Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1914-09-21
A NEW EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION

For more than forty years the civilized world has been under trib-
ute to German miitarsm. Not a nation has escaped.
Five years ago David L1oyd-George, the British chancellor of the
exchequer, estimated that the civilized countries we're spending $780,
100000 annually IN ornaments andd preparations for var Last year
the total Jul as nearer S3OOOOooO0 Most OF this tag has been inn
posed from Berlin.
Germany has been developing her industries and commerce largely
with borrowed capital while her W resources went into the consruc-
ton OF a monster military machine that some day as to override the
world. As the burden increased NE Crisis approache until 'he o'-
man autocracy came to see that the empire would 500 have to choose
either a "a that decided the mastery Of Europe Or a social revolution
at home.
During the last ten years, under the inspiration of the kaiser, the
war, dream wal and prepare for "a until the whole nation became
obsessed by the devil of conquest Practically every activity of the
empire vas directed and shaped toward this single end.
Not a nation, including Germanys W allies, but car to regard
United States, far removed as it is from the sphere OF the Kaisers
ordinary activities, has twice been on the edge of hostIities with Ger
through nc fault of any American, and the Monroe doctrine has
been derided by every German imperiaist az "a scrap of paper that
ought ito be or up by the war lord OF the Teutons.
The kaisers defenders boast that he has kept the peace of Europe
for twenty-five years; but they all omit the significant fact that every
crisis in which he kept the peace a a crisis Of his own making.
Ever since the Morocco incident the belief had been growing
throughout Europe that war could not long be avoided, and that the
kaiser would strike thu moment lie thought that Germany nan was 'uns
prepared and held her antagonists at a disadvantage. n a Dehef "s
been indicated by events.
When one word from him would have submitted the Ausro-servian
controversy to mediation he shut his lips m plunged thu world mi
val Today nine nations are in battle. \ week from today a dozen may
aborted, now con the. first faint overtures for peace. Nothing definite
nothing formal, but a tentative diagnosis Of public opinion to ascertain
the largess which the kaiser might obtain for his consent to eStinguSh
the conAagration he has started.
To restoreE Europe to the condition of al armed camp would not be
peace. 1t would be merely a truce. The grim tragedy that is now going
OF in France and Belgium and East Prussia and Poland would be re-
sumed as soon as Germany as again prepared to strike. Nothing
has yet been decided, and a treaty OF peace, like the treaty guaranteeing
Belgiums neutrality, would be only "a scrap of paper" which the Ger
man autocracy could proceed to violate a will. The nightmare OF
miitarism would still hang yer the nation, and every laborer in Europe
perhaps every 1aborer in America-would have a soldier on his back.
The a would erd only to begin anew as soon as the beligerents had
had a breathing spell of five O ten years.
When certain questions are submitted to the court of cannon they
must be decided by the cour of cannon. The issues in this case yer
submitted to that court by the kaiser himself, and they cannot be with
drawn. The decision must now be written in blood and iron, or there
is n o final adjudication Either all Europe will come under the yoke
of military despotsm or all Europe will be free. Europe cannot be free
Germany herself cannot be free-the German people cannot be free
until German mihtarism is desroped, until the monster is obEterated.
Peace 10 no more DOssble in Euro uOw III peace would have
beer possible in our own civil a before the issue of slavery and seces-
son we're determined for all time Out of this a must come more
than a mere uce-mor than a paper peace. There must ONE a nw
Emancipation Proclamation, striking from civilization the shackLes Ct
utocracy Without a new birth of freedom all this sacrifice
and suffering and bloodshed will have been in vain-New York World.
Canadas gift to Great Britain OF 100000 bags of -four a a war
contribution is better than the gift OF a bat1e-ship would be. It will
reach lore people and do them more good
No m is overlooking the fact that brutality stories may come
nv mail and that fight stories u afoul of the censor.