Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-03-05
THE WAR FOR PERMANENT
PEACE

8DUSSIA is today what America was in
- 1892 The world has suddenly come
to realize that it had for countless genera
tions ignored well.nigh boundless gold
mine of new wealth. When Julius Caesar
became the Christopher Columbus of Brit
ain and men spoke of that island as the
Ultima Thule at the worlds end the Ro.
/ mans little realized that the tin mines of
Cornwall were mere pickings as compared
with the massive shoulders of the earth
4 which composed untouched Russia and un.
discovered America.
Two sets of men have ever gone forth
from the zone OF civilization into the un.
known regions beyond the last village into
the lands where wolves howl and where
OF roads there are few or none. These
two sets of men are cultivators and cX'
i ploitcrs, or, as some would call them, mis-
sionaries and adventures. Sometimes the
tasks they performed served the same pur.
pose, sometimes conflicting purposes
I. Often they bore conjointly the white
Mans Burden" Gold has come in hnndily
often enough, with the same strokes that
raised barbarian populations to civilized
status. But with the spreading of self
government and international law there
came an end to this ancient proccss-or
men thought there had The rights of bar.
( barians and savages were held as sacred
as those of sovereign States; the mission.
ary had to prove that he carried no
weapons and did not ptend to enslavc a
& whole country, as the missionaries did in
Hawaii. provinces" had TO be camou,
naged as colonies; then COLONIES" had
s''protectorates" came to he known as com
monwealths," sef-governing and tied to
the mother country, or the stcpmother
country, only by sentiment and CONNER.
ciai interest. There was finally no place
& left to which to bring culture and profitcer.
ing except China and Russia, and the de-
yelopment of Japan into military nation
Of the first magnitude at China's door left
only Russia to be developed"
SO the Kaiser played Columbus to Russia
and discovered her. lie hoped to Use Rus
sla against Japan when Russia could fight,
and TO use Russia against the western
nations when she couldn't. Just now the
4 Kaiser is saying very clearly to those
I who have ears to hear, Let me divide the
Russian gold mine with Japan and I'll let
( the rest of you have everything else in
s sight. There will be no more wars. because
8 there will be no more undeveloped coun.
tries left to fight for. Make the most ideal.
4 istic league of nations and supreme inter.
tnational court you can think of and ! will
7 obey their mandates, because it will take
|<5ny dynasty fifty years to Prussianize Rus.
Il II the Russian people now desired to
4 hand themselves over to Germany and
Y could 'cohvince the nations that they would
never again fight for their freedom, but
were willing to cement themselves to Pan.
Cermany through n federation of king.
e doms. duchies, nominal republics and pro.
J. tectorates such as now make up the Ger.
4 1nan empire, the Kaiser evidently could
@ have peace in u few months But the Rus
3 qian people have been waging war to pro.
I. fGct their Revolution and they now are
1cllned to conduct guerrilla warfare, on a
AL scale. perhaps. but on a large enough
~. nevertheless, TO make 1t extremely
&ctrtain that the Russian people are
16sr 10 surrender. II might have been
{4 BY a superficial observer that America
Hted to surrender to England in the
1n<er OF ITS, when Washington was
oeipg Mt Valley Forge and. the Phlade.
~ bellies were dancing with the British
tofs; but a wise observer would have
that the American people, the real
~ wsre at Valley Forge and in for a
~ = finish.
uuia Is cnslayed against her will
M Be another world war; in which
~ viii participate
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