WHAT AMERICANS SAY

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 103, 4 January 1915, Page 3

WHAT AMERICANS SAY

i SOME OPINIONS REGARDING THE GREAT WAR. The crisis is nothing else than ihe bankruptcy of the ordinary, habitual, conventional Christianity. We have j suspected that. i( was nor meeting the claims upon it. Now, in the flame-) of the great war, we know this. We have been talking about “Christendom” am 1 “Christian nations” am:: "civ eisul mi; ” We see that there is no such thing as a Christian nation, and that w.> nr >■ j living as a Christian nation, and that j we are living in a rather barbarous j world.— Dr Charles Fletcher Dole, of Heston. For thirty years the German mind has been systematically ana most sc: entifically turned toward the British Empire as the objective of Gorman ambition. —Poultney Bigelow. What Germany would do if she gained control of the sea. nobody can say, but it is certain that it she wished to take Panama and South America, too, we couldn't keep her from doing it. —Professor Roland G. Usher, author of “Pan-Germanism.” Business in the next three months will be better than in the last.—E. H Gary, chairman of the United States Steel Corporation. Is it not time that we all acknowledge openly what every American knows in his heart: namely, that Franco and England are lighting our battles? —John Jay Chupmna. I myself have seen the plans of two of the countries now engaged in the European war (o invade the United Slates, capture our greater cities and hold them for ransom, considering that our standing army was too small to be dangerous.—Col. Theodore Roosevelt, iu a speech at Princeton. The battle-pictures of Vrrestchagin shew the horros of war, and Tolstoi taught against war. Look at what Russia has done in the nineteenth century. She is the leading nation ir music, in opera and the drama. Gsr mans are studying the drama in Russia to-day. Russian science occupies the highest place in the world. The statement that if Russia wins the world will go to the dogs is based on a philosophical deduction. —Professor Loo Wiener.

War as new waged by the Kaiser against Belgium and France is but a high-sounding name for the collective murder and pillage and arson of a vast organised band of outlaws, and for rr.v pert, I believe it is the last spectacle of the kind, and r.n such n scale that the world will ever see. —John Burroughs. Germany must be defeatd in this war. If it comes to a point where it 4s necessary for the United States to aid (he Allies to the end that they should win, then 1 hope it will be done. She is opposed to everything for which we stand, and our turn would be next if Germany were successful. —Profe? sov George Burton Adams, Professor of History in Yale University. The English public entirely underestimated the strength of the Germans. It took them seme time to realise what {his war means to them. They have only come sow to realise tha 1 Lord Kitchener was right in his estimate that the war would last three or more years.—Mr Jesse Lewisohn. There need be no doubt that the Russian situation is giving far more anxiety to Berlin than the Belgian. If the worst, should come to the worst, the forces in Belgium can always fall hack upon their own frontier and find effective refuge and support from the great German fortresses. But there Ino such possibility in the east. Either the Russian forces that are now in German territory must he effectively beaten, or at least held, or they will advance toward Berlin. It is quite easy to produce a stalemate in the west,but there can be no stalemate in the .east An invasion of Germany from the west would he almost, although not quite, a military impossibility. An invasion of Germany from the east is already an accomplished fact. —San Francisco “Argus.”