The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-12-23
AL AND COURIER, MONDAY, DECEMBER B, 1s9


 as # it were the beginning of oomph- cation with those powers, War is talk ed ot, Increase oP armament and The like Even the president of these Unit ed States seems 10 have caught this spirit, when he says in a message to congress: While it Is a grievous thing to contemplate the two great English speaking people of the world as being otherwise than friehdly competitors in the arts of peace there is no calamity which & great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine sub mission to wrong and injustice"
 And the congress assembled in Wash ington applauded that,
 It seems to me that all this silly and childish bluster only serves to add fuel to that boisterous and rowdyish spirit in our land We are strong enough to be generous-to keep our hands in our pockets and not break out into hints of war at the executive mansion, of ap- plause of the same in congress, and of talk of war in the newspapers
 The man who talked of honor, of high spirit. of chivalry, of readiness to take offsnse and determination to fight on every possible occaslon-that man belonged to the hero of three cen- turies ago! Now he is a bully-a braga- doco, So with a nation.
 What We want i5 meekness, gentle ness, iirmness, moderation and courte- syl It is to be hoped that the present "jingoism" is but a passing fever and will soon burn itself out
 The truth is that the sanity, the es- sential good sense of the American peo- pie are totally misrepresented by this bluster and bravado, They will permit no such talk to dissolve or weaken the common history, the common religious faith, which make two nations-Great Britain and America-one people. | And what talk it is! Instead of | treating war as painful and appalling remedy, to be resorted to only in the last extremity, these gentlemen and these newspapers jauntily introduce it in the first stage of the discussion! |! They talk about! !it with gaiety and freedom which is evidence that they are entirely lacking in the sense of public responsibility, and are in no sense fit guides of public. action! War is an appalling catastrophe, never to be resented to until all remedies have failed, and the men who lightly speak Of It and who quickly invoke it in in ternatlonal disputes are guilty of a crime! The youth of our land need bet | ter teaching than they are getting from many of our newspapers, and | rom many of our public men. They need to learn that patriotism is love or ones country, not hatred of other countries, and that mans affection ana devotion to his own family bear their fruit in Kindness, uprightness and generosity in his dealings with his neighbors.
 It ls one thing to quietly and courte- ously insist upon our rights and main cam them It is another thing to blus- tee ana show fight the moment a differ- ence of opinion arises.
 War-what is war? Murder in mi lorm Do the men who are so iauntil,, taking of war consider what if costs- lh money, in human lives. in awful pain ln heart-anguish in desolated fields and noiies more desolate? Give me the mon ey that mas been spent in war and I will purchase every foot of land upon inc globe I will clothe every man. woman ana chlld in an attire of which kings ana queens would be proud I will build school house on every hillside and in every valley over the whole earth. I will build an academy in every town and endoW it; college in every state and fill it with able professors. I will l crown every hill with a place of wor- snip, consecTated to the promulgation of the gospel of peace. will support in every pulpit an able teacher of right eousness, so that on every Sabbath morning the chime on one hill should answer to the chime on another, sound the earth's wide circumference, and the voice of prayer and the song of praise should ascend like a holocaust to leav- | en.
 Were half the power that fills the world l with terror,
 Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts
 Given to redeem the human mind from
 error,
 There were no need for arsenals nor | forts
 The warriors name would be a name | abhorred,
 And every nation that should life again
 Its hand against its brother, on it's
 forehead
 l Would wear for evermore the curse of
 Cain
 War! It is only terrible necessity, Only when there are evils greater than war-then, and only then, is it terri ble necessity! For example, anarchy is an evil greater than war, for anarchy is human passion lawlees. and war is human passion under forms of law! The massacre of unoffending Armenians is worse than war, for that is lawless butchery while war is murder under legal forms. So, then, terrible necessity may justify resort to the always terri ble measure of war, but nothing less than terrible necessity.
 Does the dispute between Great Brit ain and nation of South America over boundary line-does that provide the terrible necessity? The Monroe doc trine whatever else it may mean, cer- tainly was never intended to serve as Ia protection to South American nations