The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1918-08-01
DESTlNY'S WORK.
(Bv SaVOvard)

Daily the conviction grows in my
mind that this awful world war was
made by inexorable Destiny, and that
it will not be over till it is fought to
a finish. That Germany made the
war-that is, that she precipitated it
was due to the fact that that boast
ed deficiency" or Kultur as they call
it. was mach of a sham. The superior
ity Of Germany in fashioning articles
of merchandise, and German business
sagacity in discovering and conquer
ing markets for them, were seeming
rather than real. Had that German
prosperity been real, a dozen kalsers
could not have forced Germany into
this war "Business' Germany went
into the war with alacrity for the sole
purpose of bending the world to a
shape that would fill the German. purse
to overlooking and feed TO safety Ger
man pride of conquest. It was hoped
to drive England out OF Asia to make
Russia a vassaI, to annex Belgium and
a large and rich slice Of France. In
dreams they saw all Africa a German
possession with both American CONT,
nents' markets dominated and con
trolled by German manufacturers and
merchants.
Unfortunately the German people
were deluded By this impossible
dream. With a dozen Or so eXceD,
lions the German Socialists were as
anxious for it's realization as were the
German junkers. AS long as the Ger
man arms are dominant in the field
the German Socialists ere nearly to
man Pan-German. It is only when
doubt of ultimate victory OVertakes
them that they raise dcnUr and reg
h. ~
revolt when Russia was overcome by
guile, not by arms and if America will
do her part and bring more force tc
the aid Of the Entente than Russia
at her best could supply. the German
Socialists viii be thrown into despair
AID they Will force the Kaiser to
surrender That, however, is far in
the future.
That boosted civilization that main
tanned till this war began four years
ago is dead. 1t is history end ancien5
history at that. Destiny is fashioning
2 new and a better civilization on the
innumerable bloody fields Of this the
worlds greatest war. In the massa
ere that odous thing, bane of govern
ment. Privilege, is getting some hard
Knocks Rapidly the distance between
the peer and the peasant, the pluto
crat and the pauper, is shortening. The
good things Of this life have been
gathered by the too few. They soon
will be within the grasp Of the many
It is too much to hope that poverty
will be abolished-poverty that is the
parent of crime and waste and disease
and fear and discOrd-but it will be
greatly curtailed. There was day
when only the man of war was the
aristocrat. Then his caste was rein
forced by the ma Of craft, who ir
turn was reinforced by the man OF
wealth. Maybe the hour is not ages
distant when only the good man will
be the aristOcrat.
The wars called the Crusades and
the perpetual wars in Western Eu
rope that succeeded them till Colum
bus momentOus adventure-al these
were necessary to quicken and to
nourish the human mind. The So
called Religious Wars not only enlarg-
ed the understanding, but they awak-
ened the human conscience. The rise
Of the Duteh~Republic, the revolutions
in England Of 1910 and 1888, the Revo
luton in America of 1875, and the Ma
, pOleOnic wars ending in 1815-a1l
these were fought to curtail privilege
usurped by the few and to expand lib
erty, the rights of the many.
Thus for centuries those two an
tagonistic forces, prerogative and lib
erty, have been at relentless strife
Even after the War of the Roses {
Tudor King Of England established the
Star Chamber" and that act of des
POtlsm made the revolution of 1910 in
evitable; but the immediate occasion
OF that revolutionary war was whether
a rich man like John Hampden shou1(