The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-07-25
.sPEACE AT ANY PRICE GETS
ANOTHER SHOT FROM TEDDY

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l they mean that a court containing
Judges from Japan, Siam. China, Ven.
i ezuela, Colombia and Ecuador, as wei!
Il as from the European powers. snail
say whether or not we have a right
to decide what immigration shall come
Ito our shores and here establish cttt-
lzenship? The Californian VINO uoes
mot believe In arbitrating the ques-
i ton whether there shall be such I'M
limited immigration of Asiattcs to
i California is guilty of the grossest
bad faith when he champions or fails
Ito condemn sucn proposals, when ne
votes for or approves OF the thirty
odd peace commission treaties recent
lily passed by the present administra-
ton. hold that to arbdtrate the
lquestion whether we should or should
lnot allow the unlimited immigration
lof Asiatics to our shores would be
Idreadfuily wrong 1t is an almost
Equally serious wrong to conclude
treaty specifically binding us to ac-
Icept such arbitration, and then to re-
lpudiate the treaty.
i Cowed by Mllitarism.
i Now, the fact that these male and
female professional peace enthusiasts
who have screamed so busily for
lpeace during the last year have been
/ afraid to make any concrete protest
against wrong is doubtless due pri-
j marily to sheer fear on their part.
They were afraid of the trouble and
effort implied in acting about Mex
siico. Above all, they are afraid OF
/, Germany. Those of them who are
| politicians are afraid OF the German
| American vote; for these professional
pacif1sts have no sense OF national
/ honor and are great encouragers or
I! hyphenated Americans. But in add
ton they are terrorized, tney are
cowed, by the ruthless spirit of Ger
4 man militarism. The Berlin Lokal
4 Anzeiger spoke as follows after the
sinking OF the Lusitania:
/, we do not wish to gain the love of
1.-THE Americans, but We desire to be
respected by them The loss of the
Lusitania will earn that respect for
us more than hundred battles won
on land.
OF course, when the Lokal Anzeiger
spoke OF inspiring respect" in Amer
lea. what it really meant was that 1t
would inspire fear. The murder OF
women and children does not inspire
respect; but, unfortunately, it may in
jspire fear AS matter of fact,
think it did inspire fear among our
lpacifists. There are plenty of Amer
licans like myself, who immensely ad-
mire the efficiency of the Germans IN
Industry and in war, the efficiency
with which in this war they have sub
lordinated the whole social and indus
trial activity OF the state to the sue
Icessful prosecution of the war, and
who greatly admire the German peo-
pie, and regard the German strain as
one of the best and strongest strains
in our composite American blood;
but who feel that the German gov
eminent, the German governing class
and domineering disregard for the
rights of others as to demand protest.
/ and if necessary further action on our
part. Unfortunately, this ruthless and
brutal efficiency has, as regards many
men of the pacifist type achieved
precisely the purpose it was intend
ed to achieve. AS part of her pro-
gram, Germany has counted on the
effect OF terrorism upon all men OF
soft nature. The sinking OF the LUIS
itania was intended primarily as ter
rorism; just as the use of poison gas
| in the trenches "a use defensible
only if one also defends the poison
| ing of wells and the torture of pris-
loners) was intended as terrorism. The
object-terrorization not been
achieved as regards the fighting men
Italy and Servia. But it has had a
distinctive effect in cowing timid per-
Lsons everywhere. I do not believe it
would have any effect in cowing the
bulk of our people if our people could
be walked up to what has happened;
but have no question that it has had
| a very great effect in cowing that
talked loudest about peace at any
price. The people who say of the
lpresent administration that sat any
rate, it has kept US out of trouble with
Mexico or Germany: the people who
say that we ought not to act about
the Lusitanfa; the people who Lay we
ought not to have acted on behalf of
Belgium, include in their ranks very
many of the persons who are cowed
by Germany, who are afraid of what
Germany would do if we stood up for
our rights or for the rights OF other
and weaker peoples.
On the Same Level.
Recently, in certain circles. some
popularity has been achieved by a
song entitled Il Didn't Raise My Boy
to Be Soldier song which ought
always to be sung with companion
lpiece entitled 81 Didn't Raise My Girl
stand on precisely the same moral
/ level. This hymn, in condemnation of
courage, has been sung in music halls
and even in schools, with applause.
Think of such song being sung by
or of the mothers, sisters and wives
of the men who fought under Wash
Iington in the Revolution, or of the
men who fought under Grant and lee
1 In the Civil war! Those who applaud
such song are wholly out of place
at any patriotic celebration on Dec
toratfon day or the Fourth of July; and
most assuredly men of this abJecs
type will be easily affected by terror
Eism. The sinking of the Lusitania,
the destruction of Louvain. the shoot