The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1890-06-06

bert Sydney and Joseph E. and Admiral
Semmes and many Federals and Confed-
crates whose graves in National ceme-
teries are marked "Unknown," yet who
were just as self-sacrihcing and brave as
any of their Major-Generals. and whose
resting places all up and down the An
droscoggin, the Hudson, the Potomac,
the Mississippi and the Alabama, have
recently been showed under with white
flowers, typical of resurrection, and
strewn with red flowers, commemorative
CT the carnage through which they
passed, and the blue flowers illustrative
of the skies through which they
assembled
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 Government can afford to throw
its sword away until all the great Gov
ernments have agreed to do the same.
But until Disarmament and consequent
arbitration shall be agreed to by all
the great Governments, any single Gov
eminent that dismantles its fortresses
and spikes its guns and breaks its
o"OA0 WOuA0 ANS O"A
destruction. Suppose before such gen.
eral agreement England, should throw
away her sword: think you France
has forgotten Waterloo? Suppose be-
fore such general agreement Germany
should throw away her sword how long
would Alsace and Lorraine stay as they
are? Suppose the Gar 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 with
out any 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
bunting of foreign navies coming here
to show the folly of the Monroe Doc
trine."
Side by side the two movements must
go. Complete armament until all agree
| to disarmament At the same COM
mand of 'Halt!'' all nations halting.
| At the same command of Ground
armsr' 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 nations. England
wants to get rid of it, Germany is being
eaten up by it, Russia is almost taxed
to death with it.
So we are glad at the Isaiahic prophe-
cy 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 war in Spain a soldier went on a
skirmishing expedition. and, secluded
in a 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. Run
ming up to the fallen man. he took his
knapsack for spoil and letter dropped
out of it. and it turned out to be a let
ter signed by his own father; in other
words, he had shot his brother. If the
brotherhood of man be true doctrine,
then he who shoots another man always
shoots his own brother.
Tonight against the sky of the
glorious future see a great blaze. II
is foundry in full blast The work.
men have stirred the fires unit the fur
naces are seven times heated. The last
wagon load of the worlds swords has
been hauled into the foundry, 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 crevice of rock un
til they fall into a mold shaped like the
iron foot of pillow. Then the liquid
cools off into hard metal, and, brought
out on an anvil, it is beaten and pounded
and fashioned, stroke after stroke, until
that which was a weapon to reap har
vests of men, becomes an implement
turning the soil for harvests of corn, the
sword having become the plowshare.
Officers and comrades of the Thir
tenth regiment of State militia: Aftel
another year of pleasant acquaintance
hail you with salutation all made VI
of good wishes and prayers. Honoret
with residence in the best city of thu
best land under the sun, let us dedicat'
ourselves anew to God and country ant
home! In the English conflict, Gale,
, 1.-THE War of the Roses" white ros
was the badge of the House of York, an,
{ the red rose the badge of the House o
, Lancaster, and with these two color
they opposed each other in battle. L
: enlist you in the holy war for all that
good against all that is wrong, pi
over your heart two badges, the on
, suggestive of the blood shed for our re
, demption and the other symbolic of
, soul made white and clean, the Rose c
, Sharon and the Lily of the Valley. B
, these henceforth our regimental syn
bOlS-ROSA and Iilv Tiiv and ROSai