TaÌˆgliche Omaha tribuÌˆne. [volume] (Omaha, Nebr.) 1912-1926, 1915-09-11

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right 10 develop her fstoufret on
the basis 81 that equality shieh has
Always been one 81 Great Bfitain's
most cherished watehwogda The
danger has newer been i national
one@merey the risk Of lower div
blends and less profit incurred BY 4
small minority Of industrial capital.
ists whose monopoly Of certain
Wofld-markets was threatened by
the enormous progress made Of late
years by their German competitors.
This u the real reason why the
whole Of Europe has been SCI on
ire. The worid-war. SO far as
Great Britain Is concerned, Is purely
and simply a--business war. The
Yellow Press, which Is entirely de.
| voted TO serving the interests Of the
business world, unfortunately for IL
self. let the cat out Of the bag be-
fore the war was a week old. X
instituted a campaign Tor the cap
ture OF German trade. The tinselly
| watchwords with which the British
nation had been caioled into ap-
I0roval OF the action Of the Govern
| Mept were for the moment forgot
ten. The naked commercialism of
the enterprise was exposed to view.
Unfortunately, however, the British
public did not grasp the situation.
The road leading to the shambles
continued to be thronged by stall
wart youths. Britain failed to COM
| prehend that the millionaire had
once more asserted himself. Was it
in vain that the great, pure-minded
Laureate cried;
Tho many a light shall darken,
and many shall weep
For those that are crushed in the
clash Of Earring claims,
Yet Gods just wrath shall be
/. wreak'd on a giant iiar"l
Yes, for Britain today is in league
with the giant liar" and the lust
of gain in the spirit of Cain, "
marches relentlessly towards its
| goal over the dead bodies Of the
flower Of British manhood.
MADE In Germany"-that is the
key to the present struggle. The
foreign policy Of Great Britain has
become the plaything Of COM
ercialism: national interests have
been subordinated to the m%omentary
interests of a Northcliffe or a
Churchill. Remove that baublel"-
this war has given British Par
iiamentarism the coup de grace
and threatens to dig the grave Of
British democracy.
Peace setting under her olive, and
slurring the days gone by,
| When the poor are hovelId and
hustled together, each sex like
swine,
| When only the ledger lives, and
when only not all men lie:
! Peace in her vineyard yesl -
but a company FORCES the wine."
Was the consciousness Of the rot
tenness OF the social fabric in any
way responsible for the final resolve
Of those who hesitated to plunge
their country into the unfathomable
abyss Of a conflict as unreasonable
as it was unproyokedS Were they
conscious Of the anomaly of the
social order prevailing in Great
Britainl And the alliance with the
giant liar" has il so infected the
British character with the poison Of
political unscrupulousness that the
glory of British manhood is driven
to the shambles to conceal the
fostering sores Of social injnstieel
Was this one of the subordinate
aims pursued by those who re-
solved to plunge Europe into the
horrors Of a fratricidal war;
The history Of the world-conflict
provoked by the short-sighted rash
ness OF an opportunist Cabinet has
yet % be written but the questions
| have asked must be answered now
before ii is too late. The ans-
wers must be given by the only
forum entitled thereto--the British
public. II the answers are in the
affirmative, the system responsible
for the present critical position of
the British people must be swept
away, to make room for one which
shall regard private interests as en-
tirely subordinate TO national wei.
fare.
The British statesmen who al
lowed their country to be plunged
into the whirlpool of a struggle the
consequences Of which-whether re-
garded from the moral Oh the poll
itical point Of wiew-are incalculable,
based their calculations on know
ledge which has proved to be the
most astounding ignorance. We
have only to recall the boastful
words-not distinguished by any
particular evidence Of good taste