Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-10-25
BEWARE MIL|1ARISM,
OXFORD BISHOP WARNS
No Disaster Comparable With
New Danger, He Says; War
is Libcrating Germans.

The Right Rev. Charles Core, ID. D.,
Bishop Of Oxford, in an address before
the Twentieth Century Club in Boston,
day or two ago, dealt with the war,
its aim, and effects upon the wo n,
poi ting out that IL was the purpose ~
the Allies not to annihilzts Germany
'but 10 iiberate her., Through ending
the European conflict BY complete
victory.
"It Is with al my heart that / hail
aud welcOmc this coming Of America
into the affairs of the European nations"
The Bishop said and continued: II am
dreadfully afraid Of Tho Intoxicating
power of militarism. ! know what u
means.
Take two Or three generations of
yoIths train them in camps into the
ideals Of military glory for a generation,
set your mother and sisters thinking OF
nothing but the military glory Of their
sons and brothers, and let The language
uf tho nation De filled with military phrl-
scs as ls the language of England arf
America today
uILfr4RrsN. GREtr DASGEs.
"Is n inaginablc that these fhinEs
wuld not affect the mind II he people?
kr' 81 N 30 dang Of milit Arign
! can conceive of no disaster comparable
With bic that re should UIn . great
victory and b. able 10 dictate % the
military 8utocracy 81 Germany yesce
the most desirable ha: ve could u1sg NJ /,
that we should have hem under our fset
defeated before all Europe and tha.
then we should return ~ our several
countries ourselves having hihed fhar
7 .org disease from which Vn wrTn sHckir- =
60 deliver tbc world
With all my -oGl I prey nat ve
may keep m our minds fhr moral am
for which We made his E3r and chief
among them Is that 'his a war agains'
war If gc do not keep this IN mind
We are in danger 0f -efurning from the
/ council table ~ rely on the Old basis
of agreements and balances of power
and ~ leave each separatr nation - be-
+ gn those things over again
Z foB FREE V.1iOSs LEAGUE
\ Ii mat il he prospect we are IN view
I NJ ;hr collapse ~ civilization And III
Il 81 asked how re ere 70 make this X
i war against war. replv thst I know
no xsy except that Of Vhich yOur Preyi-
dnnt has rnsde himself Is prophet N e.
.peerh made three months ora iesgiIa
oi frep nations Every American should
read hat speech. for il points - sorne-
thing oyer every individual nation,
and that F. IN alliance af nations rep
reserting civilized humanity uu must
.hink shouf his Lragl III Estsons
now You must identify ourselves with
hc aims 81 the yar. resolved nat ?
-h.l end n victory But you must alsn
resolve that when pence comes it -nsii
enforce peace in the future ~ The -ery
limits 5f human possibility
Germany has got to bepurlshed. but
for what reason In order that 'se-Tnany
NAV be extirpated lnnihilated? That
Il certainly not the point n new which
we Chrlstian ministers can ahoru %
Ike God made Germany and made those
glorious gifts re nave admired IN ma
past il her Beethovens, her Bschs snc
Wagner. Ia her Schillers and roe,hes
and il Crermanys Incompatible po~~r
oi intellectual organization ana research
WOULD LIsERATE THE GERMANS.
81 want every German 20 understand
that II We hght agaInst Germany anc
arc determined 70 beat ner. II - not "a
annihIiate 1er but 70 llbera'e her
not to crush her. but IN order that the
old German spirit we honor, the Ger-
man genius which We acknowledge ls
glorious An necessary 70 mankind
shall be liberated and be abis 20 lIvv
again fDr her own 0eneflt ana for me
benefit ID humanity.
My Master has told me 70 love sno
pray for nv enemies. ~ hat we have
10 DO Il to see that Germany Is uISposse>sed
III tnat horrible Ubsesslon which > at
he present moment making her spirit
curse IN Europe ana possessed agsin
of the old spirit associated gIth ths
names OF Goethe ana Schiller.