The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1888-09-19
Tag COMING CATASTROPHE.
The Armed Peace of Europe Must
Give Way 10 Savage War.

The whole continent OF Europe
seems 10 be under some horrible en-
ehantment. The armed peace sits
Ike a vampire at the bedside Of the
pesple, draining their liie-hlood while
they sleep. Hence, say some. war j.
certain. The nations cannot stand
the strain much longer. Sooner or
later, aud sooner rather than later.
they viii rush o. war rather than wait
10 be slowly suifocated by the sheer
weight 81 their armor.
A. the armed peace is 4 nightmare
ioAler than the world has yet suffered
50 the next war Is an appalling eatastro.
phe from which imagination shrinks
aghass. For there Is nothing In mod
ern history that il will resemble.
Hitherto, down even 10 the last wars
when empires have gone to battle IL
has been war OF soldiers. The next
war viii be war OF peoples. In the
Eusso-Tufkish war il wa an army
framed on the old system which was
repulsei at Pievna, and ultimately
swept in triumph 90 Constantinople
la the FFanco-tierman war the French
army was largely professional, and II
was because the standing army Of pro-
fess&onal soldiers went down ike nine
pins before the irresistible rush OF an
armed nation that all military sys-
TENS have been regolutionixed.
Now every nation has armed all it.
abieiadsed adults In former days
the mastering OF a hall million oi
solsliers was regarded a. a mighty feat
To-day Printe Bismarck adds 10 .he
ranks ~ the army 81 the fatheriand.
with one struke of the pen, zoo .0nl
fathers OF families, and not single
veice j. RAISED even IN passing protest
Germany In the center Of Europe
fronts east and west with an available
best OF s,0oWo soldiers France will
have 2UN,Ua or 8.nnono ready %
hand Russia before long will be able
TO pat 40 Hsi into line. Austria and
italy We need rot count The blast OF
the Trumpet that proclainls the begin
ming 81 var viii summon the man
hood II Europe 10 the work of
slaughter
Not only w5il the number oi the
comha ans b. Tar beyond those which
we've "a sol even in the days OF the
FIRST Napolean tho grand army with
which he crossed The frontier on bis
march % Moscow only consisted ~
the same number of mrn THAI has
heen added this year g. the German
army--bat the spirit ia which il Nas
fought ouf Nill differ for the sorSc.
Prince bismarck has frankly iol.l Us
what kind OF war Il will be We shall
dehi. be sid. II We do fight. until We
are bed a. white as veal IL viii bc a
duel 10 the dga ia war in which the
eyuWed ohiec - the comhataniS Is
the utter de- ruction OF iheT adver-
sary 'SaiEner hlAnc 90 drain the
very lie blood ct yosir enemy untu
yoa leave yGuT carcass a. white as
That OF ,ha calf from which the
butcher seeks - drain every rudy
drop Of gore-tha; j. the declared ideal
of the FOREMOST nations III she eogii-
nent In the year % grace l>ss- The inn
awination refuses g. picture What 10
uuans AZ ear rgccut wars we're
shuri The ianUcst vas shat 81 the
Cftmea. which Sas lutte More than the
siege ami defense of single fortress
by professional soldiers. The Frsnes-
Italian var vas almost an affair 81
weeks The frauco.tierman war wa
oTrs IA ~ix uaputhS The conquest ~
Turkey uas conlricted ia aaout the
sArse time Rat Che next var ali rot
BE ayvz IN SIX weeks or SKI nanths.
10 bleed each other white. when both
ccHahataufs are pretty wen matched,
and her there are millions q men in
w srye. t. au affair cg years
Bgs when ali business = suspended,
sna The reApzrs have bccn Summoned
traus tho fsrfts Ia the hagtlefcldy %
wiH Re Impossible 10 carry on var en-
th1s scale ler wears without SITTER ct3.
lapse and CHASTITY iamiuc- Hence the
millions w4 hxht vi2h she
Esim and desperate energy st aan
who know that like laias. chat thes
do thes Muss $50 Il.ck&g IheY gii
strike fsruar An the tourney r1lss 81
slviare,s %sf wi.3 be iu &angvF 81 setns
iy the tra9ui lg wj8 ~ - Contest al
stains sssc3 With the rsfhifslus-s 81
heesss, Tee nUNs war wlli &c 10 &aT-
ser of ,3ceeueTasag into q niuegesnth
eentugs version of the hoFTars q SIZE
thissy yvars Wsr. Un scale Tar mJse
Eiesnt.c and therefore characterized
hy crimes tsT usoce colossal