BRITISH ARE
FACING DEATH
Every one has been dutifully saying
* ...i this war is a serious business, bui
no man living, not even Kltcbenei
uimself, knew till three months age
just how serious It was. Kitchenei
Knows now. Asquith knows. Lloyd
weorge knows. Bonar Law knows, th*
iuoor icaucrs oi Britain and ttie lauoi
unions know just now serious, now
—***•*» serious uns war is. And on
i-oiiuon streets ana in London olilees
ni tiie drawing rooms and at week
oiiua men are asking each other soil
voce questions they would not dare L
usk aloud, and are getting answer*
sometimes that give a queer feeling a,
viielr, British hearts.
A serious business, indeed, is Uie wai
1 he issue of it, the cheerful and irre
sponsible optimist, with bis eye on tht
. ..si, w neu wars were waged by mer.
and not by machine, and when valor
not explosives, won lights, declares u
i.e assured, only one issue is pussiblt
—victory for our arms. a pleasam
man this cheerful optimist till you no
tice that his eye is upon the back trai.
or in the clouds. When you know him
you damn him for a misleading fool.
Every man In the empire that ought
iu be listened to sees no hope of vle
"t y , absolutely none, and little hope 01
>-.en a drawn battle, unless condition
be changed—changed so as to be ut
.criy different from those under wliic.
...e war has hitherto beeii waged.
* he lirst impression one gut on
rcacuiug London about two months age
was that the traditional British cock
cureneas had been shattered and hac j
been replaced by a paralyzing sense oi
..overt airily. Vou caught it everywhere
mi tiie dtreeis. In the hotels, at din
ners, in the house of commons and even
in the press. It was not so much wiial
ujde suld, but what they refused ti
say. It was the determined and ob
, ions effort to be cheerful that de
pressed and disturbed one. Everybody
was saying to his neighbor, "Cheer up
things will Improve.” But everybody
vvhon by himself refused to cheer up
being firmly convinced that things wert
beuatly rotten." He. was mostly en
gaged during those lonely moments ii
damning in his own particular way
something or somebody, and not the
. imans, either, because of the "rotten
illness” of things in general ano
especially things about the office.
What was wrong? The fact was
simply this: That the British peoplt
were standing and looking with newly
opened eyes at the .specter of defeat
looming up through the channel mists
a specter unlike the traditional spec
ters of our dreams, sleeping or walk
ing, In that it refused to disappear and
wore a shiny helmet. That specter
unless conditions were changed, could
not be laid, but would take on a real
ity of hideousness and permanency for1
their children to contemplate for suc
cessive generations. There are people
doubtless reading this line who pause
to say “rot.” But the British people
are not saying “rot” any more and dir.
not say "rot” when their e.yea were
: ed some two months and a halt
ago.
Up to this time the call had been foi
men, men, and more men. Now to the
nation's ears came a new cry: “Muni
tions, munitions, and more munitions’
That “wonder working little Welsh
man” was on to his job.
One question still remains to he ask
ed: "What is to he the issue of this
serious war?” The answer is plain:
so plain that even the easy-going
cheerful optimist can see it. And the
answer is this: "If the change in con
ditions so splendidly Initiated he not
continued, and with ever increasing ac
celeration, the Issue is ’Defeat.’ ”
Seriously, soberly, solemnly, let it be
said that unless the empire can furnish
in overwhelming quantities munitions
of war and In overwhelming numbers
Tien of war, the bitterness and humil
iation of defeat will be our portion and
the shame and slavery of an Infamous
and tyrannous militarism will be the
portion of our children.—Kx.
FAKE BLOCKADES
In one respect the attitudes of En
gland and Germany are identical. Each
insist that international law should be
rewritten to meet the peculiar exig
encies of itB own case. The latest En
glish note, politely as it is worded, ex
presses this view exactly.
England purports to be maintaining
a blockade of German porta. But En
gland is entirely unable to establish
even a pretext of a blockade of any ol
the Oerman ports on the Baltic
Through the Kiel canal Germanv is
able at will to transport its fleet from
the Baltic to the North sea or in the
opposite direction. While England has
an overwhelming naval preponderance
it is still not so great that its fleet
can be divided. The English fleet must
be kept together. If it were moved lntc
the Baltic, to close the German ports
there, then the German fleet would
have temporary command of the North
sea, which would change the. whole
situation and temporarily interrupt
communication between England and
the continent.
On the other hand, it is possible, un
der present conditions, to blockade
Germany’s ports on the North sea, and
likewise, although* without warrant oi
International law, to maintain what
amounts to a blockade of the outside
ports of the neutral countries of Swe
den, Norway, Denmark and Holland.
Therefore the British contention, i?
practical effect, is that because she ha?
not naval strength enough to blockade
all of the German ports and thus to
prevent goods from reaching Germany
by water, she should be permitted tc
blockade the neutral ports of the coun
tries through which Germany can ob
tain supplies by way of the open ports
on the Baltic.
fn other words. England, like Ger
many, wishes to ignore the rules of
international law, because she lacks the
power to do what it would be to her
advantage to do under internationa
i law as it now exists. She wishes tc
j .ireteh international law to make ut
I fur her naval deficiency, precisely at
Germany does. If she could, in fact
establish and maintain a real blockade
of all German ports, there would be nc
issue between her and the United
States—none whatever.—Ex.
CURSING THE
DYNAMITER
The Du Pont Powder Company is do
ing what the stules or the nation ought
to have done long ago. It is going
straight at the root of the bomb out
rages that fill the news columns by
curbing the sale of explosives to irre
sponsible parties. Hereafter nobody
can buy any of the stuff from which
tragedies are made unless his identity
and that means, of course, his re
sponsibility is known to the firm.
There are always going to be men
with real or imagined grievances
ag.ainst the state. There are always
going to bo some of these with so little
moral sense or so fickle a sanity that
for a fatal moment an urgb ■ toward
assassination or vandalism will rul<
4awtimttitttt»ttit»q
iieir actions. The only way to curb
ich men and to check the deliberate
criminals who live by terrorism '• tc
make the securing of explosives all but
impossible. A little social sanity car
lo it. Du Pont shows the way.
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