IF AMERICA GOES TO WAR

Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 4010, 17 August 1915, Page 3

IF AMERICA GOES TO WAR

“If the United States goes to war, ' says Mr Maurice Low in the ‘ Mornin'o- Rost ” “the world may be told that- the United States goes to war in protection of its rights, but that will he to satisfy the scruples ot statesmen, lawyers, and historians. . “The real cause of war will be the quickening of conscience, the moral levolt against German methods that are repugnant to an enlightened civilisation. The American people are stirred to their depths by the brutality with which Germany has earned on war from the first day when R outraged honor by violating the in trality of Luxembourg, day after day piling horror on horror as it- ravismu Belgium and desolated France, to ful - minate in that tragedy off the Irish < o “Germany in her desperation would see tho Cross submerged by the Crescent. religion made an engine ot slaughter, and fanaticism aroused \V the preaching of a jehad. Ihe M - loin.world has heard the holy war puclaimed and has remained unturned, but hero in America a holy war is being preached that has struck down to the heart of Americans. » “If theV go to war rt will be to defend morality against barbarism, in the same spirit that animated tho Crusaders. No American will have to ask why he- is fighting. Lven American will know. A nation that is filled with that zeal, that lights for an ideal arid not for gf.i»r m:lk £v. a ’ foe that must be victorious, as GP manv will find should she be so reckless as to challenge the conflict.