Bisbee daily review., 1914-12-19

which should not presume o letter intellectual freedom And In ihe opinion of Che writer mot h what thia paro. uc scholar has done In lengthy letter recently cd dressed to some of Che eastern newspapers
 Dr Eliot pronounces he war "tho most horrible ca. amty that has ever befaien Che human race and he most crucial to which civilization been exposed" An the nations he points out mortified Che nmensity disaster that they seek to avoid re. sponsibity for it. But their proestatlons of innocence deal chiefly with the superficial develop, mehts the last week in July The real causes of the war these:
 1 CD The maintenance of monarchicai governments which make without any previous consultation Of the peoples through their representatives;
 (2) The maintenance of conscrpt armies through which the entire ablebodied male population is trained in youth for service in the army navy and remains subject to the instant call the government tin late in life the offcerng of these permanent armies involving the creation of a powerful military class; (8) The creation strong permanent bureaucracy within each nation for the management of both foreign and domestic affairs of whose work is kept secret from the public at large;
 (4) The habitual of military and naval forces to acquire territories regard to the wishes of the people annexed controlled This cause of the var the potent of four It is the qualification cf the for world empire.
 It cannot be questioned then, says Dr. Eliot, that the nation in which these complex causes have taken trongest and complete effect during the last fifty ears is Germany" The present emperor while some times playing the part of the peacemaker has habitualy  upported military caste and assumed the preroga ves of a sovereign by divine right
 Mass fanatcism and infectious enthusiasm seem to ave deprived the leading class in Germany for the oment of all power sec judge correctly no new phenomenon in the world but instructive in .'5 because it points the grave defect iucation the lack liberty therefore practice n sefconro" Sixty million Germans rejecting the ethics of the Beattudes accepting the religion Of alor" holding their ideal personal freedom but a alpowerful state, threaten civilization with more formidable rrupons than that history has recorded
 The cause of the present convulsion, then" he concludes, lis the state of mind temper Germany. tnd it is apparent that Europe escape from the -ominaton of Germany only by defeating her in her resent undertakings.
 'There can be no security for future peace Europe  entl every European nation recognizes the fact that here is such thing in the world dominating ration-Great Britain Germany, Russia, Japan China.
 What, then, must be done? There can be secure eace until federation of the European states is esab rshed capable of making public contracts intended to kept and backed by an overwhelming international 5rce subject to the orders of international tribunal
 When that international force has been firmly es tabished it will be time to consider proporonate reductions in national amaments can be prudently rec commended" Switzerland. Great Britain and the United states offer excellent models such federation o tates.
 "The immediate duty of the United States is presum ably to prepare, the basis of its present army an' navy to furnish an effective quota of the inernauona force servant of an international tribunal which vii make the ultimate this most abominabe of war . not truce, but a durable peace"