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THU PHILOSOPHY OF WAR.
Today there is a world in arms.
A world, there is, in active battle
array, determined to accomplish cer- j
tain ends by the use of force.
The shibboleths of peace have j
been these years past cast aside,
and men trust alone the arbitrament
of arms.
It is a terrible state of affairs no
doubt. Hut it might have been and
indeed it was anticipated. It is
more than a thousand years since
the angry apostle was warned to put
up his sword in his sheathe for
those who live by the sword shall
perish by the sword. And that is
the philosophy of war.
Basically the reason of the war Is
the lust for territory and power,
hut necessarily also there is the
psychological motive ot tear, i uat
this man or that shall gain over
weening strength, that this nation
or that shall gain overweening
power, the nations of the world
are strong in awe and fear.
Distrust exists and then where
that usurps the place of reason and
intelligence, men will war.
it is a fact that the capitalist
system would lain avoid war. War
may he accompanied by tremendous
pro tits. But at the same time, the
wiser know that it is accompanied
later on by economic losses. It is
certain to be followed by reaction
industrially and financially of a far
reaching extent and that is to he
avoided. The great powers would
far rather pursue their avocations
if they can be pursued without wars.
But if they cannot, why war will :
come and then there is the end: J
whoso lives by the sword shall per- j
ish by the sword.
We can easily enough trace this j
war back to the dominance in Eu- j
rope of a spirit of inevitable mili
tarism. That that militarism ivose
the creature of the economy of the]
lands wherein it most did flourish
may not be denied: but like many
another effect of that economy it
grew beyond the power of its parent
cause to control, a veritable fraivk
ensteln which chilled with fears the
heart of men.
Every nation in Europe feared to j
allow the other nation >o a .vanes .
and to conquer and v. hen one of
the great powers began to threaten
the integrity of the smaller powers
in the Balkans, the fear of that ex
tension of power compelled resist
ance. And resistance came to Aus
tria from France and Russia, while
the German militarists rushed to
the rescue of their Ally.
Inevitably Great Britain became
involved for the possible triumph of
Austria and Germany, especially ot
the latter, a great trade and finan
cial rival, growing more dangerous
year by year was an impossibility.
And it is the very same with the
United States. As stated by The
New Republic in an issue of Febru
ary in justification for war with
Germany “We are being drawn into
the war as a consequence of Mr.
Wilson's policy of benevolent neu
trality towards the Allies” and
again “we have been conniving at
British illegality and penalizing that
of Germany”.
The fact is that Germany a tri
umphant nation was no more to he
tolerated by America than by Great
Britain. All the interests—the
•great Industrial, commercial and
financial interests, were lined up
■with the fortunes of the Allies and
against that of Germany, and while
Americans generally opposed the
war, their sympathies, reflecting in
a measure the sympathies of the
■economically great, as always, were
with the Entente and opposed to
the Central Powers.
National pride is as vigorous in
America as in any country. National
pride would be humiliated to think
that what would be a deplored even
tuality had happened because of the
supineness of the American nation.
Hence it was long evident that entry
into this war was inevitable. The
interests feared the military prowess
of Germany just as much as they
feared its economic prowess, and the
word went out that Germany must
be destroyed.
Carthage a I’lioenician colony,
peacefully seeking trade and profits
was a menace to no country. But
Carthage the great sea and land
power, overrunning Spain and
Africa, threatening Home, produc
ing Hannibals and Hamilcars and
Hasdrubals right at the doors ol
Home, meant that one or other ot
those nations would be destroyed.
Not unreasonable was the argument
of Cato who threw the ripe grapes
into the Senate and told them that
they had been plucked in the Carth
aginian vineyards right at the edge
of Roman territory, and reasonable
enough his reiterated ruthless de
larauuu mui v (tmiugt; cuusi ut- utr
itroyed. Living by the sword, it
tad to perish by the sword.
The majority who support war on
Germany reason that the spirit ol
Germany is the spirit of Bernhardt.
And tliere can hardly be any ques
tion but that the antagonism against
Sermany today is due just to the
fact that Germany was a military
nation so well organized and so
well ordered. In the sword Germany
placed its faith and it seems to be
determined by a world of foes that
by the sword shall Germany perish.
It is part of the irony of things
that to bring this about the nations
bent upon the destruction of Ger
many’s militarism have had to adopt
a despotic militarism themselves as
keenly bladed and as severe as
anything that German militarists
have been able to devise. Moreover,
it is not in evidence that any secur
ity remains that this militarism that
is to be adopted to crush Germany
will not remain with those nations
lined up against the Central Powers.
It may not be lost sight of that
all wars were in the past undoubt
edly accompanied by reaction.
In Europe the Wars of the Hoses
ended in a Tudor despotism. The
wars of the Parliament ended in the
restoration and the reaction. The
five years war ennobled Toryism.
The seven years war dignified auto
c-racy. The Napoleon wars ended in
a Holy Alliance. The Franco
Prussian war saw junlterdom tri
umphant in Germany and only the
republican instinct that had been fed
almost ninety years before by the
revolution in France prevented
President and Marshal MacMahon
turning over the French republic to
royalty.
There has been much written to
the effect that this present war will
end in permanent peace and great
progress. Many men who have the
reputation of being thoughtful and
far seeing authorities do not feel
certain that the men who leave the
trenches in Europe will turn again
to their stalls to be worked and
goaded until even fall from early
morning. This is all conjecture
pure and simple, and a dangerous
prophesy in the light of past history,
our only guide to the future.
