-Germanists
is the doctrine of all war. The incl
dent OF Zabern. the military murders
OF men who dare to speak, the seiz-
ure OF Belgium. slap onr law IN the
face.
All Europe is today under martial
law. Martial law Is the law of war.
1t is the paralysis Sof all civil law. In
war al laws are silent. Thus barbar-
ism takes its revenge 1t will take
IL over and over again so long as civ
iiization rests its defense on barbar-
ism. Even "holy war" IL such an
anomaly ever existed, could be car
ricd on only by methods most unholy.
Those who, rule by force and fear
have their fits OF madness when their
power Eegihs to wane. Dread OF the
loss OF power lis the niainspring OF the
bloodiest follies In history. This war
is the more wicked because It Is I'M
fair. Our cannon are as fatal to our
friends as to our enemies. For our
friends are. mt all iii one camp, nor
our enemies In another. Courage,
virtue. end patriotism are not the gifts
OF any one race. All the people OF Eu-
rope and American really belong to
one Tace--the race OF men.
There can be no abiiing civilization
without security OF property and life.
There can be no abiding peace save In
democracy. There can be no security
In democracy while absolutism .is 4fts
neighbor. Absolutism linda its main
interest In some form CT robbery Of
the people It hoids m Its, chains /Ru-
rope has no room for both. Tnis, at-
solutism we'll knows. This, democra-
cy must realize.
If the peace which shall some time
follow leaves any OF the, people of Eu-
rope helpiesE In their own affairs, It
VIII be only a temporary truce. The
same abuses will bring the same muir
derous and undiscriminating remedy.
Thus 1t Is that history, repeats It
sell. !" for In this un:emembering world
history is made only. to be immed-
iatelyt forgotten"
Here,ia the work for the statesman.
It is his part to see that history does
not repeat itself, that the old biund-
ers and crimes shall not blast the fu-
ture. Ana never had Europe more
need Of statesman than today.
War is q mere wreekage, with no
power for good in itself. It destroys
far more OF good than evil. "War Gre
ates more sccundrels than IL kills."
MtataYism is again in the saddle.
The blood OF the nations IL ebblng.
Defeat means the evil ferment OF ram
cor, the abiding spirit of revenge. VIC
tory means yainglory. the growth OF
ism. Victory and defeat of forty, years
EaSo have been the largest factor In
tho rule OF the war system OF today.
The nightmare OF Europe that rose
from gratelotte and Sedan oversprea6
AL the nations. whichever side may
win In the flaming Ardennes win iind
within ITSELF d foe more willy and more
dangerous than any encountered on
the battlefield, Ie Germany Is TO be
Hredeenief she must save herself. Not
all Che bataliions OF Europe can ctfe
her of the war poison. The other IN.
'fecfed nationa, Great Britain, France.
RnpsfR and the rest must likewise
sWorE out their own salvation.
The hour for meditation must come
sooner or s1ater. The earnest men OF
Europe look 20 tkss United Etates for
tho final decisive ection, Ours is the
only great nation not sinking In the
Equicltsands. Afnerica alone can reach
out the hand OF extrication. the final
Okeip. ~ says ZonGan phhIicist IL
the mighty duty OF Anne. lea Il IS the
EEfea eat oppo portunity TO be had IL his