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TWO POWERFUL UTTERANCES ON
THE EUROPEAN WAR.
Here are two of the most powerful and sat
isfactory utterances that we have yet seen
on the principles involved in the European
War.
An English View.
The great London paper, The Baptist Tinies
and Freeman, says:
“We are fighting for righteousness and freedom,
but we are also fighting for our national existence
as truly as France or Belgium. The triumph of
Germany means the enslavement of Europe, the es
tablishment of Prussian militarism on the throne
of the world, with all that that implies. We must
not delude ourselves. If Germany wins, Belgium
and Holland disappear as independent nations. They
become German provinces, and with their added
resources of sea power, Germany will then set her
self to the attainment of the real aim of her policy
for years past —the destruction of Great Britain.
“These then are the spiritual and material issues
involved in this tremendous struggle, and we have
to ask ourselves as citizens and as Christians what
is our duty in the matter. There can be but one
answer. The whole resources of the Empire must
be applied to the destruction once and for ever of
the menace of German militarism. And the duty
of the individual citizen is also clear. Those who
can do so should at once enlist and join the armies
that are fighting for the Kingdom of God as surely
as did the Puritans in Cromwell’s day. Those of
us who cannot do that must find some other way
of service. Let no one stand aloof. Above all, let
us go into the conflict and conduct ourselves in it
as did the Puritans, stern in resolve to defend the
right, and relying humbly upon God to give us
courage and strength to preserve to the end, how
ever long and however hard the war may be.”
An American View.
In a strong article on the war in the Stan
dard, Dr. Edward B. Pollard says:
“Finally, let us not overlook the fact that this
great war of the nations will surely turn out to be
the birth-pangs of a larger democracy. ‘The twilight
of the kings’—how pathetic, how tragic; and yet
how inevitable! The whole creation moves irresist
ibly toward equality, brotherhood, democracy. The
militarism of a toppling autocracy is responsible
for striking the blow which has submerged Europe
in blood. Militarism is the cold logic of autocracy
and the everlasting foe of the people. Despotisms
must go down that democracy may be fully realized.
They that have taken the sword are to perish by it.
Civilization has provided itself with engines of war
fare, gigantic and ingenious, with fighting machines,
projectiles and armor plate. But it has built up no
less powerful engineering of peace in its laws, its
science, its commerce, its peace societies, and all
the wondrous interlocking of modern human inter
ests. Why then has civilization appeared so sud
denly and so signally to have slipped back to bar
barism? For want of a ratchet sufficiently strong
to prevent. It is a ratchet that is not forged and
set in place in a day. It is found only in redeemed
on disciplined democracy, a social order born from
above, functioning through a public opinion in the
presence of which selfishness and savagery wither
and perish.”
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THE GOLDEN AGE FOR WEEK OF OCTOBER 8, 1914
Verily, it is a silver lining to the .war cloud
that comes from the Empire of the Czar. The
The War
Measure
Will Bring
Permanent
Blessing to
The Word.
permanent blessing to the great Russian Em
pire as revealed in the following dispatch:
“Petrograd, October 1. —(Via London) —An order
was issued today that the prohibition of the sale of
vodka shall be continued, indefinitely after the
war. This order is based on the tremendously im
proved condition of the country since the emperor
issued the edict prohibiting traffic in this liquor.
Travelers from Southern Russia say there is such
a change in that region that the country is hardly
recognizable. Peasants who, before the war, had
fallen into hopeless indolence and depravity, al
ready have emerged into self-respecting citizens.
Huts, which formerly were dilapidated, and allowed
to go without repairs, are now kept in first class
condition.
The towns have become more orderly and the
peasants indulge in wholesome amusements. These
people now save 55 per cent of their earning, which
formerly were spent for drinks, and they have
increased their earning capacity through sobriety.
This startling regeneration of the peasantry, in
the opinion of the Russian authorities, is likely to
have an important effect on social and economic
conditions of all Russia. A change in the large
cities also is noticeable. Liquor is still sold in first
class caffs but these are practically empty. The
Nevsky Prospect, once famous for its gay mid
night life, is now quite without a sign of revelry.”
Stay Russia I That last paragraph is “a fly
in the ointment.” We are surprised to learn
that where the authority of the Czar is so near
ly absolute he did not force the cities to be as
obedient as the peasant districts.
