Arizona republican., 1917-07-08

again, it was not so much England's
 war as it was Frances war, not so
 much Frances war as it was Russias S.
 The only people who were really
 called upon to defend their hearths
 and homes and national existence were the Serbians. Even Belgium need not have fought-if she had been will ing to take it lying down. If every war, however just and necessary, there
 are. economic interests. None are en- tirely free. Evil-minded persons have even stretched their malignancy so far
 as to say that the opportunity to re-
 pudiate the debts owed to English
 creditors had good deal to do with
 the American revolution. It is not un- reasonable to suppose, therefore, now that Morgan is thinking about his mil lions and Dupont figuring further onl his dividends.
 But after all, once more, however
 deeply some particular interests may
 desire the war, it is the moneyed men
 who in the long run will have to pro-
 duce most of the money that the war
 is going to swallow up in almost
 inconceivable figures They surely do
 not see any advantage to themselves
 in that.
 l am inclined to think that the
 editor of even a decent paper is much
 inclined to be like the manager oI
 even a good theater, and to under
 value his audience. 1 do not blame
 you for your desire to convey to your
 readers the fact that we are fighting
 for ourselves. It is true that the in
 ternal affairs of Germany are the af- fairs of the Germans themselves and that they might in the long run have taken care of the military despotism fl7ar, NSe1x- VQIlt thnNr have a pretty long run without exhib iting a great deal of eagerness to be- gin; and all that time a mighty nation
 at the disposal as plaything of an ambitious man or an ambitious class, steeped in the ideas of mediaevalism. constituted a menace to the world at large, ourselve included. Nevertheless, if Americans had been content to think only of their own material in terests, if they had carefully kept their Sympathies under con trol and their mouths tightly shut, if they had concerned themselves only with the unprecedently great commer cial opportunities open in much of the i world outside of munitions for the al lies when they found that particular trade being interfered with, l do not believe much as I hate German mili- tary deSpotism, that the danger to ua therefrom would have justified the expenditure in preparation of one
 small fraction of what we are now bound to expend. The average Ameri- can thinking about the war is not
 thinking about Americas material in terests; he is thinking of outraged Belgium and of the, general danger to all the world if that outrage is al lowed to pass. He is thinking of broader issues than any he ever thought of before. Had Germany's cause been generally considered a just
 one, had it not been so generally con-
 sidered so abominably unjust, Wilson with the bulk of his fellow country men supporting him would probably ! have managed somehow to look over the interference with our commerce,
 especially when there was plenty of commerce to be had elsewhere.
 Many people no doubt are still content with a paper which heads it's editorial column, Our Country, right
 or wrong. But Intellectually they are living in the backwoods.
 If ever this country is involved, democratically or otherwise, in any war in which it is not generally con-
 sidered that we are overwhelmingly
 in the right. l fondly hope that noI