Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-06-02

it is necessary that righteousness triumph
There are tens Of thousands among tn
northern and southern veterans of ou
civil war who arc 95 per cent. larger ant
mightier in soul than they would hav
been had they not during the four years O
national agony turned their back on hom
and fortune and at the front sacrificed al
for principle.
1t was the sword which on the northern
side developed a Grant, a Mcclellan,
Hooker, a Hancock, q Sherman, a Sheri
dan, and Admirals Farragut and Porter
and on the southern side Lee, Jackson
Hill, Gordon and the Johnstons, AIber
Sydney and Joseph E., and Admiral Sem
mes, and many Federals and Confederate!
whose graves in national cemeteries arr
marked unknown" yet who were Just al
self sacrificing and brave as any of theil
major generals, and whose resting places
all up and down the banks of the Andres
coggin, the Hudson, the Potomac, the Mis-
sippi and the Alabama, have recently beer
showed under with white flowers typical Of
resurrection, and strewn with red flowers
commemorative of the carnage through
which they passed, and the blue flowers il
Illustrative of the skies through which they
assembled.
THE SWORD IS DOOMED.
But the sword is doomed. There is one
word that needs to be written in every
throne room, in every war office, in every
navy yard in every national council. That
word is Disarmament. But no govern.
ment can afford to throw its sword away
until all the great governments have
agreed to do the same. Through the in
nf - l.
and South American governments at
Washington, and through the peace con-
vention to be held next July in London,
and other movements in which prime min
listers, and kings, and queens, and sultans,
and cars shall take part, all civilized ma
lions will come to disarmament, and if a
few barbarian races decline to quit war,
then all the decent nations will send out a
force OF continental police to wipe out
from the face of the earth the miscreants
But until disarmament and consequent
arbitration shall be agreed to by all the
great governments, any single government
that dismantles its fortresses, and spikes
its guns, and breaks its sword would
simply invites it's own destruction. Sup
pose, before such general agreement, Eng
land should throw away her sword; think
you France has forgotten Waterloo? Sup
pose before such general agreement, Ger
many should throw away her sword; how
long would Alsace and Lorraine stay as
they areP Suppose the car of Russia be-
fore any such general agreement should
throw away his sword all the eagles and
vultures and lions of European power
would gather for a piece of the Russian
bear. Suppose the United States without
any such general agreement of disarma-
ment should throw away her sword; it
would not be long before the Narrows of
our harbor would be ablaze with the bunt-
ing of foreign navies coming here to show
the folly of the Monroe doctrine"
ALL MUST ARM TILL ALL DIsARM.
Side by side the two movements must 90.
Complete armament until all agree to dis
armament At the same command of
HALT" all nations hating At the same
command of Ground armsp' all muskets
humping At the same command of
Break ranks" all armies disbanding
That may be nearer than you think. The
standing army is the nightmare of ma
tons. England wants to get rid of it, Ger
many is being eaten up by it, Russia is al
most taxed to death with it. Suppose that
the millions Of men belonging to the stand
ing armies of the world and in absolute
idleness, for the most part of their lives
should become producers, instead of con
sumers. Would not the worlds prospect
ties improve, and the worlds morals be
better? Or have you the heathenish idea
that war is necessary to kill off the sur
plus populations of the earth, and that
without it the world would be so crowded
there would soon be no reserved seats and
even the standing room would be exhaust
ed? Ali think we can trust to the pneumo-
MAS, and the consumptions, and the fevers,
and the Russian grippes to kill the people
fast enough.
Beside that, when the world gets too full
God will blow up the whole concern and
start another world and better one. Be
side that, war kills the people who can
least be spared. 1t takes the pick of the
nations. Those whom we could easily
spare to go to the front, are in the peniten-
tiary, and their duties detain them in that
limited sphere. No; it is the public spirit |
ed and the valorous who go out to die |
Mostly a. they young men. If they were
aged and had only five or ten years at the |
most to live, the sacrifice would not be so
great But it is those who have forty or
fifty years to live who step into the jaws |
of battle. In our war Col. Ellsworth fell |
while yet mere lad. Renowned McPher- |
son was only 80. Magnificent Reynolds |
was only 43, Hundreds of thousands fell |
between twenty and thirty years of age. |
| looked into the faces of the French and |
German troops as they vent out to fight |
at Sedan, and they were for the most part
armies of splendid boys. SO in all ages
war has preferred to sacrifice the young.
the Great died at 49, When |
war Stays the young 1t not only takes down
that which they are, but that which they
might have been.
THE GOOD TINE COMING.
So we are glad at the Isaiahic prophecy,
that the time is coming when nation shall
not lift up sword against nation. Indeed,
both swords shall go back into the scab-
bard-the sword bathed in heaven and the
,yord bathed in hell In war in Spain a
soldier went on q diminishing expedition,
and, secluded in bush, he had the oppor-
lunity of shooting a soldier of the other
army who had strolled away from his tent.
He took aim and dropped him. Running
up 10 the fallen man he took his knapsack
for spoil, and letter dropped out of it,
and It turned out to be letter signed by
bis own father; in other words, he had shot
his brother. II the brotherhood of man be
q true doctrine, then he who shoots an
other man always shoots his own brother.
What o horror Is war and its cruelties were
well illustrated when the Tartars, after