Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-05
SEES WORLD
OF INDEPENDENCE
Hall Caine Forecast Univer-
sal Liberation as Result
of War
WORKING OF f A r E
BY SIR HALL GAME
Special Gable to Euening Public Ledger
Copvriqht. 1918, bv Ne,o York Times Co.

CopDriDht, 1918, Oh Nep YORK JtmeS Co.
London, July 5.
Seven score years ago the American
people brought forth on their great
continent nation consecrated to lib.
erty and dedicated to the principles
that all men were created equal. Then
they had many enemies and only one
friend. Now they have many friends
and only one enemy. Then they were
little handful among the peoples Of
the earth. Now they are hundred
millions and their mighty country is
the half-brother of the world. and to-
day their kindred, as represented by
the SOvereigns and statesmen, the sol.
diers and sailors, the speakers and
teachers and writer's of many lands
are stretching hands to them from
across the sea.
Why are they doing so? because
the principle on which the American
nation was founded has been found to
he true, and has prevailed because the
nation so founded has passed through
times of fierce testing and has en-.
dured: first, her time of separation
from the motherland from which she
sprang, when ties should be broken
her time of civil war. with its million
of dead TALL her own dead). when friend
was against friend brother against
brother and father against son: and
now her time Of tragic choice between
peaceful security on her own cont.
nent and the perilous call Of justice
and humanity on ours.
No Delusions About War
America came into the war two
years after it began. The first in
toxication of the war fever had not
touched her. The delirious exaltation
earlier had left her cold She had
watched the struggle in the Old World
and seen the bitter fruits of it. She
knew how the nations of Europe had
suffered and how the iron had Ell
tered into our souls. She had no illu-
sion about the bloody business upon
which she was embarking, no mis-.
taken idea or estimate of the price
she would have to nay. and yet she
| came in calmly. deliberately. without
| qualm or fear.
Why did she come in? She had no
old score to settle. no bad peace to re.
adjust. no territorial or economic ad.
vantage to gain. Autocracies may go
to war for little earth. but democra
cies have only the lives. honor and
welfare of their subjects to fight for.
and American subjects on their far
off shores were secure. But liberty
! had been violated. civilization had been
outraged. the right had been wronged.
the weak had been oppressed. the help
less had been injured. and before the
iron arm of nercless tyranny. JUS.
tice and mercy and charity and hu.
manity were being wiped out of the
world.
| II America was to be true to the
principles to which she had conse-
Grated her State she had to resist
these crimes. Not to resist them was
to become accessory before the fact
to them. Therefore. America had to
| hight or the spirit on which she had
rounded her own nation had to die.
Only little while did she hesitate
ABOUT her duty to sten beyond the
| limits of her own continent. Moral
law knows nothing about frontiers.
| The boundaries of the human heart
are wider than the midwest empire.
Could Not Shrink From Duty
AT the foot of Calvary there is only
one country. The cause of liberty, of
Justice and of mercy is the cause of
humanity. A wrong done to the least OF
nations is wrong done to all. Sc