the people, and for the people shall not perish from the earth."

And we paraphrase the words of Lincoln's second inaugural address written in the midst of our greatest war up to this time; "Both parties deprecated war but Germany would make war rather than let democracy survive, and America would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came. Yet if God wills it that it continue until all our wealth shall be sunk and all our blood be spilled as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said, 'The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.' With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are called to do from which we may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations."

Jungle Law

Contributed by Robert Herrick to the National Security League's campaign of Patriotism Through Education.

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RETURNING from Europe, cursed with war, I was more convinced than of anything else in life that what is being slowly settled in that grim trenchland over there does mean something to us oh, so much more, than money or legal rights or sympathy for bleeding humanity. Not that I am especially apprehensive of a raid on these United States, the crumbling of our sky-scrapers, with the exaction of colossal indemnities. That too, of

course, might happen if German arms were triumphant, if the par Germanica were imposed upon a beaten world.

But that is not to me the worst. To me the German peril does not lie so much in her big guns, her submarines, her "Prussianized war machine." It lies in herself, in her image of the world. If Germany could win even a partial victory under her monstrous creed of applied materialism, illuminated as it has been by every sort of cynical crime, with its reasoned defiance of contract, its principle of indispensable severities," its military logic, etc., That must become the moral law of all the world -the jungle law! In order to survive, we must all accept this law of the jungle. And of all the prostrate peoples of the world forced to accept the victor's new version of the ancient commandments, proud America would be the first. We cannot resist the fascination of success. So the German ideal, the German tyranny over the individual, the German morality one rule for you and me as individuals and another utterly irresponsible rule when we get together as a state- would be imitated by us more than the German thoroughness in civil and military organization.

America Makes War on War

Governor Capper of Kansas at Annual Convention of Fourth District Odd Fellows, Florence, Kansas.

WHEN before this has there ever been a war for which so many apologies were made? When be

fore has there been a war so needless, so unjustified, that no one would accept the responsibility for it? When before, a war in which kings and chancellors have pointed at each other and cried: "He began it! My hands are clean! I am innocent of this black crime against mankind! I acted only in selfdefense"?

You know and I know that the American nation for nearly three years was a neutral looker-on. The American people endeavored to be fair and impartial in their judgment—unmoved by rancor, untainted by prejudice. And we have decided that we know where the responsibility for the greatest tragedy of human history lies. We know what the verdict of history will be. Denials, forgeries, diplomatic lies will not change the verdict.

The appalling nightmares of rapine and murder which the Prussian kaiser has brought upon the world is the direct and logical result of forty years' deliberate and constant preparation. Bismarck laid the plans with devilish cunning. He sowed the dragon's teeth. Time ripened the seed, and the kaiser was carefully reared to reap the harvest of death and disaster that the spirit of militarism always has sown.

America wished to keep out of the war. The administration at Washington watched and waited, and waited and watched. The people were loth to plunge into it. We prayed night and day that the bitter cup might pass from us. But this was not to be. The government at Washington considered our participation inevitable if the world was not to

be turned over to absolute militarism; if the clock of civilization was not to be turned back a thousand years and all the liberties that mankind had won, through long centuries, were not to be wiped out in a night. The fate of mankind was at stake and we took part in the titanic struggle.

But let there be no mistaking of our purpose. Not for glory; not for territory; not for commercial gain, do we go to war. For America and we believe for the allies with whom we fight- this is a war against war. It is a fight to the death against the spirit of militarism. It must put an eternal ban on the profession of murder, on armies trained to murder, on professional war makers. It must abolish forever the world old idea that Might makes Right. It must do to the bully among nations what civil law does to the bully among men. It must put an end to gun-toting by governments. It must teach the czars and emperors of the eastern continent and the would-be autocrats of the western hemisphere, that mankind has advanced since the Stone Age and that brute force no longer may rule the world. It must drive home to all peoples the truth that they who take the sword shall perish by the sword. It shall usher in the day when war shall be no more.

We must not be persuaded that this war, as some will try to persuade us, is a divine call to establish Militarism in this country. Our one excuse for taking up arms now is to make the world safe not from the kaiser and his hordes alone, but from the spirit which animates and created them.

America is waging a war against war, and victory will be meaningless unless it brings Universal Disarmament. Militarism and the wicked ideals back of it must be driven out of the world.

The German Tragedy

By Henry W. Farnam, Professor of Economics in Yale University.

It is difficult for one who has known Germany as a resident, who has received much kindness and hospitality from German friends, and who appreciates the finer qualities of the German character, to reconcile his personal memories with the undisputed facts of recent history, and I find myself obliged to resort to an analogy for an explanation. We must regard this war as a frightful tragedy. In most of the great tragedies of literature, we find some overpowering passion-it may be love, it may be revenge, it may be jealousy, it may be ambition, dominating the life and actions of people with the power of fate. The best parallel that I can think of in literature to the tragedy of Germany is the tragedy of Macbeth. Shakespeare has given us here a picture of a man who was in every way successful in his career as a soldier. He enjoyed the confidence and recognition of his king, and, far from being a brutal soldier, he was described by his wife as being "too full of the milk of human kindness." But the witches poisoned his mind by the suggestion of ambition. He was hailed as "Thane of Glaims," "Thane of Cawdor," and "King that shalt be," and