The Burdened Nations by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Nov 15, 1910

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 45.

The Burdened Nations.

By Editor

Dr. David Starr Jordan recently returned from a vacation spent in some of the great cities of Europe. This, in harmony with an article in this paper last week, is what he said of his observations on the European continent:

“The nations of Europe are wofully burdened with military debts and taxation. France owes five billions, and England and Germany as much more. Democracy is coming to all of Europe. It is in the air. The great lesson is being learned there that the nation exists for the people and not the people for the nation. There were one hundred international conventions in Europe this summer, and the influence of all was for peace.”

And yet notwithstanding the efforts put forth for peace by such men as Dr. Jordan, it is war that is coming, it is war for which the nations are preparing.