THE DAILY N EBRASKAN
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THE UNIVERSITY OP NEBRASKA
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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1914
PERSONALITY.
Great Master, toucn us with Thy skill
ful hand,
Let not the music that is in us die;
Great Sculptor, hew and polish us, nor
let,
Hidden and lost, Thy form within
us lie.
Bonar.
Where is Theodore with his propo
sition of peace by military preparedness?.
Edison once said he could "excuse
an ignorant man groping in the dark,"
but he "had no time to - waste on a
man that knew he was in the dark
and didn't find his way out."
WHY THE WAR?
The fields of Europe are strewn
with the dead and mangled dying.
Why? Carlyle asked that question:
"What, speaking in quite unofficial
language, is the net purport and up
shot of war? To my own knowledge,
for example, there dwell and toil in
the British village of Dumdrudge usu
ally some five hundred souls. From
these, by certain 'natural enemies' of
the French, there are successfully se
lected, during the French war, say
thirty able-bodied men. Dumdrudge,
at her own expense, has suckled and
nursed them. She has, not without
difficulty and sorrow, fed them up to
manhood, and even trained them to
crafts, so that one can weave, an
other build, another hammer, and the
weakest can stand under thirty stone
avolrdupoise. Nevertheless, amid
much weeping and swearing, they are
selected, all dressed in red and
shipped away, at the public charge,
some two thousand miles, or say only
to tho south of Spain, and fed there
till wanted. An now to that same
spot on the south of Spain are thirty
similar French artisans, from a French
Dumdrudge, in like manner wending,
till at length, after infinite effort, the
two parties come into actual juxtapo
sition, and thirty stands fronting
thirty, each with a gun in his hand.
Straightway the word 'Fire!' is given,
and they blow the souls out of one
another; and in place of sixty brisk,
useful craftsmen the world has sixty
dead carcasses, which it must bury,
and anew shed tears for. Had these
men any quarrel? Busy as the Devil
is, not the smallest! They lived far
enough apart, were the entirest
strangers. Nay, in so wide a universe
there was even, unconsciously, by
commerce, some mutual helpfulness
between them. How then? Simple
ton! Their governors bad fallen out,
and instead of shooting one another,
had the cunning to make these poor
blockheads Ehoot"
HA8TING3 ON WAR.
(Continued from Page One)
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on Belgium openly violates a great in
ternatlonal compact.
"Prudent Temerity.
"When Frederick the Great 'with
prudent temerity' opened the Seven
Years' war by attacking Saxony, the
whole world, except his confederated
enemies, was with him as soon as he
found in the queen of Poland's bag
gage, taken at Dresden, the proof of
the coalition against him, and that
Saxony was a party to it
"But suppose that Saxony had been
not only peaceful and friendly, but
under Frederick's protection as 1 'oint
guarantor of its neutrality.
"Suppose that he was not threat
ened by any immediate attack but had
placed himself behind Austria in an
aggressive attempt on Servia and had
gotten into collision with Russia,
knowing the latter's French alliance.
"Suppose that he was confident of
his ability to vanquish both those coun
tries in the field, and had no reason to
suppose that political conditions would
let England interfere, even if some of
its rulers wanted to do so.
"Suppose that some years before he
had obtained England's tacit support
to a dismemberment of France by re
vealing a secret correspondence in
which the French ruler proposed a vio
lation of Saxony's neutrality.
"Suppose that such neutrality had
been held inviolate for nearly a cen
tury by statesmen and soldiers alike
and had become solidly fixed as a part
of European public law.
"Suppose that under its protection
in reliance upon Frederick's guaran
tee, Saxony had become the most
densely peopled, the most perfectly
cultivated and the best built up land
beneath the sun, 'the land of art,' as
Griffis calls Belgium in his book, and
proves its right to the title.
"Suppose that this neutrality of
Saxony had been at least as much ofl ifaaT
a DuiwarK against Ms enemies strik
ing him if they had been threatening
to do so, as it was against his assault
on them.
"Suppose that there was no thought
on their part of such a violation of
neutrality.
"Suppose that there was no thought
on their part of such a violation of
neutrality.
"Suppose he had other clear though
not so convenient roads.
