Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-10-17
DIR. FERGUSON DELIVERS STRONG
ADDRESS ON EUROPEAN WARFARE
Causes Of Conflict, Their Effect
and Cost in Men and Money
Carefully Reviewed

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The War-An Interpretation. ,
A brie fpreface should clear the way
to q fair consideration and Just inter.
rretation Of facts and conditions
which now I'LL the whole world with
awe and alarm.
First let IL be understood that war
is not always and only an evil. 1t is
denied that Sherman said War is
he'll" but merely that WAR is Cruel
ty," but the changes are rung SO often
on these expressions that we forget
the historic truth that for every
stroke of the pen to advance liberty
and righteousness there has been a
drop Of blood shed--the hot hfe-blood
OF the brave. Our. own national life
came through the long and desperate
war Of independence, and our own ma
tional unity was secured by the Civil
war Our war against Spain was in
behalf Of the oppressed and down-trod-
den. Heroic virtues are born In bat
tie and q virile manhood is produced.
And moreover the old abuses of the
world work themselves into national
life; they must be broken In pieces by
armor and ornaments, the fragments
cast into hot crucible and therefrom
comes q higher civilization. It Is not
mere poetic fancy but sober truth
which we find In our New England
seer:
We wait beneath the furnace blast
the pangs Of Transformation:
Not painlessly doth God recast and
build anew nation.
hot burns the FIRE where wrongs ex-
pire,
Nor spare the hand that from the land
Uproots the ancient evil"
Then again We Americans must be
neutral for We are "kinsfoIk' to all
the nations now involved in war.
President Wilson's repeated cautions
should be needed. Usually anti-Brit-
fish, We are now inclined to be anti
German. But as all the great powers
have turned over to us their foreign
embassies and asked to use ours as In
termediary agencies, and as we are
the only great nation outside Of and,
apart from the deadly struggle, strict
neutrality is most becoming.
The final word OF preface is not to
be led or misled by the few facts COM
ing to us daily. The censorship is SO
strict that many facts. ugly facts. are
being withheld. Our knowledge is too
fragmentary and contradictory to JUS
tify partisanship or prophecy. There
are, however. enough items at hand as
to the beginning OF the war and the
history Of Europe for a century is lu-
minous and fresh enough to nermit
such an analysis as viii inferpret
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Russia and Pfnssis and "a cherf and
ennD-ess the graaf idaas Which ths
rev6lnfIon had bro,,ci,t - tba 'front.'
eoualifr. the severeianfv of the neo-
BE. ana nafionaIitv ever since fhat
fanlols c6,1rress fl;ese princinals have
beel, warine war aeainst the arbitrary
act az creafinr nations bv cession q 81
the weak Ia the stronr. All the work
outlined has been undone. for nations.
ike families. must be born and grow
In LANGUAGE. institutions. customs and
interests. sBIood tells,
Austria Hungary sim suffers most
from fictitious and arbitrary nation
building. she SIS not q nation but an
aaeRregation Of hostile eIements.n She
Is scarcely 80 per cent German and
mas failed even through her distih- |
guished emperor's SIS years Of rulers !
Ship to make the Serb and other ele-
mouts German.
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