New-York tribune., 1918-07-28
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In Prussia or we must set up Kaiser
dom in Washington. If we COM
promise with Kaiserdom, whether
naval or military, we resign our
selves to the prospect of bigger
dreadnoughts, giant aeroplanes.
mammoth submarines, intensive
poisons, the use of disease germs for
war, corruption of the press, espion-
age and sabotage in every industry,
however innocent, the utter destruc-
tion of credit, of insurance, Of good
fellowship in the world. It is a
choice-universal madness or uni
versal sanity. AS Lincoln would
have said, the world cannot live
half mad and half sane.
Woman Finding
A Surer Place
Some organization of society is
obviously needed. With bumper
harvest in the Middle West of Amer
lea, we see starvation destroying the
peasants in the middle east of Rus
sia. We cannot accept Tolstoy's
theory that the state is by it's very
nature criminal conspiracy against
the soul of man. On the contrary.
the state should be an expression of
that soul. We have turned our small
professional armies into armed ma
tions. We must turn our profess
sional politicians into enfranchised
nations.
Since women work and weep in
war time, women must also vote and
govern in times of peace. There can
be no brotherhood among men with
out sisterhood among women.
And, while acknowledging ma
tionality, whether great or small, we
must not exaggerate. One element
IN Prussianism is an exaggerated
pride in nationality. Christianity
means nothing at all unless it be an
ideal which absorbs all nationalities
IN one kingdom of happiness. To-
day we are defending frontiers
against aggression. Tomorrow it
will be our task to break down
frontiers and establish cooperation.
The philosophers of the Bolsheviki
tell US that the human family is di-
vlded by the horizontal plane which
separates capital from labor-the
rich from the poor Others assure
us Shat we are divided by vertical
planes which separate Frenchmen
and Germans, Italians and Austri-
ans. The truth is, of course, that
society is split up both by racial and
by economic distinctions, which
cross one another at every point.
Ireland clamors for independence at
the very moment when she is en-
riched by British trade, British
, credit, and even British benevolence.
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Remedy for Quarrels
The remedy for quarrels of every
kind, be they tribal or commercial,
is knowledge that, by an irrevoc-
able decree of the Almighty who
created us, we are members one of
another. What we have to do is to
transform the fraternity of Cain
and Abel into the fraternity of
David and Jonathan. Such an
achievement appears to transcend
the possibilities of secular statesman
ship. No politician can ever remove
from my own mind the memory
that German bomb struck the roof
OF my house and nearly killed nv
entire family. That is an incident
which leaves an indelible mark.
Without wishing to be unfair to Ger
many, some of US have reason to
complain of what she has done to us.
we 90 not wish to be unreasonable
or vindictive, but we do ask the
reason why.
My own theory is that Germans
worship false gods because they
have destroyed true gods, nature alb
horrlng vacuum. If the false gods
are to be dlspossessed, the true gods
must be replaced. The music of
Beethoven must be heard instead of
the music of Strauss. Fairy tales
of childhood nelst be restored where
to-day the make-believe of militar-
ism is supreme. | know not how
this is to come about-it would be a
miracle.
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