The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-10-02

uuy' put which were peacefully ad
Justed, the pen taking the place of tn,
sword. The Venezuelan controyers,
IN any other age OF the world woul,
nave brought shock of arms, but nov
is being SO quietly adjusted that n,
one knows just how it is being set
tied. So'
Ihe Alabama question in any othe7
age OF the world would have causef
war between the United States anc
england. How was it settled? By
men-of-war off the narrows. or off the
Mersey? BY the gulf stream of the
ocean crossed by a gulf stream Of
human blood? by the pathway of ma.
lions 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
Ala bama broil is settled settled for
ever. Arbitration instead of battle.
80, the quarrel about the Canadian
fisheries in any other age would have
caused war between the United States
and England. England said: PAY me
Tor the invasion of my Canadian fish
cries" The United States said: 81
Will not pay anything" Well, the
Two nations say: II guess we had bet
ter leave the whole matter to com
mission" The commission is appoint
ed, and the commission examines the
affair, and the commission reports.
ana pay we ought, pay we must, pay
we do Not pound of powder burned.
no one hurt so much as by the scratch
OF pin. Arbitration instead of bat
tie. @a
80 the Samoan controversy in any
other age would have brought Ger
many and the United States into
bloody collision But all is settled.
Arbitration instead of battle.
France will never again. think,
through the peccadillo of an ambassa-
dor, bring on a battle with other ma
tions. She sees that God, in punish
ment at Sedan, blotted out the French
empire, and the only aspirant for that
throne who had any right of expecta-
ton dies in 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: PAY dow a certain amount of
money for the purchase of the slaves,
and let all those born after certain
lime be born free" Philanthropy at
,he same time said to the south: 'You
sell the slaves, and get rid of this great
rational contest and trouble" The
forth replied: 81 won't pay cent"
The south replied: II won't SELL"
Var! War! A million dead men, and a
rational debt which might have ground
his nation to powder. Why did we
lot let William III. Seward, of New
Cork, and Alexander H. Stephens, of
ieorgia, go out and spend few days
nder the trees on the banks of the ;
'otomac and talk the matter over and
ettle it, as settle it they could, rather |
han the north pay in cost of war |
4, 700, 000,0 600, and the south pay 81, $780,, Is
100000, the destroying angel leaving
he first-born dead in SO many houses /:
vi the way from Penobscot to the Ala
anna. Ye aged men whose sons fell IN
le strife, do you not think that would
ave been better? Oh, yesl we have S
ome to believe, I think, in this coun- c
Y, that arbitration is better than t
attic. V
l may be mistaken, but l hope that
re last war between Christian nations t
ended. Barbarians may mix their y
and Chinese and japanese '
D into wholesale massacres, and AZ t
han and Zulu hurl poisoned arrows, a
at think Christian nations have e
learned that war is disaster il
victor as well as to vanquished, and /
lat almost anything bought by blood T.
bought at too dear price. wish a
God this nation might be model p
willingness for arbitration. No h
ed of killing another Indian. No tt
ed of sacrificing any more brave
IN. Clusters. Stop exasperating the is
d man and there will be no more b
rows shot out from the ambush q
ents. Of
I find another ray of dawn in the G.
of the worlds distances. Il
hat a slow, snail-lilSe, almost impos- IL
lie thing would have BEN the worlds al
ctifcation with 100000, 900 of popu- Sc
ion and no facile means of commu- ic
,ation; butnow, through telegraphy d
: the eye and telephone intimacy W
the ear, and through steamboating bs
d railroading, the $4,000 miles of m
E worlds circumference are shriv- flo