The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-10-07

nations many did not respond, and those
that did respond gathered wondering what
trap that willy destroyer of the French
republic and the builder of a French mon
archy might spriug on them. But what If
the most populac govern aeat on earth-L
mean the United States government
should practically say to all nations:
o tie American continent in
1892, we will hold worlds fair,
and all nations win send to it specimens OF
their products, tnelr nanIfactur res an their
arts, and We invite ali tho z Jvsrn nents of
Europe, Asi ald Africa 10 send repressnt-
atlves To peace convention hat snail be
held at tde same time and place, aad that
shall establish an International arbitration
commission to whom sh Ill be referred all
controversies between nation and nation,
their decision to be tiual, and so all nations
would be re ieved from the expense of
sta ding armies and naval equipments, war
having been made an everlasting impossi-
bility.
All the nations of the earth worth con-
sideration would come 30 it mighty men Of
England and Germany and France and
Russia, and all the other grea natiouali-
ties; Bismarck who worships the Lord of
hosts, and Gladstone who worships the God
Of peace, and B ,ulanger, who wors lips him
self. The fact is thai the nations are sick
of drinking out OF the chalices made out OF
human skulls and filed with blood.
The United States government is the
only government in the whole world
that could successfully call such a congress
Suppose France snould call 1t, Germa ~
would not come; or Germany should call it,
France would not GOMEZ or Russia should
call it, Turkey would not come; or En- gland
should call it, nat1ns long jealous OF her
overshadowia & power in Europe would not
come AmerIca favor wi n all
nationalities, standing out indepe d.
ent aid alone, is the spot, and 1892
will be the time. May IL please
the Preside t of the United States, may it
please the Secretary of State, may it please
the cabinet, may it please the Senate and
Hou.e of Representatives, may it please the
printing presses aud the churches and the
people who lift up and put down our Amer
lcaA rulers
To til sm | make this timely and solemn
and christian appeal. Do you not think peo-
pie die fast enougl wi bouJ tnis wholesale
butchery OF ware Do you not think we ca /
trust to p 4sumonias and consumptioJs and
ap )plexies and palsies and yellow fe-
vers aud Asiatic ch lleras the work OF
killing them fast enolgh9 Do you not
thiAk that tle & eedy, vile oJen jaws of
the grave ought to b atlsfied If filed by
natural causes with hundreds Of thousands
of C lrpses year? Do you not thiAk we
can do something better Nth men than
TO dash their life out against easements or
blow them into fragments by torpedoes or
send them out iuto the world, where they
need all their faculties, footless, armess
ey eleSs9 Do you not think that women
might be app Jinted to an easier place tnan
the edge OF grave trench to wiring their
| pale hands and weep ut their eyesight in
widow ood nd cnitdles ,ness2 Why, the
| laSr ri, hos Soro. a of
There was time shen it demanded that
| qualify which we all admire-namely
courage-for a man had to stand at the hilt
| of his sword when the po Mt pierced the
| foe, d while he was Staying an ther the
other might slay him; or iJ was ayoneG
charge. Bu. now 1t IS cool and deliberate
| murder, and clear out at sea a bombshell
caa be- hurled miles away into city, or
while Thousands Of private soldiers, who
have no interest in the contest, for they
were conscripted, are losing their lives, their
general may sit smooing one OF the
| best Havana ci ars after dinner of quail
ON toast 1t may be well enough for gradu-
ating students Of colleges on commence
| ment day TO orate about the poetry of wa, :,
but d. not talk about the poetry of wa
| to the men of the federal or confederate
| armies who we're at front, or TO some OF
| us VINO, as me npers of the christian co H.
HllSSlDn3 p&W kAAASbiJ ANoblVato IA n -
tietam and Hagerstown. An! you may
| worship the Lord of hosts; worship tue
''God Of Peace, who brought again from the
dead our Lord Jesus Christ that great
Shepherd of sheep"
War is an accursed monster and it was
born in the lowest ca vern of perdition, and
| pray that it may speedily desc 5nd to the
| place from which it arose, its last sword ald
snield and muAket rafting on the bottom
of the red-hot mari of hell. Lei there be
called peace convention for 1892, with
| de egates sent by all the decent govern
| ments of christeudom, aud while they are
| Ia ses ion, if you should some night go out
| and look into tue sky above the exposition
| bull IiIngs, you may find that the old gallery
| of crystal, tnat was taken down after the
| Bethlehem anthem Of eightee ceAture es
ago was sung out, is rebuilt again in the
clouds, and the same angelic SINCE are
retu lined with he lme lisrettog 0f light TO
| chant "Glory to @ d in the highest, and on
earth peace, good will to men,"
| Agai !, L suggest in regard TO the worlds
fair that, while appropriate places are PRE-
| pared for all foreign exnibi 8, we make no
! room for the importation of foreign vices.
| A nericA has enough Of it's own, and we
| need no new installme1ts Of that kind
| A worlds fair will bring all kinds of people,
good and bad. The good we must prepare
| 10 welcome, Lno DaQ we DQusC pre- are TO
lun. The attempt will again be made in
| 1892, as in 1876. to break up our American
| Sabbatns. That atte mpt was made at the
| Philadelphia Cenlen ial, but Was defeated.
| Toe American Sabbath is the best kept
Sab ,ath on earth. We do not want 1t
| broken down, and subs uted In the place
| thereof the B usssls s ,bbath the Vienna
Sabbath, the st. Petersburg sabbath or any
| of The foreign 5abbAChs. which are no Sab
| baths all | think the Lord is iore Tia an
generous in ASKING only hff y-two days out
Of the 385 for his vice You let the Sab
bath 60 and with iG viii go your BiOls, a ID
after that your liberties, aud yJur children
or your grandchildren viii be here in
America d r q despotism as b ID as in
those lands where hey turn the Lords Day
into wassail and frolic.
Among those no come there will be, as
at other exposltions, lordly people who will
bring their vices with them. Among the
dukes and duchesses and princes and prin-
cesses of other lands are some of the best
men and women Of all the earth. Remem-
Der Earl of Kinto Q. Lord Cairns and Lord
Shaftesbury. But there Ia q snobbery and
fiunkeyism in American society
tnat runs after grandee, a
duke, lord or prince, taough he may bs
a walking lazaretto and his brsat1
plague. fJm kes the fortune OF sUTne Of our
dlzeens of society to dance one coalition with
one OF these princely lepers Some people
cannot get their hats of quick enoug !
whea they see such foreign lord approach
ing, and tney do not care for the
mire into which they drop their knees
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