Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-01-27
Natural Cas-
BY FRA ROBERTUS
Herein Is Revealed For the
First Time the Real Cause
of the World War by One
Who Declared II.
/ know what caused the world


war, ...
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In fact. have known for. years,
though it never occurred to- me TO
be sure about it until the night Of
the ever memorable 10th of jan
uary, when l attended a banquet.
Give ear, hearken, heed, and
shall a tale unfold that will clear
up for once and for all this his
torlc perpleXity.
Really, this revelation belongs
to the front page. Though there
must be still alive many of the
forty other men who have known
this secret along with me. up to
now not one of them has had the
nerve--I say the nerve-to reveal
ii.
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But II am brave man: !
fought and won the world war, In
way o speaking. some five years
before it started, ]. together with
the forty other immOrtals, declared
the world war one fateful night in
the winter of 1910. What boots
it thar the war didn't start until
he August Of 1914?
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we didn't exactly declare war
against the world but We declared
war against peace. We made the
solemn declaration that we would
fight universal peace forever and a
day. And now | verify believe that
was what brought on the great
calamity.
] reached this definite conclusion
on the night of January Is, at the
banquet mentioned. The tuastmas-
ter announced "A musical number
we have" he said "a double
quartet, but OWING to Illness and
absence we have had to cut it down
to one quartet" And one BAN
gueter pleaded: Couldn't you
kindly cut it down to one quartz"
And then the water glasses clinked
drily.
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And then | recalled another ban
quet. Twas in the winter of 1910
and the city of New York. Twas
a peace banquet to the press of
that city. Each newspaper and
each press association was repre-
sented. There were present sew
eral foreign correspondents and
some magazine writers. The as
sembly numbered forty-one guests.
Yea. the immortal forty-one!
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The place was the apartment
home of the Hon. Marcus NJ.
Marks, millionaire, sociologist. en-
thusiast for universal peace, who
later became president of the
borough of Manhattan, You re-
call those times? Nearly everybody
that war had smoothed
his wrinkled front forever. And
peace lay like a shaft of
light athwart the land. la Ten
ryson. There were Giant Opt
mists in those days,
Mr.. Marks was a Croesus, and
his home looked that way. Twas
in the upper flights of one OF those
apartment palaces
such as are seen only in Gotham,
There were about seventeen serv-
ants, with two baths to each serv-
ant The dining hall was marvel
of interior decorative art. The table
one long wide. wonderful table
was swathed in fine linens that
must have cost an immoderate for
tune; and the plates. the cutlery,
the very finger howis--why, theJ
were too rich for the blood of AMI
ordinary newspaper or magazine
man.
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But we were not ordinary-we
were the forty-one immortals.
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No use to try to describe the
dinner 1t must have cost hun
dred dollars a plate--and nothing
at all but food, Except flowers.
Put nobody could drink the flow
ers.
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And there for nearly four in
terminahle hours sat the forty-one
martyrs to universal peace. listen