The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1915-01-14
SENTIMENT AND SENSE

We Gull the following pertinent par
agraphs from Life, in regard to the
war and well worth considering:
The great unconquerable fact of the
great war is Belgium. She is the
crucifed country that is to save the
nations. They cannot let her go
down, they dare not, unless they all
go down with her. 1t is she that is
the damnation of Germany, and yet
that will be Germany's spiritual sal
walton in that Belgium's wrack Sc
cures it that Germany shall take the
medicine poured out for her. War
is dreadful. This modern machine
made war must especially be an
abomination before the Lord as it is
before men, but there is a worse
thing than war that kills the body,
and that is peace that destroys the
spirit and leaves the body fat.
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if he can conveniently get out of it,
but no wise person will dodge the call
if it is a true call. There are con-
Germs in life much more necessary
than living, but we get so insufer-
ably attached to the habit of life that
we are prone to neglect everything
that threatens to conflict with it.
is about armament. Germany may
be beaten. From the viewpoint of
what she undertook to do, she seems
beaten now. But she is not yet beat
en- back into Germany, and even
when that is accomplished there will
still be a lot of beating coming to
her before she is pulp. And even
when she has been beaten to pulp
if anyone out of England is san
guine enough to forsee that-it is
hard to see how she can be perma-
nently restrained from gradually re-
tricking her Socialist-Democrats and
her Kultur and going out on the road
again after loot. She can't be kept
in a cage; disembowled she would
make herself new Innings; her people
are too numerous to be destroyed, and
doubtless too valuable; nobody but
Prussia wants the job of governing
them. Essen can be blown to bits,
and probably will be, but that would
be mere poetry, and while it would
be nice, it would not hinder the great
German murder-mill from growing
again. What people will want if the
Allies win is assurance for the fu-
ture, for a generation or two that
the sleep of honest people in four
continents will not be disturbed by
the rattle and clang of the Krupp
FORCES in the night, getting ready to
blow the lid off the world. Holding
the Germans is going to be hard work
unless the Germans will turn in and
help. They are handy people, and j
they conclude, or can be induced tc
hold on to themselves, their assis.
lance will be much appreciated. The
/ practical way for them to show pro
mise of helping with their difficult
case is to democratize their govern
ment and let the more peaceable par
of their population have louder voic'
in determining their destinies.
Our anti-armament friends her,
who calculate that by the time it i
over there will be no efficient war
power left in Europe are. wrong
Whoever comes out on top over Their
will come out immensely strong il
trained troops and military imple
ments. 1t is worth remembering tina
these states after the exhausting fou
years of the Civil War were for tn
moment masters of the ablest mill
tary force in the world, and had onl
to whisper to Napoleon III to &c
his troops withdrawn from Mexico.