The united American : a magazine of good citizenchip., October 01, 1922, Image 5

THE
WESTERN
( continuing The Northman )
A MAGAZINE OF GOOD CITIZENSHIP
Devoted to the Cause of
Americanization, Assimilation and Group Elimination; Pointing the way to a Constitutional
Americanism, to Equality in Citizenship, and a better understanding
between Native born and Foreign bom.
Vol. 1
19
OCTOBER 1922
Number 1
AT THE CROSS ROADS
OLD WORLD REACTIONS AND AMERICAN PROGRESS
■“There is the moral of all human tales;
I’tis but the same rehearsal of the past,
■First Freedom, and then Glory—when that fails,
■Wealth, vice, corruption—barbarism at last,
■And History, with all her volumes vast,
■Hath but one page.”
power of Turkey in Europe had 'been broken, the
Crescent had been struck from the mast and the
Moslem hordes had crossed the Bosphorus into Asia,
while Allied war vessels, assigned to police duty, pa-
troled the narrow waters separating Europe from
Asia Minor.
'THIS QUOTATION from a strophe of Lord Byron’s
A neutral zone had at last been established be­
IA poetic philosophy, written over a Century ago tween the Cross and the Crescent.
■when the Greeks were desperately struggling to
Christian civilization had recorded another tfi-
throw off the yoke of the Turk, contains a brief umph. While the echoes of war were still resound­
■satire, having a categorical application to the mo- ing, the forces of Christian progress had gained an­
Imentous events that are taking place today in the other base. A new epoch of time was about to be
Near East, on the borderland of Europe and Asia, written on the pages of history and into the records
Iwhere the powers of Europe are reported to have of world progress.
(agreed upon permitting the reestablishment of Tur-
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[key in Europe.
In
view
of
the
late
developments
in the Near East,
When the fate of the world hung in the balance,
(during the recent World War, America decided the students of history and progressive citizens every­
issues when she struck a blow for the Allied cause. where are apprehensively asking these questions:
Are these achievements, so recently attained, about
I America thereby contributed not alone to the over­
throw of the Central powers, setting at naught their to be set at naught?
■ plans of world dominion, in other words, world en-
Are we but to experience the maddening sensation
|slavement, meaning the establishment of one super of seeing dreams almost materialized before we, in
■ race—the Teutons; but America contributed at the the words of Britain’s madcap poet, are to realize
same time to the elimination of Turkey in Europe, “the same rehearsals of the past?”
la task European diplomacy and military power alone
Is there something traditional in destiny?
■had not been able to accomplish.
Are vice, corruption — and barbarism at last,
When the flag of Liberty took its place alongside unavoidable consequences to the glory of freedom?
■the Tricolor and the Union Jack, the tide turned all
Is this, the unalterable cycle, the fate of all na­
■along the battle line, from the Western front to the tions, whatever the standards attained?
(Balkans, and possible defeat was changed to victory.
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Before the curtain dropped on the last act of the
We, of America, who have a well defined ideal and
■bloody war drama, that began on July thirtieth,
■ 1914, and closed on November eleventh, 1918, the a faith attached to that ideal, do not believe that