The Washington herald., 1914-08-17
Barbarian.
By EMORT ). HAYNES.

Who had the power, for the moment to take the
enlightened world by the throats For we are taken
by the throat and strangng, tiff we can get these
fellows clutches of our windpipe Is civilization
then, a mere sham1 We were attempting "uplift"
work. employing ourselves in polishing and varnish-
ing the world The poor were being cared for, the
laborer insured, the ignorant schooled and poetry
and song were being distributed. Worship and spir-
itual culture being inculcated. When 10, in a
single week, the entire structure of human society
the very underpnning and brains of the house, tu-
bic down by few Samsons hands. There are mo
words to describe this. Except that still
clothed are ike the savage tribes in the heart OF
Africa.
Who did it? For we shall do some thinking to
find out The system of governments that could be
ruined by few has seen its end We will
rebuild government so that the catastrophe cannot
occur again. 1t is time to be done with the Emperor
the Gar even "the cabinet" that can bungle the
wires and set the world on fire. The people of the
civilized world do not want to kill each other. The
people must resume the power they have somehow
let slip from their control.
1t will require that each individual begin to govern
himself. As in time of food, each man needs to
calm himself control his fears nationally, if he
Europe and America, must master himself He must
refuse to snatch up rebrands and scatter the ruin
He must sedately look his resources and try to
run that little item of civilization that he himself is
As big part of the usual machinery of the gov
ernment has crumbled he must the governor over
himself. He refuse throw his cap in the air
every hurrah 1t is nconceivable almost yet there
we actually are in barbaric chaos. We cannot even
pay letter of credit to a Traveller in Paris
which agreed to pay on sight when she deposited
$4,000 with We, company of gentlemen, are
powerless to keep her from starving by repayng of
her money, even SIoo worth. And in PariSl Cap
al of the polite world. 1t is time stop and think
and keep cool. There must be way out But, most
of all this sort of melting away of decency must not
be allowed to occur again.
We will remove the war lord, the Emperor, the
legislature that cannot legislate We will take away
their explosives, the banded armies, the prepared
ness" for destroying whole continent in day. This
world shall not be mob, with arms In a small
way we disam city mob. But what is Europe today
but a mob with arms?
1t is time We ceased our blasphemy, referring 20
the God and Father of US all as setting on like
snarIing dogs. What does religion say? Where is
the calming voice of a rational faith?
Is the moral creative of the thousand years of no
hoIung power, mat SO many HllonS Can only agree
to destroy one another? Shall China shame US? Shall
the heather" of vast India stand open-eyed with
wonder that we pull down our temples about our own
ears? The disgrace of it. the unspeakable dshonor.
Let this republic be grateful for its present peace
No one man can set US to the savage employment
of war. What measureIess gratitude should move us
that not, this very moment sustaining a vast
invading army daily fighting in Mexico.
In the family of nations the youngest of the group
becomes, doubt, the protector of them all For
provide these quarreIing brothers both bread
and gold. How silly today the sneers of foreign
courts at Ben Franklin at Paris and John Adams
at St. Petersburg, ambassadors Nor has Eng
land herself refrained from ridicule of Uncle Sam.
This day of fatefuI crisis to human civilization
the youthful giant of the Western world the one
solitary bulwark against the utter lapse of mans
earthly estate back into barbarism.