Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-02-16

| tI10e OF the world. For US war al
ll0rne would be incidentally caIamit-
Gus; a foreign war, the best thing that
could happen.
But in the peace now existing there
Ia aanother element, and that is poverty.
Wars are now expensive. In the DAYS
| when at q moments notice men heat
their plow shares into swords and their
pInning hooks into spears and, armed
| with these, rushed into war for day
or week, and the man with the thick
est skull and the toughest hide COM
ing on best best, it was merely a game
Of pluck; but now, in war pluck must
be backed by tons Of silver and gold as
we'll as ot gunpowder, lead, pOt-metal,
and steel. The nations of Europe are
practically bankrupt, and their difficult
ties have been increased by their treat
ment OF the Jews-the money kings of
the world-without whose aid no ma
tion can t0-isy lift a sword or fire a
gun, except in salute. But this state
of things cannot hold long. The na-
tions OF Europe have been bankrupt
before; and whenever they became SO,
the Court of Heaven appointed an
assignee. The first was the Saracen
dynasty. The settlement took one
hundred and fifty years-from A. D.
612 to A. d. 752-when reorganized
Europe, led by Charles Martel, about
one hundred and seventy miles SOUTH
west of Paris, after a seven days. fight,
whipped the Saracens, and the Caliph
AlmanzOr built on the banks of Tigris
the city Of Bagdad 1.-THE City Of Peace.
and the Saracehs made no more war.
They are the iOcusts Of Rev. ,chap.9, g.
The next assignee was constituted of
the four angels bound in the river
Euphrates, the four Turkish Sultans
of Leonium, Adelpho, Damascus. and
Bagdad, who were held in restraint by
the Crusaders from A. D. 1896 to 1870,
aud in A. d. 1878 combined, and in A.
D. 1881 wrested Kutachi from the
August. The settlement took three
hundred and ninety-one years and fif-
teen days-that is. until the 9th day
Of August, A. d. 1872, when Kamenice,
the capital of Poland, after a siege of
ten days, surrendered to Mahomet w.,
and the Crescent has never grown any
since that day. The next assignee was
the radical rabble of France, IN the
hands of Napoleon, and the settlement
began in 1892, and ended at Waterloo,
June 10th, 1914. Now that they are
bankrupt again, who will be the as.
signee and where will the settlement
begin? All indications point to the
death of Queen Victoria as the time,
aud the British Empire as the place of
beginning. This statement is not
h.y yat nade. de us AL utss9y h5ssasy has ses ever
sriAas m re than six kings on the
British throne. Victoria is the sixth
of her house. Unless the Crown Prince
of Germany dies before his mother-in-
law, war for the British succession
will come. There is not to-day Oh the
face of the globe a nation at heart
friendly to the British Empire. It has
overreached, broken faith with, and
betrayed every one of them in turn.
The British Empire is the only gov
ernment on the face of the globe in
whose disintegration every other civil
lied nation has direct interest. 1t has
been her policy for ages to control the
world by holding strategic points; this
policy gives every other nation an in
t-restsiu her ruin. In that event Ger
many would get Heligoland and the
British Islands. France would get
Egypt. Spain would get Gibraltar.
Italy would get Malta, and Russia
would get Austria, and Greece would
get Turkey, and We would get British
America, and the division of the spoils
would set Europe.togethe blythe ears.
But all that We can gain by war, we can
gain better by peace. Let up cry, O
Queen, live forever! while we at the
same time prepare for what will hap
pen when she dies.
In respect to European nations, our
duty is two-fold. First, the mainte-
nance of a strict neutrality, avoiding
all entangling alliances. We are not
entangled at present. Second, hold
s. t,nir
are coming, and it is a remarkable fact
that they are coming most freely from
the very countries which it is morally
certain will open the coming war
Great Britain and Germany. Let them
come. It is positively cruel to shut
men up to be butchered in quarrel in
which they have really little at stake.
Let them come. Every man that comes
is one unit deducted from their power
to injure each other, and SO shortens .he
cnnf1ict. Let them come. Every one
that comes is a unit deducted from the
productive powers of those countries,
and added to ours. Every one that
comes takes away from their power to
injure us, and adds to our capacity to
take care of ourselves. But this influx
of neighbOrs, who propose to stay all
night with US, will render some chang
es necessary in our household arrange
ments, and we will have to arise little
early in the morning. The great bulk
of the responsibility of providing for
this influx must obviously fall on the
common school system of the country.
This will require that the system shall
be uniform all over the nation. It will
require that the system must bear on
the willing and the unwilling alike
that is, school attendance must be COM
pulsory. A teacher that has the true
spirit of his office can make his Office 80
pleasant to his pupils, that, in a major
ity of cases, scholars who come at frat
from necessity, will soon come from
choice. 1t will require a change i'll our
system of orthograpny. The phonetic
system will be a necessity and right. !
We have sacrificed tc the wisdom Of
our ancestors long enough. Life is too
short to permit our spending three |!
years in gaining what can be better I
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