The Irish standard., 1897-09-25
THE PROMOTION OF PEACE.

THE PROMOTION OF PEACE.
If reports from Washington are entitled
to credence the British ambassador, Jul
ian Pauncefote, is employing his time
in devising an Anglo-American arbitra
ton compact which will pass the SEN
ate when that legislative body convenes
and gets down to business. Another
rumor has it that ex-senator Edmun9s.
of Vermont, is engaged in drafting a
peace treaty with England that will
meet with no opposition in the legisla-
tive halls, and that he has undertaken
the task at the suggestion of President
Mckinley and members of his cabinet.
II these rumors are true, a second and
more determined effort will be made to
pass it by two-thirds VOTE and it is
likely to carry. 1t is said that the Brit
ish ambassador had the audacity to
boastingly acknowledge that he had sent
listed the names OF the thirty-one sena-
tors VINO voted against and defeated the
measure and il he did so the British
government will elk" them when the
form. 1t will be remembered by the
students of Irish history that when the
act Of legislative union between Great
Britain and Ireland came up the first
inc in hn T,,io viii Ia
feated by the votes of the patriotic men,
bers, but the next time the measure
came up it was carried by a majority.
Some Of the members who had voted
their minds by influences brought to
bear upon them by the British officials
1t may be so with few OF the Amerl-
can senators who voted against the
adoption Of the first arbitration treaty
Every sane person knows that Eng
land does not love peace. What she
cannot win by the arbitrament Of the
sword she expects to secure by arbitra-
ton. With all the bellowings of the
London Times about war with the Unit
ed States, that rascally sheet knows per-
fectly we'll that this country could Grip
pie England in a very short time. This
country whipped England twice when it
was weak compared to what it is now,
and the mother country" has no in
tention of ever tackling it again. It
wants to gain by diplomacy what it can
1,ot ic. INV; Is,
desirous of Offering arbitration for
peace between the two countries.
Only short time ago the Tory organ
of the British government, the st.
James Gazette, enumerated the wars
that England was prosecuting against
weaker nations, and said: "For thor
oughly peaceful nation we do our fair
share of fighting. How many separate
little wars and campaigns has this en-
pire on hand just now? We are not
quite sure; but at any rate British
troops or British officers are concerned
in military operations in the following
regions:
81. The Indian frontier, including
separate. though allied, campaigns in
"(a) The Chitral-Swat district.
"b) The Khyber-Peshawer border.
"(c) The Tochi valley.
49, The Soudan.
49, Matabeieland.
a. Besutoland.
"5. Bechuanaland.
&C. Crete
"The Temple of Janus seems unlikely
to be closed for repairs just at present"
There Is no talk Of arbitration with
these people, for England expects to
conquer them by military force. No
other European power is carrying on
war at the present time. Even Turkey
has sheathed the sword and Is taking
a rest. There is no necessity for the
United States to enter into a peace
treaty with any nation. The only in
veterate and implacable enemy we have
today in the whole world is England,
and it is an absurdity to make any in
ternational compact with her for the
sake of peace and amity.