New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1921-09-21
Wars Horrid Aftermath.

After reading the following editori-
al one may we'll ask whether the ST..
Paul Dispatch, from whose columns
it has been clipped, has been asleep
all those years, or why it has not
long ago joined the ranks of the de
tested pacifists," who are now max
ing things rather uncomfortable for
brazen militarists. 1t is to be expect
ed that the Dispatch, like so many
other mouthpieces of big business and
the war profteers, becomes alarmed
at the effect Of war, but does not seem.
to be interested in the least in pre-
venting its cause. Read and marvel
at the great revelation that has taken
possession of the mind of the Dis
patch's editorial writer:
Has the whole world been torn
loose from its moral moorings as a re-
action to the great war? Civilization
seems to have gone drifting down a
tide of responsibility and demoraliza-
ton suggesting that the shock of war
has shattered the general sense OF hon
esty and decency, destroyed respect
for law and overturned the standards
of morality by which right living is
established. 81
The pages Of the newspaper Of the
day ale gigantic tabs of police rec.
ords, recording crime and casualty
following crime, not in the desultory
instance of normal conditions but
sweeping the country in a wave Of
Generalization that spares no section
and exenpts nc community. The
most Indifferent scanner of the news
of the day has been Mortified at the
unending chapter of the extremes Of
wrong doing.
1t is impressive, whatever may be
the accompanying revulsion, to note
that the sweep of crime had struck
the utmost depths Of moral depravity
passion swept beyond all restraint
and every murderous instinct of prim-
tive man unleashed and excited to
activity. The extremity Of the crime
wave is no less notable than it's re-
markable generality. It is too shock
ing to be discussed in detail.
The moralist and historian compar-
ing notes on situation never paral-
leled in the life of the generation of
today, probably will reach the con-
clusion that the epidemic Of crime,
with the casualty associated with it's
sources is the more or less inevitable
reaction to the world war. Striking
at the foundation Of civilization, the
war unsettled and dislodged the SUI
perstructures erected by it for the
preservation Of the relations in secur-
ity and right between man and man.
The destruction of war so far carried
with it the dest1 uction of moral OBJ.
legation, the ascendancy of the physi-
cal animal over the moral and intel
lectual human, as to obscure and part
ly obliterate the covenant signed for
the protection of society.
History instructs us that every war
has been followed by train of ca
lamitous consequence, has left a trail
ofAcrime of every character and de-
gree. The shocking record of the
present is indirect ratio to the huge
proportions of the world war. Moral
health will reanirnate the world inzsthe
process Of time, but the sag seems
slow and the interim trying to en-
dure.
We note the Minneapolis Tribune
suggesting that in some ways the-old
Confederate Constitution of Civil war
days was superior to ours and openly
limiting that ours could be improved.
We for once agree with the Tribune,
but according to Tribune standards
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