New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1914-01-21
WARS FOLLY AND FUTU.ITY
A W
BY A. w. WRIGHT


shown by testimony by peoples Earth The
American Indian affords striking illustrations They go to war
rarely they commit murder because they believe atone
ment for injury Claims property universal
recognition respect are nknown and the
thief practically No Righteousness except
those recently made so by white in Alaska prosti
tutes No jas arbitrary restraints of Among the
Creeks and Choctaw those tried death for
murder permitted to remain at large 20 at
WILL until day for execution arrives when condemned un
faingy and the penalty people with white
compilations less capable less willing than red men
to recognize and conform traditional principles of ethics and
Are they inferior in such respects to the Greeks and
Chocaws? The testimony of experience contrary
Tor where confidence is shown where trusted without
oath other foray implying they to be trusted
cases in which confidence and trust is violated exceptionally
Even those who called criminals released
and given restricted liberty from institutions under con-
dtons which imply much Of distrust calculated to
excite feelings Of shame humiliation and resentment not
anger violations OF parole nrequent that they
y run into percentages expressed in double figures In the
absence OF compulsory and questioning restraints
people everywhere and at all times with exception
refrain from aggressive acts and DO they agree.
That which pleases, otfends SELF Gnmistak
things that the only genuine and nebe guide to s se n
s resd % that W and 1 as huma1 attain
painfully However, the pains miseres the de-
by statesmen obsessed with high ideals and AMI
mated with humanitarian impulses will have
become sufficiently influential to cause falling
off in demand for the oies and utilities embodied con
to genuine and unrameed expressions of nature;
born simply Of notions as to what fought to be- intensely
constitute most agreeable for the spirit of
phase OF desposm and tyranny be justified thereby
It will be long time before Constructive cease
thought s under guide and control of those who to
the intutve school of philosophy 1t assumed that Man
subject deveopmenta growth Hence mans moral nature
is moral concepts are born Of Intuition and Of
Everything attributed to and explained by spiritual agency
and ecstacy field except Staecraft
ed Of and ecans a e1pan nfon t
being have gained supremacy Statesmen priests alone
and twisted into usyng accord with belief they believe
first and seek to afterwards But the law Of continuity
sc theory Of origins and mechanisc explanations of being will
triumph in the political field and finally in that which is
guide the notion there Imperative Rule of Right of which
Man has Seed WELL @ ten
absence of and tor compelling
Aso the necessity and justification for war; for
against who neglect TO- and n to
ifable but moral necessity
The validity of assumptions concerning origins of ethical
validity the ideas themselves The test of goodness
badness of anything consists in examining and weighing it's
fruit that which good bears good fruit Because of in
uences born Of mtancy trade and commerce have become
spoatve in tendency That which called business mess con
thngf nothing be obtained Business does not consist
in ba g s will s
the better the business greater the fortune
thus gained the highly esteemed those who conduct the
business" that trade reciprocal but is of the
te ascbed to it in the theory Of the Mercantile System In
practice the conduct Of business along the line expressed
by notion that only party to exchange be bene
e the other must suffer injury rule Of procedure con-
sistent only with aggressive activity that is hostility and
because of influences born OF and associated with such no.
tons that everywhere assumed economic TRUTH that
exchange quantities there should always remain
with party to the exchange surplus vaean agio which
be viewed and accepted legitimate spoa spoil the ma
of
profit"
Every performed should be requited with an eqya
lent rnore2 there