The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1898-07-09
BILL ARP'S WEEKLY letter.
BARLOW MAN AGAIN DIeOUsSIS
PRESENT HOsTILITIEs.
SAYS CIVILIZATION CONDEMNS IT.
And II IL Was Left to the People We
Would Have Peace--Thinks Psl-
itics the Cause.

Would Have Peace--Thinks Pei.
itics the Cause.
And thou serenest moon that with sudh
holy face
Looks down upon the earth asleep in nights
embrace
Dost thou not know some spot some refuge
for the blest
Where free from toll and pain the woary
soul may rest?
Behind a cloud she hid her face In WOO
And In a sad sweet voice she whispered,
mo-.
One great philosopher declared that
war was the state of nature. Another
! said that peace was only breathing
time that gives man leisure to oontrive
an ability to execute military plans.
Sir Edmund Burke denied this.
and so did I. The great majority OF
mankind love peace and naturally pre-
fer it to war. Burke said that politics
was the cause of war, and somebody
else said that war is hell, and we see
already that the two great parties are
| auarreling about this war and each is
claiming the glory of Dewey's victory
as party triumph, but If the voices
of the people-the men and the wo-
men-conld have been heard, there
would have no war. The spirit OF the
age in which we live is against war.
Even duelling and tsngle combat has
passed away under the influence OF
/ higher Christian civilization. Boys do
not fight at school like they used, to.
They have never heard Of the bully
boys who thought it smart to put .
chip on the hat and dare anybody to
KNOCK it off. In every school ever went
to there were one or more of these bull
doing, domineering boys, and they
got licked sooner or later. The coun-
try people do not care to fight nova
days. They are more peaceable and
less aggressive. remember when on
muster days there were dozen fights
lin one day right around the public
square. When Ais Bowls and Nick
Rawlins and Jim Robinson would be
stripped to the waist and walking
! around and strutting and growing and
! Dragging, ssI'm the best man in Pink.
! NEVILLE deestrikt," and Bowles would
emphasize it with it jump up and
crow. But that day has passed away
= We see no manned eyes or ears OF
, noses now. And yet Nick Rawlin'
, and Bowles were really good men O.
! heart, and would have died in defense
of . friend. They fought because il
was the fashion in those days, bu
!, their victories brought no rewards ant
!. no premiums and their children knew
4 it. They are better class OF citizens
!. I met one of Nick's sons in Rome no
: long ago-a moral, peaceable, Christial
E man whom the people all respect. Well
;, now, the argument is that it the SON
are better morally than their father
i were, then the nation is better AM
less aggressive than it was 30 year
4 ago. Andrew jackson was type Q
: that age, and he rode into the presi
! dency on his war record, but b
!. couldn't do is now. He bulldoze
Spain out of Florida, and would hay
!. bulldozed England out Of Canada II b
. had lived up that way.
But / was looking heavenward los
l
= night and bordering on that beaItifr
moon that is shining so PEACEFUL
! upon us in this favored region, and
= was grateful that the war nor any
= It's signs had reached us. We read
II in the great papers and can't he'll
: but rejoice in our naval victories. Th
8 great dailies are crowded now wit
= thrilling. exciting news and we rea
! 30 eagerly that even Old Aunt Lydl
u Pinkham's medicine is taken for WI
u dispatch and is half read before v
- know il. reckon it is good for few
!, war fever--or it wouldent be dow
tailed 30 close into the war rews. Bs
i. nobody around here seems to be ham
ering after fight, and a good O.
= veteran widow told me that the renst
" was because we were right in the hea
n Of Sherman's belt and the populate
hasent changed any to speak Of. ~
- can't forget the horrors of war, 81
~ said. II was living in Cassville VIII
= It was burned and don't want to s
any more war, and want my childr'
"a to keep out OF it. A bad peace
- better than good wGr II the
~ ever was such thing. w
"a IL like Texas mud on wome
- It is awful. Mon get the glory al
women and children are the create
sufferers. When they burnt Cassvil
- our husbands and sons were most I
- in the army, and those who were
- :. home were taken prisoners and Sc
uts c-xl~-. -e. v,rbn4w lnf% !,