Arizona republican., 1898-11-01
HE READ A BOOK.
How inc Car Come to Dream of
 Perpetual Peace.


 gospel of paace, has been published 1T
 St. Petersburg. It throws a flood 0
 light upon the motives and uiterior Cb
 jects of the famous proclamation, an(
 its perusal in the European cEIncel-
 lercS will certainly have an lmportan
 effect upon the policy of ether nations
 ill respect Cf the Russian proposals
 The work is an exhaustive treatise en-
 titled, The Coming War, in Its Tech
 nical and Political Aspects The au-
 thor, Mir. Bliokh, is a retired Warsaw
 financisr. His book is a veritable en-
 cyclopedia Of war and contains a great
 mass of facts, figures and analyses,
 which are preliminary to the unfolding
 Of the writer's scheme for insuring universal peace.
 He figur1s that the European armies have already outgrCwn practicable linn its. The problem of the commissariat alone is now impossible. No solution of it exists. No railroad can offer transportation in any country capable Of supplying the necessary amount Of food and ammunition to mOdcrn moving army. It would be impossible for one man, even were he q Moltke, to efficiently direct the movements CT the present army of Russia, Germany or France. Numbers, beyond a certain pcint, are disastrous from a military as well as an economical point of view The author affirms that the European states cannot change their present rel atiya strength, which remains constant amid all the costly alterations which they are perpetualIy carrying out. If, however, tneir relative strength re- mains the same, argues MT. BliOkh, 1t matters little what the absolute forces of each country are. Therafcre thsy might all be divided by any given number, the greater the better, with cut causing the slightest perturbation CT giving the least advantage to any one. This measure, being feasible, is indispensable, for unless the economi- cal strain felt by the European peoples is speedily eased an unparalleled eco- nomical catastrophe is certain to re- suit. On financial, political, humani- tartan and even military grounds, this proposal should be acceptable, says MT. Bliokh.
 Count Muravieff's circular to the powers bears evidence Of full agres- ment with Mir. Bliokh's argument up to this point. but the writer of the Com ing War" goes much further than pro pcsals disarmament conference, and th in the significance of the book as throwing light Cn the czar's iGeas.
 He laments that the decrease Of ar maments cannot guarantee peace. The danger Of war would be as great as ever He suggests that the proposed disarmament convention be turned into a league of pcace on the basis Of a po- litical status quo, and that an intern2- tional arbitration court be created which will have final jurisdiction over all concrete questions. If any state fails to submit silently to the awards of the court, the other powers will de- uriva it of the advantages of the pos tai and teIegraphic union, and also deny it trading facilities, and the other powers will give every assistance to the defendant nation in case any ccun- try declares war. Furthermore-and here Mir. Bliokh is distinctly Russian he points out that complaints and crit icism fostsr dissatisfaction and en- gender resistance, and seeing that the newspapers alone can complain and criticise with effsct, it is to be enacted as one of the fundamental clauses ot the coming peace convention that an international star chamber shall have power to issue injunctions to all news papers. forbidding them to criticise the awards of the court, which must De respected as choses jugees. He would further make dt penal for newspapers TO publish any rumoTs CT reports about the progress made in that court tc- ward the discussion or settlement of any question: The czar probably would be glad to witness the adoption of such an autccratic scheme, but he cannot fail to recognize the impracticabiiity CT certain Of it's features. MT. Bliokh, however, meets obvious criticisms by saving that the least acceptable Of his remedies is inhniteIy preferable to the danger of war.
 Perhaps, if M7. Bliokh had stopped here, the czar's great peace proposal would not be the subject of serious suspicion. But he gees on to point out ingenuousiy that if his scheme IS adopted Russia will inevitably doml- nate the world. His plan, he says, oniy time and nature, operating Ill the growth CT decay of popu at1ons, to finally solve all questions Eurcp9ah Russia will within a hundred years 3O0, 900, GOO, Germany 80,OoO'O1o' and France 50, ,OO0,0 Then Russia will no longer need arguments and m ternational star chambers. RuSsla will and even her. caprices will be un- challenged.
 It has been expressly made known in St. Petersburg this week that the ear will not adopt all of MT. Bllokh but the impression pre- yails in certain ether capitals that the ] autocrat of all the Russias doth protest too much.
 DAJJDET AT CHAMPROSAY.