Arizona republican., 1921-04-01
THE DEVILS GOSPEL
BY DR. FRANK CRANE tCopyright, 1921, by Frank Crane}

My text this afternoon is from the gospel according to the Prince of This World, alias the Devil admir- ably expounded in one of the newspapers of the U in an article by one c. B. Evans. He says, Euro4 pean Debts and other International things:
 Dr. Walter Llchtenstein executive secretary of the First National bank, who has broad knowledge of such matters suggests conference of nations that would take up the whole subject of international debts and propose disposal of them from the viewpoint of the good of all mankind.
 'This may be pronounced an admirable idea witf just qualfication-the European diplomats SO much our superiors in international financial affairs and in deviltry on large scale that we should likely be driven into some small hole and fastened up with lot of onerouS engagements
 We infused, in relations to other Powers, With glrlsh sweetness, ldealsn, and vague love for mankind that we would be tender morsel for the big mouth of the British lion attractive conquest for the finished young gentlemen of France. That is fair conclusion from many of the results of the Peace Conference
 One of the things mortal at which the high gods chucke is the complacency with which they who hold such views call themselves practical while those who believe in the power of goodness kindness, poteness forgiveness faith and similar Sunday School stuff are dubbed 'ideaists," theorists "visonaries and the | like
 1 The commonest delusion in the world is that God is on the side of the strongest battaions."
 The theory that might, power, military organization, shrewdness and cunning get things done and have their way is nothing but theory, strange and persistent insanity.
 l Anybody old enough to read history ought to know that such forces have succeeded. Each deuded generation groping in the fog believes this devils lie,
 
 l Nineveh Persia Babylon, Egypt, Rome, among the ancietns, Spain and Napoleon of yesterday and the Car, the Kaiser and the House of Hapsburg among the moderns all trusted this and went down to that hell that is yawnng for the fool nation that wants | to try it.
 $. To be just and gentlemanly, generous and trust ing unselfish and devoted to the veal of hu manity, is quite necessary in naton which is { million groups of men, as it is in any one man. AS the civilized and forbearing has driven the savage the gunman, and the bully off the highway of government and into the byways of crime, so the de- cent and unsefish nations will out-popuate and event q ually rule the swashbucking tribes. e The meek do inherit the earth.
 The end of the hog is the slaughter house.
 That sentiment which MT. Evans, in cheap revamp-
 ing of the most ancient and deadliest of infideties calls 'girsh sweetness, idealism and vague love for mankind s the facts show to all but the blind the 7, toughest, and most enduring force known I It is ruling increasing millions of civilized beings while the cohorts of Caesar the battaons of Napoleon and the fierce regiments of the Kaiser whine forever in it he striving in vain to warn the living purblind pot clans and fatuous wiseacres of the memorable tainties of cosmic law