The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1917-06-28

such League Of Nations, and Presi-
dent Wilson has eloquently pledged
all the powers of his great office to
the accomplishment of the same end.
Moreover, in France, in England, and
in all the allied countries, men are
inspired by the same high vision. AS
the great Frenchman recently visit
ing America, M. Viviani, declared be-
fore our own House of Representa-
tives:
"And when by force we have at last
imposed military victory, our labors
will not be concluded. Our task will
be, quote from the noble words Of
President Wilson, to organize the
society of nations We will
shatter the ponderous sword Of mil
itarism; we will establish guarantees
for peace; and then we can disappear
from the worlds stage since We shall
leave at the cost Of our common i'm
notation the noblest heritage future
generations can possess"
The allied nations now at war with
us,in answering President Wilson's
note last December, declared their
sympathy for "a league Of nations to
insure peace and justice throughout
the world" And Premier Lloyd
George Of England, possibly the
! greatest personal force on earth to-
| day, makes this prediction as to con-
ditions after the war:
"The nations will band themselves
together to punish the first peace
breaker who comes out. AS to the
armies of Europe, every weapon will
' be sword Of justice in the govern
| ment Of man; every arm will be a
constabulary for peace"
In other words, America is now
fighting war against war;" war
: to prevent forever hereafter such
! wars as that which now RACES. But
/ the German ideal is militaristic. AS
recent authority has declared, "she
! subondinates the civil power to the
, military power; she glorifies war and
believes it not onlv to be necessary
| once in a while but to be a legitimate
instrument of policy" AS a nation
: she has no patience with the ideal Of
league of nations executing judg-
ment in righteousness Such an idea
to her is effeminate. She has freec
herself, she declares, from "the con
j temptible sin of weakness. Force is
j to her as a god. "The iron hand" OF
"the mailed first" is the familiar
phrase that springs to any well-in
formed mind when German policy i:
mentioned. Bismarck, well called "tht
man of Blood and Iron," was the rea
father Of modem Germany, and HI
i has stamped the impress Of his war
! like aud u :,rurLlcus nature upo1
every feature Of the nation. A lons
list of German philosophers am
teachers have reiterated his views
!, until the German mind is thorough
ly inoculated with them. Writing il
the dispassionate years Of the earl.
COS, twenty years ago, DR.. A. Law
renee Lowell, now President of Har
ward, correctly described the trend O.
i German thought when he said:
j "The Emperor is indeed an arden
believer in the new monarchial the
DRY which has recently come int
>, vogue in Germany-a theory tina
; decries universal suffrage and pro
/ claims the military monarchy as tn
: best possible form of government
thus furnishing one of many exam
5 pies Of the way the end of the cen
2 fury is repecting the principles an
: reversing the conclusions that hav
been laboriously developed during tn
: last hundred years. The fact is tina
| ever since the battle of Sadowa a Pre-
e found change has been coming owe
: the German character. The dream
}, poetical mystical temperament ha
D given way before the hard, practica
: organizing spirit of the Prussian
v The unity Of the Fatherland whic
I the dreamers failed to accomplis
d was brought about by means Of II
Il drill-sergeant, and hence the natio
e is ruled fy his methods"
r Let US consider, for example, tt
: teachings of one typical German phi
s osopher of recent years, Treitschk
t Like many others Of his class,
n breaches that war is necessary fl