Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 September 1917 — THE GRINDING OF THE GODS [ARTICLE]

THE GRINDING OF THE GODS

“The mills of the gods grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly fine.’’ Never was the truth of the foregoing more apparent than at the present time. In 1914 the world was plunged into war by the action of Austria —insolent and domineering—insisting upon the chastisement of poor little Serbia, a nation oxer which she had tyranized for generations, and which she was even then holding in forced and unjust sob jo ration. But in her haughty disregard for the rights of others, Austria sowed the wind from which she is now reaping the whirlwind. Recent and persistent press dispatches indicate that the empire is in a bad way. Rent and tom by the strife she herself precipitated, she now would be only too glad' to make peaee : oh any tonne that would leave her even the semblance of a. nation. But peace for stria will mean practically extinction as a nationIn the very improbable event off a German victory she would be all but devoured by that aggressive neighbor in pay for “services rendered.” On the other hand, a complete entente victory will mean that she will be almost totally dismembered and her ill-gotten territory restored to the-diffCrent peoples from whom she wrested itThe way of the transgressor is hard, for , nations as well as for individuals.