The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1918-04-12
them by contemporaries

forced upon them by contemporaries
Gus events.
Dr.. Jordan declared that when he
heard Bernhard he thought mis- words
those of another of the war-mad
militarists, but that when in Ger
many in August the following year
and seeing his plan OF campaign
adopted by the Conan army lie then
knew that Bernhadi spckc fer the
general staff, and that they are all
victims of the same madness.
Finally, an idea that must go on
the scrap heap Gre tbs world war
can end is BelDhar0is dictum, Law
lis makeshift; the reality is force.
LAW is for weaklings; force is Tor
strong men and strong nations"
! Brute forces must yield to vital
ideas Professor McElroy of Prince
ton university. has an article on THE
Prussian War Against Teuton Ideals
written while the United States was
Still neutral in which he shows that
the idea OF representative self gov
eminent first appeared in the forests
OF Germany and that the great forces
of history have been seen in the
struggle between the Roman idea of
empire by force and the German idea
| of empire by representation, and
states:
"One of the saddest features Of this
war of the world is the fact that the
German people are dying BY thou
sands in an effort to check the spread
of the grandest political idea ever
pToduced-and. one which they them
selves originated
Dr. James A. Macdonald CT TorOn-
to commenting on this curious fact
calls attention to the fact that the
price modern Germany is now paying
and must pay for this modern trea-
son to that ancient faith is in Accord
ance with history's persistent and al
most unfailing rule. That in the end
vital ideas do triumph over brute
forces and that time and again in the
worlds historic conflicts, the final
conquests went, not to the side that
commanded the largest armies and
strongest forts, but to The side whose
ideas were strongest, most vital, and
most persistentIy loyal TO the law OF
sou v III St1Lu " ll2C lN.Csii w iiuiiie'-i
service.
lie emphasizes the fact that 'the
lesson of it all, and CT all the con-
flicts Of the ages, the stern warning
for all the dominGns Of Britain and
also for the United States Of America,
is that neither an invincible navy with
an army to match, nor a national
neutrality, that seemed safe by sea
and land, could by itself save either
OF both these nations from the fatal
workings Of history's ineSorable rule.
The North American idea, the in
alienabIc and priceless right CT a
free people TO govern themselves,
must apparently flight for its life at
an the fateful battiefronts of the
worlds mind" but while men hold the
love of freedom it viii never go on
the scrap heap Of this or any other
worlds war.
The discussion which followed the
reading of the paper was animated
and most of the members Of the club
participated Several more things,
which were not mentioned by DR.. Ca
hoon, were thrown on the scrap heap.
The discussion included about every
phase Of the war. Booze was uncere-
moniously consigned TO the junk pile,
as was caste, sectarianism, this cOun-
try's isolation.
H. C. Hotaing OF The Mapleton En-
terprise was a guest Of the club and
gave brief account OF his recent
yicif IN WASHINGTON