The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 19, 1918, Page 11

United |6f, orders that are coming in dally | Jocatea fn all arin of the mix Ww. Lucas Co. Ship | States. in each mail. | ‘Tons of yarn are recetved daily by| Ped Cross yarn is handled by this * Tons of Yatn to \ this large department. store and are ty as pale of ake rape no more than’ received than they are| ip the south am is not a com! Red Cross Societies | reshipped to fill thousands of orders | sight to see hundreds of bales of yarn! awaiting ‘delivery. The yarn buai-] 8tacked up in*the morning. and bi ra That ‘Bismarck has , become the | ness of the A. W. Lucas Co. has grown | evening all has been shipped tdi distributing: point for yarn. is signi-/ to such a great extont that it now ent points, where Red ‘Cross ‘soctetiéa fleant by the enornious shipments, of the A..W. Lucas Co; of ‘this city requires a separate slipping depart-| re busily engaged making knitted to thousands-of Red Cross Societics | office foree to care for the ‘hundreds | tonments and across the’ ‘sea. ment for yarns only, and a: special | ‘Supplies for the boys that are in can: Cheap Yarns Are Ex- pensive Yarns. The better the qual- ity, the lighter the weight and conse- quently the greater yardage to the pound, which several times offsets the difference in price. We have Fleishers and Minerva ‘on hand for immediate po y We Weak ake twenty different qualities of Sock and Sweater Yarn on hand for immediate delivery: some’ of which are priced. as. low as $2:35 per pound. We have supplied hundreds of Montana; North Dakota and South Dakota, Minnésota, Warning and Ida- ho Chapters with their Yarns at wholesale during the past three months and can save you from 20c to $1.00'a pound on yours even though you are now. purchas ing direct from wholesalers or your houses. To make sure, write for samples and our price lists. We Wholesale Outings, Muslins, Gauze, Buttons and Red Cross Supplies i World Conflagration Broke pon Us So Unexpectedly We Are ‘Still’ Rubbing Our Eyes Zs (Continued From” Page Onc.) We need a readjustment of our men- tal attitude. We are standing at the parting of the ways’and must.decide Tather: quickly which. course “we are go plitsué.\:As .we -glatice back over ithe history of, the'last'on ‘hundred ‘and “twenty-five years, and’ view it in the light of present connitions, we will be convinced, | think, that one ‘at least, or: our ‘national policies must ‘be :dis- egsded. 1 refer to our historic policy of national isolation. . Our Political Isolation, ‘(For more than a century. after the beginning of our existence as a na- tion we gloried in our geographical and political isolation. We. thanked our lucky stars for the 3,000 miles of ocean which separated us from ‘the Old World and gave us, the, opportua:) ity of developing our national life in’ a free and untrammelled. manner. |dealing and in accordance withthe) principles of international law. Grad- world has never seen. We had read} the boasts of the Prussian militarists and had studied the philosophy of the German but it had not occurred-to us that any nation, calling itself civilized, would actually launch in cold blood, a program of world domination, involv- ing the abandonment of all humani- tarian .principles and every restraint ‘of comnion decency. We simply could not believe it and we rubbed our eyes to make sure that were not dream- ing. We were not dreaming, however, but face to face with a very stern reality; and we now know that free government, the world over, .is at stake and that the very: existence of the ‘American’ republic is itt jeopardy. This is indeed a new and.astounding situation and one ‘demanding new pol- ule decisive action. Our. house jis -really on fire and the Prussiah .marauder Washington warned us againgt-thej{s~in our midst with flaming torch roils and wars and entangling. alli- ances of urope and we accepted that advice without serious question. “Gradually and most insensibly, however, there came a marked ‘change in ‘world conditions. The.globe grew. smaller—not absolutely, of course, but relatively, Distances were lessened. Places once remote are not adjacent. It took the Pilgrim Fatlters, 63 days to reach the shores of North America. It does not take that long now, The globe has shrunk. The world has be- come a unit, means of communication havé bound it together. News speeds over the bottom of the ocean with the rapidity of lightning.. The atmos- phére which envelopes the globe is a wireless whispering ‘gallery, and the clouds which rest upon it are. the habitat of the birdmen. Atlantic Now a Subway. “The Atlantic: is no longer ‘a .bar- rier; it is a highway—and: even a@ subway. ‘A noted military genius once exclaimed in exultation, ‘There are no Alps.” It is certainly true that there is no Atlantic ocean in the old sense.” “All this, of course, did not come about in a single day. The Clayton- Bulwer treaty, the. war with Spain and the acquisition of the Philippine islands, the annexation of the Hawai- jan islands, the - Boxer insurrection and the interyention of “China, the Portsmouth treaty ad the Panama. ca- nal are’ steps