The Daily Missoulian., 1914-08-31

when / watched marching, and unpro-
ductive, hordes OF soldiers on all the
streets and roads OF Europe. If men are
kept at play when they ought to work |
and think they must fight and obey
And we Americans, if we had 500 |
miles Of frontier on a European nation |
would be as afraid as they are, and we |
should now be getting a half million
men out of the factories and fields and |
away from their families to get into
the killing. National self respect de-
rnands it,
Our Mr. Wilson and Mr.. Bryan were
editorially lampooned from London to
Vienna for their timorous spirit.
And who knows what it is all about
or whose fault it is or who started 1t,
or what gain will accrue from the de- |
struction of a quarter of the worlds
wealth; at least of its Immediately
available wealth?
Who knows what good there is any
way in the eternal scramble to take
away our neighbor's food?
Loyalty is a queer thing. Men who
suspect their own loyalty will rush
hot haste to die for a lie rather than
to be thought traitor.
When was in London they said to
me: Wait until you have seen
Europe? So | went in as humble
spirit as could command to look upon
~ Nm
there to cure me Of Americanism. Now
am not afraid to whisper at this dis
tance from the places where they think
culture begins and ends, / couldn't find
it. I am not .reyerent.
Windsor castle meant to me a place
where they keep relics Rome a place
where they load images with present
bought from priests and kiss brass
toes and say 'sAlleluia' Berlin. a
wonderful place, especially at the Cafe
Bauer, is a place of Hoch der Kaiser
and Hoch der Kaiser's dividends from
the Krupp gun works. To be sure they
have a university there. had heard
1t is the greatest university in the
world, but spent more time looking
for the scars ofsthe Huns in the duel
marked faces of the boys than l did
in looking for signs Of intelligence. And
/ was interested in the cut of the uni
forms of the soldiers in the military
place adjacent.
Christian! OF course, all Europe is
Christian The Scotch laddies in black
helmets, plaids and bare legs and
church at Edinburgh At Berlin saw
church where the military go to
hear the gospel of love 8 under the
thrilling inspiration of the draped
French flags captured in the last war
was at a service in the Kings chape
at Windsor, under the coat of arms oil
those noble enough and worthy enough
to have their military insignia IN thu
chapel of the king. / heard some,
thing mumbled there. didn't see thu
king. He was at Spithead reviewing
!, his battleShips. The socialist wht
held the enormous peace demonstra
I tion in London and temporarily balket
: the French government and murmuret
more and more boldly against the Ger
man tyranny, haye eagerly joined thu
destruction of wealth--mosts of them
1 although the terrific Jaures is dead
: and Burns and Hardie have thrown
| away their British honor.
] When / stood in the sEmptuous peac
a palaces at The Hague, and in the hol,
. of holies looked upon Carnegie facinl
: the czar / thought some sarcasti
: things about the nature of peace an
how much peace is likely to come o
: Russian autocracy or American com
y mercial tyranny. chided myself 70
a having no sympathy with human aspir
s. ations and held my tongue-but now
: men are thinking the same things ou
I under the stars. with their mouth
4 parched. their flesh bleeding. Will
Y they breath the stencil of their dea,
Q comrades, who died chiefly becacs
!; they never could learn to think any