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4 Of no pro1 to cay that this ruler
o. that people brspght on the war
n their vieksdnsss, though that is
Just what ths warning nations and
tAsir friends In America are trying
- Do. President Wilson has rebuked
tAsn, because, in The light Of his
knowlsdgs, be l. certain that il is
couparativsly trivial whether or not
English troops use dumdum bullets,
Germans kill wounded, or Russians
torture prisoners. He IL anxious to
keep the composite population Of
America from barking back to the
old world race hatreds age long
aversion Of Teuton for Slav on one
side and Latin and Teuton on the
other.
President Wilson is q learned man,
and is not judging the present situa-
ton in Europe by the declaration Of
non responsibility by the car, or
apology by the kaiser, or by any 9TH
er appearance which fails to plumb
with the cold, hard facts Of reason
and history. He knows what is at
the bottom Of the war Of nations,
because he is familiar with the insti-
tutions, society, and races Of Europe.
America, being severed from the old
customs, grudses, and intrigues,
he would keep il so.
Speaking broadly the first cause
of war is the expansion Of races. We
know this to be true, because our
histories are chronicles largely Of
conflicts waged on this or that pre-
text. but always to provide for the
expansion of a race at the expense Of
another or other races. The move
ment is as natural as the explosion
which follows the expansion of steam
under pressure. II is fully justifia6le.
and. for that reason, il is folly to
look for the cause Of the present EN-
brcglio in the realm of pathology.
II is true that war destroy
ed the learning gathered with
painful labor, but the ancient
nations decayed because within
themselves was the seed Of the
rot-slavery, unfair taxation. and
despotism. Its destruction was
to purge the world as it has been
purged many times since in the blood
of fighting men. Rome passed away
because Of her own inherent weak
nesses quite as much as because the
German tribes broke down the de-
lenses Of the imperial legions. The
savage hords which overran the en-
pire in the fifth century were the
material from which newer and
better civilization should be con-
structed; the Slav tribes which began
to press on the German kingdoms in
the days Of Charlemagne were TO
prove the buffer which preserved the
civilization of Europe from the men,
ace Of Monaghan hordes, down TO the
eighteenth century. and it is this race
which is retaining Southeastern Eu-
rope from the now palsied hand Of
the Turk.
With democratic institutions. the
Teuton and the Slav might have lived
in peace. since both are alike in re-
|igion. customs, and enlightened
deals.
The Slavs are by far the most nu-
merous Of European peoples and in
habit as much territory under their
own government as all the other ma
lions together. besides the millions
under Germanie or Turkish dominion.
All efforts to unite the Slavs in one
great nation have, however, failed
and it is this fact which points d.