The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1914-10-22

Chief reminded him he was in it already
The upshot was that the election went
as it has gone for quarter of century;
F, F. Phillips, president; Z. S. Adams
vice president; B. F. Knowles. secre
tary; J. W. Skinner, treasurer. AL
present never in attendance before, anc
there We're several, being made honor
ary members, the main feature of the
evening was reached-talk on world
events.
The president was late from Panama,
Uncle Sans big ditch across the 18TH
milan zone. Voyaging into the torrid
zone, passing south of the suns merid-
ian, blue tropic seas, white tropic clouds,
flying fishes, birds of rare pumage,
royal palms, cocoanut palms and others:
a hundred varieties, mix, tumble of
but all peace-loving, with comparatively
word pictures. Marine experiences, a
death at sea, challenge from British
cruiser as to name and flag, German
and Austrian ships all lowering in neu-
trail waters, German travellers, the gen
tlemanly, peace-loving German of com
merce. having to dodge transportation on
| British ships, or be returned as prison
err of war, groups of Germans returning
from South America with the high heads
of the militarists, destined for the
Fatherland to risk their heads for it's
cause in the war-all these passed in re-
view, He showed a plan of the new
capitol of the canal zone, Balboa, and
pictures Of the city. Presently the main
consideration, the causes, lack of justi-
fcation, barbarism, suffering and death
of those in no way responsible for the
titanic struggle in arms now on the stage
in both eastern and western Europe, and
to some extent world round, broke like
thunderbot on the meeting. Gar Paul
in 1900 proposed that the kings, emper-
ors and other heads of the nations then
at war meet on the field of honor and
settle their differences in mortal combat.
That would have passed as the grim
humor of justice, but Gar Paul was ad-
Judged insane and his murder followed.
The Napoleonic wars doomed the masses
to lose, whichever side won. So today
the German weaver, the French wine
grower and the English mill operative
must suffer the hardships of this accurs-
ed appeal to arms on the part of mill
tary hegemony that has been growing
since Prince Bismarck stamped his iron
heel into the neck and thrust his mailed
fist into the face of his national neigh
bors. The Kaiser is making speeches
to his soldiers on the text of "the inev-
liable victory of German culture" Good
enough. But since when did culture win
victory by shooting its argument
through the hearts OF people? Since
when was culture dressed in armor, wav-
ing bloody hands in the blanched face of
strate culture by smashing down the
running churches, destroying art, uproot-
ing families and condemning a nation to
bankruptcy and despair? Culture! May
German culture really triumph over che
brutality of a government essentially
foreign to German nature. May the
victory of German culture come soon,
and redeem the great and splendid Ger
man nation from the morass of horror
into which fraudulent and vicious sys-
tenn of government has led it. There is
an inevitable victory of German cult
ure" coming, to be sure; but when it
comes the K aiser will not share in it. -
The president named three underlying
causes of the present monstrOuS war:
Race hatred, political hatred. religious
hatred. America has learned in a mod
crate degree the lesson of federation on
these three lines, but Europe has not.
Will this terrible experience teach her,
so that ornaments will be relegated to
the scrap heaps and the museums and
the sweet reasonableness of the teach
ing of Jesus Christ in the sermon on the
Mount shall find exemplifcation in a
worldwide reign of peace, federation
of nations, policing of the world pro
rata to national units. high court of
arbitration, giving the mailed fist, the
rule of might no place, because Of the
sway of right.
The president pointed out to the Ban
neret the battle ground of the allies left
and the German right in northern France
in the mighty attempt of a turning
movement on both sides, as ground late
| ly passed over by the Banneret and him.
self passing from Brussels to Paris. He
exhibited a picture of the royal palace
in Brussels, which the Germans attempt
ed to destroy, dropping 40 bombs in the
night, wrecking as many buildings, kill
ing two peaceful residents, man and
wife, whose son had the day before nbee
killed defending the little Kingdom of
Belgium. supposed to be immune to in
vasion by the solemn guarantees of a
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GUMS hero king was uninjured. The
president further depicted many phases
Of this awful European crisis. the array
of religious sects against their own, the
shoulder to shoulder lineup of those of
at least three great religions of the
world in common cause, the significant
fact that the flags of all of the allied ma
tions bore but the loving colors, red,
white and blue, Russia's only white and
blue, while the German flag alone bore
red, white and black, the black bar and
the black eagle of Prussia. He Gale j
to witness that the military cast of Prus-
STA, by disregard of treaties, by sowing
the seas of peaceful commerce with
mines, by exacting tribute from cities,
by executing innocent hostages, by drop
ping bombs on detenceless cities and
non combatsnts, by destroying the
priceless treasures of art. in its mad
frenzy for the sway of might, is defying
and shocking the moral judgment of the
world, which, as in the case of the Jew
ish sect of the Pharisees, will mete out
to it terrible retribution, all of the mil.
itary experts of neutral nations seeming
to concur in the belief that sooner or later
German and Austrian resources must be
exhausted in the presence of superior
opposing forces. He thought that Great
Britain is in the fray the cleanest hand
ed of all, being called there by the viola.
ton of the neutrality treaty of her neigh