Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-01-12
EUROPE
(By John Bush)

1t is hard for the American people
of today, whose forefathers laid down
the doctrine that governments were
instituted among men for the purpose
of preserving the rights of the people,
to understand how thoroughly it has
been ingrained in the brain of the
people of Europe that in some mir
aculous manner they belong, body and
soul, to some king or war-lord yho
rides a horse with epaulettes on his
shoulders, a saber girt about his in
f1ated abdomen, or tinsel crown upon
in his brainless head.
The early settlers who came to
American shores had that same i'm
preston. They thought they belonged
to somebody, and that they must be
loval to some thief who could trace
his pedigree back to antiquity's most
with the idea that like Sir Walter
Raleigh, they should, as a duty, throw
their cloak over a mud puddle if they
chance to meet one Of those medal
and tinsel decorated directors of
wholesale human slaughter for profit
and power they call army officers.
1t took long time for them to get
that idea out of their heads, though
they were three thousand miles away
from the despotism of Europe. Time
and distance helped to clear their
minds of that Infamous belief. Every
mile between them and the pomp and
glory of monarchy helped to nOurish
the idea of a republic in their minds.
Despite the abundance of historical
facts that stand as proof of the great
benefits to humanity has been the
efforts of our forefathers to sever the
bonds of Europe's autocracy, those
instruments of the international war
makers called newspapers, are now
telling the American people. The
consensus of opinion is that Amierac,
in some way that has not been di
vulged, will take a hand in helping
to solve the difficulties of EWope
which hitherto have baffled states
men.
There is nothing more ridiculous
than to attempt to make an intelli-
gent people believe that the condi-
tions of Europe are battling states
men or any one else.
The newspaper editors and all other
writer's may devote time and space
to put their infamouse propaganda
before the people, but the fact and
conditions will remain the same, and
every thinking person knows it, that
SO long as Europe is overburdened
with hairbrained royalty, immoral
army officers, illiterate soldiers and
last but not least, those promoters of
war the diplomats, conditions will
grow worse as time goes on.
The newspapers that are now
printing pathetic stories about
devastated Europe are the same ones
that told the American people that
the late World War was being fought
for world democracy, when they knew
such a project was impossible. Our
own country is not, and the trainers
of our government did not intend it
to be a democracy but a republic.
They knew while they were depicting
Germany as the most despotic nation
that our ally, England, has starved
to death more innocent women and
children with her immense navy than
all the armies of Germany ever
killed on the battlefield.
If the foundation for the whole
business was one of truth instead of
the sheer fabric of falsehood as it
is, the American peopel might believe
that intervention to promote high
American ideals would be possible.
If the United States, or any other ma
ton, would attempt to remove the
cause of Europes broils thew would
be as welcome and would perhaps re-
ceive the same consideration as did
Christ when he drove the money
changers out of the temple of Jeru-
salem. Americas intervention in
Europe, so far as relief to the COM
mon people is concerned, would be
as much benefit as straw would be
to a drowning man.