. War echoes; or Germany and Austria in the crisis .. . cture for 1914 Tufts college, Bos-ton, delivered by Dr. Henderson.] We have no reason to abandon inthis terrible hour our confidence inthe ultimate triumph of reason andjustice; nor to surrender to the de-testable doctrines of Machiavelli andhis contemporary disciples; nor tolook for our deities in Valhalla, ina world beyond good and evil. Ourfirst and supreme duty as a peopleis to deserve peace; to avoid everyjust occasion for attack; to be fairto our own workingmen, to Japan,and to China. No pacifist has everstated that obligation too s
. War echoes; or Germany and Austria in the crisis .. . cture for 1914 Tufts college, Bos-ton, delivered by Dr. Henderson.] We have no reason to abandon inthis terrible hour our confidence inthe ultimate triumph of reason andjustice; nor to surrender to the de-testable doctrines of Machiavelli andhis contemporary disciples; nor tolook for our deities in Valhalla, ina world beyond good and evil. Ourfirst and supreme duty as a peopleis to deserve peace; to avoid everyjust occasion for attack; to be fairto our own workingmen, to Japan,and to China. No pacifist has everstated that obligation too strongly. But the American people have re-cently been startled into consider-ation of a reality which they havenot faced before since the awfulyears of the war for the union andtor liberation of our slaves. Wehave been taught to trust in theocean; the Emden, the Karlsruhe,and other swift men of war, shellingMadras, Calcutta, and threateningother ports, have destroyed that de-lusion. We have trusted to treaties of civ-ilized nations, and now we are told. ON DRESS PARADE Imperial Guard passing in review before their Emperor, who has just declared war. The same dignified and uniform appearance of German Soldiers is seen everywhere; they may be mistaken, but they certainly mean it ! by the highest authorities that goodfaith and honor are the reliance ofweaklings and fools, when interestcalls for treachery and have been taught by certain bril-liant economists that the hankers ofthe great financial centers would stopwar by refusing credits; and themoney princes of conquered citiesare hostages for the payment ofenormous ransoms, while the bankersof Paris, Berlin, and London obeythe commanders of armies withoutprotest or power to lift a little finger. We have been taught by the pres-ent horrors that we can rely on nopower but our own. We love Tol-stoi and the Friends for their ami-able dispositions and their ideals forthe future, but at the same time weset steel bars befo
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