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Show PACIFJHl' BLOOD-LUST. One of tlio 1 1 is s iiM i K-i-1 1 I qualities of aoi fists in their hloml-tliirstiiii-na. Etieh uo discovers this quality anew ami ib 8iiriri,-ie(l, for pri'siininhly a pacifist t-hould lie opposed to lilouilnheil and it in with itiiin.einent that ciii-ll RCnerntion learns how niin'li more cruel a pacifist frequently is than a militarist. Wo huve seen this illustrated in Russia and in the t'nited States. Colonel lioosevelt, paying his respects to l.a 1'ollelte, remarked that the copperhead cop-perhead of eh il war times ' was tho eoiinterpart of the present day pacifist. The truth was that tho civil war pacifist pa-cifist was a northerner who sympathized sympa-thized with the south and wished to injuro tho north, but saw the peril of revealing Jiis sympathies and his treasonable trea-sonable purposes. He admitted that tho men of tho south wero trying to destroy tho union and yet ho insisted they be given their " constitutional rights. " He furiously opposed tho draft and applauded ap-plauded the shedding of blood by those who resisted it, although at the same time he softly preached pacifism. How like ninny of our pacifists today men who sympathize with Germany and are, eager to stir up revolution iu this country coun-try while feigning to opposo all war. They affeet. a great horror of going 1 abroad to kill Germans while they se cretly ann Oklahoma farmers to shed the blood of fellow citizens. Like La Folletto they condone tho murder of' American men, -women and children on the high sens and fail to condemn sanguinary san-guinary civil war at home. A gentleman, writing to The Tribune, quotes Appian's history of Koine and .shows ns that the conspirators who violated vio-lated their most sacred oaths treacherously treacher-ously to slay Julius Caesar instantly raised their voices for .peace when they saw that they wore iu danger. They became true pacifists in an instant. Most Englishmen and Americans sympathize sym-pathize with the slaying of Caesar, partly part-ly because he planned to be a despot, but for the most part, we suspect, because be-cause they usually derive their knowledge knowl-edge of the affair from Shakespeare's drama. Shakespeare, for some political reason of his own in an age of autocracy, autocra-cy, made out the best possible case for the conspirators and utterly falsified tho character of Jusius Caesar to point the moral he had in mind. He made Brntus, the slayer, the noblest character of all his works and pictured Caesar, whom history describes to us as one of the most vital mentalities and virile characters among the leaders of men, as a doddering, superstitious, idiotic ' ' old woman. Brutus and Cassius and the otlier plotters were clever propagandists like i those who sought to represent Lincoln as a brutal tyrant and like those who today blame President Wilson for the war and. declare that he should have submitted the question to a referendum. One of the civil war pacifists a man who had taken no part in the conflict as a soldier killed Lincoln, crying Sic semper tvrannU. " after .rke manner man-ner of those who slew Caesar. . Caesar could net have overthrown the liberty of the Romans, for they had already overthrown it themselves. Like the German people, they had lost the j sense of liberty and .:'. be- ,i e,e dev- , otees of power and i:-:-,,.M ::i!i-.ra and-Caesar and-Caesar was simply tryir to take advantage ad-vantage of the major'1 ' m n: iilierit. llow truly he judged of that ..'.' timent i; demonstrated by the si:V-cq v.f nt hisso-iy of Rome. Octavius. his nephew, .-o.m afterward was made consul and later assumed the title of iniperator without, much hostile ado among the people. He was the prototype of our modern emperors em-perors and kaisers. There are sincere pacifists today, but we do not hear much of them because thev are pacifists of Abraham Lincoln's tvpe. They are for war only as a last resort, as he was, and they are supporting sup-porting their government now as the loyal loy-al pacifists of Lincoln's day supported the great emancipator. The copperheads who prated of peace were willing to extenuate ex-tenuate the worst atrocities of slave-driver? slave-driver? while clamoring for the blood of abolitionists. The pacifist who advocates violence End bloodshed direeted against his own people n order to prevent a foreign foe from gi-ttinp his j- !!' ' ' " a p.'uili-I l:,-ar :.-:n'r :.:,oil r i a v. f ,.r . in- h n"t .-niiti'iit to pr-'-'-r '.-.: -il.-n,-.', i...r musr r, iii.-s his lia''-s from th'1' housetop. |