The Detroit times., 1917-06-19
The Passover
BY Or. FRANK CRANE
Copyright. 1918. by Frank Crancl

And the Lord God said unto men: Get
together! You cannot exist as separate
units. You cannot exist as separate
groups. You can only continue to exist.
to grow and thrive as one humanity.
Humanity is one, even cod is one.
You have learned to love the family
You have learned TO love. to prize. to die
for the nation. 1t is not enough. You
must learn to love, TO live for, to feel,
humanity
Thus spakc the eternal law.
For this came prophets poets. seers,
into the world. teaching men to realize
that in their oneness alone lay their hap
pmess.
For there has never been any prog.
ress without cooperation neither has
there been any safety, any health, any
peace.
Devotion 90 humanity never raised an
army, never hanged criminal, never
tortured a hereto. never robbed the poor
never fostered endowed parasites.
Bat men would not listen They were
blind. deaf ignorant They still believed
in competition. in national yanities. in
superior races i'm supermen, in force in
the manifest destiny of certain privileged
ones to rule over the commons.
They grew heated over national pride,
and rallied around vai-cries OF German
kgtcr, Anglo-Saxon supremacy the pow
er Of Russia of China of Japan, Of
France. of this or that race or section.
Then God said 81 must send my
ploughshare deep into this race, else they
viii not learn. They win not understand
by reason; they must bee made to under
stand by pain and terror
SO came the Angel Of the Passover.
dark-winged and full Of horror
And he passed over the earth.
And where he went there was weeping
and wailing
Lives were blightcd. hopes extingnsh-
ed love blasted Mother, shrieked over
the dead bodies Of their sons. The light
Of a million home. was put out. lnnu-
merable hearts were crushed, ass grapes
in the wine press.
The fairest and frst-born were plucked
from the family and sent TO die in
bitches. The glory and strength Of hui
manity rotted on no mans land between
the trenches And the rats ate them,
and no one tended them but the fowls Of
the air.
The workshops Of the world sweated
with the making Of distinctions en-
gnes.
Fathers and brothers of women died
like flies in sinking prison camps.
The sea WAS choked with the drown
ing. The soil was soaked with the blood
Of the slain.
Famine stalked abroad in every land.
Bankruptcy was everywhere.
Never since the world began was such
frghtfulness. such prevalence of woe.
And at last. when the ploughshare had
sunk deep enough, and the dull conscious
ness Of men at last was touched they
began to awake, and ran together, say
ing:
eve must unite or perish. The glory
Of this nation or that must no longer
be sought, lest the world be destroyed.
"The power Of Germany must be sub
ordinated to the common good. But
that is not enough Such an outbreak Of
national vanity must never again be pos
sibe by any nation.
England, America Japan, Russia, all
as we'll as Germany. must be brought
under the rule Of mankind
So they made the Parliament of Man.
the Federation Of the World.
But not until the Angel Of the Pass
over had smitten them.
They could not see destiny's law until
they felt its teeth and claws