The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-04-30

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 of Germany just as much as they 1 feared it's economic prowess, and the
 word went out that Germany must
 be destroyed.
 Carthage Phoenician colony,
 peacefully seeking trade and profits
 was a menace to no country. But
 Carthage the grea. sea and land
 power, oyerrunning Spain and | Africa, threatening Rome. produc- ing Hannibals and Hamilcars and
 Hasdrubals right at the doors ot
 Rome, meant that one or other ot 1 those nations would be destroyed. Not unreasonable was the argument
 into the Senate and told them that
 they had been plucked in the Garth
 aginian vineyards right at the edge
 of Roman territory, and reasonable
 enough his reiterated ruthless de-
 claration that Carthage must be de-
 stroyed. Living by the sword, it
 lldt lO ptlISu Ds tAC oNoIo.
 The maiority who support war on
 Germany reason that the spirit ot
 Germany is the spirit of Bernhardi. And there can hardly be any ques-
 tion but that the antagonism against
 Germany today is due just to the fact that Germany was a military atoiv nG CD well ordered. In the sword Germany , placed it's faith and it seems to be l determined by world of foes that 5 by the sword shall Germany perish. l It is part of the irony of things that to bring this about the nations 9 bent upon the destruction of Ger l manys militarism have had to adopt s despotic miitarism themselves as keenly bladed and as severe as I anything that German militarists have been able to devise. Moreover, = it is not in evidence that any secur-
 ity remains that this militarism that S is to be adopted to crush Germany
 
 . lined up against the Central Powers. e It may not be lost sight of that C all wars were in the past undoubt- h edly accompanied by reaction. ' In Europe the Wars of the Roses | ended in a Tudor despotism. The { wars of the Parliament ended in the
 nd G five years war ennobled Toryism
 The seven years war dignified auto c cracy The Napoleon wars ended in 9 a Holy Alliance. The Franco f Prussan war saw junkerdom tri- n umphant in Germany and only the $ republican instinct that had been fed | almost ninety years before by the j. revolution in France prevented > President and Marshal MacMahor e turning over the French republic tC o royalty.
 There has been much written tC e the effect that this present war vii f end in permanent peace and grea1 # progress. Many men who have the r. reputation of being thoughtful and $ far seeing authorities do not fee /. certain that the men who leave the e trenches ill Europe will turn agair C to their stalls to be worked anc l. goaded until even fall from early h morning. This is all conjecture 0 pure and simple, and a dangerou r. prophecy in the light of past history l. our only guide to the future.
 q It may be indeed that having ex It perienced the gruelling discipline O 1t applied force men will trust in i
 above all things. If men are t i- spend years in learning that give ,e force enough, applicable violenc II enough, strength enough, powe le enough, they can accomplish any Id thing they are likely to put that be ID lief to strange uses.
 Id When the Bastille fell, the Frenc le canaille knew that nothing, nc 3 forts and cannon and stone wall in may defy the armed attack. It mad ne possible every revolutionary trl re umph thereafter.
 to So, it may be believed, that me
 who have spent their days in learr in ing that strength and arms may d al anything and dare everything. the lk are like to make novel application n- of the theory of the use of force he For that reason it has been al III. gued that men will return from tn " trenches in no mood to undergo tn