The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-02-07
Vars End Nor Would
Be Horrible Calamity
lDr Crapsey, lJnfrocked Rector.
Tells Socialist Militarists
Must All Die First.

ttlLADHLPHIA. Pa, FEB. Cit
NsHtll1 pc 2 calamity, too horrible for
& contemplate and world wide In
~ scope for the great war In Europe
( ~ END today, this week, or next
mpntA IN the opinion OF Dr.. Alger-
non 3. Crapsey, present parole offIc-
4 er g che state Of New York and for
meftya Protestant Episcopal clergy
mn. who was tnfrocked because a.
nae liberal beliefs I 4
* tfapsey expressed these views
d u ne course Of q lectue delivered at
Y. e BROAD street theater on the pass
qt civilization. under the auspices
me Socialist Literary Society. He
gsigeves the greatest war OF history
y Louie go on until every man Of ey-
/ S5y nation involved who is imbueu
VIII tue military spirit lies dead on
& we neid OF battle. In his opinion that
1iS:spom essential and inevitable.
= stsoctor Crapsey ridiculed the idea
{ ! me present war is In conflict with
s.sctsl!lSation. Instead, he stated pos,-
5iyely That 1t is the logical outcome
tqf vibration, which, he asserted. is
essentially the glorification Of m,,r-
Hers done IN the name Of country. an
Sion Of the right 81 the strong
70 destroy the weak.
~ one OF the great ironies OF
3 tate, he said. Christianity condemns
thzation; every so-called civilized
n4tion has protested a religion II has
never attempted to practice-Chris-
9iantty, the worship OF the King or
I Peace, when 1t is the king of war
which civilized nations nave always
bowed down to-
& summing that the European war
sgnlnue until the annihilatlon of mil
atartsts on the battleneld is accom-
9dshed, Doctor Crapsey foresees n,
me END Of this war the end or all
WITS and civilization. Likewise the
END Of all kings ana enperors. mon
srchies and empires. The rise NJ n
herman united states instead OF a
sssslman empire; a British united
Aptates with equalization Of land dis
Ir1putfon, Instead OF a British empire
specialization of the world.
Citliization By-PrOduct.
Doctor Crapsey said:
4 ;Of all creatures God ever created
man Is the most predatory, and Of
~ races OF men, the most highly civ
4 uize0 is the most predatory. Civil
ilzation has meant war from its incep-
LION TO the present time. The very
essence OF civilization is the right to
conquer to make 1t a glory and honor
to murder men.
civilization has two by-products-
the Intel lectual and artistic lie. ant
these are by-products only. WHAT'S
me trouble in the world today? It's
merely the Logical expression OF the
Old idea, the right to conquer The
Elsnts 70 do In the name of state or
nation, that which II done individually
must brand the Individual as degrad-
ed hoyrible. Do the same in the
name OF your country and it ennobles
4 you: That's civilization. The trouble
rs that the government has always
owned the people and not the people
the government. q 4
The great principles Of civilization
are not being violated today any-
where in the world. They are mere
W being carried to their logical con-
clasion the nations are simply as
seHng their right to conquest.
s,ivilizatton Is going. We are sens
1pS tne belief that government belongs
TO man. The time Is coming when
such another war will be impossible
We are near the era when the whole
people will refuse to permit a man
or small set OF men to jeopardize their
happiness. The individual big men
and the small sets brought on this
war. But they are being killed of.
Must Wipe Out Militarists.
Before this war can stop the ducal
classes, the mobility, the fosterers Of
civilization, the militarists, must be
wiped out. They are paying a part
OF the price now on, the battleields.
and with their lives will continue to
pay. For either side to lose its grip
would mean its determination.
The most highly developed INDUS
tfially little country in the world to-
day lies bleeding from many wounds,
Almost wiped out. 1t will not die. 1t
VIII remain throughout the ages as a
perpetual witness to civilization, the
right OF the strong nation to trample
the weak. But the time is coming
when the strong nation cannot tram
pie down the weak-when its very
weakness will protect 1t.
When this war Is over and mill,
tarists are gone forever there will
never be another war. Civilization
will have died. The new era will
have come. It's coming, but the war
~ tremendous propulSive force.'