in an évdlutionary prd- cess Which has transformed an‘ iso- lated nation into a world ;power: “Although it is now, easy to see that, little by ‘little, ‘we were «depart- ing from our traditional policy ‘of iso- lation, that fact was. not ‘definitely. impressed upon,our “minds! until: the Great War canié, on.” The War's Outbreak. “At the outbreak of: the ‘European ‘war in 1914 we were not very greatly concerned. We said that the fight was not ours ahd that’ we’ had no’ di- rect interest in it. We were thankful for: the’ Atlantic ocean: and, feeling. very smug and settled back in out easy chair. and assumed tho role of a more’ or’ less disinterested spectator, “We were still living in the center of our fairy ring of historic isolation. For’ some . Months‘we'looked.on aghast ‘but; with, ort’ any: definite attitude® toward ‘the’ great problems involved in the .war. Then ; eradyally it;begat to dawn upon us that, the war really’ was some con- |: cern to us, that'it did involve our vital interests, that it affected our com- merce and our industries, that it touched our: finance and’; influenced thé cost of living, that .it interfered with our shipping ‘andjinterrupted our mails, that it'abridged our rights as-a neutral nation; and rendered Ameri- can lives and property unsafe uyon the seas, as Secretary Lansing put it, we .were,, “upon: the verge of war.” The mighty suction of the Europeat: ,tornado‘had dragged us from our easy chair and swept us so. close to the European melee that we could almost feel the hot breath ‘of the combatants upon our faces. A: New Code of. Ethies, “Even then it did not’ seett to ‘most of us that the United States would: really enter-the-~war.-- With our char acteristié optimism we, hoped to re: main at peace and we thought in our simplicity that’ we could - adjust’ our difficulties with tho imperial. German fovernnient upon the basis of honest self-complacent, we}: and drawn sword ready to carry out his work of destruction. New Methods Demanded. “Obviously, new policies and new methods‘ are demanded by present world condition The need of them to my. mind is imperative, and yet \theré are those who tell us that they are not necessary and that we can continue, to live in the ‘old “flintlock rage.” They tell us that if we are good we will be unharmed. China has been very good Lut she has been looted by every brigand that ever ap- peared in oriental waters, Belgium was good and yet she did not escap3 destruction. Serbia’s only offense was that ‘her. little: territory lay across ihe German pathway from - Hamburg. to the: Persian Gulf. Norway was. law- abiding and yet.her, merchant marine now, rests peacefully at.the bottom of the sea, My friends, when the most powerful military nation that the world has ever see nsnaps her fingers in-contempt at all the conventions. ot civilized life and boldly declares ‘her intention to force her much-vaunted kultur upon other nations, is it” fot time: for. us to follow the president's advice and. get into the war with.all our. power and all. our. resources?) 1 ay not a militarist and Ihave .no. pa- tience with. the code of the duellist and yet on the other. hand, little. respect for the man who will fight-: with: all- the resourées~ at. his. command. when the 1} nd “happi- ness - of his family, are in jeoparily and. the-very existence of his country is at stake. The Prussian has de- matided “a place in: the‘sun”’; he has ordered all nations to get off tie ac and: is now trying-to make’ them ‘ off the earth.” Jt‘he sticceeds. in this modest undertakitlg all-other peoples apparently will’.have’ to be content with the waters under the earth. All of which impels one to’ ask, “Upon what. does this our. Caesar.feed es he has, grown. sogreat?” ‘Our Fool’s Paradise. £3 “Some of us ‘did- live in a’. ‘fool's paradise’ for a time prior to 1914.;We had convinced’ ourselves. that wars had ceased unto the ends;of the earth, that: the bow. was broken, the spear snapped asunder. We. had. it’ ‘all Qurned: in::the fire., We had it all figired out to.a mathematical. nicety. We said that no great-war could:ever ‘accur again, because é d.--The- engines. of ; destruction were so. terible ‘that whole nations would be speedily annihilated. “2.—That the commercial: interests of the world would not tolerate ‘war. “3.—That sufficient . money could ‘not: be obtained ‘to‘finance a war for any considerable length’ of time. “4-—That the ‘socialists and labor unions‘ the world over were’ opposed to war. “5—That ‘no king or other ruler would be: so wicked and cruel as ito bring such a terrible calamity upon his people, and 6.