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thi: ( n\s< n:\Tiors oiukctoi
Not ye t, but soon, it is vi-ry |
probable that the conscientious
objector to forceci or any other kind
of military service will be expected
to make his appearance in the
t'nited States.
fl.
and
past
ins don- so in Great Britain
tit - stories that have leaked
tin c ensorship have illumin-i
ated cun* of tin* ugliest features Ot
conscription. |
rneloubtedh tlie publication of
;
those stories caused tlic* very noble
minded authorities who dictate thej
policies of Great Britain many
pangs. for above all ibis war is e m
phasized as tlie fight ot liberty
against autocracy and other things
—many other things.
So when stubborn non-resistants
refuse to do as they arc told and
say that they will take orders front (
no person, that God refuses to allow
them to serve, and when the Colo-1
nel before w horn they are brought:
participates in brutality and tor- '
ture and contemptuously says
“Damn your God, Sir”, the high
minded principals of government
unquestionably experience some
mental perturbation themselves
over a rather irritating and exasper
ating situation when all will not do
as they are told to do.
There have been conscientious ob
jectors in other ages and they peop
led many countries. Not a few are
the ancestors of the oldest Amer
ican stock and it is queer that to
day those conscientious objectors
are honored vhile the later day ob
jector is objected lo most strongly
as a rebellious fellow fit for punish
ment, torture and extreme penal
ties.
it is wonderful how history en
nobles just as surely as it degrades.
In after ages may lie we will see
things differently to ttie present
view.
1‘Ditsm\(. s wakmxg.
The other day in Washington,!
General Pershing said that the j
country ought to awaken and realize
the tremendous work which is'
ahead in this war. Oth rs have j
spoken before him in this line, and
it is an indication that the Amer
ican people are taking this war
with some degree of indifference. It
is mighty hard to persuade the peo
ple, no doubt. that the German
strength is a menace and that as a
speaker said “the United States will
like Belgium be dragged at the
liels of a military autocracy”.
This country is separated from
Kurope by many leagues of ocean
calmly rolling. That ocean has
been bridged. sure enough, with
speedy craft but for all that the
American people feel secure in their
isolation today as they did one
hundred years ago.
Consequently, without a doubs,
the idea of prosecuting the war
vigorously in Kurope that it may
not he prosecuted ruthlessly in t he
United States does not appeal to the j
average man, who fails to see in j
the German vic tory any possibility |
of a German invasion of serious di-j
rnensions in the States. Moreover ;
it is extremely difficult to persuade
the average American that lie is
concerned in the European fight at
all. lie is not in touch with inter
national relations as is the govern
ment at Washington, and hence he is
not subject to the same compelling
forces that make likely that it
will take considerable to remove
this idea of security away from the
people.
The people of America have felt
secure lor over a hundred years. To
be roused to a great war such as
this in Europe there has to be some
thing more startling than the sink
ing ot a ship and the loss of a few
lives on the high seas. That is why
the efforts of so many powerful pa
pers and prominent men to stir the
leople to a sense of danger seem
■o unsuccessful. It is hard to shake
)lf the mental attitude of so many
leeadc- to rush to arms to ward :
>ff a danger is not felt.
This, on the whole, however it ]
nay he dangerous, is a compliment j
>£ no mean order to the courage j
ji the American people. When]
teople rush to arms and in a frenzy !
•mhark upon a war; it is when a
.treat menace stirs their hearts and
heir impulses respond to the stim
ulus of fear. So far the American
people manifest not concern, not
fear, not lethargy. But they do
feel secure enough to argue out the
question with cool indifference
among themselves
Pershing is a soldier. He knows
very well how powerless Is the tit
le available army against the armed
legions of the Central Powers now
operating in Europe. It is his bus
iness to know the tremendous effort
required to organize lines of supply,
and to supply the reserve depots
with ample munitions. He knows
the tremendous problems in trans
portation. in communication, in mo
bilization and he faces still a people
who will not commit themselves to
any feverish reciprocal desire to
meet the occasion.
It is this that occasions his address
of warning, although it may he an
exaggeration of the danger.
Nevertheless it is less liable to be
misunderstood than M'Adoo’s cau
tion that this country must bestir
itself if it is not to he dragged at
the heels of a militarism as has
Belgium been.
The average man will see no
such danger even if repeated a
thousand times, and such a state
ment is likely to occur to one as a
wild possibility that is outside the
realm of reasonable probability.
As it is the officials ought to be
very well satisfied. Congress lias
passed every law asked of it. •
has donated billions. It has an
thorized espionage laws; it has pro
vided for a draft of men of mili
tary age. Congress has made legal
what Congress was asked to make
legal and it is now up to a highly
empowered executive.
