Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-09-21

by a gulf stream Of human blood? By
the pathway Of nations incarnadined?
No. A few wise men go into a quiet
room at Geneva, talk the matter over
and telegraph to Washington and to
london, "All settled. Peace, peace!
England pays to the United States the
amount awarded-pays really more
than she ought to have paid. But still,
all that Alabama broil is settled-settled
forever. Arbitration instead of battle
So the quarrel about the Canadian
fisheries in any other age would have
caused war between the United States
and England. England said, PAY me
for the invasion Of my Canadian fisher
| les y The United States said, II will
not pay anything y Well, the two ma
lions say, 81 guess we had better leave
! the whole matter TO a commission. -
| The commission is appointed, and the
| commission examines the affair, and the
! commission reports, and pay we ought,
| pay we must, pay we do. Not a pound
| of powder burned, no one hurt SO much
as by the scratch Of pin. Arbitration
instead Of battle.
So the Samoan controversy in any
other age would have brought Germany
and the United States into bloody col
lision. But all is settled. Arbitration
instead Of battle.
France Will never again, I think.
through the peccadillo of an embassa-
dor, bring Gu battle with other ma
lions. She sees that God, in punish
ment at Sedan, blotted out the French
empire, and the only aspirant for that
I, II 1T &c
ton dies in q war that has not even the
dignity Of being respectable What is
the leaf that England would like to
tear out of her history? The Zulu war.
Down with the sword and up with the
treaty!
We in this country might better have
settled our sectional difficulties by ar
bitration than by the trial Of the sword.
Philanthropy said to the north, E'Pay
down a certain amount Of money for
the purchase Of the slaves, and let all
those born after q certain time be born
free. - Philanthropy at the same time
said to the south, "YOu sell the slaves
and get rid Of this great national con-
test and trouble. The north replied,
81 won't pay cent" The south re-
piled, II won't SELL War, war! A
million dead men, and q national debt
which might have ground this nation to
powder! Why did we not let William
Fl. Seward Of New York and Alexander
Ell. Stephens Of Georgia go out and spend
a few days under the trees on the banks
of the Potomac and talk the matter over
and settle it, as settle it they could,
rather than the north pay in cost Of war
81, 700, 000,0 and the south pay 81
$50, 600, 000, the destroying angel leav-
ing the first born dead III so many houses
all the way from the Penobscot to the
Alabama Ye aged men whose sons fell
in the strife, do you not think that
would have been better? Oh, yes, we
have come to believe, [ think, in this
country that arbitration is better than
battle.
Word For Poor Lo.
I may be mistaken, but [ hope that
the last war between Christian nations
is ended. Barbarians may mix their
war paint and Chinese and japanese go
into wholesale nlassacres and Afghan
and Zulu hurl poisoned arrows, but I
think Christian nations have gradually
learned that war is disaster to victor as
we'll as vanquished and that almost
anything bought by blood is bought at
too dear q price. I wish to God this ma
tion might be q model of Willingness for
arbitration. No need of killing another
Indian. No need Of sacrificing any more
brave General Clusters. Stop exasperat-
ing the red man, and there will be no
more arrows shot out from the ambush
ments. A general of the United States
army il high repute throughout this
land, and who perhaps had been in more
Indian wars than any other officer, and
who had been wounded again and
again in behalf of our government in
battle against the Indians, told me that
all the wars that had ever occurred be-
tween Indians and white men had baSn
provoked by white men, and that there
was no exception to the rule While we
are arbitrating with Chistian nations
let us toward barbarians carry ourselves
in a manner unprovocative of contest.
Let me put myself in their place. [
inherit q large estate, and the waters
are rich with fish, and the woods are
songful with birds, and my cornfe1ds
are silken and golden. Here is my sis
ter's grave. Out yonder, under the large
tree, my father died. An invader comes
and proposes to drive me off and take
possession Of my property. He crowds
me back. he crowds me Oh and crowds
me into closer corner, until after
awhile say: Stand back! Don't crowd
me any more, or I'll strike! What right
have you to come here and drive me off
my premises? I got this farm from my
father, and he got it from his father.
What right have you to come here and
modest me?'' You blandly say: ooh, I
know more than you dc. belong to a
higher civilization. l cut my hair short
er than you do. I could put this ground
to great deal better use than you do. "