The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-08-23
FEARS U. s. WILL Be .
INVOLVED IN MESS
Herman Ridder "Haunted Nv
Dread" This Country Will
Be Dragged In.
SEES TRIUMPH OF GERMANY
But Victory Will Mean Little
and Neither Side Can In
woke Divine Justice.
ny HERMAN RIDDER.

ny HERMAN RIDDER.
am informed by a reliable stats.
tlclan that the nations at war control
the destinies OF over billion human
beings. cannot quite grasp such /.
large idea. IT Is too staggering The
extent OF the struggle numbs my mind
and grips my heart The whole sky
seems overcast. Flashes appear from
the north and south. from the east ana
west. Never has such a storm gather.i
over our small mistaken dreams OF peaca
And now the shadow OF the conflict
Is being cast over our land Let Va no.
delude ourselves with the Idle though,
that we can find shelter amid the rre,,
collapse. The international world Il,
bound together too closely, we depend
too much the one upon the other for N,
to stand aside and not feel the reaction
upon our economic life. The chain ha,
snapped. and the business OF tho vorId
will stop until the broken links are "A,
placed
We suffer unjustly. amid the general
stagnation OF commerce. the Innocen,
victims OF general shooting FRAY. our
importers have already put up their shut.
tets, awaiting the restoration OF normal
trade conditions. Our manufacture. ana
speak feelingly as COMPARTMENT
large manufacturer myself. mus, rronar.
FOR new fields OF conquest. We manu-
iacturers must adopt a more INT, psi,,.
national selling plan, developing our ho,,.
Inarkets 10 meet the shrinkage NJ Eu.
ropean business. We must ARRANGE 49,,
anairs In anticipation of tho dav uben
Industry will awaken TO now llfe
Logic Il SIN nt r,uI,
We are still suffering from tho b,s,,,.
natural to excitement OF the first sbocr
~ VIII take some time to absorb ~.
thousht OF war of this maRnitude W.
see piack mere and the silver lining tbera.
we feel the gloom of the thing and IN.
thrill OF the thing we think of tho ri.h.
Of the thing and know the wrong w.
nave not yet tempered our hearts MIN
the logic or our heads. In lean We ar.
oacN among the days of our grand
iHthers waging the same wars, strugelin,
10 attain the same hopeless ends
am haunted by the vague dread that
somehow, somewhere we will And our.
serves involved in the mess II our Ioss..
are only those resulting from tho sion.
page OF business. II our tniserv 10 oil,
tnat following the disarrangement OF our
economic life. then we can count our.
selves the favorite OF the gods.
a., eens tnat the cost OF supremacy
IN the council OF nations is blood ~.
standards OF long ago still sway E,rnna
~ RUE or ruin And when IL is ali
over the family of nations can coI,sc.
livery ana individually ponder the o,,cs.
'ion was the game worth the cost?
me history of nations Is full NJ
wasted EFFORT and misguided zeal LIZ.
Is strewn with blasted hopes as eternai
space is strewn with dead ,,or,s. a.
" strange that the nations must mai.
the same mistakes over ana oyer 80
over again. Struggling for the 80
shattered Ideals even fighting on Tho
very same battlenelds which time and
again have been drenched with the blood
Oh determined men battling for a futile
cause Experience has taught us the
lesson. but We have not learned to proa,
thereby. '''"
Wrong on All sides.
We know that n great wrong 10 hs,r,
committed Each side has a portion ~
the logic, measure of excuse hui
neither has monopoly OF the right,
Murder, In small way, the rleh, ~
one individual to take the life Of another
IN personal quarrel. has been practl.
cally stamped out. but murder on a
Wholesale plan has never been attennt.d
on such grand scale, Let not tho
nations involved call for Justice, for
were justice meted out by the Divine
HAND and each nation received its Just
deserts each would pay a heavy price for
It's folly. The wonder OF Il is that In this
year OF 1914 II should be at all
The result OF the war will show
nothing more or less than the ten.
porary superiority OF one armed group
over the other. Germany can win 10
greater triumph than those won In me
last forty years in the fields OF science
and art. France and England can only
take step backward. II is hard TO see
how civilization can directly benefit from
such an utter horror. such a complete
outraging OF our finer sensbIlltles
IL l could but believe tina; this I'M
mense sacrifice of lie were TO bring about
new order with guarantee OF lasting
peace, ! could snatch a small shred n
hope from the general depression. 9TH
erwise, II all these lives have been snured
out in vain. then II is simply history re-
peating Itself, piling tragedy upon trag-
edy In hopeless confusion.
The German army has been triumphant
IT Is on the eve of greater Victories
Whatever doubts we felt as to the out.
come OF the apparently unequal struggle
have been swept aside. Germany IL TOO
young. too vigorous, too vital TO lay down
It's life before Its work In the world has
been accomplished I fear that long
weary months OF disaster and triumph
will drag their bleeding. painful way
across the fields Of France and Poland be-
fore an armistce calls the halt can
feel the bitterness here in our land,
where we are all trying 20 soften ths
racial clash. What must Il be IN the
countries that are reused by tho realities
OF war?