The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-08-22
IS WAR WITH
c { R NJ A n !
INEVITABLE?
CLARENCE DARROW SEES WAR
WITH BOTH MEXICO AND GER
MANY - WILSON TOO LENIENT
HE SAYS.

Denver, Colo, Aug. q Clarence
DarrOw, socialist, author aud lawyer,
the man whose philosophical convic-
tions have never interfered with his
common sense, nor his common sense
with his hopes of the great tomor-
row. came to Denver yesterday on
some legal business and found time
to talk of war and politics in his own
original vein.
Darrow, it should be understood is
socialist, but "a socialist with a
difference lie does not believe that
socialism will produce "heayeu upon
earth He does not think it will
make all men good and all women
beautiful He does not believe that
the capitalist is some kind of pred
atory ogre "wading to wealth through
the blood and tears of the worker -
He does not think that all trades un-
ionists are angels and all employers
devils He holds with Kipling and a
million other thinking people that we
are all men in a world of men. -
And he advocates the ultimate state
and national ownership of all public
utilities merely because public owner
ship in his view viii be more ef.
liciont and more economical than pri.
vate ownership. And when he talks
about any public question he always
stimulates thought upon il and in.
vites a new point of view.
In Great Minds.
"Thc great thing In the minds Of
men today" he said, "is the war in
Europe and the possibility of war
with Mexico. SO far as the Euro
pean war is concerned, there Is moth
ing about It to astonis' any man
who has studied the Kaiser and his
Prussian bunch ! don't think the
war was provoked AS some men have
said by capitalism. | think it was
provoked by the Kaiscr's military
supporters.
They prepared for war. They want.
ed war. They got war. And they
will get more war than they want
before they are through Fundament-
ally Germany has, so far, won moth
ing. She has spent men and millions.
She has deprecated her currency.
She has been driven from the sea.
She has lost all her foreign trade.
She has lost all those colonial posses
sions she spent years in getting. She
has Mortified the world and forfeited
its respect and friendship by her as
sassination of civilians on sea and
land. She is like a drunken fighter
inviting the world to come on, and
the world is coming on with a
steadier momentum all the time.
And her attempts to interfere with
our sale and shipment of arms and
munitions to the allies are all plain
bunk We have a clear right to
sell those things to the allies and
| hope we will stand up for it.
81 think that we have teen pusil-
Luminous with Germany too long.
think that we nave stood too much
already. l think we should have pro
tested right away and with all our
might when Germany broke her con-
tract with the civilized world and in
yaded Belgium. Mr.. Roosevelt said
that we should have entered that
protest and, for once, / agree with
him. There was no excuse for the
invasion of Belgium any more than
there was an excuse for the sinking
of the Lusitania. Those acts have
put the Kaiser and his bunch beyond
the pale of civilization.
Wilson Has Not Protested.
"Mr. Wilson, as we know, did not
protact auainct tho invasion of Ral.