Mohave County miner., 1917-07-07
NATIONS CANNOT REMAIN NEUTRAL

THE great allies will be compelled soon to make repre-
 sentationS to neutral nations touching Wtaly i'm
 pOrtant aspect of the It IS true that these rep resentatons will be nomnay in the interest of the allies as against Germany but if the neuras will study the stu atiOn thoroughly they must come to the logical conclusion that they helping themselves when they help the allies to win the war
 When the United States the greatest neutral of them a drew the sword against Germany 1t was because the had reached such stage that neutrality mpoSsl be An attempt to maintain 1t would have been furnish ing aid and comfort to power that is trying to eXtngSh the light of human liberty The question is whether all other neutras not at the point where they should cast aside neutrality that is mockery and resolutey take their places alongside the nations that are determined to preserve the rights of mankind.
 Germany long ago threw aside the mask under which the started. The struggle is longer confined to questions of national rights and wrongs It is strug gle to determine whether not human rights shall sur These rights have been supposed to preeXist the human will It has been presumed by Americans at least that certain rights firmly established the fact that two and two make four Three years ago the United States would have been much surprised Germany attempt to abolish the multiplication table by brute force as to attempt to assert the divine right of Germany to dominate free peoples Now the apparently impossible has become the commonplace fact Mankind has reached the parting of the ways branch of which leads to uni versa freedom under government and the other to domination of the world line of bloody emperors who hold themselves responsible only to God of their c6ntrivance.
 This struggle concerns something more than nations national interests It concerns humanity itself Some of the human who have achieved their own liberty enjoying it under self-gOvernment engaged in death struggle to preserve the rights of all humanity Are they not entitled to cooperation from the peoples compos ing other natons The right of Brazians Argentnians NOrwegians Spaniards Danes and other neutras are just as much peril the rights of Americans America is fighting for the peoples of neutral nations as truly she fighting for the of Arizona or California It
 world war; with free side and despots on the other the despos overcome the free men who are fight ing they will the remnant of free men who are not fighting. Norway and Sweden and Brazil and the rest will pass under the yoke the moment the allies are de- feated.
 The free nation that does not join other free nations in combating the enemy is rendering aid to that enemy It is false to itself and is undermining its liberty There is no longer any such fact as true neutral ly The neutrality which the nations trying to pre- serve monstrous fasehood operating the advantage o the enemy of freedom Socaled neutrals will perceive this fact as the goes The world will emerge sooner from its bath of blood if they will perceive this truth quickly Let them consider well their situation and cast their lot with the defenders of human rights before the hour comes when necessity will drive them into one camp or the other.
 Providence is winnowing the world and every nation and every must go through the sieve There can be neutrals.