The Omaha guide., 1935-09-21
KELLY MILLER
SAYS:
ETHIOPIA STRETCHES FORTH
HER HANDS

WhIch spans the roof Of the world.
Make way for me" said right. Il
am the first born son OF COD. aYou
might be his first son after his mar
rage responded might, shut I am
he Legitimate son Of his Iustv
youth Thereupon might struck
right IN the forehead who fen sprawl
ing headlong through the dome Of
he Cathedral Of Rheims were he Laws
helpless until this very day.
Thus wrote Ebert Hubbard II the
last issue Of the ~PhiIistines before
he went down on the nI-fated Lusi-
tania- Does right make might or does
might make right? Ask Mussolini
and the League Of Nations. Through
cut the history Of the world down to
the year Of our Lord 1885. no nation
has Needed moral restraint IL face of
national necessity. This nation took
America from the Indians, Hawaii
from the natives. Texas from Mexico
The Panama Canal Zone from CoIum-
bIa- Puerto RIGA and the PHILIPPINE
Islands from Spain without any great
heed TO moral nieeties. Woodrow VII
son sought to bring International con-
fuet under moral control but the
United States would not have It 70.
The moral condemnation of the world
Is now being focused against Musso-
lini and his imperial ambition for
colonial expansion, IL Africa. Musso-
Inns policy and purpose i as raw
and ruthless as that Of any pirate in.
quest Of the booty Of innocent ships
: not Italy a Christian nation. undel
moral sway of the Pope who holds
the key to Heaven Is Christianity
an effective influence in the practical
onduct of men and nations In the
world today Ask Adolph Hitler r.
England France, or eve the United
States ona whit better than GERMANY
OF Italy II moral obstacles stand IN
the way Of their imperial purpose -?
Would we allow Mexico Oh Haiti To
stand IN our way IN Safeguarding the
Panama Canal? Has England shown
any moral scruples III building up her
tar flung empire? Then with what
moral consistency can these nations.
with q brigand record condemn Italy
for now attempting to repeat their
record OF conquest and slaughter to
expand her OWL dominion?
Let Us give the devil his due.
whereby MussoIini viii Be accorded
all that ne claims. Italy has restrict
ed territory with 40,OO0,0 900 popuIa-
ton and q high birth rate. MussoIini
has encouraged this birth rate BY re-
ducIng the age Of marriage for men
from is 70 16 and for women from rs
TO IA. The Pope has put his ban upon
birth control for all loyal, faithful
Catholics The population of Italy.
therefore, must overflow its natural
boundaries MussOIini knows this and
seeks an outlet In Africa This has
been the method OF veriIe and vigor-
GUS peoples ever since Caesars de
scrlptiOn Of the Helvetians who over
flowed their boundaries because thew
UTEwa r0~ 1870 ~ v--%-----I =
people Of such natural vigor and war
ike PropensItIes. Ut is not because
of the race and visage Of the Alb
yssinians a. the object OF this attack,
but because they are weak and their
country abCunds IN resources and raw
Materials which Italy lacks and must
have There IS probably not another
nation but that would DO the same
thing or a similar thing if confront
ed by the same national circumstance
Sir Henry Johnston. author OF ~ThI
Negro and the New World, states
his belief that human slavery and al
Of its horrors of the past three hum
dred years would be repeated today
ii men and nations found il profit
able to do so.
Ard yet we commend the ~enreavor
Of the League Of Nations to restrain
MussoIini from his avaracious Dur
Pose. Politics said Senator John G.
ingalls, OF Kansas, is the metaphv-
sizes Of force The League Of Nations
is but q balance OF power. the world
must keep II stable equilibrium or q
state Of confusion VIII follow. Thus
the nations Of the world make o
atty Of necessity. Virtue Is dictated
by practical consideration and not bv
abstract moral decree. Tennyson had
It right when he said:
The common sense OF most shall
hold a fretfuI realm III all
And the Universe shall sIumher
Tapped IN universal law
In the far flung purpose Of things
the continent Of Africa must De re-
deemed from the chains OF error and
ignorance and lifted to the level OF
modern civilization Is Marcus Gar
vey OF MussoIini the better prophet
Of the process Of redenption7 Gar
vey believes, or believed, that the
gathered fragments of the African
race now scattered throughout the