The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-05-13
Ebert Hubbard.
We have lost a man.

we nave lOSL man.
Not in war, not in the heat of
battle, not with the lust to kill
upon his face.
But in the peaceful pursuit of
business and pleasure while eating
luncheon on the palatial steamer
that was supposed to be guarded
well within by armor plated double
steel and without by the strong fleet
of England, mistress of the seas.
A man who with his pen and up
on the lecture platform has always
counseled peace A man who has
accomplished as much for the human
race since his short span Of scarce
two years among US than any other
literary genius of the age. A man
of eentleness, of high ideals, an in
tellectual giant. A man of strange
ways forsooth where he was past un-
derstanding and yet withal man
who was known and appreciated at
his true worth by his brethren of
the press.
Ebert Hubbard, Fra liberia,
went to his death last Friday on the
Lusitania so the cabled message
reads. We shall miss his philosophy
and his gentle words of sympathy
that touched the hearts of old and
young folks alike, of the laboring
man and the capitalist, of all classes
and all kinds. A few weeks ago in
letter to the editor of The Herald
he spoke of the war and said that in
his opinion the awful struggle would
be over within the next six months.
If his untimely death and that of
the other martyrs on the Lusitania
hasten the end then the catastrophe
has not been in vain.
In a late copy of the Philistine he
had the following regarding the pol
icy of President Wilson:
Natures animals once had ter
rife arrays of teeth, claws, beaks,
anu YAH leu OH poSho u ~
lection that was Zeppelin proof.
So long as these terrific animals
existed. there was no peace for man.
And there will never be really
first class race of men as long as
wealth and science cooperate for
killing purposes. Gradually things
have modified and refined themselves
until we find that the unseen is
more powerful than the seen.
Thought is supreme. The world
is ruled by sentiment. Beauty, ro-
nance, poetry, blend into a harmo-
NOUS whole, and we have the world
of business-and business is the
science of human service.
And yet we find the strange
anachronism of the best ingenuity
of man being utilized to invent in
struments of death and destruction.
Well does President Wilson take
the stand that this is no time for
Americans to mobilize" 1t is for
us to show the world the truth :.
Thrice armed is he who knows his
cause is just"
President wilson's attitude in
standing firm and not giving way to
the hysteria of demagoguery, repre-
senting public and politics, is emf
nently wise, right, excellent, and al
together lovely. The Presidents
action will go down in history to
the eternal credit of Woodrow Will
son.
Let this be carved on his monu-
ment:
HE SET HIS FACE FIRMLY
AGAINST THE TRANSATLANTIC
ION OF KRUPPERY INTO AMER
ICA.
We are a peaceful people. and the
way we can manifest our peaceful
proclivities and prove to the world
that we are what we are, is by fol-
lowing our regular occupations and
not increasing our armament
especially in view of the fact that
the expression, Preparation for
war spells peace" has been found
to be futile and fallacious.--Sanford
Herald.