The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1914-08-29

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Russia calls a million sixteenth
century peasant from the fields and
Germany niows them down. Another
million take their place. Death again.
Another million. And yet another mill
lion Of these sixteenth century peas
ants. And when it is all over those
who are left will go back to their
fields. f M
But Germany. France, England, par
ticularly England and Germany,
where will they turn when the mil
lion dead are shoyeled under bloody
soil? The bricks and mortar of indus
try may be still standing, but where
will credit be found? And what will
the millions of starving factory hands
be doing? Happy the Russian peas
ant who will go back to his sixteenth
century and his field, telling the time
by the suns shadow. Industry In Eu-
rope, with other things Of older date,
will lie In ruins.
Armaments have broken the back
of the laborer, and with the fall OF
the laborer all things fall, all things
come to earth. Because of the war
lords, and only because Of the war
lords, the man of science is paralyz-
ed and civilization stops. Humanity
has been fooled. Too late to dis
cover It.
Remember this, too. Among the
young conscript soldiers of Europe
who will die in thousands. and per
haps millions, are the very flower OF
civilization; we shall destroy brains
which might have discovered for us
in ten or twenty years easements for
the worst of human pains and ~solu-
items for The worst of social dangers.
We shall blot those souls out of our
common existence. We shall de
stroy utterly those splendid burning
spirits reaching out to. enlighten. eur
darkness. Cur fathers destroyed
those strange and valuable creatures
whom they called witches. We are
destroying the brightest of our an
gels.
At least, then, let us not get drunk.
At least, then, let us not sing boast
full songs. Honor may call us to
fight self. preservation may force us
into the slaughter house; but let us
wear on our sleeves the crepe Of
mourning for a civilization that had
the promise of joy, and strike our
enemy without hiccough or curse.
Never shall we know again what Is
now perishing. And we shall want all
our strength for tomorrow.
j. 4.
PANIC FAITH
Fear nearly always starts with the
And 1t is nearly always
without reason. Just like the STAN
pedes that used to happen ON the
plains with the buffaloes and that to-
day happen with the cattle.
We boast of being civilized and
about being very smart, but after
all, our instincts seem to follow very
closely upon those of the early un
educated and those Of the wild ami.
NAL.
There is nothing quite so grand
as Panic Faith-Faith in your Bank,
Faith in your Industries Faith in your
governmental Representatives. Faith
in your Country, and Faith in Your
self.
Panics and stringencies Of every
character would be the rarest thing
II people would not stampede at the
he slightest suggestion that things
might not for a while run exactly
Do you think 1t would be possible
ior money panic to happen In this
country, no matter by whom or how
planned. IL every man and woman
With money in the bank left 1t there
md refused to be ''scared?"
Never in all our national history
ias the time baon SO urgent for Am.
orleans to remain calm, collecte% and |
There is not going to be
my American panic. In fact, II ev-
erybody determines to keep his head |
ust now the greatest prosperity the |
has ever known will soon
begin to poke out its head.
Remember that when you see fire |
I is not safe to stand around idle. !
4 wall might fall and crush you Get
busy with your little bucket of wa
er ana help put out the fire.
Leave your money in the bank It's
afe there. George Mathews Adams.