Second Edition. SOME AMERICAN OPINIONS OF THE WAR.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 51, 16 October 1914, Page 6

Second Edition. SOME AMERICAN OPINIONS OF THE WAR.

No good can result. There is but | one .promise, and that is a result so , terrible that never again will men resort to brutal settlement of then- diffi- ' culties.— Philadelphia "Ledger." The human mind cannot yet begin to grasp the consequences. One of them, however, seems plainly .written in the book of the future. It is that, after this most awful and most wicked of all wars is over, the power of life and death over millions of men, the right to decree the ruin or industry of commerce and finance, with untold human misery stalking through the land like a plague, will be taken away from three men. No safe prediction of actual results of battle can be made. Dynasties may crumble before all is done; empires change their form of government. But whatever happens,| Europe—humanity—will not settle back again into a position enabling three Emperors—one of them senile, another subject to melancholia, ana the third often showing signs of disturbed mental balance—to give, on their individual choice or whim, the signal for destruction" and massacre. —New York "Evening Post." In the light of the information available concerning the causes whieh have led to the present outrageoys war jn Europe, it is impossible to hold the Kaiser guiltless. Ho was not dragged into the arena against his will. Taken at his own valuation, even after mak- ■ ing elaborate deductions for the'grandi-| loquence of his imperial utterances,! he had it in his power to stay the ravages of war, and no political obli- , gation to Austria can very much palliate the sin with which he is charged $ by the event of the past few days.— New York "Christian Advocate."