The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-12-13
IS WAR a HUMAN NECESSITY

The history of mankind is but a
CHASTITY stain OF blood. A universal sac.
Rice Only gave way to cruel crucifixion,
| the red of the ancient altar to the blood
of Calvary's cross. Of the two first born
| of this world one in cold blood slew the
| other. Rome ceased her domination OF
the centuries only when she ceased to
spill the blood of peoples and of king
doms in offensive wars. The CONNER
cial supremacy of England is one OF
wars waged against the defenceless, and
that supremacy today is yet SO main
tanned. The Holy Land was secured 10
Gods chosen people only through wars
of determination. Moral determinations
and financial renewals no less than
| POLITICAL revolutips have come oftenest
of bloodshed.
All great wars are followed by what
are denominated good times. Al
though following the late Franco Prus-
sian war France was compelled to pay
her own enormous expenditures and to
indemnify Germany in addition, yet
France has not ceased to prosper, in an
almost unexampled way, ever since. Ii
the general European war now threat
ened should be actually declared, tinan-
cial prosperity would not only succeed
to the nations involved. but to the whole
civilized world.
Arbitration that comes of the higher
law, or of exalted ideals, and through
which a number Of grave international
Misunderstanding have been amicably
adjusted since the close of the rebellion,
still seems best suited for the conditions
under promised millennium.
Certain it is that in the absence of
war, its strife, blood and sacrifice of
human life, the crank and the
fanatic with their bombs and
their agencies of secret destruction
flourish. In the event of a general and
bloody European war the voice of the
prophets of Anarchy would be heard no
more in the land, the Socialist would
cease to organize or threaten. and nihil-
ism would fall into innoxious desuetude.
Confronted by the blood of riot the mob
becomes meek and tractable and from
the field Of carnage. the savage soldier
turns contentedly to peaceful pursuits.
Whatever there is of cost and calamity,
of blood and despair, in war, in its alb
sence the wings of white winged peace
have little significance. From its grim
visaged front famine fees as prosperity
heap, high the lap of luxury, and the
wall of the widow together with the
memory of the dead are swallowed up
in triumphant songs of victory.
If arbitration is to take the place of
the blood shed of wars then
must civilization adjust itself to
entirely new conditions in which
one-half of the public Expenditures of
the nations must be diverted to other
channels and, in which mighty standing
armies who are only consumers, be
given place and opportunity as addi-
tional producers, thing under present
conditions impossible.
British gold was accepted by America
as an equivalent for the lives and prop
erty destroyed by the Alabama, in turn
for which Canada is licensed 10 trample
the life out of our profitable seal fisheries
in which Americas clear title to the
Bebring sea is relinquished, but who
can prove that the United States would
not have been better off had these ques-
tons been settled by war instead of by
arbitration, even Conceding that her
armies had been defeated il the conflict?