"Suppose that under all these cir
cumstances he had suddenly marched
his armies to the Saxon frontier and
given its authorities 12 hours In which
to decide to give up their fortresses
and give him possession of the coun
try, utterly renouncing his guaranty of
neutrality, but offering, if they would
give up, a new one of integrity of terri
tory and payment of damages at the
close of the war,
"Suppose that England had told him,
'I, too, have guaranteed the Saxon
neutrality; if you invade it, I shall
deem it war on me and shall so act.'
"Suppose that the great Frederick
in the face of it all had gone on with
his program with all the resources of
his time and all the horrors of the 19th
century invention added, carrying
death and destruction without warn
ing or previous complaint against a
friendly and related people many of
whom used German speech and whose
only fault was to be in his way and
to have his pledge that they should
not be disturbed would the sympathy
of the world have gone to Frederick
under such conditions? Would all the
mental resources and "heroic resolu
tion displayed by Frederick and his
people in the Seven-Years' war have
availed to redeem its infamy If started
under the conations and prosecuted
in the manner of the present attack
on Belgium?
Gladstone on Belgium's Neutrality.
"Mr. Burgess is a publicist. He
knows that Gladstone's declaration
that the violation of Belgium's neu
trality by any great European power
would be a more heinous crime against
show, Ib well within bounds. Tho at
tack on Belgium was the first move of
the kaiser's armies. It has been as
ruthless as thorough, as completely
prepared for as it was unprovoked Its
manner of execution shows how thor
oughly and how long it had been re
hearsed. ,
"Mr. Burgess says, 'it Is claimed'
that the French were already acting
there. The proof Is before tho eyes
of anyone who looks at a map and
follows the course of events that tho
German rulers have been committing
this criom constantly in their minds
for years. Did they find the proofs
of hostile plots at Brussels as the great
Frederick did at Dresden? If they had,
such proofs would have been more
promptly published than were the
Polish queen's letters. Did they not
first try offers of guaranty of the In
tegrity of Belgian territory and of in
demnity of Iosb of injury if possession
of the fortresses and frontiers and free
passage Into France was given? Was
there not even surprise expressed at
the unwillingness of Belgium to aban
don all self-direction and turn herself
wholly over to this guarantor of her
neutrality at the moment when he was
showing his utter faithlessness? Only
then did the wolf discover that tho
lamb had roiled the water. So, upon
this devoted little country, the one
which showed in the midst of military
Europe what peaceful industry can do,
that terrible German army was let
loose. It was an act of an outlaw.
Whoever takes up its defense even at
the bar of German opinion must aban
don all self-respect and regard for
truth, or else admit as much.
"Of course, this is not to condemn
it finally. Individuals and nations some
times get beyond all law without fault
of their own. Of two swimmers in
midocean, both having hold of the
same plank which can support In their
exhaustion only one, the Btronger may
push the weaker off to feed a pursuing
We do not admire such an
action, but necessity condones it.
"Suppose, however, that instead of
only two there are six on the same
raft with room in plenty for all and no
immediate shortage of food or water.
At one end of tho raft Is a huge Rus
sian strong enough but with few weap
ons and little skill. Next to him Is
an Austrian smaller but better trained
and with better weapons. Next toward
the west is a German supplied with
every offensive and defensive weapon
and completely skilled in their use and
declaring he can whip them all to
gether. Next to him to the west is a
Belgian whose own raft has gone to
pieces; so small is he that ho has no
chance whatever in a contest with any
of the others, but so useful and agree
able that they all agree that he shall
in no case be molested and lie has
some timbers arranged for a protec
tion. Next, are a Frenchman nnri nn
Englishman, who together have the
west end of the raft.
"The raft is the balance of power In
Europe. There are smaller rafts each
carrying a single representative of oth
er European nations. All the rafts
taken together might represent the po.
litlcal organizations of Europe carry
ing over tho ocean of ignorance and
barbarism the cargo of European civil
ization. The Servian raftsman is dis
respectful to the Austrian just In front
of whom he is, and the latter starts to
chastise the Servian. The Servian,
frightened for the safety of his little
raft, appeals to his kinsman, the Rus
sian, and the latter begins to prepare
to attack the Austrian, If necessary, to
protect his Servian relative.
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student body. The quostlon If prfr
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