THE NEW YORK JOURNAL OF PHARMACY 



it is at war only because war was forced 

 upon it by the acts of some one else. 

 xA.s to who that some one else is, it has 

 not yet been possible to get a unanimous 

 agreement. What we do know is that 

 no one steps forward to claim credit for 

 the war or to ask for a vote of thanks 

 or a decoration for having forced it 

 upon Europe and upon the world. Every- 

 body concerned is ashamed of it and 

 apologetic for it. 



"It is not the Slav or the Teuton, 

 the Latin or the Briton, the Oriental or 

 the American, who is the enemy of civil- 

 ization and of culture. Militarism, there 

 is the enemy ! 



"The first notable victim of the Great 

 War was the eloquent and accomplished 

 French parliamentarian, M. Jaures. He 

 was murdered by a war-crazed fanatic. 

 In the course of a long and intimate 

 conversation with Mr. Jaures shortly be- 

 fore his tragic death, he dwelt much on 

 the part that America could play in bind- 

 ing the nations of Europe together. He 

 spoke of the success of the policies that 

 had been worked out here to make the 

 United States and Germany and the 

 United States and France better known 

 to each other, and he thought that 

 through the agency of the United States 

 it might eventually be practicable to 

 draw Germany and France together in 

 real trust and friendship. As we parted 

 his last words to me were : 'Do not 

 leave off trying. No matter what the 

 difficulties are, do not leave off trying.' 

 To-day the words of this great socialist 

 leader of men, seem like a voice from 

 beyond the grave. They are true. We 

 must not leave off trying. When ex- 

 haustion, physical and economic, brings 

 this war to an end, as I believe it will 

 at no distant day, the task of America 



and Americans will be heavy and re- 

 sponsible. It will be for us to bind up 

 the war's wounds, to soften the war's 

 animosities, and to lead the way in the 

 colossal work of reconstruction that 

 must follow. Then if our heads are 

 clear, our hearts strong, and our aims 

 unselfish — and if our nation continues 

 to show that it means always to keep 

 its own plighted word — we may gain 

 new honor and imperishable fame for 

 our country. We may yet live to see our 

 great poHcies of peace, of freedom from 

 entangling alliances, of a world concert 

 instead of a continental balance of pow- 

 er, of an international judiciary and an 

 international police, of international co- 

 operation instead of international suspi- 

 cion, generally assented to, and, as a re- 

 sult, the world's resources set free to 

 improve the lot of peoples, to advance 

 science and scholarship, and to raise 

 humanity to a level yet unheard of. Here 

 lies the path of national glory for us, 

 and here is the call to action in the near 

 future. 



"It is often darkest just before the 

 dawn, and the hope of mankind may 

 lie in a direction other than that Europe 

 toward which we are now looking so 

 anxiously. Arthur Hugh Clough's noble 

 verses are an inspiration to us at this 

 hour : 



" 'Say not the struggle nought availeth, 



The labour and the wounds are vain, 

 The enemy faints not, nor faileth. 



And as things have been, they remain, 

 " 'For while the tired waves, vainly 

 breaking. 



Seem here no painful inch to gain. 

 Far back, through creeks and inlets 

 making, 



Comes silent, flooding in, the main. 