But after all, we are told that the city drink
PROHIBITION “MAKING AWMBWSSIA”
recent prohibition of the sale of
vodka, the national intoxicant of
Russia, was made as a war meas
ure —for the government must
have sober soldiers to fight and
> sober citizens to support these
sober soldiers.
And now behold the national,
LIQUOR LEADERS AS PREVARICATORS
If the Psalmist were only living now! "When
he was on the earth he one time said: “Rivers
of water run down mine eyes be-
We Mourn cause they keep not Thy law.”
For Their If he were just in Virginia now
Sinful Sins- and were to see how liquor lead
ers “keep on keeping on” mis
representing conditions in prohibition territory
surely the “Sweet Singer of Israel” would
draw himself in a flood of tears.
We gave abundant and melancholy evidence
last week that, in their effort to keep bar
rooms on the political throne in Virginia all
sorts and conditions of falsehoods are being
circulated about the “failure of prohibition”
in Georgia, North Carolina and Tennessee —
and everywhere!
Returning from the field of battle in Virgin
ia last week the Editor of The Golden Age
met on the train a handsome young man, intel
ligent and genial, who proved to be a com
mercial traveler. He was F. M. Salley of
Ashville, N. C., and he gave in casual conver
sation such an illuminating testimony about
the good effect of prohibition as he had seen it
all over North Carolina, that we urged him
to send a brief of his statement to one of the
Norfolk papers.
Permitted to copy his letter we reproduce it
here asking the friends of prohibition to pass
it on as another weight in the cumulative tes
timony in behalf of prohibition:.
shops are empty, either from the sorrows of
war or the influence of the Edict of Govern
ment. And a like condition obtains widely in
the war-zone. One nation has prohibited the
use of grain in the manufacture of intoxicants
because, of course, it is needed for food, both
for the warring and the waiting millions.
Listen— Liquor has destroyed more millions
If In Europe
Why Not
America?
and damnation it can be conservatively declar
ed and conclusively proven that “war has slain
its thousands but liquor its tens of thousands.”
Then in God’s name why should not every
civilized nation on earth permanently follow
the example of these warring nations of Europe
and stop forever and a day the manufacture
and sale of the liquid poison that makes men
less fit to live and prosper than it makes them
fit to fight?
And hear it, O Peace-loving America, rightly
following the leadership of a Peace-loving,
God-fearing President and Secretary of State
—why, in the name of Christian citizenship—
yes, for the wholesomely selfish purpose of the
preservation of its citizenship, does not this
neutral, Peace-seeking nation, standing on a
pedestal in the eyes and the thought of the
world, as never before—why does not our own
great nation move at once for the speedy and
everlasting destruction of this “Great De
stroyer?”
True, the white-bannered hosts of reform
are marching, but let “official Washington”
lead in this as in other great movements for
the betterment of the world. God save Ameri
ca from the wanton destruction of men!
Editor Ledger-Dispatch:
I am, and have been a resident of Ashville,
N. C., about twelve years, and as a commer
cial traveler giving all my time to North
Carolina I have had a fine opportunity to see
the actual effect of statewide prohibition, and
I am amazed to see m Virginia papers, the
statement of anti-prohibition leaders that there
is more liquor being consumed in North Caro
lina than before saloons were voted out. I was
formerly an “anti” but prohibition has con
vinced me. There is simply no comparison be
tween conditions now and then.
Despite the fact that Virginia liquor dealers
who claim to believe in “local option,” do
ship the stuff in the state and help to keep
prohibition from prohibiting, drinking has
greatly decreased and business and educational
conditions are far better. I have heard that
your paper is “neutral and fair” and I hope
you will publish this statement.
We be neighbors—and as a loyal “Tar Heel”
I naturally don’t like to see my state misrep
resented by the liquor interests.
F. M. SALLEY.
Asheville, N. C., Sept. 17, 1914.
Now the thing we want to know is this—
in the face of such testimony how can any
man who claims to be halfway decent, delib
erately and conscientiously prevaricate in favor
of a thing as bad as a bar room?
Please, Somebody tell us! «
in a generation than even this,
horrible war will destroy, ap
palling as that statement may
seem; and in its destructive
flow toward the region of deaths