Arizona republican., 1918-12-01
LITERATURE AND ART
-. Conducted BY LEW HEAD

well also remain away from me. Tor
he both keeps that which he does |.
not own and forfeits one thing that
he did poSSesS-my regard for him. |
HE WORLDS DEBATE. William
Barry cluches the potato plant firm
ly in the hand, pulls it clear from
the ground; holds it aloft; looks
upon it; and beholds the 'inevit
able cause of the worlds war. Its
tubers dripping filth and slime and
decomposition and corruption, he
concludes that the war was the only
conclusion of d syllogism that had
been developing along correct prin
ciples of logic since the days of
Frederick the Great. Then, to call
his book debate, when. TO a close
reader, the question is answered
almost before it is stated,-thats
the wonder.
Here, is found a most unusual ac-
cusation; the real Il Accuse!" in
all history. Thomas Carlyle is one
of the indirect causes of the war. In
his Heroes and Hero Worship DR..
Barry maintains, the celebrated au-
thor plays upon the assumed title
great" as afact; utterly disregards
the falsity of it; proceeds upon the
theory that Frederick was great;
and, thus, leads England to overlook
the despicable policies that Freder-
lex fixed upon present Germany,
that gave Wilhelm the opportunity
to wage war against the world with
a subject" population of over TO-
1000 slaves behind him In other
aa0nrdiroor IN ~ xtvac
due to F'redericks Prussian theory
that the acquisition of a duchy or
a province or an empire carried. with
it all 'appurtenances thereto"
among which he inventoried men,
women and children, that the world
was pushed headlong into the
stream that finished in war.
With this unhindered mastery
over millions by one man, it re-
manned solely for the arrival of that
man, with d full consciousness of his
might, coupled with unsuitable am
bition, to stalk forth on his mission
of world domination. That man
was Wilhelm IL Thus, the policy
that began with Frederick the Great
came to grief with the last ruling
Hohenzollern descendant of the
great Frederick
Neither does Barry hesitate to
charge English obtuseness with be-
ing an indirect war cause. He bold
ly declares that had the English
people fully comprehended the sig
nificance of the beheading OF
Charles | and the intrinsic germ of
democracy that was in bud at Crom-
wells time; had they sensed the
meaning of the grip that was being
fastened upon the Prussian soul by
the HohenZollern family. and from
1871, upon the German empire; had
their men of thought merely have
placed these two vitality opposing
nodes in juXtaposition; had. they
just had plain, COMMON, everyday
'horSesense" enough to understand
that a nation of male and female
slaves, living alongside a nation Of
freemen. must some day, meet the
other in sanguine warfare-then
and in that event. it would have
been different. Thus, proceeds DR.
Barry's theory. And, it is interest
ing to trace the long, crooked
bloodred, sticky trail of the wal
lord" over the pages of Prussian and
German history. to the end.
There is another reason for DR.
Barry's work, in which | am not SC
much interested,-the influence the
Catholic church has played in the
tragedy of over a century Barry's
clever Interpretation of history is
clever; far more so than his effort
to gain additional honor for his great
church. The Worlds Debate" is q
Doran Company product.
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