Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-08-08
DOES WORLD FACE
SERIES OF WARS?
German Professor Takes Very
Gloomy View Of Events to
Follow Present Conflict.
SEES ENDLESS QUARRELS
Fangs of Nations SO Mixed Up
as to Make Separation
Difficult.
SEES ENDLESS QUARRELs
ny FREDERICK WERNER.

ny FREDERICK WERNER.
BERLIN, August Tn n very inter
csting article in Die Menschheit (hu-
manity), Professor r. Broda discusses
the question. Are We on the Threshold
OF Series of World Wars?"
TIE vivid lessons to be learned from
the contemplation of this frightfuI
struggle he says. "all the refinement
in war methods. which have forever
laid to rest the legends OF the age OF
chivalry, all the terrible sacrifices OF
life and treasure which will be direct
~ engraven in the personal recollec-
tions of every family in Europe-all
this Will assuredly bring to maturity
those moral impulses which are en-
tirely opposed to a return Of similar
wars. But. on the other hand, II must
not be forgotten that other likewise
very weighty factors operate to pro-
duce whole series OF other wars fol-
lowing on the present war, and that II
would be foolish to pass over this
frightful possibility-a possibility. so
menacing to the existence Of humanity
without doing the utmost in the way
OF a systematic resistance to such
contingency.
HISTORICAL ANALOGIES OF
OTHER FAMOUS WARS
I'm the first place. the historical
analogies OF the Thirty Years, the
Siles;an and the Napoleonic Wars (and
lastly that Of the Tripo'ttan War,
which inaugurated the Balkan wars
and with them the present epoch of
war)--which, collectively, almost ex-
hibit an inductive law-evIdence tho
possibility, nay, even the probability, OF
peculiarly great war crises, each de-
valOnipp Of ntb ich
hardly ever lead to any final solution
of the basic problems involved in them,
and which must create unrest. disturb
the balance of power and draw out the
periods of tension. which are certain
only too easily to eventuate In fresh
wars.
Then. too. there is whole series
Of quite concrete impulses peculiar to
the present crisis which all tend in the
same direction.
The object lessons OF the war which.
according to strict logic ought to ex-
hibit regulated impetus towards n
further effect of the same phenomenon,
appear at the same timely reason of
that deficient Intelligence of the masses
VIII ich, never before so much in evil
dence, has desperately refuted all our
opinions of the intellectual pinnacle to
which the world OF culture has attained
rather to operate in the opposite di-
rection. The entry of italy into the
conflict is a striking proof of that fact.
Whoever follows with n calm and criti-
ca! eye the parallelogram OF forces in
Italian policy, the varying ratio of
power in the interventionists and the
neutralists. must recognize that the
sober policy of the Sacro Egoismo, as
the TO
put it into ordinary language. the wish
TO derive the greatest possible advan-
tage from the troubles of ones neigh
bors, would not OF itself have led to
war. Giolitti, the shrewdest Of Ital-
ian statesmen. grasped at the begin
ming OF May the fact that Austria had
already conceded so much, and that, at
the last moment she would, in order
TO preserve peace. certainly concede
such n considerable part OF the residue
of Italian demands that nothing really
essential would remain unfulflled.
Seeing that Austria was willing to re-
lnQuish the Trentino and Gradiska,
and had even palpably given up Corr
and few Dalmatian islands. there
! remained really nothing but the ques-
ton OF the degree of autonomy of
Trieste
dence. they would never have rushed
to arms merely for the sake OF some
constitutional detail relative to a dis
trict the population OF which lis less
than will fall on the battle fields in the
Italo- Austrian War.
WAR FORCED ON COUNTRY
by POPULAR CLAMOR
The war. therefore. had not It's
I toll,
| is we'll known. was forced on the coun-
try by the popular demonstrations
against Giolitti. These. however, were
referable less TO the special interest
OF the masses in the details OF the Con-
stitution OF Trieste than to the AMI
versal war fever. The embttered tenn
per. owing to the violation OF Belgian
neutrality, and the German method OF
waging war. regardless OF the prin-
ciple OF mpassion--both of which
factors were daily brought home TO the
understanding of the masses by the
French press and the Italian press,
which came under the influence OF the
French--doubtless contributed 70 this
temper and 10 the thought that in n
certain measure the German guilt OF
the month of August was now making
helated atoncment, may for some peo-
pie represent "solace in face OF the
new disaster. But THAT. standing by
itself. was not the whole matter; tho
Italian masses intoxicated themselves
on war news: the youth OF Italy wanted
to play its part In the great adventure.
II Is true that they foamcd in n frenzy
OF vengeance on account OF our use OF
poisoned gases and the sinking OF the
Lusltania.
But they never Erasped the fact
that these events follow the natural
line of development OF war and OF its
principle OF disseminating the greatest
possible ruin among the enemy. That
the conflict might bring similar mis-
fortune on their own land was a thing
to which they gave but little consid.
Grafton. and. In so far as IL might hap
pen, they were prepared to revenge