Life — October 22, 1914 — page 21: what you’re looking at

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Ny SOMETHING IN Dealer: ES. SUBURBAN REAL ESTATE, SIR? I WANT A PLACE IN THE SUN.” CAN'T GIVE YOU THAT, RUT I'LL PUT YOU IN A LOCALITY THAT'S JUST men by wholesale and destroying all their works, a degree of success is attained which is self-decapitating. Questions like this current one, whether the Prussian Idea is the Only Hope and the Kaiser the Preferred Instrument of the Almighty, are, of course, very interesting indeed to dis- cuss, but even to the Prussians them- selves the discussion will seem too dear if the price of it is extermination. do not realize this war, we Americans. The people who realize it most, as yet, are the Bel- gians, but all the countries actively concerned in it will realize in due time what it means when the resources of a mechanical civilization are concen- trated on the destruction of human life. As for Belgium, she is like a country crucified for the saving of the nations. Of all the countries involved in the war, she was the most innocent, the best justified, the most gallant. Gashed with innumerable wounds, her poor body is a witness, still living, against the aggressions of Prussia, and against our modern warfare by machinery. There comes in the papers an echo of complaint from England, alleging that negotiations are making here to stop the war, and protesting that the war cannot be stopped until it reaches 717 its natural finish, As to negotiations we know. nothing, and our news- papers have reported nothing. But it is true enough that the war cannot be lanced until it comes to a head. There are two ways in which the Prussian idea of world-domination may achieve its fate; one is to be beaten now from the outside; the other is to succeed now and be over- thrown in due time from within. But, cither way, it is a very important idea that will considerably change the world; and certainly if it crashes down in ruin now, all the other ideas of world-domination by a single empire, British, Russian, American or any other, will go with it. When the London Stock change opens again for business it is likely to open on a world chastened into considerable re- spect for the text that embellishes the Exchange front: “The Earth is the Lord’s and the fulness thereof.” is some interest in our elections now impending, not so much, at this writing, as in the final baseball series, but enough to notice. The efforts of the good Progressives are still directed to the confusion of Republican candidates, and in this State the prospects of Glynn and Ger- ard look good. In Massachusetts, where the leading Progressive is Mr. Bird, the candidate for Governor, Mr. Walker, has made national prohibition the leading fea- ture of his campaign. Mr. Bird objects, but cannot help it. It is natural that the Progressive party should be the refuge of all the political isms. As an infant it em- braced woman suffrage, and possibly it will merge now with prohibition, But a collection of discordant enthu- siasms do not make an effective party, and it may be what the Bull-Moosers are after now is to gather in enough neighbors to give their movement a proper wake. It is a pretty dead move- ment. Nevertheless, what life there is in it helps to provide support for President Wilson, and that is worth while. comicbooks.com