Connecticut western news., 1890-06-04

through CIle lnlueilco OI tIle Teceut convention of North and South Ameri- can governments at Washington, and through the peace convention to be held next July in London, and other movements in which prime ministers, and kings, and queens, and sultans, and czars shall take part, all civilized nations will come to disarmament and if few barbarian races decline to quit war, then all the decent nations will send out 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 it's fortresses, and spikes its guns, and breaks it's sword, would simply invite it's own destruction.
 Suppose. before such general agree ment, England should throw away her sword; think you France has forgotten Waterloo2 Suppose before such general agreement Germany should throw away her sword; how long would Alsace and Lorraine stay as they are2 Suppose the czar of Russia before any such general agreement should throw away his sword; all the eagles and vultures and lions of European power would gather for piece of the Russian bear Suppose the United States without any such general agreement of disarmament should throw away her sword it would not be long before the Narrows of our harbor would be ablaze with the bunting of foreign navies coming here to show the folly of the Monroe Doctrine"
 THE NIGHTMARE OF NATIONS.
 Side by side. the two movements must go. Complete armament until all agree to disarmament. At the same command of "Halt" all nations halt ing. At the same command of "Ground
 arms!" all muskets humping. At the same command of Break ranks!' all
 armies disbanding That may be near CT than you think. The standing army
 is the nightmare of nations. England
 wants to get 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 stand
 ing armies of the world and in absolute
 idleness, for the most part of their
 lives, should become producers instead
 of consumers Would not the worlds
 prosperities improve, and the worlds
 morals be 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 exhausted9
 An! think we can trust to the pneu-
 monias, and the consumptions and the
 levers and the Russian grippes to kill
 the people fast enough.
 Beside that, when the world gets too full God will blow up the whole con-
 cern and start another world and a
 better one. Beside that, war kills the
 people who can least be spared It
 takes the pick of the nations. 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 is the public spirited
 and the valorous who go out to die.
 Mostly are 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 a mere lad. Renowned McPherson
 was only 35. Magnificent Reynolds
 was only 43. Hundreds of thousands
 fell between 20 and 30 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 32. When war stays the young it
 not only takes down that which they
 are, but that which they might have been.
 THE FULFILLMENT OF THE PROPHECY. So we are glad at the Isaiahic proph- ecy, that the time is coming when na
 tion shall not lift up sword against na- tion Indeed, both swords shall go
 back into the scabbard-the sword bathed in heaven and the sword bathed in he'll In war in Spain soldier
 went on a sl1irlnishing expedition and,
 secluded in bush, he had the oppor- | tunity of shooting soldier of the other
 army, who had strolled away from his tent He took aim and dropped him.
 Running up to the fallen man he took l his knapsack for spoil, and a letter | dropped out of it, and it turned oat to
 be letter signed by his own father; in other words, he had shot his brother. If tho brotherhood of man be true | doctrine, then lAe who shoots another 1 man always shoots his own brother. What a horror is war and it's cruel l ties were well illustrated when the Tar tars, after sweeping through Russia and Poland, displayed with pride nine great | sacks filled with the right ears of the ] fallen, and when a correspondent of The London Timo.;, writing of the wounded after the battle of Sedan, said: Every moan. that the human voice can utter rose from that heap o1 agony, and the cries of Water! For the love of God, water. A doctor! A doctor' never cnasea' After war has
 wrought such cptcitios, how glad we will be to have the Old Monster himself die. Let his dying couch be spread in some dislnantled fortress, through which 1 the stormy winds howl. Give him for pillow battered shield, and let his 1 bed be hard with the rusted bayonets of the slain. Cover him with the l coarsest blanket that picket ever wore,
 and let his only cup be the bleached l bone of one of his war chargers, and ! L. u l--- IL l. l. I IL