The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-10-19

We have peace in Europe, peace
hideous with arms and pregnant win
war. leace which, every year that 1t
lasts, increases the expense of It's cost,
and which is especially maintained by
the fear that makes war on the very
nations who are most anxious TO pre-
pare the means of victory. 1t IS
peace. if may be SLOWED so to say,
of barbarians, Of men who are not at
tracted to it by any moral instinct, who
do not admire it for its humanity, do
not love it for its beauty and virtue,
Int who. full of trepidation,
feel restrained because they know
not how great ruin new en-
counter among the civilized
States of Europe would cause. Ii Is
not of such a peace that | desire TO
sneak but rather of a peace which VIII
be born, when it is born, out OF pro,
found conviction by the people and
governments of Europe, that they Will
honor the civilization of which they
boast, if they make it Christian III their
relations with each other as they have
made. or rather tried to make, IT IN
each State: and that, to make clvlliZa-
ton thus. they must change above all
their mind and their will, and fill
these with true Ii ght and render them
good: since to men, IN whose spirit
light aud goodwill abounds, has been
promised true peace.
These last words will nowhere De
more laughed at than in my country
The Italians believe themselves TO be
consummate politicians. They remem'
Der that in the days when they were di'
vided into petty governments, they won
by force of arms the union winch
makes them great. They bear the bur
dens of this peace in patience, both be-
cause they believe it to be the only way
in which their hardly earned union can
be preserved against foreign forces and
because they have formed an ideal OF
war as a noble and generous striie 10
which galor and great qualities OF mind
and spirit will gain for them honors ana
rewards.
But war has entirely changed its face.
1t is not yet Invested OF the mental
qualities which are required for VIC
tory; contempt of danger, constancy IN
facing it. intrepidity in awaiting IL;
but victory has ceased to be the result
og these alone. II becomes every day
more and more the work of engineers
and mechanicians; it has lost every
thing that could stimulate chivalric IN
stincts and excite courage and Valor'
Science. leaving its legimate function
of ministering TO human existence ana
of supplying the needs of men, has
been pressed into the service OF war,
and its energies are now largely appiied
10 forge deadly arms of destruction ar q
terrible engines of slaughter. we are lar
from seeing the end Of inventions wnich
can be ipstrumentsof ,arnsge. Inc TWO
Last inventions OF this kind, beiieve'
are these: At New York has been I'D
vented cannon costing $50 600, when
weighs eighty tons, and 10 charged Win
dynamite. It's shell. filled with nun
dred pounds of this explosive sho. i1'o
a great city, would cause greater uo
struction than an earthquake. AZ the
West End of London has been trieo
the Gilfard cannon. which needs no
powder TO load it with. and makes no
smoke on it's discharge; it is discharged
by Iiquified casbonic acid gas; ana can
be fired two or three hundred !ines
consecutively, at a cost, 1T is saia, o.
two.pence a discharge. Such Things
90 far to prove that modern war 10
brutal thing. worthy Of savages, ahd
ought 10 be abolished among civiiizeo
people.-Nuova Antalogia lRome).