The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1889-12-12

vention that shall be held at the same
time and place, and that shall establish
an international arbitration commission,
to whom shall be referred all contro-
versies between nation and nation, the1r
decision 10 be final, and SO all nations
would be relieved from the expense OF
standing armies and naval equipment,
war having been made an everlasting i'm
possibility.
All the nations of the earth worth con-
sideration would come t. it-mighty mer
of England, and Germany, and France,
and Russia, and all the other great ma
onalities-Bismarck, who worShips the
Lord Of Hosts, and Gladstone, vino wor'
ships the God of Peace, and Boulanger
who worships himself. The fact is that
the nations are sick of drinking out OF
chalices made out of human skulls and
filled with blood. The United States
G vernment is the only Government
in the whole world that could
successfully call such o con-
gress. Suppose France should call
it, Germany would not come: or Ger
many should call it, France would not
come; or Russia should call it, Turkey
would not come; or England should call
it, nations long jealous of her overshad-
owing power in Europe would not come
America, in favor with all nationalities
standing out independent aud alone, is
the spot aud 1892 will be the time. May
it please the President of the United
States, may it please the Secretary of
State, may it please the Cabinet, may it
please the Senate and House of Repre-
sentatiyes, may it please the printing
presses and the churches and the people
who lift up and put down our American
rulers!
To them make this timely and solemn
and Christian appeal. Do you not think
people die fast enough without this
Wholesale butchery of war? Do you not
think that we can trust to pneumOnias
and consumptions and apoplexies and
palsies and yellow fevers and Asiatic
choleras the work of killing them fast
enough? Do you not think thatthe greedy,
wide open jaws of the grave ought to be
satisfied if filed by natural causes with
hundreds Of thousands of corpses a year?
Do you not think we can do something
better with men than to dash their life
out against easements or blow them into
fragments by torpedoes OF send them out
into the worlj, where they need all their
you not think that women might be APP
pointed to an easier place than the edge
of grave trench to wiring their pale
hands and weep out their eyesight i'll
widowhood and ,childlessne<s? Why, the
last glory has gone out of war.
There was q time whea it demanded
that quality which we all admire, name
~, courage-for man had to stand at
Ii ,.p Ia ,.J he inf
pierced the foe, and while he was staying
another the other might Stay him; or it
was a bayonet charge. But now it is cool
and deliberate murder and clear out at
sea oombshell can be hurled miles
away into a city, or while thousands Of
private soldiers. who have no inter-
est in the contest, for they were con-
scripted, are losing their lives, their
General may sit smoking one of the
best Havana cigars after dinner of
quail on toast. 1t may be we'll enough for
graduating students of colleges on COM
mencement day to crate aboat the poetry
of war, but DO not talk about the poetry
of war to the men of the Federal or Con-
| federate armies who were at the front,
OF to some of us who, as members of the
Christian Commission, saw the CHASTITY
p
! An! you may worship the Lord of Hosts,
l worship the God of Peace, who brought
again erom the dead our Lord Jesus
Christ, that great Shepherd of the sheep :"
Again, 1 suggest in regard to the
| Worlds Fair that, while appropriate
| places are prepared for all foreign ex-
hibits, we max. no room for the importa-
| ton of foreign vices. America has enough
| of its own, and we need no new INSTALL
ments OF that kind. A Worlds Fair will
bring all kinds of people, good aud bad.
| The good we must prepare to welcome,
| tho bad we must prepare TO shuu. The
attempt will again be made ia 1892. as in
| 1875 to break up our American S>bbaths.
| That attempt was made at the Plila-
| delphia Centennial, but was defeat d :.
| The American Sabbath is the best kept
| Sabbath on earth. We do not want it
| broken down, and substituted in the
place thereof the Brussels Sabbath, the
/ Vienna Sabbath, the ST. Petersb burg Sab
bath or any Of the foreign Sabbaths,
which are no Sabbaths at ALL | think
| the Lord is more than generous in ask
ing only fifty two days out of the three
/ hundred and sixty-five for his services.
You let the SaGb It'll go and with it will
| go your Bible, aud after that your liber-
ties. and your childrea or your grand
children will be here in America uader u
| despotism as bad as in those lands where
/ they turn the Lords Day into wassaI
and frolic.
Among those who come there will be-,
as at other exp0sitions, lordly people
who will bring their vices with them.
Among the Dukes Duchesses, Princes and
aud Processes Of other lands are some
| of the best men and women of all the
| earth. Remember Earl OF Kintore, Lord
Cairns and Lord Shaftesbury. But there
is a snobbery and a dunkeyism in Amer
lean society that runs after a grandee, a
Duke, Lord, or a Prince, though he may
| be a walking lazaretto and his breath a
plague. 1t makes the fortunes of some
| Of our queens of society to dance one
eotillion with one of these princely
| lepers. Some people can not get
their hat off quick enough when they see
such foreign lord approaching, and
they do not care for ths2mire into which
they drop their knees, as they bow to
worship. Let no splendor of pedigree or
any pomp and paraphernalia Iof circum
stance make him attractive. There is
| only one set Of Ten Commandments that 1
ever heard of, and no class of men and
women in all the world are excused from
| obediauce to those laws written by finrer