The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1915-02-06

While we have under consideration
the question Of armament and par
ttoularly the recommendations which
| American militarists are now making.
let us trace the psychological source
| of the militarist's desire to make the
United States first-class War power.
We have recently seen, In Germany
both the expression of this desire and
its results. General Frederick Won
Bernhard in his book, Germany and
the Next War;" says:
We can, fortunately, assert the i'm
possibility of these efforts after peace
ever attaining their. ultimate object
in world bristling with arms, where
a healthy egotism still directs the
policy Of most countries. "God. will
see to it," says Treitschke, that war
always recurs as a drastic medicine
for the human race"
Every means must be
employed to oppose these visionary
schemes. They must be publicly de-
nounced as what they really areas
an unhealthy and feeble Utopia, or a
cloak for political Vaccinations. Our
people must learn to see that the
maintenance of peace never can or
'; may be the goal of a policy
The appeal to arms is, sacred right
A Sacred Right?
of the state, but it must keep this con-
viction fresh in the national con-
seriousness. The inevitableness, the
idealism, and the blessing Of war; as
an indispensable and stimulating law
of development, must be repeatedly
emphasized" -, ...
Here is an eloquent appeal for war
on the ground that war is a national
neces5ity-a kind of medicine to
quicken and stimulate a nations de-
Velopment. But Bernhadi's appeal
for war is not only based on its al
legged necessity to national Develop
ment, but on narrow and twisted
idea of patriotism, which convinces
him that nation must consider it's
own good only, and be utterly obliv-
other races. He says: .
christian morality is based, : In
deed, on the law Of love. Love God
above all things and thy neishbor as
thyself.' This law can claim no sig
nificance for the relations of one
country to another, sssince It's applica-
ton to politics would lead to a con-
flict of duties. Christian
morality is persaNatand social, and IN
it's nature cannof--bespo litical.
Christ Himself sald'1 am not come
to bring peace On eaTth. but q: sword
His teaching CAN newer be adduced as
an argument" against the universal
law Of struggle.: 49,,
Roosevelt Narrow. :.
Mr.. Roosevelt III. writing: of the
Monroe Doctrfas xthe abolition OF
which, by the way, would do more
to guarantee peace than all the bat
:tleships we can, bniIdl Expresses, to q
certain degree, Bernhardi's belief in
the necessity Of war. His philosophy
Is also that Of a sincere and intense,
but narrow; patriotism. To. him; as
to Bernhardi, the so-called fighting
virtues are the cardinal virtues upon
which all sound :nationalism is built:
and these virtues are not to be EN-.
ployed with any large regard for the
rights Of other countries After dis
cussing the necessity Of the .cultiva-
ton of fighting virtues in America,
Colonel Roosevelt says:
My Country Right or Wrong.
Every, decent ,Englishman is de-
voted to his country first, last and
all the time. An Englishman may or
may not dislike America. but he ia
invariably for England and against
America when any question arises be-
tween them; and 7 heartily respect
him for so being ~
In other words, Mr.. Roosevelt rs in
clined to take the internationally per-