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FRENZIED
LIBERTY

THE MYTH OF
“A RICH MAN’S WAR”
BY
Otto H. Kahn
EXTRACTS FROM ADDRESS
GIVEN AT THE UNIVERSITY
OF WISCONSIN, JAN. 14, 1918

Part One
Frenzied Liberty

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Frenzied Liberty

We are engaged in a war, an “irrepressibleconflict,” a most just andrighteous war for a cause as highand noble as ever inspired a people to putforth its utmost of sacrifice and valor. Toattain the end for which this peace-lovingnation unsheathed its sword, to lay lowand make powerless the accursed spiritwhich brought all this unspeakable misery,sorrow and ruin upon the world, is ourone and supreme and unshakeable purpose.

That is the purpose of the people ofWisconsin as it is the purpose of thepeople of New York and of every otherState in the Union. I give no credence toand have no patience with those whowould measure as with a thermometerthe loyalty temperature of our communities.[6]Some dreamers there may be, here aseverywhere, so immersed in their dreamsthat the trumpet call of the day has notyet awakened them.

Some politicians there may be, here andelsewhere, so obsessed by the issues whichheretofore were good election assets andso unable to shake off the inveteratehabits and the formulas and calculationsof a lifetime, that they are unable torecognize and to share in the suddenflaming manifestations springing fromthe deep of the people’s soul—and after awhile, looking around for their usualfollowers, find themselves in chilly loneliness.

Some there are, a small minority alwaysand getting smaller every day,among Americans of German birth ordescent who lack the vision to see theirduty or the strength to follow it, and whostand irresolute, hesitant and dazed.

The vast and overwhelming majorityhave acted like t

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