The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1924-03-05

caused and therefore may be man
controlled, it is never asked who are
the men with whom war begins.
No peace prize competition evec
asks for answers to the question.
Who are the men, alive today, who
have power to cause a war;" NJ
n hangs up a large sum of cash
for correct and provable TO
the question, What is the race, what
is the business of the men who make
the biggest profit out of war;
These questions are not popular, thei'
answers are not permissible, and thc
whole discussion of peace, therefore
is reduced to a rustic of paper, ana
a maze of writing.
Now, when a great crime is COM
mitted, omeon commits it. When
a great crime is planned, someone
plans it. 1t is impossible to charge
a tornado or a volcanic eruption to
any individual or group of individu-
ais, but is is not impossible to trace
the human sources of war.
War is not, in modern times al
least, the spontaneous impulse of a
people who say, Come let us fight
a neighbOr nation" The people are
not naturally volunteer fighters.
Great as have been some of the ad-
vances won through war, the war
itself was not the willing service o.
al the men who fought it. Were it
not for the most extreme pressure
eXterted upon men of fighting age.
even the cause of American Indepen-
dence would not have commanded
voluntary sOldier-service to WIN 1t
and the Union was saved by Lincoln
: eventually having recourse to con-
scription. Rightly or wrongly, the
plain people do not relish battle, and
wounds, and violent death. There
r always, it is true, men of Intrep-
id spirit who readily and willingly
volunteer at the outset and do 50
out of an idealism which commands
universal honor, but wars are not
carried on and concluded by such
men-there are not a sufficient mum
Der of them.
1t is easy, far too easy, for the
mind searching the causes Of war Il
lose itself in the labyrinth of sec
Ondary aus The things that are
seen, the things that are printed foI
everyone to read, fully repre-
snt the inwardness Of the true cause
of war. Why, such is the characte,
of war that a nation cannot be
trusted with the whole truth of VIVA
transpires after the war is begun
secrecy is the cause of it and secrec,
regarding the progress of it are es
s%ential. The truth of any wal i
never known until long after the me-
who bear the personal responsible
. for it are dead; and if there are an
1 other elements, such as close racis
connections between the real wal
makers, that is never made known
because it is, or is supposed to b.
the exclusive knowledge of the world
invisible self-government.
Nations are made to froth at tn
mouth and march the streets of the.
cities calling for war. Yes, bu
why? Because they have been lie
to. And who has lied to them 9TH
German people were told that the.
country was invaded. The Frenc
were told that their country was il
vaded. Neither country was invade
at the time the STORIES were toll
Even the Turks cannot be raised
war unless they are told their coul
! try is invaded. The propaganda mu
: be brought into play before the pc
pie can be worked into the W;
mood. And it is because the peop
; have so frequently discovered afte
ward that they were misleau as
t the facts, that the present SUSPECT,
. of government exercises such a swi
upon their mind.
First there is the world checkC
board on which a few men are pla