The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-23
TO WAR
WALTER MILLS

The author of Road by fortunate chance completed this
living adults exactly the time when the world be
his Volume he Quotes the observation Of Count Won Bernstor the
German Ambassador the xaposion the American
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a 15-article Mills Road War"
THE Fourth of July 1914 fell upon a Saturday. This
double holiday and the nation gave itself to
the pleasures of patriotic obseances to the speeches
and the recracker, the parade the ball games and the
amusement parks-with nothing arduous before it
than the Sunday papers.
In the Old World as Also perhaps in the New, there
did to be certain of resessness upon the air.
However, that shocking business about the assassination
of the Austrian heir apparent had already faded from the
front pages
The papers full of special articles the urgent
and difficult problems of Mexico and the Caribbean, and
it to foreign policy that the chief speech of the
day before had been devoted Standing in the open before
great crowd in Independence Square in Philadelphia
President Wilson had chosen to explain and to defend his
singular attempt to introduce ideasm into international
relations
s"If did not believe that the moral judgment would
be the last Judgment the final judgment, in the minds of
well at the tribunal of Cod could not believe
in popular government. But do believe these things
My dream is that the years go and the world knows
and more of America it will turn to America for
those moral inspirations which lie at the basis OF all tree
dom; that the world will fear America unless feels
that it engaged in enterprise which is inconsistent
with the rights of humanity; and that America will
into the full light of the day when all shall know that she
puts human rights above all other rights and that her
flag is the flag not only of America but of humanity.
Il don't know that there will be another Declar
alton of Independence statement of grievance of
kind, but believe if any such document is drawn it
will be drawn in the spirit of the American Declaration of
Independence and that America has lifted the light that
will shine unto all generations and guide the feet of
kind to the goal of justice, liberty and peace"
these words being read in the American news
papers next day the German Emperor at Potsdam
giving that rather casual to the Austrian
bassador which seems the most important single link
in the long chain of causation that about to drag
world into catastrophe But one, of course, knew any
thing about that.
The cultivated esOeric mysteries of international
affairs had held but the slightest interest for Mr. Wilson;
throughout long devoted to the study of
ment he had given surprisingly little attention to foreign
relationships and diplomacy"
The martial spendors and imperial ambitions in which
the ROosevetan age had risen and ourshed meant little
to the liberal dealsm of 1912 of which Mr. Wilson had
made himself the mouthpece
Unfortunately, that the same forces which
had produced the colossal ornaments and mperiaist
foreign policies of the European industrial powers
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