Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1896-03-13

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side. on, they'll fight soon or late, and
my present hope is that they will have
their big fight In Europe first and have It
soon, for we have tho stuff to sell them
and should get rich while they are fight
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A More Hopeful View. II. II
Y After this dose of pessiMism 1t was quite
pleasure to drop into the room of the
house committee on foreign affairs and
hear the scholarly view Of Chairman r. r.
Hit, who grows moro confident a. the
weeks 20 on that tho nations have about
learned that they cannot afford to fight.
He thinks that the deterrents to war have
increased with such rspidity In the last 30
years that . long war would ruin the rich.
est nation, and that no man. however
scientific, can foresee the result of q con-
test between different I,avies a. ut present
constituted. lone great fact Is, {" said he,
"that all the romance that comes Of per-
sonal prowess Is completely eliminated,
while the danger IA enormously increased.
A man serving c., one Of these big war
ships Is no moro Ian astokor. II the two
vessels come to close quarters, 1t means
speedy destruction to the weaker and al
most sure death to every one on 1t. In
the great naval battln at the Yalu, even at
the distance Of two miles, the Japanese
wrought such havoc that the Chinese were
paralyzed. They could not even keep their
feet and incidentally this has very sober
ing effect on those naval gentlemen who
look to n war to secure rapid promotion"
A Peaceful View.
"Yoh surely do not mean that we are
entering on the promised period when
there are to be NJ moro wnrsP" = ~ .,
"Woll, I don't know about that. 1t is
by no means a foregono conclusion that
war must continue. Other evils which
philosophers thought inseparAble from
human nature have ceased very suddenly.
Slavery has died out If tho civilized world.
Great plaques and fn,nines no longer 90
cur. You have mentioned the remarkable
fact that when the Fifty third congress
met the whole world was at peace for the
first time since the advent Of Christ. They
might have been Staying each other by
millions In China or india ut that time for
all the Roman historians knew, but we do
know that In 1893 thoro was not q troop In
hostile movement anywhere In the world.
The temple Of Janus was shut. OF course
will not prophesy, but feel quite sure
now exciting us, and this committee does
it's work with very easy feeling SO far as
that ia concerned"
Canada's Strength.
The new western member above quoted,
although a veteran Of the late war, was 40
vehement against the next one that he do
clined to be quoted by name, and have
to expurgate his remarks very radically.
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you ever hear such Internal rotP Tho talk
have heard in this house and on tho
street has made mo siok over the igno-
rance of my countrymen. Only yesterday
the member who sits right there, and who
I thought did know something, declared
that in case of war wo should overrun
Canada at onoo and annex it, and he talked
as If 1t would be a mere breakfast spell.
And on the streets I hear this notion oou-
pied with It's twin brother in tomfool no.
tions-thut Ireland would ut onoo rise In
rebellion and help us. Now, look at the
facts Canada has today as many able
bodied men as the Southern Coniederacy
had In 1851, and almighty tough men,
too, and don't yon forget 1t. The popula-
ton la smaller, but tho percentage Of
adult males Is very much larger. In an
emergency Canada could, as the Southern
Confederaoy did, put 900, 900 men In the
field. Her topography is as defeDsible as
that of the Confederacy was and hor ell
mato far more so. We couldn't blockade
her as we did the south, and SO hor mon
would be supplied with the very best arms
and all improved munitions of war. Could
we conquer her in half the time 1t took us
to conquer the southP I'll bet my salary
that we couldn't do 1t in less than two
years If England didn't send man there.
How Ireland Stands.
~ sympathize with the Irish demand
for home rule, but do wish tho Irish In
this country would not 60 wild whenever
they talk about England, and that Ameri-
cans would look at the facts. Now, how
does Ireland stand for q successful rebel
lionp In the first place, of the $500, 900
people in Ireland only IS per cent arc
Irish. The 45 per cent are as purely Eng
lish and Scotch as any In Hampshire or
Ayrshire and far more ardently English in
feeling. They are above average for intel
ligenoe and have proved their bravery too
often for discussion. And what about the
real Irishp Well. they are divided down
tho middle One-half or more for constitu-
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