The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1894-01-03

Baik thou worlds armies in their vain array.
So shalt thou bring the longed for peace on
earth!
THE WORLD UNITED.
Each day of our life the treatment Of
crime and disease becomes more and
more an international matter.
Cholera in Hamburg means cholera
around the world unless checked by the
united action Of the authorities of the
world. The binding Of the earth to-
gether with steam and electricity makes
necessary an international penal code
for the treatment of crime and crimi-
nails. Whether we like it or not, we
are being forced into a federation Of law
and order as wide as the world.
The joys and sorrows, the rights and
the wrongs, Of all nations become thus
daily more and more the concern Of
each and all, because they belong to
humanity. TIE famine in Russia, the
earthquake in Kuchan, the prisoned
explorer in darkest Africa-these all
are our affairs. We cannot escape
them. Strange peoples, strange cos
tunes, strange languages, wide seas
these do not excuse. Fashion is cos
mopolitan. All language has yielded
the last secret. There is no more sea.
Humanity alone is supreme and is fast
clothing itself, building its dictionary
and pushing its domain from equator
to pole.
Two giants are to make new world
in the twentieth century-science and
democracy. They have already chal-
lenged the world to mortal combat.
Democracy is become international be-
fore it becomes national, and as the fed
Grafton of capital has already become
worldwide so the federation OF labor is
likewise becoming international.
Science was never anything else than
the supreme expression Of universally.
Science acknowledges only the author
ity of truth. Truth can never be linn
tied by nationality. Truth is of the
infinite. It must in the nature Of
things include all of this little planet
and more besides than the mind Of man
can grasp. The honor roll of science
is of the human race. France nay fight
Germany. but there can be no conflict
between the laboratories Of Pasteur and
Koch.
The discoveries of one are the COM
mon heritage Of the other, because they
belong first to humanity.
It does not matter wether Humboldt
was German. Frenchman, Italian or
Englishman.
It does not matter whether Spinoza
was Jew or gentle.
It does not matter whether Darwin
and Huxley are Englishmen OF Bud
dhists. Nobody asks-nobody cares.
It does not matter. Their achievement
is the common property Of humanity.
Science is the fraternity of the race
over whose grand assemblies truth pre-
sides in peace and dignity. When sci
ence shall have subdued the world and
truth shall rule, where will then re-
main place for strife and jealousy and
bigotry and hatred and war?
Letters have from their very birth
been International. AS literature con-
tinues to assert it's power over men, so
internationalism must grow. The world
that reads does not ask or care whether
George Eliot was man or woman,
English, German, French, Italian or
Spanish. She was human. She was
the daughter Of mankind in her inspired
utterance of the secrets Of nature. Toll
stoi, Hall Caine, Bourget, Walter Be-
SAINT, Maarten Martens, Howells and
the host of other living writer's who fill
the press of the world today with the
creations Of genius are not limited by
national boundaries for their audience.
Their readers are the race.
Music AND ART.
Music laughs at national wars and
rumors Of wars. A German wrote
Faust, =" Frenchman set it to immor-
tai music, and an American girl trans
lates its divine secrets to the listening
souls Of the millions. The hymnology
of the world laughs at hatreds and sus-
picions, at creeds on paper and historic
traditions.
The Protestant church hears Catholic
cardinal sing LEAD, Kindly Light,
and reports itwith increasing joy. The
Trinitariar. sings with the Unitarian.
Music is the language Of the human
soul. It cannot be limited by creed or
clique or province or nation. AS music
lifts and sways the world it brings it
with each throbbing note nearer to
unity and harmony of life.
So of art. The great artists Italy has
given the world are claimed as the her
itage of man. Who cares whether Ra-
phael was Italian or Dutch, whether
Rembrandt was German or Irish? 1t
does not matter. Nations do not pos
sess such men. They belong to the
fraternity Of man.
As this sense of the beautiful shall
more and mere grow to dominate life,