New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-01-23
PATRIOTISM IS HATRED.

the future.
PATRIOTISM IS HATRED.
1t is first Of all through education that this
new patriotism will be established, but this de-
mands that women themselves take no part in
national egotsm. AS long as the most ignorant
and crudest expression of hatred Of peoples is
called patriotism, as long as women will havea
feeling of pride over their countrys evil deeds
against other countries, they will not educate
the younger generation TO a right international
sense OF justice.
Neither will they educate them to detest
brutal methods as a means as long as they
themselves use so-called methods Of force
Mothers talk about such methods just like men
who believe that the wars brutal measures
cannot be helped, because human nature cannot
be transformed. and they can be kept In order
only by means Of external force. Even mothers
who are anxious to work for peace believe, FOR
instance, that il the nursery when the bigger
brother has struck the little brother she must
punish him as the one way Of making him feel
the same kind OF suffering that he himself has
inflicted This is the kind Of thinking OF the
ancient savage, EYE for eye and tooth tor
TOOTH
Civilized peoples" act just as savagely when
they use bodily punishment as means OF
force. The movement against domestic disci-
pine. corporal punishment, penalty OF death, is
an outgrowth OF clearer understanding OF the
brutality in the above ancient savage con-
ception. =
In education and in war force as means
still survives as a necessity for an end in view,
and as long as force as means is accepted
we will never arrive at the rational. AS long
as we are armed with means OF punishment and
destruction the brain will be useless in finding
the rational, i. G., the most suitable, means
What would be the rational for instance, when
the big brother leases the little brothers and
sisters? That the former his prayers disre-
garded, is separated from the little ones for
whole day so that he may suffer the conse-
quences Of his "unsocial" conduct just as GRIM
inals have to suffer it in prison. In the same
way, an individual nation can be corrected
when it attempts to disturb international peace
by a world organization which humanity has
formed Only when separation from an inter-
national exchange proves itself trutless does
the force of war become unavoidable, just as
recourse must be taken to punishment when
the individual proves that he cannot be reached
by any other means Of discipline.
1t certain that among most children one can
by rational means instill in them the truth that
by acts Of unlawfulness or deceit they deprive
themselves of social JOY and mutual trust
chds self-control can grow this way, although
more slowly than by punishment and the in
hibiticns thus learned will DC exercised
throughout life. Such an education will remain
in the mind OF the adult and will grow into
voluntary selicontrol and sincere obedience
70 the demands OF society, and from this state
Of mind of the individuals OF nation will an
international self-control be developed.
This will not be, as during the peace period
preceding the worlds war. peace forced only
through fear of war, just as the sef-control OF
the child or Of the one DESTROYS 10 commit
violence from fear Of spanking No, inter
national sef-control will then rest upon the
conviction that no individual nation has any
thing 70 gain, but much TO lose, in the violation
OF laws internationally agreed upon and pro-
tected. For such possible crimes one must
still for a long time conceive a preparedness
for war which would be held in common be-
tween nations as the ultimate expression OF
power.
But, with the state, as with the criminal or
the child. the ultimate or rather the brutal
method must be considered as unauthorized as
long as there are other methods that might
prove successful which have been lett untried.
Only by UNFOLDING this as principle. only by
making public opinion condemn all external
violence where spiritual methods can be used
to attain ones end will one, as far as the in
dvidual rights OF children, Of members of
society and of nations are regarded. see: in
real earnest to find the best method TO safe
guard this truth, in the same way as self-disci-
pine upon which the rights Of others Is based
is inculcated and preserved by law among in.
dividuals and nations