In War 



Kentucky could be made the arena. 

 This would not interfere with trade in 

 Chicago, nor soil the streets in Balti- 

 more. The armies could be filled up 

 from the ranks of the unemployed, 

 while the pasteboard heroes of the na- 

 tional guard could act as officers. All 

 could be done in decency and order, 

 with no recriminations and no oppres- 

 sion of an alien foe. We should have 

 all that is good in war, its pomp and 

 circumstance, the "grim resolution of 

 the London clubs," without war's long 

 train of murderous evils. Who could 

 deny this ? And yet who could defend 

 it? 



If war is good, we should have it re- 

 gardless of its cost, regardless of its 

 horrors, its sorrows, its anguish, havoc, 

 and waste. 



But it is bad, only to be justified as 

 the last resort of " mangled, murdered 

 liberty," a terrible agency to be evoked 



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