The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-03-20
LET US HAVE PEACE.

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citation of Friends Quakere) in Amer
lea, and Vice. President of the Peace
Association, composed of all denomi
nations, Boston, Mass Iectured before
the students of the A. and M. College
last Wednesday morning, and at Shaw
University at night.
Mr.. Hubbard and his Association
contend that standing armies or any
military organizations are unnecessary
and are relics of barbarianism; that
when we become fully civilized we will
do away with military organizations.
He argues that we should follow the
teachings of the New Testament rather
than the old. Wars were common be-
fore the birth of Christ. The Old Tes-
lament taught such doctrine as 'hate
thine enemies" Christ tells us to love
our enemies, and while on earth gave
many touching examples. Just before
the crueifiction he wentinto the Garden
and prayed long and earnestly for his
enemies. Christ tells us that if thine
enemy smite thee on one cheek turn
the other.
Mr.. Hubbard says that more than
three times the population of the earth
have been slaughtered in war, and
maintains that all international diff
culties can be settled by arbitration.
The regular standing army of America
numbers 26, 600 men, and that number
is not needed. In Europe to day there
are twenty million soldiers standing
snarling at each other. In the past
hundred years five of the leading and
so called civilized nations of Europe
have been engaged in n hundred and
eight wars and the butchery of human
life has been enormous. Soldiers are
nothing but hired murderers. Wars
are the quarrels of the rich and power
full and the poor do most of the fight
ing. A soldier enlists 80 kill people at
SO much per month. He does not know
who he is to fight when called upon nor
what the fight is about.
The Peace Association asserts that
the Ten Commandments must be broken
before a war a begin and that an
other, Thou shall not KILL" is broken
when war is resorted to. Thomas Car
lyle, of England, said: "War is the
work of blockheads." Napoleon Bona
part, after going through many battles
and winning great renown, said: WAR
is the work of barbarians." The great
John Wesley said: War is the work
of hell" Many of the soldiers and
officers who took part in the late fratri,
cidal civil war have said that they feel
like murderers.
It is a lamentable fact that eighty
three colleges in the United States
force their students to wear military
uniforms and drill regularly. We say
force because many young men are OPP
posed to such training, while many
others delight in it, they having a little
spark of that barbariem still left in
their hearts, and such barbarism is
often called patriotism.
MI. Hubbard is an able and logical
lecturer. His mission is a great and
useful one, his arguments unanswer-
able, and we hope he will continue the
grand work until the great masses of
the people will refuse to take up arms
and murder ruthlessly every time two
rulers make faces at each other or
when the bankers want a wal to create
a national debt so they a get a bond
issue.
The homes of eight hundred people
n advertised to be sold for taxes on
the 2nd of April in Wilmington. Great
prosperity, real Cleveland prosperity.
NOT WILLING TO RECONSIDER.
The Charlotte Observer of the 18th
said:
THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER is entire
~ undOne on account of the PROPOSE
ton to make the campaign in North
Carolina this year primarily on North
Carolina men and measures, with spe-
cial reference to keeping the State in
the hands of the Democrats, who have
administered its affairs unexception-
ably for twenty years."
Then follows a portion of an editorial