War and World Government (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1915 Excerpt: ... SELLING WAR SUPPLIES TO EUROPE Conscience is a relative affair, depending on place and time, particularly on time. People did things in past ages, and did them comfortably and as a matter of course, that civilized beings to-day shudder to imagine. They piously gouged out the eyes of political opponents, sang Te Deums while roasting heretics in the public square, bought and sold slaves, whipped women at the cart's tail, used language in the drawing room that nowadays is only heard in the groggery, and altogether tolerated the most appalling inhumanity, all the while deeming themselves most cultured and gentle. We suppose ourselves much advanced now. But some day our children's children will read of our doings and exclaim: "How could they possibly?" This war, for instance, imbecile in its motives, maniacal in its process, utterly outraging all intelligence and humanity; what will they say of it? Slaughtering millions of people, to advance the welfare of the people Destroying the wealth of centuries' accumulation, for the economic advantage of the people A striking instance of our obtuse conscience, our lack of world sense in morals, our blind grasping for present profits at the cost of future ruin, is found in THE MANUFACTURE AND SALE OF WAR IMPLEMENTS. In the last four months of 1914 America's exports in war materials amounted to $49,466,092. Europe being engaged in an orgy of destruction, we Yankees, taking care not to get mixed up in the melee, helped along by selling to the belligerents $50,000,000 worth of weapons and other murder supplies. Not only have we sold to France, England, and Russia, to enable them to blow up factories and mangle workmen, but we have liberally furnished Greece and Italy with munitions against the hour when they may want to ju...