Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-11-11
Editorial Comment
Ea-or. ssia5e.

Sonez.t-- which was sure 20 hap
pm n ,ne British House q Lords
sncner - later has happened Lord
Lo-sbu-1 speaks:
I vas TOLD TWO Io1,as ago that
- - 80 me1 had been killed or dis
abled for life. MalC5,udes have been
sGc=S5 % ynis rGmbsr since, and i -he
c111.c- continues Indefinitely revolu-
-.c- . c1a-cay may follow IN Europe
Unless rne common sense Of
lz-kind prevails before the worse
comes. 1Ae great cont1-eEt o. Europe
! VII u little better than a wilderness
E,@opied % cid men. women and chill
1csr-
Lo7ds though they are e few Ct hem
2-s intelligent enough 70 Sc thai this
. ecsaess cannot GO oa indefinitely
WiItou; defeating the very purposes
tor ahich they profess 20 IL contend
Ing
II means ,aa- tte better minds Of
/ Europe begin 10 80 the criminal lev
] .-E q na-.onaIs,!c brass about -fght-
ing - the last penny and the last drop
8. bIccd :
=
rs s3c.e-irg stage
! means that II - berg conducted
= Ic'ss greace- than any possible
gain
! = means that Europe ! committing
suicide TT machinery"
: EtH6 - secret terror has se.zed e.
erT oslAg=Ten, government i mus.
~i7 q parish Obviously all cannot
. VIII And the ruling faction Of 10 sin
gle nation ~ wa- 6ares 10 return
+ @-pty-hsnded- To do so IS liz own
c@ati sents-ce- L prefers therefore.
I II tie name o. all TIA. IS nigh sound
! ing 70 20 On signing The death ser
fences % millions % is OUT people
A7d these las, drops q blood ard
| last pennies" which they 50 bombzs-
/ t1caEy pledge are Eot their own: are
NJ even their peoples aloaethey are
| h c1Irlon Le-i1a5ie q u al.
y : time - stop wondering which
E-cE will win Il : time 70 start
wh-cer!ng Whether anything will be
ssft 70 IL Won. That ether side can
VII dec!s-:ely. : unlikely. Germany
! has me ability. The Allies have The
! resources TIE German Government
ccrld probably dare % STOP nov. Tie
oche- Governments do no1 dare. Or
they dare stop only On terms which
the German Gove-1men. dare NJ,
grant
WHAT j: might cone % can b
gr'@zsed from what il mas come . in
che past
IN -E.s, al the end II the 81 Years
Wa. .rresto1r.hs ~ the German r,4o-
ple had persisted; forests had oye.-
zr1Eg7 farms; in towns. houses were
cf.n70lisned for drewood: an army Of
go" and 1900 vicious camp follow
rs proWied and p.llaged a. it, sole
means Of susrenarce. since il com
naanC@Ts could not pay il. ana there
would nave been little or nothing IN
/ buy i they could. This army was as
i HoHad nation wreaking hate Inst
/ and greed without restraint. PEOPLE
/ starved u death. eating grass. prison
az 'rera killed for food: eiobets were
fobneh FOL TIE same grisly purpose
: N 49,. certain districts in GERMANY
Were Just about recovered from those
raF4ges
vt the % Years WAY vas ,ro-
Claimed a. "a war for humanity.
and 80 i this war
Only. With improved mschi-ery. il
would no, now take o. wears r. Ia !,
The dread Of revolution and ANARCHY
= absqro- Not the least weird prank
u t4e war Il that II makes a Lord
/ 'aik Ike revolutionist. ard reYo-
iuti"nist talk like q Lord; j. makes
Lord LoSsburn talk like Gustav Herye
ana Gustav Herve Ia TX like Lord Lore
ourn Besides. more people perish in
one Gay Of this war than persisted in
/ the whole Reign Of Terror dt,rinz the
French Revolution The ASTONISHING
thing IS 70 hear people in Europe and
America, who two years ago would
| nave shuddered at the suggestion
| frankly declaring that. COMPARED with
/ TINS war, revolution in Europe might
| nave been cheap al the price. Indsed
"hen the state machinery Of nearly
ING "hoie OF Europe is organized for
"es sfuction- how puny look the dis
/ tuFDances Of the Paris Ierroris,s
T! TIE sickening slaughter: the strain
on 'nterna tional finance: the weaker-
\ ing OF the white race as against vel.
I io"--to suppose that this pace can he
| kept UP indefinitely" ia prepostero,,s
II would mean ruin for US all
| The one practical thing We "a, do
| Is TO demand a permanent Conference
| o. heu'rais to keep on proposing terms
Oh peace Until some basis can no
| reached
/ Faiing that. il is by no means in
conceivable that time may come /,
Europe when revolution at it's wors,
would look like Boston Tea Par,v
the Governments of Europe are ,aY.
ing iong-sufering humanity To
breaking point. They should hewa-a
lest revolution starts in the very heat
OF their armies. There is a limit ev.,,
! to horrors.
Uncle Dudley. in Boston Globe