The Daily Missoulian., 1914-08-30
WAR is HELL

am am tired and sick of war It's so, is all meonshne
Of the wounded VIII" cry aloud for blood
desolaton War General sherman.
The horror of the European war grows with each pass
ing day To Americans the whole thing seems to have
been so unnecessary But what has happened the past
five weeks and what is happening today less important
than the final outcome of it ALL
For the moment it would look as if the hopes of the
advocates of peace and International Cancellation have
been hollow mockery but the final result of this titanic
world clash may be the end of the mitarism that has
driven Europe to the verge of bankruptcy and finally
plunged her into the maestrom of such as cviIza
ton has never vet SEEN
writer in the Detroit SATURDAY. Night saws:
Suppose we look ahead little. Five years five
months hence the warning nations of the old world will
have met victory defeat Some empires may meantime
be remade some monarches may fall and republics
arise some national boundaries may be altered Slav and
German, Saxon and Gau victor and vanquished will be
bending under heavier and still heavier burdens of debt
and taxes Hate and greed pride and folly will have eaped
the richest harvest of death and Women and little
children in afflicton will number the sands of the sea-
The exhausted peoples will stand breathess survey their
work OF titanic distinctions and history will turn bloody
page to write again the lesson of world peace
When God looks down upon this wretched torn human
family OF His how small struttng giants will appear
how great the vanity of human wishes But the
will roll their estc ways indifferent to the wrecks be-
meath their waves the land will bloom the brighter for
the precious seed every battlefield; the eternal
hills will raise their silent heads heaven unmoved by the
butchery in the plains below and above all the sun will
shine as to llumine the madness of mankind Ma
ture is still serene, where all save the spirit Of man is
divine
But the soul OF man has surrendered its divine
aspirations Alexander and Caesar and Napoleon have had
their little day upon the earth thousand lesser soldiers
have played their little part with sword in hand; but
all of them could suppress the universal yearnng for world
peace that even raises its STILL small voice above the
of the catacysm. World opinion has been slow in
forming for world peace. The world is young. The art
OF printing young, In many lands education is young
and the power Of ignorance poverty autocracy and bar
barism remains strong. But when the German kaiser
struck out at Russia and France and Belgium and at
England he struck the blow for world peace that was most
needed. Let him win who may the who do the fight
ing and the suffering and the dying for the world the
rank and fe the peasant and the aborer will count this
war cost carefully and ntegently than they
ever counted cost of before.
these are the who, under the lead of socialism
everywhere and with the encouragement of the more CIV
ilzed governments have stood for international amty
Disarmament they know is impossible as long as there is
f1gh Lg to do Patriotism fires them with loyalty their
coors when the battle cry heard But Just as surely as
rhe pen is mightier than the sword public opinion ult
matey mghter than any autocrat and these men, in
the generations that to come will to that reason
rules among the nations rather than force
This is prayer-that the conflict in Europe may so
cventuae as to make possible the creation of world
police force willing and able every decree issued
tor the adjustment OF international disputes by supreme
international tribunal at The Hao1e