Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-05-08
PEACE WITH A STRING TO IT.

PEACE WITH A STRING TO IT.
The most magnificent naval display
which mortal eye ever rested upon was
that at Now York n week ago. On no
similar occasion were there ever no
many nations represented nor 80 many
hrst-class shlps In line; while the ex.
pense incurred In various ways must
have aggregated n large fortune. 1t Ia
estimated that tho cost OF this powder
exploded In the great guns when
President Cleveland stepped on board
tho Dolphin was sl5,O00l AS several
such ssIutes were fired, 1t is n reason.
able calculation that the total cost for
powder alone was enough to give u
good start TO our longed-ior and needed
road to Deep Creek. But, OF course,
better repent thus, with the loud.mouth ed
cannon beching forth fsiendly greet.
ing than vomiting balls and scraps Of
Iron In front OF the smoke aud flame
with deadly ami destructive intent.
Il, was n spectacle In some respects
worthy the age and the people. The
Supplements OF war and sublu CATION"
not curtailed In any measure or de-
gree OF their deadly power nor yet
lenshed like dogs Of war, but obedlsnt
to tho will OF man, become rs no many
majestic, admirable, picturesque set.
tings In grand international specla-
Gle. This does, however, but suggest
that the peace OF nations Is IN imagin.
AIRY quantity held In place by
diplomacy, interest and fear; that
while one extends TO another
tho right hand OF friendship, It
keeps the left upon wonpos ready for
use at an instanps notice. Thus con-
siderod tho display In Hampton Roads
and on the Hudson amounted to q
comparative examination Of the
nations respective abilities to cripple
II not destroy each other completely.
The lions and tigers ara behaving un.
usually we'll, but the iron bars are all
In place ana none OF them Is broken or
defective.
The display brings us at once TO the
question as 10 what II Is those ships
which paraded 80 splendidly and
peacefully were built for. Certainly not
for that purpose, but for one
as different AZ gentle spring shower
is different from n destructive down.
pour OF hail and elect accompanied by
bowling blast--as the flight Of a
dove 10 different from the flight OF a
bombshrll. Brought down to the last
analysis II IL shown that they were In
tended to aid In the oppression, robbery
and murder OF Quo community by
another, or to prevent the attempts
With such ends In view being consum-
mated. In remote times, when every
mans hand was against every other
mans and such intercourse as occurred
was guarded and watched with jealous
suspicion, how much superior was man
to the brute creation2 Aud yet, on u
scale commensurate with our education
and experience, this naval display was
simply a reproduction on agrander
scale Of the old-time tactics, dis.
play-unconsciously perhaps but still a
display--oi the ancient bat not
honored methods by which our race
was controlled.
II may be polntei out that warsh lips
are still a necessity, and by the same
logic that a militia system Is also n
necessity because there are certain
human weaknesses which time anu OK
periencc nave not yet erased and u
maint In public order these must
sometimes be overcome or at least over
awed by force. But, us has been
shown many time,, there T.
really no necessity for nations TO go to
war any more, II indeed there ever
vas any such necessity. According 70
human standards Great Britain Nigh,
eventually have overcome this COLONIES,
but there were those In high places On
England " ho realized that II was not
rightio No 80 and the discourag
which they created eventually led a.
peace aud our independence. So il
might be on ai occasions. II thl
cabinets Of the nations contained each
but one firm, influential, justice.lovinR,
clol.hoaied mau, It Is q matter Of
doubt nv to whether proclamatlons Of
war would ever be Issued Then
might the armlred ships aud ponier.
Gus engines Of conflict pass into thu,
condition OF desustude Out OF which
comes no other harm than racolleo,
lion Of money thrown away.
SUI, after all Is said aud done, there
Is a ray Of comfort Ia tbs thou lat tina
- hundred years ago no such peaceful
display as that alluded 10 could po,s.