The weekly soliphone., 1915-05-14

purposes is equally guilty with the man who actually
fires the fatal shot He aids and aoets encourages anu
upholds.
Yet how vastly different the relations OF nations.
While we, the masses Of the American people, view
with abject horror the conflict between Germany Aus
tria and Turkey upon the hand and England France
Serva Russia Belgium and the British possessions upon
the other-while scken at the thought that millions
of disnterested soldiers must charge the cannon
mouth and march before the devastating and Wltherngfs
crack of the machine most deadly OF all mod
ern instruments Of human destruction congratulate
ourselves that less brutal that we are noculaed
with different IDEALS that less bloodthrsty tan
our European neighbors We wonder at their lack OF
brothery love- at their apparent disregard for the ties
of friendship and devotion which in times OF peace
bind men together at their fiendish passion for the
lowering of all standards of civilization We coddle and
coo and pat ourselves the back and decree that we
are not other Our sympathy goes out to the lit
tile children who daily being deprived OF protectors
Our sensibites rise to keen point OF disgust when
such outrages the sinking of the Lstania pepe
trated. We wonder how it is possible for sane men to
that bring them reward save the qualification OF
Ia passion for life that given by the Creator and
which no man has a legal right to take.
WE the chosen, the elect of the universe
only nation dsnteresed in the outcome of this Titanic
struggle
WE are they who bigger and broader and
better than
At least this is the story we tell children It is
periodicals 1t is the story which our national
pride to mount to high pitch 1t makes peaceful pat
riots Of 1t implants within hearts the firm con-
vction that only in the event of invasion would we
shoulder arms that only in defense Of God and Home
and Native Land is ustifiable condition. We de-
plore the crisis confronting England. Our hearts
bleed for Belgium and Servia for Austria, Russia, Ger
many and the Others We shed brny tears for the or
phans who must face the Old World without the guild
ing hand of father and mother. We would even open
treasure houses and give freely to the lame the halt
and the blind whose lives have been wrecked in what
they firmly believed necessary and imperative de-
citizens little later will endow the asylums where
and boys whose has been shattered by the
terrific explosion of twOon shells must exc out the
mainder of their pitiable existences In measure we
of the world for not WE the only first class power
not directly concerned in the upheaval convulsing
our neighbors across the waters?
And, perhaps, an endowment will go from the
Rockefeller interests who sell gasoline to the begerents
for in aeropane and submarine engines; from
high officials in the allied steel and iron industries who
sell the components of destruction.
Our government-we repeat, the only frst-class
power not directly concerned in the conflct-permits
Its citizens to traffic with England and France and Rus
STA in millions OF dollars worth of shot and shell for
in the humiliation of Germans and Austrians
We sit placidly idle and supply wheat and corn and
meat to England for in her warfare against Ger
many, and bless God that we are neutral.
We ship cotton to Liverpool, and cotton is made in
Ito guncotton
We ship copper to the allied ports, and copper is
made into projectiles.
We supply Steel iron, and hundred other neces-
sites which the allies must have they hope to conquer
Germany.
We call this neutrality because is the business of
the purchaser to carry these wares across the waters
The burden of delivery is not upon the American mills
but upon the allies. And the allies control the sevenA
Seas
We cry in loud voice that we are ready to sell