The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1918-10-07
MUST DI5ARRN
THE GERMANS
Only Way to End Rule Of the
Junkers, Declares English
Statesman.
RT. HON. ]. NJ. ROBERTSON, M. P,
One Of tho most advanced thinkers in
Tho BritiGh Parliament.

RI. HON. j. ~. SUM- IL
One Of tho most advanced thinkers in
THO British Parliament.
LOEpD% oct. 6.--hu undI$armcd
Germany. retaining its military machine
after the war. means Il cunScripcd Eu-
rope.
p;GifIsts who cannot face thar issue
are mere blind muuthpieceS al tcHerlsh
emotion.
And that they have never faced II is
proved by the fact that they have never
once discussed 1t. nj least Of their own
accord.
When forced tn answer they speak or
what the German people may h" trusted
- do 10 put down their own m1litarI&m.
This is surely the topmost note OF fore
acknowledgements.
In an uud"fcatri Germany the people
Will hr more powcrlnss than over %
shake of The Iunkcr yoke: it Is only In
Il diS:lrmrd Germany that the people
twill ever he able 10 call their souls their
own.
During the Rnrr war pacihsm in this
country WAS reinforced, for many. by
conviction that the was was unju$uy
provoked though the Bocrs had first
declared it.
"Pacthsm Can't Think
Today, curiouSly enough. tho gross
aggression OF Germany sccmsm to raise
no corresponding feeling among those
pacif'sts who rail for Peace ny Ncgo-
,ialion" las if pcac" We're ever obtained
otherwise. though among n small r'er-
, man minority il has evoked noble pro-
lost and impeachment.
Thus rs against 4 German mihtarlsm
! which cannot feel. We have in some en-
tentc countries Il paCiiiSm which feels
so strongly that il cannot think.
For our prrscnt-d day pacifstS have no
vision Of the fatal consequences Of
drawn" peace.
They feel so strongly The tragedy or
tho strife that they have no thought
Tor the trngrdy that will ensue tn civil
cation If the strife is not ended by inc
abolition Of the military system that
precipitatcd It.
Quns1-Bolshevism.
In France and IL some extent among
ourselves. there operates The lurtner
element Of quati-Eoishcrism. tho d"-
structiwe pscudu-SocialSt an'moSily
against "hourgeuisic" and "capitaiiSFn'
Keeping all its anmoSity for these and
! processing to SOC in the enemy "n'S '"e
| Democratic element.
In Britain tho overt movement OIL
| nariflsnn So far, keeps clear OF tins
| spirit Of "class war. So alien 70 every
: ideal that can properly he called pac'uSl'
! Rut the element is there: and thr otHcr
! clements are notably syrnrAth"iIc To-
! wards tho alcnt spirit that plays 'he'r
! game in Franco. The Rnlsh"FIk c!cn"ht
! in both countries is hut Il crEStalllZa-
{ lion of unwholesomo elements common
! 10 all industrial nations.
/ Must stop to Think.
! While il is precisely in Germany tnat
revolutionary forces are weakest Ter
man Socialism has always rolled on tEc
! revolutionary spirit elsewhere t" "orK
, the Socialist salvation which it is I'M
potent to secure for itself.
OF nil the Socialists of Europ"' mos"
), NJ Germany were the least strenuous IN
! lighting militnrism in their own c""n-
trv; and their final attitude. al ~" ou'
hrcak OF the present war. profoundly
disappointed and alicnoicd ihc sincere
anti-m!litarsts Of tho rest or Europe
our present concern is not with IN
calcuIahlr possibilities: 1t is with Tn"
mentality Of tho. simple ra'ifi%ts W."
Mare ever crying ~ an immediate" pcn1r
, without stopping 70 think OF the 'onse-
qucnces.