Bisbee daily review., 1914-10-11


 To return To the doctrines set forth by vou Bemburdi and apparently oc. cepted by the military caste to which he belongs. briefly summed up they
 are as follows (his own words are
 used except when 1t becomes necas
 sarv 10 abridge a heightened arsa
 menD
 "Wor Is in itself a good thing lt
 is a hiological necessity of Che cft
 importance The iuevlableness. q t|
 idealism The blessing of war are as
 indispensable and stimulating as the
 law Of development and must be re- . peatedly emphasized
 War Is the greatest factor iG utc . mrihe'ance of culture and power 7 "EGor,s Co secure peace are eH traordinarily detrimental as soon os l they influence politics.
 2 "Torunately these efforts can neT-
 or attain heh ultimate objects in , world hTistiug with arms and where , healthy egotsm sull directs the policy - of most countries. God will see to it ' says TIeitschke that war always e will recur as a drastic medicine fer - the human race
 Efforts directed toward the aboli- e ton Of war are not only foolish but IT absolutely immoral and must be stig- n matizco ss unworthy of the human '- race.
 $ Courts of arbitration are pernict D. ous delusions The whole idea repre- It sents wesumpuous encroachmeut on 'l the natural laws Of development.
 which can only lead to most disas-
 trous consequences fer humanity gen. 5 erauy
 "The maintenance Of peace never M can be oI may be the goal of a policy. s "Enorts for peace would. if they u attained their goal lead to general " tdesenoration. as happens everJwher '' in nature where the struggle for ex wy istencs is eliminated
 His Ideals for a State. - Huge armaments are iu them ', selves desirable They are a most nee ar essary pre-conditicn Of our nationa
 health
 o, "The end all and be all of a stat se .s power, and he who is not m5i n, enough to lool, this truth in the facO , should not meddlc with politics -, Quoted from Treitschke's Pohtit) L- "A states highest moral duty is C .. increase its power The state is jusr 55 fled in making conquests wheneye
 its own advantage seems to rcQu.r u.. additional territory
 a "Selfpreservation is states hiEl M est ideal and iustides whatever al - ton it may take"
 a "The state is Che sole judge of th
 morality of its own action lt is t fact above morality or in oth. D' words, whatever is necessary is mo mas al
 " Recognized rights G O.. treat rirhtsl. are never absolute rights
 they are of human origin and ther 'i" fore imperfect and variable Tbei
 are conditions in which they do n, '' correspond to the actual truth things In this case infringement '0 the risht appears morally justified 2s Weak nations have mot the san so right to live as the powerful and VI ana orous nation
 'sS Any action in favor of cOllecti .ne humanity outside the limits of c oe statc and nationality is impossible pc These are startling proposition lV though propOunded as practically
 iomatc They are not new For tive ol ty two centuries, the sophist Thra. lhs machus iu plato's republic argu 70 that Socrates had been refuting hin ped, that justice is nothing more than t nan advantage of the stronger ti with might IS right Phto laid down tn tain the end for which the state exists tied justice)
 nIti- The most startling among th' any are thc denial that there are 8 we duties owed by the state to humani
 to except that of imposing its own se' pcrior civilization upon as large - part of humanity as possible, a ited denial of the duties of obaervI isht teraties which are only SO much any pare To modern German writers [ ore state is a much more tremendous in tty than it is to Englishmon or A q az orleans it is the supreme power VI n to a sort oi mystic sanctty poN the conceived of as it were, self-create ? of force altogether distinct from a as superior Co 'he persons who comp,
 t.
 den it 10 only vulgar minds chat n com take bisness for greatness. Ger. greatness is or the soul, not Of bo Brit ln the Judgment which hiHt any wl hereafter pass upon the fo the centuries of recorded progress tow, resk civilization that now lie beAind
 what are the tests it wll apply Brit determine the true greatness Of lked people? Not population not territa ople. not wealth, not military power nifty rather will history ask what eXaWp 1ubt of lofty character and nselhsh war y0tion Co honor and duty have much people given What has it done ional increase volume of knowledge? e. as Civilization has turned back u both itself. culture is Co expand itself com harnprir force Governments dci