Evening star., 1921-12-04
By THOMAS n. MARSHALL.
Former Vice President sf the United
States,

Former Vice President 1f the Unitei
States.
- LooMY GUsSEs are al
ways with US. Things
never were right and
there is no hope Of maxi
ing them right. Eternal law de-
crees that nations are to be born,
grow to manhood and pass into
decay. The holy alliance failed,
therefore all effort to get nations
to act sensibly in their relations
with each other inevitably must
fail. 1t is to be true to the end of
recorded time that every great
war, instead of being a war to end
all war, is merely a training school
to teach warfare and to make it
ever more awful. The main object
of government is to devise means
to destroy other governments. The
discoveries Of science do not dis
close that those who made them
are the sons of God. The Arcana
of nature. when opened by science,
are found to be filled with imple-
ments of the devil. Great inven-
tions of slight use and benefit to
mankind in the peaceful pursuits
OF life find their main value as in
struments of destruction. So croak
the critics and pessimists' of the
day.
Men OF English speaking tongue,
II they have read alright the his
tory of their race, cannot but real
1ze that they have never made war
in their thousand years of wars
unnumbered willingly, but only
and always in the hope of enlarg-
ing the rights of mankind and of
bringing the world under the
sway of law, rather than under
the power of force. Yet, many
now are uttering doleful cries.
For four years and more they
proclaimed that they were max
ing their fight to stamp out a
military system of government.
that they were fighting that JUS
tice and fair dealing might gov
ern the world around. But some
of these same men today are
pointing out what they declare to
be conclusive facts of history in
an effort to prove that the world
must go on from frightfulness to
greater frightfulness until it ends
in chaos and black night.
They would show how the
sporadic wars of an early day
when chieftains and their retain
ers had to return home from the
fields of conquest to plant and
harvest their crops had been con-
verted into indefinite campaigns
by the solid highway of McAdams
and the steam locomotive of Ste
phenson, which divided the popu-
lation into combatants and nom
combatants. These inventions
made possible the carrying of sup
plies to the soldiers and permit
ted the armies to remain con-
stantly in the fold. And now
they point to the submarine and
airplane as modern instruments
of warfare. They show that
chemists, by the discovery of
deadly gasses have rendered pres
ent-day war comparable only to
the anti-chamber of hell. They
admit the correctness of the dec
laration of the German general
staff that in modern warfare there
is no -combatant. Neither the
old man in dotage, the infant in
it's mothers arms. the Red Cross
nurse nor the hospital surgeon is
immune from the dangers of war.
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Many men of English-speaking
tongue who lent their voices, gave
their money. and sacrificed their
sons to the end that never again
till the stars grow cold and the
leaves of the Judgment Book un-
fold should a son of God or son
of man be compelled to offer his
life as libation upon the altar
of a military system of govern
ment. have turned themselves into
gloomy Gusses. II the doubts,
| say with full confidence that !
these men are to become realities,
if force really is to rule the world.
/ say with full confidence that l
shall not be deemed unpatriotic
that money and life might have
been properly saved by letting the
Germans win