Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 204, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1917 — Drawn Verdict to Keep World An Armed Camp. [ARTICLE]

Drawn Verdict to Keep World An Armed Camp.

New York, Sept. 12. —The whole world a series of armed camps, preparing for another fray and bompelled to adopt German methods of warfare —this picture of the result of a drawn battle, a stalemate, with Germany in her present state of mind, was presented tonight by Dr. A. Lawrence Lowell, president of Harvard university, and ehairman of the executive committee of the League to Enforce Peace, in his address at the annual dinner of the National Safety Council. He declared that with the fall of military autocracy must be removed the oppression of one race by another, and for that reason “we cannot consider the return to Germany of her former colonies, that their peoples may be exploited as they have been in the past. Americans have no love for the rule of the inferior by the more civilized races; and if at the present stage of history that is unavoidable, it must be done with due regard to the welfare of the subject race, and we cannot be a party to anything else.” “Can anyone contemplate without horror,” said Dr. Lowell, “a planet whose inhabitants devote their efforts to devising scientific processes for making it unfit for human habitation? Yet such is the result that we must at least contemplate if the present war should decide nothing, leaving the belligerents with their former ambitions and principles, with fiercer hatreds and a better knowledge of what the next war will signify. If, on the other hand, the side on which we are fighting wins, it may mean a better world, reorganized on a basis of justice and peace: and much of the result may depend upon us, both in the field and at the council .table. “We are at war to prevent any nation from imposing an autocratic military system on the world or an any people; and when the allies have succeeded in so doing, they, and any other peoples that sincerely desire a better and more peaceful world, must solemnly resolve, that no such catastrophe shall occur gaain. For this purpose they must not again split apart into discordant fragments or hostile groups, but must combine to police the world and bring in a reign of itnernationa! justice among men. We are now a world power engaged in a world war and we cannot by shrinking into ourselves when it is* over, evade our duty or shut .our eyes to our own future security. In league with the other free nations of the earth we must set up an international court of justice with a sheriff armed with such force as may be needed to summon offenders before the-4xibunal. By so doing we can fulfill a great destiny for our nation and bring peace and good-will among men.”