Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1921-11-24

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price, has been all in Raaih. fts fail
ure Was seen in the palacF, at Vers
sallles. | read the ether day that
three typical men met in that palace,
an idealist (whose dreams at least
were all our dreamsJ: nateriaIiSt
(whose philosophy was the philosO-
ply of force, in spite of the failme of
force, who cynically laughed ct our
man who talked ike Jesus Christi
and an opportunist IA pplitian seek
ing, as always, the MAN caance-f0T
him and his.) And the idealist who
dreamed our dreams was beaten.
That defeat left the world a league
without power, a world on FIRE with
but certainly to submerge.
War Cannot End War
Today as we stand in the foothills
of another mountain range of human
hope, among many cloudy things
two things are clear. First, 9Th
New Crusade" settled nothing except
the immediate military objective
That is all that war can ever settle.
War cannot end war. War sows hate.
anger, jealousy. Hate, anger jeal
ousy-bring forth war. Every con-
tinent today shouts out that fact.
Wars Must End-Or!
The other truth is still more clear
that wars must end, or civilization
must cease. That ghostly army O.
twenty million men shout it to tht
gloomy skies-that wars must end
/ Our seventy-five thousand dead
American boys cry from the mouth
of their every wound that wars must
end-or we die.
But, most of all, the awful vision
of the next World War, raises its
awful cry of protest. This is not pro
phecy. 1t is clearly established
1 fact. Germany was the only nation
that saw clearly and acted openly
!, consistently, on the self-evident pro-
position that "civilized warfare" is a
contradiction in terms. You can't
have war and civilization at one and
the same time. No longer will we
Ieven think or dream of "Civilized'
warfare, or claws" of a civilized war
fare. The next war will draw nc
lines. Women and little children will
be drawn in on a scale hitherto un-
known and unimagined.
l beg that my friends Of the Granc
Army will not misunderstand the
statement | am about to make. There
are surviving soldiers of our Civil
War who seek to belittle the grim
realities that our men faced in the
World War. l do not think that
they represent the Grand Army. Anc
wet their attitude is based on fail
ure to see that the last war was as
different from our Civil War as the
East is from the West. And, fellow
citizens, the next war will be pro
portionately vaster in its horror!
We all recall the horror that we
felt when we first read of the unseen
fate which overlook our brave Cana
dian brothres in that sunny morning
at Ypres. How shocked we were
when we read of their looks of blank
bewilderment and despair, their hor.
! rible contortions, as they were
grappled by that ching" which they
and we believed incredible. We re.
call with what panic the Allied
armies sought mask protection
And then the Germans brought forth
!, more awful gas-a gas that ate
awful sores wherever it touched the
human skin. And now, as a pro
phecy of the future, we know thai
our own armies planned to put intC
the campaign of 1919, a gas more
awful still! They called it Lewisite
A gas that will seek out men dowr
, in the hiding places beneath the
earth. A gas that is invisible, gas
! one breath of which will cause in
stant death, a gas which if it touches
the smallest portion of the human
skin will bring certain death il
twelve hours. And that was onl!
the beginning of the horrors await
, ing the armies that are mad enough
to bring on another war.
But that isn't all. We all remem
ber with what horror and incredulit!
we read at first in the days of Ger
many's last drive that she had &C
- tually found a gun that would shoe
seventy five miles. And yet the mex
war will use gun which will carr!
an illimitable distance. 1t is calle,
: the aeroplane. 1t will be laden witt
the deadly Lewisite or worse.
will carry an unlimited amount. |
will be guided by wireless. 1t vii
4 drop a dozen bombs, which unde
. favoring conditions will wipe out
i city like Berlin. Two dozen bomb
will wipe out London or New York
: The last war was fought in trenches
The next war will cover the earth
4 No man young or old, no woman o
Il child will be beyond its reach.
Call To Garry On
Men, women, soldiers of the grea
\ war; we are still on the "Great Cru
d sade." We glory in the heroism o
n Chateau Thierry and the Argonne
But there is present call to a great
e er heroism. You are called for en-
5 listment into a nobler army. TIL
I price of peace must be paid i
peace. The Saturday Evening Pos
Of yesterday contained an articl
: headed: Disarmament or Bank
n ruptcy." 1t is worse than that.
e is Disarmament or Death" TIL
e white race must disarm or perish. l