The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1914-10-01
THE EUROPEAN WAR; WHAT
IT MEANS TO THE WORLD
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graph line while cables from London
Paris, Berlin. Vienna, from all parts
of the world, poured in. The bur.
den of each was war. wrack and
slaughter. Scarcely glimmer OF
hope anywhere. Europe, the world,
seemed rushing headlong to the gulf.
And the full horror of the thing
came over him.
He saw that the world stood to-
day facing calamity greater than
it ever faced; greater than any he
could conceive of, short of the COM
plete destruction of the human race.
Compared with it all the ruin wrough
by nature in its utmost violence was
nothing.
He thought of the sickening waste
of world vide war. Not alone the
waste of human life, but of the hard
won savings of generations. The
useful capital of hundred years of
hard-won savings of generations.
The useful capital of hundred
years of effort blotted out in the
smoke of cannon he saw Europe
bowed and bent beneath the burden
Of waste and debt for century to
come. Arts, progress, culture, civ
ilization, all that depends on wealth
and prosperity, thrown into the red
crucible of battle.
He saw not only the present
ruined, the future mortgaged, but
the race depleted, set back in the
process of betterment for generations.
The strong young men would go forth |
to war and would not return. The
less vigorous would remain at home
to be the fathers Of the race. AL
the intelligent struggle for a better
physical type, all the silent bene6-
cient selection of nature toward this
end go for nothing nothing.
He saw the folly of any nation
thinking that it could profit from
worldwide catastrophe. Destruc-
ton of purchasing power. Failure
to produce means to have nothing
but promeses to exchange. Such an
humiliation of values as contin-
emit vide war would mean would
leave a void that a few securities
could never fill in whatever markets
of the world that might remain.
He saw the impending catastrope
was not one that America could view lr
with calm. It was projected sac
Rice of humanity and humane pro-lF
gress on scale to stagger The i'm
agination, to pierce the moral sense
with its criminal iniquity like sharp :
sword, to reavaken the sense of kim
ship with the unfortunate millions q
millions of our blood, too-who were
about to be offered up as a sacrifice 8
to pride, power, monarchy and crime.
He saw the whole impending trag- n
edy linked together by unbreakable
chains. Once started, the bloody "
play must finish. Asia would have r
It's shower of blood death and de-
struction would visit Africa. No .
one could forsee the end. No nation J.
could be sure that it would not be
irawn into the vortex of blood and
ust for power in which great empires !.
we're about to be whirled around like :
hips in q whirlpool. Asia, Africa,
oerhaps America Who could tell A.
He saw the other side of the ar 81
yument that great ornaments mean
! powerful prop for peace. Perhaps b
hey might IN some happier time, or 10
n some happier planet. But here
he nations we're inspiriting them III
selves with the clanking of their OF
arms. Here the whole terrific mach it
merry ofdestruction which Europe has
been preparing for SO many years in
seemed TO be demanding that it be h:
allowed to prove its effectiveness VI
eemed to be tempting even the calm
st minds to the great trial which !.
ould be nothing save catastrophe i.
or all. -
He saw that this was what mon
rchial and dynasty is storehouse
ancient hates with doors that gu
wing open In an instant. He felt fr'
18th gratitude that republic might We
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