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WHO IS THE TRUE IDEALIST?Tty Hermann Hatne-dorn of The Vigilantes.1 know a pacifist. He i? a sincerelove is worth more than money: that to speak the truth and be poor is better than to lie and own a limott-: pacifist. He is not a pro-German sine; that to he right Is better thanor a but ■ ml, umb-' t„ b6 president. The*:i:vs. ril, rons-.'iuuiiuis objector to: , ...real idealistwar.He ohj.-cts to all war. He j bel!oves that Iiberty ls worttsobjects therefore to this warHo says that it is. time that 60me nation should sot an example to the world in the presenof aggression by not offering resistonce to the aggressor. Belter that llu? whole nation should lie wiped otit. Its • hurrhes and universities razed to the ground. its youth slaughtered ordragged it:in s'uverv. than that p.pn’tiple simulil oppose force with forlt; •• and light for its liberties..My p.i'ihsT r•.presses those viewsthan prosperity and comfort He la willing to give up his dollars and his comfort to preserve It He Bren thinks that liberty for hla children or other people's children Is worth, more than his own life. He is wlll-j ing to risk hig life for It. He is even ! willing to give up hist life for It, i The pacifist declares that he also j believes that the things of the spiritI are better than the things of th© , flesh. In fact, he has an idea thatim1a :i:11., i he is the only fellow who does be-t rlt;•*;s;fTix..t. nn:n1 •■:* • people say; ,, ., , ,y .. , .... . .' ! Here that. He thinks that libertymu a surprising nuru-i . - ,•■Is fine and slavery is awful.But—When hla neighbors are carried!n*r “ny!li? viewH.iw boiiuiifui! Of courso. jirnprnoMca]. But. It is |frond in tinms iik* those that there1 , . , „ - , , , . . .i into slavery, he scurries into hla| cellar for fear of attracting the.! attention of the slave-driver and. i lK^0p,!' Irritating him with an appearanceI;b'Tfy bonds arm do-.. ,r. : .t:« ’ U : «u; inow:the.1-'-hnn«:«lwuseother I jnngs in rmip against 0--rma n.y, for they tire on*.]*'■ whole level-headed rltlzens. But ofu-e a week ilow grow sentimental i: bout toy pan list.“He is an Idealist,’' they say.But it hapoens that that Is exact-r-of disapproval. v‘arj When his own Ifberty Is threatened, and not only- his own !H?©rty but the liberty of his chfidren, hely what he Is not.proposes to give up that liberty without a struggle, and moves that the key’s to t.be front door b© formally presented to (he burglar, the ..... : cutthroat and the rlpoer.An ulcausi is p. man who believes': fr~ rcT~~:~7a~~/~r~-.~V;^~:' .' at—j.,. ,u- „ ,, - Does the pacifist love liberty-moreilmr fhibiiirs vms rant see and;., .. . :. „ . , , ,.;than prosperity and comfort andhear miu! milt;rh and taste and smell; yj,p?nr-' ni’Tt: imaortant than the things .we suspect not.I ha* :v‘ual3y do strike your physical senses. He thinks, for Instance, thatDoes be love the things of tfea 'J.spirit more....tb.ap_the_JMng2iv]atL_«sam
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Eau Claire Leader
Eau Claire, Wisconsin, US
Fri, Nov 23, 1917
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