The herald., 1894-11-11
international Courts of Arbi-
tratiOn and their Merits.
They Would Abolish the Horrors
and Loss of Wars.
Has a Change Occurred In tho Gsneral
Point of View Regarding the
Necessity or Right of
Making War.

lily as real one5. Thus q epirit OF con.
tempt and animosity towards foreigners
was encouraged by rulers. go that they
might the more easily excite the people
to war phrensy whenever they desired
it. The patriotism and genius OF poets
were enlisted on the same side. CEN
tury ago the mercenary pen OF Dibdin
fred the navy to incredible heroism.
He fattered every prejudice and foible
of our Imple-minded tars. Not fore
castle but rang with his songs:
"while English bosoms boast English hearts,
We ! tip EN- all round 4 touch;
While with ardor each starts that nothing
Well bang ne 5paniards, belabor the Dutch,
And block up and laugh at the French.
Now the French while in harbor so snug and SO
Bout their courage they make fine rout;
| II they have the whole Sorld not believe it
Then. damme. why don't they come out ?"
OF Nelson he wrote:
$50 you see the dispatches was easily stow'd,-
| Twas no use with hi'Cry to charge EN-;
He'd occasion for only the old fashioned
Taken burnt and destroyed, as per merjum 4"
"Thus with one of his precious limbs shot
away,
Bold Ne,son know'd we'll how to nick EN-;
| So as for the French, It's as much as to say:
| We can Vie up one hand and then licH en-"
| Next the country comes in for share.
''Then of Eng and, that wonderful country
sing,
Where we've thousands OF joy, il we need
| Mild laws that protect us, a Protestant king,
Lovely women, grog, biscuit and freedom"
When Dibdin died in 1914, Beranger
was "a, and had alrsady made himself a
name. An earnest and true poet, he
was content to suffer for his opinions,
and was equally free from venality and
eervility. But from purer motives he
did for the French army much the same
that Dibdin had done for the English
navy. This French Anacreon, who Gang 80
sweetly of love, also tuned his Tyre to
war, and, with those witty sarossms
which the French so appreciate, ami
mated the hatred of his country against
its old aristocracy, and against foreign
ers. The opera of Charles VI, by
Halvey. brought out in l843, contains a
song by Casimir and German Della
vigne, La France Phorreus du sewage,
Et 81 grand qui soft lie danger, Plus
grand encore est son courage, Quand il
iaut chaser Petranger, etc. The chorus
Is intensely and smusingly Gallic
Guerre aux tyrans jamais, jamais en-
France, (bis) Jamais PAnglsis ne reg
nera. (Bis). Non. non. non. jamais,
non, Jamais, en- France, Jamais Pan
glais ne regners, Non Thus
Tennyson, one OF the two grand
been men and deeds of war. The
sweet-voioed, calm.eyed muse of peace
has been seldom heard amid the fanfare
of trumpets and the roll of drums.
Peace has been despised. Men of peace
have been classed with women and cow
ards. We. today, the greatest of all
manufacturing and commercial peoples
that have existed. do all we can to make
war attractive. We bedizen our meaneat
soldiers with gaudy apparel, cover the
breasts of their chiefs with stars and
orders, but we pay them all badly from
the beginning and neglect them after
years of faithful service. The soldiers
Of peace. however, "the rank and file''
OF industry, are far more neglected; the
heroes of science are feebly recognized
and scantily rewarded by our rulers
All, however, will acknowledge that the
ultimate happiness OF mankind musi
depend upon the universal rule OF peace
The abolition of war ia daily becoming
more and more vital necessity to civil.
ization. Trade shrinks and withert
at the mere whisper of war
The industrial armies OF Europe cannot
be ground down much longer to main
tain the costly organizations OF destrac-
tion. One man out of every five il
Withdrawn from the producers. and be-
comes non.producer at the cost vi the
other four. II the l2.000000 men ir
Europe. "the most robust, the most en-
ergetic and the beet trained" who are
taken from the fields and the workshop;
to learn how to kill and to destroy skill
: fully, could be restored to the ranks o
labor. and permitted to become hus-
: bands and fathers, perhaps we shoulG
not have starving women in Londor
! making shirts for I'd dozen. nor 81
many fallen sisters pacing its wear.
streets. 1t is no easy matter, however
to abolish customs which are coeva
with the whole existence of mankind
, and which they doubtless derived from
+ their beastlike ancestors. From tn
times when men fought with fangs an,
} claws to the present, war has been NOR
. or less their normal condition. Bnt tn
. more they become men the farther they
recede from the processes OF bru.es
The recent restrictions On war, and tn
humanity introduced into it. are augur
lea OF time when it will be ranked
T with cannibalism and other outrage
: upon our race. And the question whic
concerns us now is, by what method
F; may it most rapidly and most sffectivel
De made impractcable? Disarmament
i has been proposed by many critics
(; This appears to offsr insuperable diff
! culties. Which are the powerH tbs
i should disarm, and % what extent, an
! who will take the initiative? Wha
guarantees can there be that anv agrse
mont on the matter would be respecte,
n by all parties? Religion could once en-
a force "the truce OF God," and the swor
for time rusted in its sh cath. But tn
q power OF the popes and the force {
a superstition have been broken. I
: what new powers can we appeal? Their
r are only three: the growing necessity c
o unrestricted interchange of nationa
O productions, the increasing sentimen
OF the brotherhood OF men, and tn
widening sense of justice. Brotherhoo
y and justico should be the new watch
. words OF the peoples, and then wars an
t other expressions will more speedii
a decrease.
v Ii all countries were il the same stai
? of civilization, or If civilizations did n,
contain large proportions OF the unoivi
ized, complete disarmament might, th,
IT oretical'. take place. But in much
! the world nothing short OF the fear