The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1917-07-19
AFTER THE WAR.

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move in grooves. 1t is hard for
humanity to get out of the rut. Re-
forms do not come by degrees, they
come by upheavels. Financial, social,
moral and political evils never die a
natural death they must be strangled
by violence. The worlds great
movements for the betterment of the
race were all born out of the cata-
clysm of war. Wars searchlight re-
yeals wrongs that would never be
discovered in hazy light of peace, or
if discovered, would be patiently en-
.dured. Wars necessities compels the
righting of these wrongs and when
once righted they remain in that
condition.
The world today is in the grip of
war which for magnitude, barbarism
and ferocity has never been equalled,
and this war has demonstrated, as has
never been demonstrated before, GER
tain glazing evils evisting among all
nations and' peoples.
Providence so planned at creation
sufficient to supply the worlds popu-
lation. 1t is crime against humanity
thar any person should go hungry,
naked or shelterless.
The war has brought out the fact
that unholy combinations have sized
upon the country's natural resources
timber, coal, oil and other existence
essentials, which by Divine right
belong to the people and have ex-
plotted them for personal gain at the
expense Of the people, have compelled
the people to pay these combinations
exhorbitant revenues when all they
were entitled to were legitimate pro-
fits. Stern military necessity will
commander these natural resources
for the use of the army, navy and
the people at the cost of production
plus a reasonable return for invest
ment and when it has been disclosed
that the people, through their repre-
sentatives, have this power, the old
order Of things will never be restored
and the end of the war will mark the
beginning of trustees world.
Between the producers and con-
sumers of food and rainnent have al
ways stood a band of commercial
pirateers, one hand in the pockets of
the producer relieving him of all ex-
cept the bare cost of production the
other in the pocket of the consumer
extorting from his income all he could
be compelled or cajoled to give up
without revolt.
Wars stern demands will force the
elimination of these piratical para
sites who have by forcing the con-
sumner to pay many times the original
cost of the commodities, by cunning
market manipulation and criminal
combination and when once eliminated
they will remain eliminated and the
end of the war will also end specula-
tive thievery in the necessities of
life.
In this war the women of world
have kept up and more than kept up
their end of the evener in pulling the
worlds load of suffering and woe.
They have shown their ability and
capability to meet, and equally with
their brothers, and aid in solving the
great national and international prob
lens that are now confronting the
worlds inhabitants and have fair won
the right of equal craftsmanship in
all affairs affecting humanity and
this war will wipe out all man Great
ed sex-distinction leaving only God
created and sex-difference and in the
new world that will be born out of
the wo.nb of war; men and women will
cooperate on plane of perfect equal
lty in the preparation perfecting and
putting into force measures for the
welfare of their common posterity.
This is war of kings if the issues
in controversy had been left to the
people they would have settled them
without resort to the wholesale des-
truction and murder of war. This war
is the last fiuttering gasp of absolute
ism, the dying thrones of the "Divine
Right of Kings" and when the sun
of liberty ushers in the dawn of
peace it will shine over kingless
world.
Great armies and vast navies are
provocative of war. When countless
millions are spent in preparing
means for life and property des-
truction such destruction is sure to
result. War is the natural result of
multitudinous trained, armed and
equipped warriors and unnumberd