The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-09-13
WIN NOW OR PREPARE
FOR MORE WAR

The whole world a series of armed
camps, preparing for another fray
and compelled to adopt German
methods of warfare-this picture of
the result Of drawn battle, a stale
mate, with Germany in her present
state of mind, was presented last
night by DR.. A. Lawrence Lowell,
president of Harvard University, and
chairman of the executive committee
of the League to Enforce Peace, in
the National Safety Council in New
York.
He declared that with the fall of
military autocracy must be removed
the oppression of one race by another,
and for that reason 1--WE cannot con
slider the return to Germany of her
former colonies, that their people
may be exploited as they have been
in the past. Americans have no love
| for the rule of the inferior by the
more civilized races; and if at the
present stage of history that is I'M
lavoidable, it must be done with due
regard to the welfare of the subject
race, and we cannot be party to any
| thing else"
"Can anyone contemplate without
horror" said Dr. Lowell, ga planet
whose inhabitants devote their efforts
to devising scientific processes for
making it unfit for human habita-
/ ton? Yet such is the result that we
must at least contemplate if the
/ present war should decide nothing,
leaving the belligerents with their
| former ambitions and principles, with
| fiercer hatreds and a better knowledge
of what the next war will signify.
eff, on the other hand, the side on
which we are fighting wins, it may
mean a better world, reorganized on
a basis of justice and peace; and
much of the result may depend upon
us, both in the field and at the coun-
Gil table
"Let us be perfectly clear in our
own minds. We proclaim that we are
fighting for democracy, but President
Wilson has put it more accurately
when he said that we are at war, to
make the world safe for democracy
We are not fighting to impose any
form of government upon an unwilling
people. That would be contrary to
cur principles of political liberty. II
auy people prefer to be ruled by a
monarch it is their affair, provided
i they mind their own business, leave
other nations alone and live peace
ably with their neighbors. A mill
tary autocracy, that goes forth con-
quering and to conquer, the world
must subdue, or it will have no peace
"We are at war to prevent any ma
ton from imposing an autocratic
military system on the world or on
any people; and when the allies have
| succeeded in so doing, they, and any
tother peoples that sincerely desire q
better and more peaceful world, must
solemnly resolve that no such catas-
trophe shall occur again. For this
/ purpose they must not again split
apart into discordant fragments OF
hostile groups, but must combine tt
police the world, and bring in reigr
of international justice among men
We often boast that we are both ar
idealistic and practical people, anC
II, the reorganization that will follow
this war we have the only chance we
shall probably ever have to show
4 these qualities on a world wide scale
We are now world power engaged il
a world war and we cannot, BY
shrinking into ourselves when it i:
over, eyade our duty or shut our eye:
to our own future security. II
league with the other free nations o.
the earth we must set up our inter
national court of justice with a sher
iff armed with such force as may b.
needed to summon offenders before
the tribunal. By so doing we car
| fulfill a great destiny for our natior
and bring peace and goodwill among
men,"