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enemy in a minority, though If they
combined they would be in a major
ity of at least four to one.
The single-minded govern because
they have a common religion and a
common philosophy of life.
The religion may be the worship
of Mammon and the philosophy that
of a pirate, but they are all effective
Iy agreed on it and will cut throats
for its sake. And so they triumph
until their opponents learn the les
son and find a common religion and
philosophy to agree on.
The league Of nations will be an
attempt to attempt to organize the
coercive forces, moral and physical,
Of idealism, and 1t must not be con-
ceived as a Tolstoyan celebration.
but as a very vigorous organization
of resistance to evil, like a municipal
police force.
II will not be a substitute for the
principle of self-preservation, be-
cause the truth is that it is the prin-
ciple of self-preservation that is
driving all the more thoughtful
statesmen, Jingoes as we'll as Inter-
nationalists, to recognize its neces-
sity.
Next War No Game of Chance.
The next war, if it is permitted to
occur, will be no game of chance
played with live soldiers and won by
changing them into dead enes, but a
systematic, scientific attempt to de-
stroy cities and kill civilians.
Not the soldiers alone, but all Of
US, will have to live miserably in
holes in the ground and afraid to
look at the sky lest our white faces
should hetray US to hostile aero
planes, for our houses will be heaps
of charred bricks.
The existing London record is a
690-pound bomb which destroyed six
houses and rendered twenty unin-
habitable. and this bomb is already a
middle-size one. What the record
may be for those unfortunate Rhine
towns on which during the last year
Of the war the British army boasted
of having dropped 100 bombs for
every one dropped in England by
the Germans is not yet known.
Under such conditions towns are
not inhabitable, industry is not prac-
tcable and life is not bearable. The
notion that war is beneficial gym
nastically, morally and spiritually is
reduced to absurdity. One might as
well maFe the same plea for hurri-
canes and earthquakes, or pretend
that because a man is the better for
swimming he will a fortiori be still
better for drowning.
And yet the sensational terrors of
the high explosive hurled from the
clouds or shot up from the depths
of the sea are trifling compared to
the horrors Of the blockade.
StupendOus Cost to Whole World.
AS the fumes of battle clear away,
it becomes more and more apparent
that the war was won by the British
navy at stupendous cost to the
whole world, both belligerent and
neutral.
Not bombardment but starvation
and civil ruin have brought Eng
lands enemies to their knees, and
this starvation and ruin has fallen
heavily not only on neutral countries
but on England's own allies, who
have escaped the fate of Russia and
Germany only by being rationed by
England.
Russia was the first victim, even
her alliance with England. First
came the revolution, which stopped
supplies from Britain. The stoppage
forced her to make peace with the
Central Empires to avert starvation,
but the opening of her western
frontier to German trade could not
save her, because Germany had al
ready been driven by the blockade
to plunder Belgium to the last sauce
pan lid, to build her submarines out
of the vitals of her own fleet and
to leave herself without tanks to
fight the allied machine guns.
From the Ural Mountains to the