The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-08-10
So Declares DR.. Frank Bohn
in Chautauqua Address
Before Big Crowd.
mind OF GERMANY
Excessive Patriotism of leu
tons, Speaker Believes,
Direct Cause of War.

"'rhe time is come to recognize the
fact and say boldly that national pa
triotism is a superstition of yesterday
We must outgrow it. The separate and
divided patriotism Of our various M
,ions Of today must give way in al
our hearts and minds to the interna-
tionalism of world brotherhood y
So said Dr. Frank Bohn. formerly
professor Of history at Columbia uni
vcrsity and lately foreign correspond
ent for the New York Evening Post,
to Missoula chautanquans yesterday
nj the conclusion of n brilliant ana
lysis Of The Mind Of Germany" and
the causes back of the war.
Nationaiism Cause Of War.
Nationalism was held up by DR.,
Isohn as the real cause of the war.
The excessive patriotism of Germany.
grown into religion. led good but
narrowed people to support gigantic
attempt to take by force the CONNER
cial vantage points for which Eng
land. Russia and Germany were striv-
ing. he declared
Germany. he said had planned a
tremendous overland trade route from
the western coast to the orient in
order TO defeat Great Britain's naval
dominance of the east, divert world
commerce to her railways and exploit
the Yabor and rape the treasure chest
of China. To accomplish this she
sought Constantinople. control of the
Balkans and 10 railroads in northern
Europe, to be taken from Russia, Bel
piuu1 and Holland
The Allies Bound Together.
Russia was seeking Constantinople
as an outlet for its expanding indus
trialism, needing a IL months port
instead of the frozen Baltic.
England was aligned in opposition
TO Germany because of this threat at
her sea trade
France was allied with Russia be-
cause French money had financed
Russian expansion.
Autocrats Forced War;
German business men would never
have sought to achieve their desired
ends by war, however, the lecturer
declared They would have devoted
themselves to an economic struggle
for dominance in the east But the
PruSsian autocracy. entrcnchcd be
hind a religion of patriotism which
put the kaiser and the aristocracy
over all, took matters into its hands
and with the sword sought to win by
one great blow an economic supremacy
which would have meant riches and
power beyond all known bounds.
Patriotism at Bottom.
iS Df hn hot
tom of it all. But for the blind. re-
ligiOus devotion of the German peo-
pie. the autocratic rulers of the ma
ton would never have dared to begin
the war.
You can understand the mind of
Germany" he said "onlN if YOU can
conceive of patriotism having devel-
oped into a religion. German patriot
ism is not essentially different from
American patriotism; there is only
more OF it. In Germany it has be
come religion, absorbing every other
religion"
lnternatonalisr Only Hope
lnternationalism is the only hope OF
the world. DR.. Bohn said.
yesterday YOU were patriots To-
morrow YOU will be internationalists
Today your chief government Is still
the government at Washington. Rut
there Is meeting at Washington an in
ternational commission. our govern
ment is but one of number of allied
states. Let lis see that at the close
of this war Germany and Austria be
included in the United States of the
World and We shall have solved in
our generation the greatest problem
which history has placed before us for
solution"
Music and Oratory.
Music and OratOrV held tho close
attention and won the repeated APP
plause that means approval from 700
men, women and children. last even
in"'s number of the chautauuua pro
gram. The Musical Arts quartet sang
In solo and in quartet. a number of
the world famous favoritcs: Dudley
Bucks setting Of Lead Kindly Light"
The Armorer's Song" from Robin
Hood, THE Long. Long Trail"
Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep"
The Big BASS NiOl" with local color
ing that brought real laughter with
the applause.
After some tim" spent in arrange
mcnts for Chautauqua cours" in
MisSoula next year. the audience gave
sincere and hearty welcome 10 Monta-
Vile Flowers. who brought an en-
Tightening analysis Of the worlds svs-
TENS OF government and a stirring APP
peal for finer rebuilding of the tenn
pie.
. War May Be Blessing.
M. Flowers recalled times when the
whole temple Of civilization. beautiful
and substantial over the whole earth