Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-04-16
FORTN|CHTLY CLUB.
HEARS FINE TALK.
ON WARS Of HISTORY.
ATTORNEY RUSSELL HANSON
GIVES RESUME ON HISTORICAL
CLASHES AMONG NATIONS OF
THE WORLD.

The Fortnightly club held a meet
ing last evening at the office Of W.
r. Foster in the court house. \ paper
was read by Attorney Russell o. Han
son on Some Wars of History
which the members OF the club de-
clared to be the best paper ever read
before the club.
Mr. Hanson traced the various wars
OF the nation OF the world through
their courses, showing how wars
started from the domination OF sci.
fishness and Of might rather than
right He said in part:
War is the most incomprehensible
of all human phenomina, The lay
mind is incapable OF grasping its stu.
pcndous activities. Very generally it
is q product of the emotions rather
than the mind Of man, War we have
always had. and there are those who
maintain that wars there shall be un-
Ill the ending OF time, No prophet of
human form can tell when, ii ever
the gage Of battle shall cease to be
the final arbiter between men. That
this highly civilized era should be
the setting OF the greatest of all con-
iiicts. produce the ghastiest Of all
carriages and countenance the use OF
the most barbarious implements and
methods in the destruction OF life.
could not have been seriously main
tanned to any student Of history or
human nature prior to five years ago.
It would have seemed illogical and
have savDred of the ludicrous. No
sane man would have believed it, At
that time, none but the German mind
was depravcd enough to conceive 1t
and surely none but prussian could
have then prepared for. waited for
and longed for the occurrence The
minds OF other men, the world over,
were travelling a brighter path and
had been doing SO for many years Il
path that leads onward to the better
things in this world and upward to
the rewards Of the next; and in a
path which leads towards universal
Justice for all men; content and
happiness for the multitude instead
loI the few, and a common fellow
ship among all men and God This
road was and is the highway OF de.
mocracy, beautiful thoroughfare in
land Of peace and plenty, garnished
here and there with spacious shade
trees and cooling springs where the
weary may rest and be refreshed
Not 50 the Prussian minds. For
years and years those carnate demons
/ have been aii0at on the seas of life, Il
pirate crew on ship Of state, with
the common people chained in its
holds. virtual galley slaves who ignor
antly and feariully rattle their chains
at their oars. Glory there has been in
the past Tor the pirate captain ant
his merry crew and many a princelA
prize they have divided amongst
themselves but for the bondsmen il
the Internal dens below sufficient o
pretzels and be Grand link sausage
and the privilege of bowing in hu
mility to their masters until eternit.
are all that they get. Not for
minutc are the manacleS released an,
woe to that unfortunate who misse
his stroke This is the way of autoC
racy. Imperial Germany has plan
for larger ship Of state. If she sue
ceeds in constructing it, there will b.
many more elaborate cabins on tn
decks above and more glory viii com
10 the captai nand his crew. but dow
in its bowels will be built relative
ly greater number. OF benches for tn
galley slaves, whose muscle am
Drawn must be bent necessarily TO tn
oars and be forever at the beck an
call Of the captain May God gran
that Germany may never c0mplet
this vessel and Il is my ieryent praye
that the old ship OF state now upo
its voyage of pillage and plunde
, may run upon the rocks laid fo
I humanty's sake and be demolishe
, though every galley slave must die
, rats death
+ "One Of the truest axioms eve
, written Is that by an author who's
name | have forgotten to the efre,
that: Force and right rule the worl'
force until right is ready, Emphas
y must be laid upon the last claus
n Force rules until right is ready.
:. summarizes in few words the pr
gress Of mankind from the earle
/. age to the present time. 1t Is Il
5 vital issue today in the great war
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