—That the people ‘of the world were*‘so far advanced: in civilization that the barbarisin ‘of war was ‘no jon, gér, possible. { “Now, ‘as abstract reasoning, all ‘this seemed very plausible, but ‘since the very thing happened’ in 1914, , which could: not: possibly happen, isn’t: it about time to apply the discount sheet, I have time- for us; “and «prudent « men, \to throw some reasonable and practical ually however, it began ‘to dawn upon! us that we were contending with a|of.our army and navy leaders and to code ‘of ‘ethics, the like-of which the| consult our experts gently? thinking, and prompt and to‘abstract’ reasonihg? Isn't it aboitt| Si feguards aroun .our national inter- este?) Ish®sit About time for. us to give soiné attention to the warnings Isn’t it a | Peculiar and suggestive fact that’Rear | Admiral Mohan has: taught ‘sea-power | to every nation except his’own? The Causes of the War . “A great deal of water. has ‘flowed under the bridge since midsummer, of 1914, and, lest. we forget, 1 would like to refresh your memory ‘in regard to a few essentials. In the midst of a be: wildering. mass. of information "bear: ing upon the war then. on.a certain few vital facts ‘which should stand out like rabbits. ears. “Let us not forget that the murder of the Archduke Francis Ferdinand and His wife: by, Serbians’ in’ Bosnia, in 1914, was not thejreal; cause of this war. It, was .the pretext, merely. If it had not, been the Serbian incident it would ‘have! been some .other. inci- dent’as it is. now plain that Germany and Austria were: ready and were ‘in- tent upon precipitating .war. .After | deliberating upon the accident - for four weeks Austria sent to Serbia, on. July 23, the now famous ‘ten demands couched in harsh ‘and dictatorial terms. -The:despatch, was an _ultima- tum and: demanded: compliance with its provisions within 48 hours. ,I need not. remind you that the: demands were humiliating and’ such -as‘no na- tion could grant: and_ still retain. its, independence. Furthermore no. ra- ‘tional discussion of the ten demands could possibly. take “place in’ 48° hours. ‘The world was shocked'and the mid- summer calm broading over Europe ‘was dispelled. england, France, and} Russia sought to have the time limit ‘extended, They failed. They then urged Serbia ‘to ‘make’ her, reply “as conciliatory’ as her self respect would permit. “This she did, She yielded to the majority of the demands and. of- féred in case Austria were not satis- ified with:her reply, to refer the whole nidtter to The Hague ‘Tribunal or to‘a conferénce of ‘the Great Powers. This ‘woulll have been accepted by any hon- st government not bent upon provyok- ing’ War. It was rejected, however, arrogantly and’ contemptuously, and as We now know at the instigdtion of {he imperial German government. The Great War Was On. “pvents, ‘in. that remarkable week, followed each other, with bewildering rapidity. | Austria. began war’ ufion Serbia’ on. July “28th; five days after tha ultimatémi. Russia mobilized’ for the protection “of Serbia and, Germany, | dethanded that’ she’ demobilize within | twélve liours. Russia ignored the de- mand and the great war was‘on, “We: should ‘not Jose sight of thé, et) cireumstances « under which we ens tered: the Gréat War’on the 6th ‘of; Apfil, 1917. We ‘did: not, enter the; way in-a-spirit‘of advénture.’. We are a. peaceful, not. a’ militaristic people. We had no false rational pride in: the matter, ' We: were; not ‘nursing: an of: fended honor such as impels ‘a. duel+ hat. caus- even the ble over international Jat ed (us ‘to. take up. arms”o our rights: as. a ‘neutral nation... It was .not- the shameless German “in- ‘Arigife): irritating and. ilegal.though it was, that, impelled_us to war., It -was not for. commercial or territorial gain or \for, ‘conquest, in ‘any..form,- Read. over carefully .’the fourteen ‘demands in : President Wilson's: statement ‘on asks ‘nothing tor. durselves. , It, was not because :otir property? hdd “been, lestroyed . and : not” entirely ; because | the: lives ‘of qur. ¢itizens were, being. sacrificed, by an iNegaland inhyman submarine’ warfare. and in’ the last arialys | this © war ‘for’ thiree” reasons. first’ place,” being chivalrous men’ who love’ ‘justice’ and’ hate * iniquity, . we could not stay our’ hand when’ funda- mental man’ rights; wére “being; bru- tally: Teyatenlatttsily outrage: when Swotlen® and | children, were “¢ ing; ahd’ WWeit mercy and.justice « were being: driven out of Europe. second « plac -Wwe° took! up -arins."be- causé that’ political Itberty \ won:: at Valley Forge and: Yorktown-ahd that democracy esta lished: by Washington and }preserved by “Lincoln werd in danger’ of}-extinction;* and. ittthird plage--we “mfghits ais! Well: frankiy at: mit, it*-we \took: up*arms’ ‘In “selfde We went Anto, further. able. that if the allies in Europe were de-, feated the American continent would} bo the next theater of action for the) kaiser and his bloody cohorts. dom cannot live in America if it dies in Burope.” One of the publicity features of the | “The evidence is unmistak We ought to see by this time Free- A. W. Lucas Company | evening's program was a flash light picture of the audience seated in the; Auditorium and as it was leaving the building. .Copies of these pictures will | be sent through the east as evidence BISMARCK, - - TO THE INDIVIDUAL KNITTER: ¥ou will secure utmost Satisfaction at lesser | NORTH DAKOTA ‘44vas'-an etninently fair. proposition and|- list to’offer-battle.. It was not, a ‘quib-)) flagrant and persistent’ Violations “of | ; war ‘aims’ and. you, will’ see. that’ He.) Fundanientally, |. 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