The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-06-11

, Russian bear. Suppose the Cnttec
States without any such genera!
agreement Of disarmament, ahoulc
throw away her sword, it would not
be long before the Narrows OF ou
harbor would be ablaze with the
bunting Of foreign navies, coming
here to show the folly OF the Mon.
! roe doctrine.
| Side by side the two movement:
must go. Complete armament until
all agree 20 dis;rmcnt. At the same
command of halt" al nations malt,
ing. At the same command OF
ground arms" all muskets thump,
ing. At the same command OF
"break ranks" al armies disbanding.
This may be nearer than YOU think.
The standing army is the nightmare
OF nations. England wants to geS
rid OF It, Germany is being eaten up
by it. Russia is almost taxed to death
with it. Suppose that the millions
OF men belonging to the standing
armies Of world and in absolute idle
ness. for the most part OF their lives,
shoull become producers instead OF
consumers. Would not the world $
prospelities improve, and the worlds
/ morals be betterl Or have you the
| the heatEenish idea that wal is Nc
cessary TO kill of the surplus popuia-
tion 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 cN-
hausted? An! l think we can trust
| to the pneumonias, and the consump-
tons, and the feyers, and the Rus
sian grippes to kill the people fast
enough. Besides that, when the
world gets too full God will blow up
thewhole concern and start another
world and a better one. Besides that,
war kill; the people who can least be
spared. 1t takes the pick OF the ma
tons. Those whom we could easily
spare to go to the front, are in the
penitentiary, and their duties detain
them in that limited sphere. No; it
it is the public-spirited and the val
orous who so out to die. Mostly are
the 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 OF fifty years to live who
step into the jaws Of battle. In our
vo1. Col Ellsworth fell while vet a
mere lad Renowned Mcpherson was
only 35. Magnificent Reynolds was
only 43. Hundreds of thousandsfell
between twenty and thirty years OF
age. I looked into the faces OF the
French and German troops as they
went 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.
Alexander the Great died at thirty
Two. When war Stays the young it
not only takes down that which they
are, but that which they might have
been.
So we are glad at the Isaiahic pro
phecy. that the time is coming when
nation shall not lit up sword against
nation. Indeed, both swords snail
90 back into the scabbard-the sword
bathed in heaven and the sword
bathed in hell. In war in Spain q
soldier went on shirmishing eXpedl-
ton. and. secluded in 4 bush, he had
the opportunity Of shooting a soldier
of the other army, who had strolled
away from his tent. He took aim and
dropped him. Running up to the fal,
len man he took his knap-sack for
spoil. and q letter dropped out of it.
and it turned out to be letter signed
By his own father; in other words, he
had shot his brotker. If the brother
hood of man be true doctrine. then
he who shoots another man always
shoots his own brother. What a
horror is war and it's cruelties were
well illustrated when the Tartars, at
ter sweeping through Russia and
Poland, displayed with pride nine
great sacks filed with the right ears
of the fallen. and when the CORES
pondent of the London Times, writ
inc of the wounded after the battle
of Sedan, said: Every moan that
the human voice can utter rose from
that heap of agony, and the cries OF
water. For the love of good, water:
\ doctor. A doctor! never ceased.
After war has wrought such cl'ueltles,
how glad we will be to nave the Old
Monster himself die. Let his dying
couch be spread in some dismantled
fortress, through which the stormy
winds howl Give him fol- q pillow u
battered shield, and let his bed be
hard with the rusted bayonets OF the
slain. Cover MIN with the coarsest
blanket that picket ever wore, and let
his only cup be the bleached bone OF
one Of his ar-chargers, and the last
taper by his bedside expire as the
midnight blast sighs into his ear:
The candle Of the wicked snail be
put out" Tonight. against the sky OF
the glorious future, I see a great blaze
It is a foundry in full blast. The
worllman have stirred the fires until
the furnaces are seven times heated.
The last wagon load Of the world $
swords has been hauled into the
foundry, and they are trlmbled into
tie furnace, snd they begin to glow
and redden and melt. and i'll Kissing
and sparkling liquid they roll on
down through the crevice of rock IN
til they fall into a mold shaped like
the iron foot Of a plough. Then the
liquid cools off into hard metal,
and. brought out on an anvil, 1t IS
beaten and pounded and fashioned,
stroke after stroke. until that which
was weapon to reap halvests OF
men. becomes M implement turning
| the soil for harvest of corn, the sword
having become the plowshare.
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