The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-10-03

men-of-war OH the narrows, or Off the
Mersey? by the gulf stream of the
ocean crossed by gulf stream of
human blood? BY the pathway of ma
tions incarnadined? No. A few wise
men go into n 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 for
ever. 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 fish
cries" The United States said: ~
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,
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 a pin. Arbitration instead of bat
tie.
So 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, l think,
through the peccadillo of an ambassa-
dor, bring on q battle with other ma
tons. She sees that God, in punish
ment at Sedan, blottcd 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
Z1lu 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
time be born free Philanthropy at
the same time said to the south: you
sell the slaves, and get rid OF this great
national contest and trouble" The
north replied: II won't pay cent
The south replied: Il won't sell"
War! War. A million dead men, and u
national debt which might have ground
this nation to powder, Why did we
not let William Ii. Seward, of New
York, and Alexander Ii, stephens, of
Georgia, 80 out and spend a few days
under the trees on the banks of the
Potomac and talll the matter over and
settle il, as settle it they could, rather
than the NORTH pay in cost of war
S4,700. 900, coo, and the south pay 81, $780,
600, 900, the destroying angel leaving
the iirst-born dead in SO many houses
all the way from Penobscot to the Ala
bama. 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 coun-
try, that arbitration is better than
battle.
/ may be mistaken, but hope that
the last war between Christian nations
is ended. Barbarians may mix their
war-puint, and Chinese and Japanese
90 into wholesale massacrcs. and At
CHAN and Zulu hurl poisoned arrows,
but ! thinll Christian nations have
gradually learned that war is disaster
to victor as well as to vanquished, and
that almost ything bought by blood
is bought at too dear n price. l wish
to God this nation might be model
of willingness for arbitration. No
need of killing another Indian. No
need of sacrificing any more brave
Gen. Clusters. Stop exasperating the
red man and there will be no more
arrows shot out from the ambush
ments.
A general of the United States army
in high repute throughout this land,
and who, perhaps, had been in more
Indian wars than any other uf3iser,
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 oc-
Cured between Indians and white men
had been provoked by white men, and
there was no exception to the rule
While we are arbitrating with Chris
tian nations, let us toward barbarians
carry ourselves in manner Improve
cative of contest.
Let me put myself in their place: !
inherit large estate, and the waters
are rich with fish, aud the woods are
songful with birds, and my corn fields
are silken and golden. Here is my
sisters grave. Out yonder, under the
large tree, my father died. An in.
vader comes, and proposes to drive me
off and take possession of my property.
He crowds me back, he crowds me on,
and crowds me into 4 closer corner,
until after awhile i 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 prem
Uses? l 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: "Oh,
know more than you do. l belong to
a higher civilization. cut my hair
shorter than you do. / conld put this
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