It is true that to smooth the
path for the enforcement of the
draft, the war spirit has. to be fitt
ingly inculcated. Apparently no
etui of newspaper effort is being uti
lized for that purpose although in
the last analysis the successful en
forcement will depend upon the exe
cutive itself.
It is true that not an nave me
same strong incentive to tight.
Some men own nothing, have no
thing and will in any event lose
nothing. A good many have fine
fortunes, magnificent property and
great investments. Their interests
are none the less, the one and the
other, made identical before the
law. The man who has nothing will
be asked to give his life if need be,
as well as the man who has so
much to lose and so much to defend
and such a great interest in defend
ing it.
Obviously it will not be easy to
persuade the man who lias nothing
to lose or thinks he has nothing to
lose, that he must give his service I
with the same devotion as he who
has everything that the human
heart can wish for. That will re
quire tact: it will require the suit
able culture of proper emotionalism
and the development of a high spi
rit of self renunciation before the
demands can be made of the citi
zen.
Theoretically to act as if all were
equal will only draw large dis
counts in practical experience and
lead to no end of trouble.
It is realized by such able men
as Pershing who know the dangers
faced and the difficulties that must
be ovcrcomthat the people must
be roused to rather a sense of
danger, of impending loss, of ap
proaching menace of desperate ne
.essity to do and die and a general
.timulus from oilier and wliat are
isually considered finer emotions,
so that the way lor the carrying
nit 01 the designs oi the adminis
ration may not be made more diih- |
■ult.
O.VMAX.
This man Oxman's efforts to se
ure has release has apparently as
nanv lives as a eat. Failing in one
iretext he resorts to another and
n one court he tries it in another.
Now with tiie Supreme Court re-1
'using to give him his freedom and i
nsisting that he stand trial for Ws
frame-up, it is to lie hoped that tie
way lias been cleared for a sifting
lown to bed rock of the facts in .
his case so that they may nevot i
jccur again to endanger the name |
if California.
When the Supreme Court, in!
Iianding down its decision declared i
that there was ample evidence to
indicate the necessity for a trial, it
unbared the obvious effort of the
Grand Jury which refused to indict
the man. to whitewash Osman for
ill that Oxman meant in the des
perate effort to connect Unionists
with the preparedness plot.
That the prosecution has sought
to fasten guilt upon the laboriti s
because tin .'' were la*'orites, shows j
itself at every turn of this rernari
able trial and nowhere more un
mistakably than in the association
of Swanson, the employers’ del.
live with the prosecution through
out.
Oxman is only a detail of this
great conspiracy and it is to lie
hoped that his trial, for he must
he tried, says the Supreme Court,
will reveal the whole of the inn< r
workings of the most eollosal plot
against labor in the court for many
a long day.
A l l TII.i: API'K.U/.
While debating tilts month upon
war measures, two hundred memb
ers of Congress wired an appeal to
the British government asking that
administration to free Ireland. It
is to be hoped that the text of the
telegram was more explicit than
that. Otherwise it would provide
the British government with a
problem to fulfil the terms of#tlmt
request which would he much more
serious than even the great war.
“To free Ireland"—but how? Ac
cording to the ideas of Connol'y or
according to the ideas of Redmond?
It is very confusing and it is enough
to disturb tlie compietest form oi | \
quanimity of any government much j
less th-i war disturbed government |
of a Lloyd George.
One set of men, even in the j
United States, are busy trying to j
prove that the Irish revolt was re- I
volutionary to the core—a work- i
men’s revolt signifying industrial j
and political freedom as the end I
and aim: another set is just as I
busy trying to show that Larkinism j
and socialism or Connollyism have
got nothing to do with the case.
Here is an article to prove that T.
I’. Connor is an utterly unprin-1
cipled West Briton by the fact that ]
He espouses socialist ideas, and !
here is the Irish Worker insisting |
that the red radicalism of Connolly I
permeated the real life of the;
Easter revolt.
If by freeing Ireland that form j
of local government called the !
Home Uule bill and already passed .
into law but not enforced, suspend
ed betwixt earth and heaven while 1
the battle for smaller nations is on,
like Mahomet's coffin (the tiome
rule law not the battle) the fact
that it is already a law has been 1
strangely overlooked.
However the two hundred con- J
gressmen mean well. They are now j
practically entitled to advise. They j
come as eleventh hour saviors and j
iheir telegrams should have all theij
weight o! official documents in |
London.
While fighting the battle for j
smaller nations, it is praiseworthy j
at least to remind Downing St. that !
there is a little nation called Ireland j
which has also had ambitions, often
denied but never wholly stifled, for
a place in the sun.
The syn is not kicking, and there
ought to be shine enough to go
around.
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