The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-08-23
GERMAN IMPERIALISM
MUST GO, SAYS WELLS
Thorough Reckoning Impcra.
tive for EurOpc's Good.
Writes Novelist.

LONDON, Aug Ell. c. Wells. the
novelist. in an article in War. the new
illustrated weekly. says that now that
war has come 1t Is imperative that IT
should be a thorough reckoning.
What Is the object OF this war;" he
asks. We cannot simply put the Ger
mans back over the Belgian border and
tell them not to do 1t again
We ind ourselves at war with tint
huge military empire with which we have
been doing our best to keep peace since
nist IL rose upon the ruins OF French
imperialism in 1874.
we have now either To destroy or
be destroyed We have not sought this
reckoning. We have done our utmost I'm
avoid 1t. hut now that it has been forced
upon US II is imperative that IL should
be thorough reckoning
rms Is war that touches every man
ana every home in each of the Complaint
countries II is war not of soldiers
Out OF Whoie peoples. IL la a war that
must be fought to such a finish that eyer,.
uhu IA e~h nation engaged understands
what has happened.
Ihere can he no diplomatic settle,
ment. That will leave German i'm
periailsm Tree to explain away it's failure
to its people and start new preparat,ors
We have to 20 on until we are absolu,eIy
done for or until the Germans as "A peonIe
know that they are beaten and are CON
WINGED that they have had enough OF war
we are hghtlng Germany, but we are
hghtng without any hatred of the Ger
man people. We do not intend 10
destroy either their freedom or their
unity.
Consider what the Germans have benn
and what the Germans can be, Here *
race which has for It's chief fault
dnHilifN md hall lac l,,
For the rest II is the most amiable Of
peoples, naturally kindly. comfort loving
child loving, musical. artistic Intelligent
In countless respects the German homes
and towns and countryside are the most
civilized In the world
Led by men of genius. physical and
moral brutality grew In the German
mind and spread throughout the world
wish II were possible to say that the
English and Americans altogether es-
capped It's corruption, but now at last we
shall shake ourselves free from pussian
Imperialism, which will either conquer all
of us or be smashed by oil as thoroughly
az Germany in 1871 smashed the rotten
imperialism of Napoleon III.
This war, therefore aims at n settle
ment that shall stop this sort of thing
forever. Every soldier who fights against
Germany now In "a crusader against war.
This greatest OF all wars IL not Just
another war II Is the last war. for
England. France, Italy, Belgium. Spain
and all little countries OF Europe are
heartily sick of war. The Car has
expressed n passionate hatred OF war
Most OF Asia is unwarike, The United
States has no illusions about war AMI
never was war begun so joylessly and
never was war begun with so grim reso.
luton In EnglarJ. France. Belgium and
Russia
There Is no thought OF glory. We
know we are facing unprecedented slauyn-
ter and ngonies, We know that for
neither side will there be easy ,riumphs
or prancing victories. Already there "a
hldcous butchery and soon there must
come disease, Can II be otherwise? We
face perhaps the most awful winter that
ever faced"