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coming here to show the folly OF the Mon

coming here to show the folly Of the Mon
roe doctrine"
Side by side the two movements must 60.
Complete armament until all agree to dis
At the same command OF 'Halt|
all nations halting. At the same command
Of ''Ground arms" all muskets humping;
At the same CONF nd of Break ranksW all
armies disbanding. That may be nearsr
than you think. The standing army is the
nightmare Of nations. England wants to
get rid of it, Germany is being eaten up by
t. Russia is almost taxed to death with it.
Suppose that the millions of men be-
longing to the standing armies Of the
world and in absolute idleness, for
the most part of their lives,
should become producers, instead OF con-
sumsrs. Would not the worlds properties
improve, and the worlds morals bs better?
Or have you the heathenish idea that war is
necessary to kill Off the surplus 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 exhausted! All! I think we can
trust to the pneumonias, and the consump-
tions, 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. It takes the pick Of the nations.
Those whom we could easily spare to 60 tc
the front are in the penitentiary, and theiI
duties detain them in that limited sphere.
No; it is the public spirited and the valorou
who go out to die. Mostly are they young
men. If they were aged, and had only Ave OF
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 Colonel Ellsworth fell
while yet a mere lad. Renowned McPher-
son was only IS. Magnificent Reynolds was
only 43. Hundreds of thousands fell be-
tween twenty and thirty years of age. I
looked into the faces of the French and Ger
man troops as they went out to fight at Sc
dan, and they were for the most part armies
Of splendid boys. So IN all ages war has pre-
ferre1 to sacrifice the young. Alexander the
Great died at 80. When war slays the young
it not only takes down that which they are,
but that which they might haYe been.
So we ara 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 scabbard
the sword bathed in heaven and the sword
bathed in hell. In a war in Spain soldier
went on a skirmishing expedition, and, Sc
cluded in bush, he had the opportunity OF
shooting soldier of the other army who
had stroIed away from his tent. He took
aim and dropped him. Running up to the
fallen man he took his knapsack for spoil,
and letter dropped out Of it, and it turned
out to be a letter signed by his own
father; in other words, he had shot his
true doctrine, then he who shoots another
man always shoots his own brother. What q
horror is war and its cruslties were well IL.
lustrated when the Tartars, after sweeping
through Russia and Poland, displayed with
pride nine great sacks filled with the right
ears of the fallen, and when correspondent
Of the London Times, writing 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 God, waterl A
doctor! A doctorp never ceased"
After war has wrought such cruelties
himself die. Let his dying couch be spread
in some dismantled fortress, through which
the stormy winds howl. Give him for pill
low a battered shield, and let his bed be hard
with the rusted bayonets of the slain. Cover
him with the coarsest blanket that picket
ever wore and let his only cup be the
bleached bone Of one Of his war chargers, and
the last taper by his bedside expire as the
midnight blast signs into bis ear: "The can
die of the wicked shall be put out.'
Tonight against the sky OF the glorious
future seq a great blaze. It Is q foundry
in full blast. The workmen have stirred the
fires until the furnaces ara seven times
heated. The last wagon load Of the worlds
and they are tumbled into the furnace, and
they begin to glow and redden and melt, and
in Kissing and sparkling liquid they roll on
down through the crevics of rock until they
fall into mold shaped like the iron foot OF a
plow. Then the liquid cools OF into hard
metal, and, brought out on an anvil, it Is
beaten and pounded aud fashioned, stroke
after stroke, until that which was weapon
to reap harvests Of men becomes an imple-
ment turning the soil for harvests OF corn,
the sword having become the pIowshare.
Officers and comrades of the Thirteenth
Regiment of State Militia: After another
wear Of pleasant Acquaintance I hail you
with salutation all made up OF good
wishes and prayers. Honored with rest.
dencs in the best city of the best land
under the sun, let US dedicate ourselves anew
to God and country and home! In tho Eng.
lish conflict called "The War of the Roses"
q white rose was the badge Of the house
Of York, and the red rose the badge Of the
house of Lancaster, and with these two col
ors they opposed each other in battle. 10
enlist you in the Holy War for all that Is
good against all that is wrong, pin over
your heart two badges, the one suggestive
of the blood shed for our redemption, and
the other symbolic Of q soul made white and
clean-the Rose of Sharon and the Lily Of
the Valley Be these henceforth our rsgi-
mental symbols.Rose and Lily, Lily and
Rose. 80