It may be indeed that having ex
perienced the gruelling discipline ot
applied force men will trust in it
above all things. If men are to
i spend years in learning that given
force enough, applicable violence
enough, strength enough, power
enough, they can accomplish any
thing .they are likely to put that be
lief to strange uses.
When the Bastille fell, the French
canaille knew that nothing, not
forts and cannon and stone walls
may defy the armed attack. It made
possible every revolutionary tri
umph thereafter.
So. it may be believed, that mer
who have spent their days in learn
ing that strength and arms may dc
anything and dare everything, thej
are like to make novel application!
of the theory of the use of force.
For that reason it has been ar
gued that men will return from the
trenches in no mood to undergo the
same conditions of living that hat
been theirs before that. That they
will return home determined to,
prune privilege even if they prune j
it by force of arms. And yet again
shall that certain philosophy be uti
lized that he who lives by the sword
shall perish by the sword.
Furthermore this war is some
thing different. It faces the most
enlightened period of the world’s
history and when men think more
and reason more than ever before.
This war faces moreover and much
more importantly a world of belli
gerents most of whom have been
subjected to the discipline of the
machine. That discipline has taught
the ruthless nature of force and the
all-powerful nature of well directed
energy. But it has also taught the
utility of the elimination of the
unnecessary. There is no privileged
part in the machine. Each has its
function, co-ordinated with the rest.
If it is useful, well, if not it must
be eliminated.
That is the mentality of society
as it stands today, and it is the
mentality of the masses suddenly
thrown into the vortex of the war.
For a time they lose themselves
while the tremendous new forces
are acting upon them, but eventu
ally the whirl and din and shouting
and roar and frenzy settles itselt
into an orderly system of reality
which insists with just as ruthless
a discipline as the machine they
heretofore worked under and with
and for: the all powerful nature
of force and energy profitable direct
ed to accomplish some determined
end: the constructive power of de
struction!
Hence the result of this war wilt
be determined socially by the psy
chology of the masses before and
during the war. a society which
has been disciplined by the machine
and by the absolute trust in the
omnipotence of applied energy, viol
ence or force.
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THE WORKER.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
To Elma McNaught and J. J.
Chambers, your heirs, executors,
Successors, assigns or personal re
presentatives:
You and each'of you are hereby
notified that the undersigned
has expended in labor and improve
ments the sum of one hundred dol
lars for year 1916 on Rosevelt bench
located between Newton Gulch No.
2 and Fox Creek, recorded and more
fully described in the- records of tho
Cape Nome Mining and Recording
District in the Second Division, Ter
ritory of Alaska.
The above amount has been ex
pended in order to hold said claim?
under the provisions of the law
concerning annual labor upon miD j
ing claims. •
And you and each of you arejjj
further notified that if within j jj
ninety days after the last publication jj
of this notice you fail to contribute 9
your proportion of said expenditure, jj
your interest in said claim will be- jj
come the property of the under- S
signed your co-owner under section |
2324 Revised Statutes of the United
States. *
ESKIMO GOLD DREDGING CO. i
Co-Owner. |
Date of first pub., Feb. 19, 1917. |
Date ot last. pum., may ji, uu.
NOTICE OK FORFEITURE.
To R. J. Nugent, Homer D. Wheeler
F. M. Wheeler and W. L. Bruce
your heirs, executors, assigns or '
personal representatives:
You and each of you are hereby >
notified that I have caused to be j j
expended in labor and improvements I *
the sum of one hundred dollars for !
the year of 1916 on the Buckeye j
Quartz Claim located on the North f
side ot Rock Creek and recorded
and more fully described in Yol. 91,
Page 397 in the records of the Cape
Nome Mining and Recording District
Second Division, Territorj of Al
aska.
The above amount has been ex
pended under the provisions of the
law concerning annual labor upon
mining claims, being the amount
requred to hold said claim.
And you and each of you are
further notified that if you fail to
contribute your proportion of said
expenditure within ninety days after
the last publication of this notice,
your interest in said claim will be
come the property of the under
signed, your co-owner, under section ,
2324 Revised Statutes of the United
States.
ELIZABETH JOLLIFFE.
Co-Owner.
Date of first publ., April 16, 1917.
Date of last publ., July 16, 1917.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
To O. C. Foster, E. J. Maynard, Chas
Clark and Chas R. Ewing, your
heirs, executors, assigns or person
al representatives.
You and each of you are hereby
notified that the undersigned has ex
pended in labor and improvements
the sum of one hundred dollars
for year 1916 on Washington claim,
a placer mining claim situated at the
head of Peluck and recorded and
more fully described in the records
of Cape Nome Mining and Record
ing District, in the Second Division
of the Territory of Alaska.
The above amount lias been ex
pended under the provisions of the
law concerning Annual Labor upon
Mining Claims, being the amount
required to hold said claim.
And you and each of you are
further notified that if within ninety
days after the last publication of
this notice you fail to contribute
your proportion of said expenditure,
your interest in said claim will be
come the property of the under
signed your co-owner under section
2324 Revised Statutes of the United
States.
ESKIMO GOLD DREDGING CO.
Co-Owner.
Date of first pub., Feb. 19, 1917.
Date of last publ.. May 21, 1917.
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