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its author, Bartholomew P. Griffin, the following was written by Rev. Francis G. Peabody: "The English poets, Bridges, Kipling, Austin, and Noyes, have a

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erity brings pride. And pride brings war again." Shall the world settle down to the faith that there is

blishing the Wall Street Journal, the Boston News Bureau, and the Philadelphia News Bureau, and directing news-gathering for the banking and

les. The whole of the war, its commercial causes, its financial and military forces, its tremendous human sacrifices, the conflicting principles of government,

and from facts that could not be set down categorically in papers of state. No papers, "white,"

or of the world, as nations are in organization over states, and states o

fore been presented on this side of the ocean, are connected wit

siness causes beneath this war. Our great journalists are trained to find interesting, picturesque, and saleable news features from big events. Details of war's atrocities and dest

he billion dollars of indemnity she took as her price to quit Paris. But I did not realize until I was abroad this winter how European countries had warred by tariffs, and that Germany and Russia

erman progress is by tariffs and commercial treaties. Her armies, her

the facts cannot be drawn forth and properly set in review without s

spirit, the soul of each in its distinctive characteris

of trade, interknit with administrative justice, as the soul of Great Britain. We should see Germany an uncouth giant in the center of Europe, viewing all about him wit

es of the Mediterranean, Asia Minor, with its Bagdad Railroad headed for the Persian Gulf, Mesopotamia with its great oil-fields, unde

itish Empire as never before. She is rolling up a tremendous war-power within her empire and throughout Europe, encircling the German war-power. But she is likewise looking to her own people and her own workers, fill

he realization of the dream of Cecil Rhodes of the development of the whole of Africa by a Cape to Cairo Railroad, and she sees her own empire and peoples be

any we have had before, seems suddenly paralyzed in its business activities and, comprehending only that the loaf of bread

ension of the meaning of the national throbs that on the other side of the globe are pulsating the world into a new

ogress, its sacrifice in humanity,-sacrifice that could not be demanded but for a greater future,-these papers are taken, as completed in my fin

prepared for the banking community, which demands news-facts and figures discriminatingly pres

ll sound finance must be primarily the truth of humanity. They do not claim to be from beginning to end a harmonious book-presentation of the

it is to continue for another six months or another sixteen months i

maintained. Having cleared my own mind upon this subject, I submit it in the final chapter, w

l dissenters, can we find the peace of nations as we have found the peace of cities. This Audacious War has forced such an alliance as can

ase to be, in history

y, Pride,