Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-08-02
SENT|MENTFORW WAR
NOT MANUF ACTURED
Spontaneous 0utburst of Ma
tionaI Spirit, Asserts Col.
w. C. Church.
HE C0NTRADlCTs OPINIONS
OF CARNEGIE AND JORDAN
Military Party Not Made Up Of
Makers Of Guns and
Munitions.

Makers Of Guns and
Munitions.
In an analysis OF the present situa-
ton In Europe Col. W. c. Church.
editor Of tho Army and Navy Journal,
during the course Of an interview In
New York yesterday. declared that
those who believe the threatened
great war along the Danube IL due to
the Vaccinations of the war offlces OF
the Austrian and German govern
ments arc making q mistake.
Col. Church believes that notable
peace enthusiasts. such as Andrew
Carnegie and DR.. David Starr Jordan,
are misguided. He considers that they
are out Of tune with the facts as they
are being presented in Europe during
tho present crisis It Is the peoples
Of the countries involved who are be-
hind tho war spirit and who are shout
ing for war. he believes.
Col. Church's Views.
Col. Church said. in part:
What has become Of that army OF
bogies with which Mr.. Carnegie. DR..
Jordan and others had peopled the
imaginations Of the neutrality-suspicious.
hobgoblins of the war trust Of the
.armor plate makers Of the cannon
manufacturers?
Europe has awakened those peace
gentlemen from their foolish dream
and their phantom host OF spooks mas
vanished into air. Instead of creatures
Of their own fancy; they see ,ac, ing
Danube two nations that have des-
tiny wrapped up In every bullet they
fire and future hanging upon every
scream Of their shells. ..
After Fort Sumter was nfeo on IN
1861 by civilians there was great out
burst of patriotic sentiment in the
north. Scenes were enacted then In the
great cities similar to those common
the. last few days In the cities OF Ger.
no talk then about a military party
being behind those demonstrations, al
though they were no more an expression
of the feeling of the masses. perhaps.
than has been the support which the
people Of both European countries nave
fervidly. even passionately. promised
to their home governments.
Lack Of spontaneity Not Indicated.
cat least there is nothing to Indicate
that the demonstrations in France. Ger
many, Servia and Austria are not spon-
taneous. The supposition that they are
manufactured Is absurd In view OF the
fact that Servia has just finished
bloody war in which her people learned
form Of distress and suffering. A people
that has just come out OF war may
be reckoned on to give much SOBER
thought to another conflict
.Nf tn HaA
in the hearts of the masses of each
country there would be no controversy
now between the two countries. the
idea Of pan-Germanism Is not some,
in the minds of the great leaders Of
the Teutonic race for centuries.
ut found its most striking expression
at the time of the Franco-Prussian war,
for unifying the small German states
into one great empire which could the
more successfully carry on the work
Of pushing forward his ambition to
Of the world. The great strides that
Germany has made In the last forty
years shows how correct was the 1udg-
ment Of Bismarck as to the expanding
effect OF consolidation OF the smaller
German states"
Problem Beyond Powers.
do you believe 1t possible for the
powers to avert war;" he was asked.
There are matters involved in this
quarrel between Vienna and Belgrade
which, one Is justified in saying, can
not be settled satisfactorily by outside
parties. In what way. for example.
could outside powers, such as France,
Great Britain, Denmark or Sweden, pass
upon questions into the determination
of which enters the vital issue of
Germanism or Slavism?
Whatever decision would be given by
foreign adjudicators would at the best
be a settlement rising to no greater
dignity than a modus vivendi. 1t is not
likely that any foreign body of har-
monizers could now give to a convention
between the two nations greater
solemnity than attached to the treaty
Of Berlin. and yet the world only a few
years ago saw how coolly Austria
tossed that document into the diplo-
matte waste basket when she thought
that the demands Of the time made 1t
imperative for her to acquire Bosnia
and Herzegovina
Just as the japanese war cloud arose
over our country a few months ago when
California issued her edict against orr
entail land ownership. just as the United
States was forced to take a hand in the
force of arms, and just as at present
even a peace-loving Secretary of State is
warning Haiti that unless she behaves
herself force will have to be used by us
in that republic, so IN other parts Of the
world questions rise and press for settle
ment that will not brook delay.
Tho decision Of the allies in their move
ment against the Turks two years ago
was taken at a time when the Moslems
were unprepared. II tho allies had walt
cd and brought their claims to the at
tention of The Hague 1t would have b sen
simply another way OF warning Turkey
to prepare for war.
There are occasions in the lives Of
men when they will have 1t out in a
fight. even IL the city or town is filed
with courthouses. We do not settle all
our Individual differences and disputes
today by appeal to the courts. There are
many cases where men. and women, too.
take the law into their own hands. With
nations there come similar times when
q fight to the death Is forced by the In
sinct Of Misrepresentation, as In the case
of Poland when 1t was dismembered. In
such crises. in such collisions Of ma
tional destinies. Hague tribunals sink
away into eclipse and the parties in
volved in the contest must be allowed
to fight it out in the way they see f1t"