Iditarod pioneer., 1915-05-29
WAR AND NATIONAL DEVELCpMEN

When Bernharc and other German ars following the lead of other and greater German teachers and thinkers startled the world with their doctrines eXang warfare the greatest factor in the moral mental and artistic p of nation thinking people especay m this country pckered up their eyebrows and decatofy manner styled them extremists if not madmen But while Bernhard was brought prominence because ot the great world winch o lowed after the publication of hs book he by means alone in his gorcaon of the god Mars. At the me of the military demonstration against the Mexican dator uera by the United States publications throughout the United States found occasion to point cut the national which armed conflict between nations brings the srtaee heom unseishness and nobility of character developed the love of country displayed Tn of national peril and the call for individual sacrifice for the com welfare One of these writer's redectnS the sentiments 0t many people al that time sad:
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 To many will come as a shock recall that John Ruskn the great English critic and auhoT long l869 to sent mens almost identical h those set forth by Ireitsche and Bernnard On the subject of the necessity of for the and logical de- veopen of national greatness But unlike the Ieutonc writer's Rus kin what seems almost inspired ouburst of prophecy suggests wholesome substitute for warfare the working out o problems ot political economy along lines of manaan and reason. inc to lowing description by Raskn of the and fall of nation might a most be mistaken for page from Bernhard':
 and imagination They live lives @ harI by e2% M and by grand ] lIx, % own army, head always their first soldier Ious or Daneo T"sH Great Es7p1s3 je% Greek Roman German first oidsr or they progressive power Then, after great military they their of dTea5s 'nd
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 And here is what the great English philosopher said with regard the influence of warfare on the nation:
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 And foer noe s which vital to US in the present crisis war to be made will vi You may be scientific as you be the mob that can pay more for s acid and unower will at last its bullets hro% acid faces people the choice of fate | systematically defend property either either or its ha5pss ass, the nqnud that breeding and @ @ P an @ @ W" 35se 5 go hs % for % line @ G @ n o long % ners; and have still s to dig once exhausted or pot ] Elsewhere we shall be abolished But think wisely while there yet time and resolve " to and economy and setting political quabs how many creatures friendly and faithful other we @ s ~a @ @ @ & & @ B9 @ G & ] % 1s M @ Fq2 % % nor @ n % M pFsT1 nls hold it's own against freoalx
 Yet spite of the fact that the military necessarily be the Vne nahon and consequence become the leader culture there hope the thought that be necessary sustain the virtues which make nations great elevate mankind above the level of brute beasts Heretofore ater-day suggests, thought has been only attaining peace protecting against its germs of decay Surely with all thought turned from mananng ther integrity all eaousles their border ines mothered the nations of the world will deliberately set them selves to the task of keeping alive the fine qualities of mankind they keep alive the qualities that make the good solder.
 f. be generally believed the reply of the German gov- eTnment to the of the United States protesting against the de-