Norwich bulletin., 1915-03-03
TO THE EDITOR
pr. Greens Lecture.

MT. Editor: Allow me to pay my respects to pr. Thomas Green and his recent lecture here. He reminds one very much of the man who was going to have peace, if he had to fight for it. And so he goes around fighting both God and man in the name of the peace movement. Peace can only come through fighting the devil. Billy Sun day is doing more for. the cause Of peace than pr. Green is. Dr. Green gives four causes for the present war, when really there are only two. and one of these is-the Turk. This war has been slowly crystallizlng ever since the Turkish power broke down and It became evident that it would some day lose all it's European territory. Who would get this territory? Teuton or Slav? Germany or Russia? How can any one claim that it is race antpathy when Teuton and SlaV are hghtnS shoulder to shoulder in the Austrian army in order to overthrow Slav Servia and gain this disputed territory? Then he says another cause is Russia S greed. Russia wants enough Turkish territory to gain an ice-free port. All the other nations have one. l can see that Russia is especially greedy to want one, too. But Germany and Austria say: "No! We want that ter ritory.' They are like the little boy who accused his brother of being sell fish and. when asked why, said: Be cause he took the biggest piece of pie, and I wanted that myself" Another cause, he claims, is Frances spirit of revenge. Forty-fVe years ago Bis marck picked a quarrel with France and he-not Napoleon-caused the Franco-Prussian war. Then, to quote Dr. Green, he went back to Berlin with one billion dollars of French gold in his pocket and two French provinces u1rder his arms which he picked up on the way. Would Dr. Green, I wonder, Iyi Y~H who broke into his home and stole all his money and then kidnapped two of his children? Under the circumstances, France has been remarkably patient. As the fourth cause, he names Jealousy between England and Germany. eS, undoubtedly Germany is jealous. In a new book, one of the most notable his torical works of this generation, and dealing with the Revolutionary war, the author says: Never before in her history had England been so threaten ed. France was openly at war with her, and Frederick the Great, at the height of his power and laying secure ly the foundations of modern Germany, was secretly plotting and hoping TOT her downfall" But this jealousy did not prevent their fighting together at Waterloo. No, the reason England is so hated today in Germany is because she has stood in the way of Germany and Austria's easy acquisition of the baIkanS. Sne lldS Stoou ouC AoA InS liberty and independence of these small states. After 6he first Balkan war, when they haw freed themselves al
 great cost from the tyranny of the Turk, what did Austria do? Annexed
 Bosnia and Herzegovina and thus caused the second Balkan war and the revolt in these two provinces. She sent the archduke there to be assassi mated, so as to give her an excuse to attack Servia and annex her also Rolled in this, she and her friend and
 adviser ally themselves with the bar
 barous Turk in order to conquer and hold the territory among them. In one breath Dr. Green says that all the other European nations are only gettlne what they deserve for letting the Turk remain in power and massacre his subjects so long as they have and ther
 says that the United States should helI the Turk. Consistency. thou art 2 l jewell Yes, this hippant Dr. Greer | delivers a tirade against the Vermont town that is sending armor and ammu- putting down the Turk. He evidently ! has forgotten how Russia has always
 stood by the United States against the | world. When George III appealed tt 1 Catherine II of Russia to lend him sol l diers to put down the rebellion 1T 1 America, she refused. Again in 181: Russia offered to mediate between II: and England, and in 1863 she prevented
 England and France from intervening | with us. She sold us Alaska. Nations
 no more than individuals should b' ! guilty of the crime of ingratitude. Ant Christian nation should not be { traitor to it's God and commit thu | crime of the twentieth century-that O. | helping to re-estab1ish the Turkisl l power. The peace movement is al
 right in it's place, but one does no | need to become a monomaniac on thu
 subject. The prohibition of the sal'
 of munitions of war is perfectly prope for all the nations together to discuss and adopt after this war is over. I | they would all agree to it, it migh
 become an Irresistible force" As i 1 is now, the lack of this agreement ere | ates an "immova,ble body" of common l sense.
 | CALEB CHURCH.
 Feb. IS. 1915.