The Elk Mountain pilot., 1919-04-03

pied. nervously shocked bevond ~.
nope Of recovery. The number of
"omen-either wives. sweethearts or
sisters-who had to suffer because Of
IL no statistics can give us. Libra.
RES universities-all. the accumulation
mat comes down from one generation
TO another. which spells civilization. in
Servia. In Syria. In Armenia, in north
ern France. in Belgium-have gone by
the board; all work of progress. edu-
cation and enlightenment even in the
balance of the world has been halted.
All the peoples of the world nearly are
to pc weighted down for generations
to come by debt until national and in.
ternational bankruptcy are threatened.
Some Important Questions.
Is 1t worth while to prevent the re-
currence of all thisi Are we idiotical-
ly to stand aside. hands folded and
heads empty. saying: 1--WE can do
nothing" Does not the question an
swer itself? Shall a little senator, or
petty member of congress. or little
member Of the house Of commons, or
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tive assembly. here and there. speak
Ing the language of cynicism. or pes
simism. or hypocrisy, or simply par
tisan hate. prevent it all by saying
that 1t is "impracticable" or 'impos.
sible" when he has never studied the
question far enough to know whether
1t is or 1t is not impracticable or impos-
sible? Is there anything impossible to
man. provided he has behind him the
will to freedom and casts out of his
heart the will to power? i think not
l think moreover that the little soul,
self-centered, envirOnment-encircle
or party-encOmpassed- today il
attempting to weaken the influence of
the president of the United States
while he is in Europe, trying as best
he can to make out of this aspiration
"devoutly to be wished" "consumma-
tion," will live to regret his acts and
his utterance, and when his memory
brings up to him a few years from now
his present course, he will pray to God
to be delivered from this body Of
DEATH" or what is worse. the memory
Of this body of death. The prophets
and the seers and the poets of the
world have not been fools. The So
called practical men. who are fools as
q rule, have only deemed them TO be
so. because their own souls were not
broad enough to comprehend.
Tennyson refers to the fact that fire.
quently knowledge comes and wisdom
fingers" knowledge comes to the So
called practical man in his opinion.
and sometimes In reality; wisdom not
only fingers with him. but never comes
at all. 1t Is only to seers, (and seers are
merely see-ers with one -" elid-
cd) and poets and prophets and ideal.
lists that wisdom comes. I drmly be-
lieve that wisdom has finally come In
its international guise 10 those Of MS
who insist that this treaty Of peace
shall not be confined to questions Of
boundaries, indemnities, c0mpensations
snd penalties, A. important as all these
are and as important a. It II that they
should be taken care Of; but shall 20
further and include. as far as human
wisdom and human ingenuity and hu-
man love can include them. provisions
to keep the peace which We have con
quered, and to prevent the recurrence
Of struggles such as that through
which We have just passed-struggles
not only savage and barbarously In
sane. but. worse yet. scientific. II the
"science" Of the world. which II Q
word In Its original meaning signify
ing merely knowledge" Is to have ~
its chief aim among men the destruc-
ton Of one another, then Indeed It
is true that knowledge comes but wis.
dom lingers."
Americas Task Net EnasA.
There are people who think that
armistice means peace. There are
people who think that peace. no mat
ter how determined. IL sufficient. They
are both mistaken. There are three
or four million men In Germany yet
that can be mobilized in forty-eight
a. well armed and NUM-
toned a. they were, but still danger
ous, There are anarchistic forces
there and elsewhere threatening the
destruction Of the civilization OF the
world. Americas task ID not over ner
world task still confronts her. Her
national task even IL not through with
money must be given freely. not only
to the world task but to the national
task. Not only cash but the credit
of the American people must be ex-
tended; NO man who loves the repub-
lie or who loves humanity can regard
his sacrifices at an end now. Even II
We consider nothing but ourselves, our
boys must be brought home. and peace
must be reconstructed. and
countless things accompanied by great
expense must be done In order that
we may "take up tho plow where We
left II In the furrow and 20 on to the
end of the furrow." Even from the
narrowest standpoint 1t IL perhaps
more important now than II was six