EMOTION VERSUS NECESSITY.

A passionate feeling of the horror and injustice of war must furnish the motive for all efforts to bring it to an end. But emotion cannot supply the principles of action which guide men in living. Emotion cannot replace the inexorable logic which governs a situation; it cannot remove present necessities; it cannot disarm Europe and render her gentle and harmless.

Yet that is just what the writers of this morning's pacifistic communication to the CRIMSON would evidently have it do. They take the position that because war is bad the United States should under all circumstances whatsoever die rather than fight. Or else they wish her, when she fights, to have not the ghost of a chance to win. Against responsibilities as men upon whom women and children depend, against national honor (to which they apply quotation marks), they place the term "organized murder. Do they prefer disorganized suicide?