The Dickinson press., 1916-06-24
France to square up with Germany
for the defeat of that fateful year.


for the defeat Of that fateful year.
No government really wanted war
Though parties have been there in
every country, in Germany especially
who adhered to the old ~naturalistie
Interpretation Of life and saw in
deadly combats the only solution OF
rivalry, the bulk of the civil popula.
ton in every country were adverse tc
believe in it and advocated the more
civilized way of letting vitality and
intellectually decide for the victor
1t was the hysteria, the strenuous.
ness Of both the diplomatic and mill
tary competition of the two groups OF
countries, and it was the evident
hopclessness on the part of those
who were compelled, by taxes, tc
sustain the former, which was direct
ly responsible for the acceptance OF
the deadly combat as against the bet
ter will of letting evolution do its
part.
The common people all over the
continent passed the words freely tc
each other during the fifteen years
preceding the war, that there is nc
hope Of q friendly adjustment; that
the military machines which con-
sumed the best the nations produced
in flesh and means, cannot be climi-
mated without a general, q catastro-
phical war, which would dispose OF
the clements that compose it and
and make it live and grow.
This belief was justified by the
fact that it was deemed impossible to
dissolve or limit the armed forces
without the bringing about Of in
ternal conditions bordering on econo-
mic bankruptcy. The thousands of
families Of officers and officials Of the
army, the thousands Of families OF
tradesmen and shopkcepers who lived
from the garrisons, the thousands OF
families who were deriving their
livelihood directly IL Indirectly from
the military-all these thousands up
on thousands of families would have
to be taken care Of by the government,
which already was overwhelmed with
the various cares for the bureaucratic
and other machines, and which could
have done nothing for the released
host Of human material from the
military, without attempting a rcvo-
luton of conditions which, like all
conditions, are ingrOWn and the very
sinews of a national existence.
And thus, when the volcano burst
open down in Sarajevo, the common
people in all continental Europe,
prepared by expectation for and sat
isfied as to the necessity of this war,
were the ones who forced their gov
ernments to act. Diplomacy had
created such delicate conditions that
the clamor Of the masses, the at
tempted bravado of the governments
to please the masses, was deemed SUI
ficient initiative for war by others,
and it led to what ever since took
place in Europe.
Once the war, this general catas-
trophic war for which it was known
long before it commenced, burst open,
the governments of the various
countries involved have been busy
trying to excuse themselves as to
the responsibility for war, and en-
deavoring to square themselves up
before their own people. Parties
here and there, of the old Naturalist
tic and the newer Nietzsche schools
have come into dominance and per-
formed acts which more than the
war itself will sit in judgment over
them and aid capitally in their doom.
Already the people in the warning
countries are taking the reins Of
government in their own hands.
Necessity, the wonderful excus by
which all is possible and ell approved,
has already effected a kind of gov
eminent ownership in Germany,
Austria-Hungary and France. When
the war ends-and end it will in
agreements along the line indicated
at the head of this article; viz: the
unification of all German provinces
of Austria with Germany and giving
to her of colonies, for which she will
cede Alsace-Lorrain and acquiesce in
the establishment Of independent
states in her old path to the east,
with Constantinople going to Russia,
there will be state ownership of land,
of factories, of mines, Of communica-
ton, of distribution, Of everything
worth owning, established in at least
three of the most important CONT
mental countries. And, it will be
nigh impossible to return to "status
quo ante" because, with industry dis
arranged, commerce practically dead,
the masses of those who now fight,
who make ammunition, who by mil
lions are engaged by the govern
ments to work on necessities of war,
all those will have to be given work
and livelihood after the war ceases
And the governments will have to re-
tain all of which they took possession
during the war, in order to give
work to those hosts who, otherwise.
would revolt because of unemploy-
ment' and hunger.
It is estimated that so far, SIX
millions of people have been killed
in the war. The number of those
manned and variously disabled, is
given as amounting to eighteen mil
lions. Twenty millions will thus be
eliminated from the competition in
the producing field, but three-fourths
of these will have to be fed and
clothed, cared for, and the govern
ments will have to do the feeding:
clothing and caring. They will need
all the natural resources they have in
hands now, and they will be unwilling