Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-10-03
OUR NEW PROBLEMS.

days ago The Nonpareil discussed ed
itorially the future which faces the
United States. The Importance of
the subject makes it worthy of fur
ther emphasis. The problems which
this country will face during the
four years of next administration
will be filled with infinitely greater
difficulties than those which have
been met during the administration
of Mr.. Wilson.
The European war literally fore
ed prosperity upon us. There was
no possible way by which we could
escape the deluge. There was never
chance that we would get into the
struggle ourselves for no country in
Europe could afford to "take on
America" in addition to their enc
mics with which they were battling.
But what of the future? The Min
neapolis Journal tersely states the
situation in the following para
graphs under the caption, Nation
alism Intensified:
"The astute Prince Won Beulow,
once imperial chancellor, recognizes
that the war which began for Ger
many as a national war, has become
| a national war for France, for Rus
STA, for Great Britain. Whether
made by diplomats or monarchs, is
now nothing to the point. The point
is that it cannot be stopped by kais-
er, or car, or any ruler. The rage
of it, the extremity to which one
way or the other it will be pushed,
are explained by it's national charac-
ter.
Natonalism, except in Germany
and Japan, had seemed in process of
ldeliquescence all over the earth. A
cosmopolitan spirit seemed pervas-
i've, the altruistic side of which was a
humanitarian sensibility, the sinis-
ter side Questioning of ideals. But
nationalism in the furnace of the
war has been reborn into a furious
strength, which will persist long af-
ter peace. We Americans will find
ourselves ringed with nationalism,
Jealous, fervid, and we shall have
to answer with new spirit of our
own, or accept the disintegration
(which those alien ferments will
work in us.
Like produces like. What Ger
many with her standardization has
produced is equally violent fanatic
Iisms to oppose her own. Even when
the war is finished, hate will circle
her, because what she has inspired
lis hate of whole peoples. She has
hated, she is hated-inevitabl re-
suit! Instead of Zeppelins inducing
terror, they have provoked determin-
ed hatred. Instead Of "frightful-
ness" soaring her opponents, it has
maddened populations to furies such
as had seemed obsolete for modern
men. Civilized Frenchmen burn as
fiercely for revenge as do less civiliz-
ed Muscovites, and the English have
come to that cold rage which is i'm
placable. Enmity has been engen-
dered which never will be satisfied
with half-victory, and which may
not die out in half hundred years.
Perception of the ostracism which
awaits her following the war, in
duces Germany to forge, while she
can, that central economic bridge
stretching from Hamburg to Con-
stantinople. And, of course, the eff
fort provokes an answer from the
defeat the central zollverein in peace
after they have defeated the central
militarism on the field.
The United States will find itself
facing a new world altogether when
peace is declared. And if we fancy
that then we are to drop back into
the old easy conditions that obtain
ed until August, 1914, we shall be
woefully mistaken. The ablest
Craftsmanship and most. astute di-
plomacy that we can summon to the
conduct of our affairs will be none
too good for this nation the four
years to come"
America needs at the helm of the
ship of state for the next four years
a tried and true pilot-a man cour-
|ageous and unafraid-a statesman
of large vision. Charles f. Hughes
comes as near meeting the require
ments as any man in the country. He
has but two peers as courageous
and far seeing statesman-Roose-
welt and Root AS president he will
have the support and advice of both
of these men.
With God all things are possible,
but not in the way men imagine it.
They are possible only in conformity
with his eternal nature.-Hawkeye.