Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-03-31

II is familiar theory of the philoso-
piers that the industrial spirit is an
tagonistic to the war spirit. Comte, in
his positive philosophy, gives some
time to showing how the development
Of the Industrial spirit is to Danish war
from the earth. Buckle Is of course able
to demonstrate this in all the conf
dence of his sweeping logical processes,
and Lecky discovered 80 years ago that
ratlonism and industrialism had ex-
tinguished the possibility of any more
religious wars, and nearly completed
the extinction OF wars on account OF
trade and conquest.
Nevertheless, what do we see in these
closing days OF a half century of indus
trial growth such as the world had not
experienced before in any measure OF
time? Not since the opening of the CEN
fury has the earth been so far filled
with the stern threat and preparation
for armed conflict, and Ii Is where the
commercial spirit runs highest that
the talk Of war Is loudest. The arma-
ments of the great commercial powers
have never been so large either rela-
lively or absolutely as today. but this
is not enough, and to England's special
call for S120, 900, 900 for more warships,
France echoes $l00,000,000, Russia &c.,
100000, Germany quite as much, and
the United States anywhere from $780,.
600. 900 to sl50.000.000 in special and
regular army and navy bills.
And 1t Is in the very intensity of the
Industrial spirit and the tensity of the
industrial situation that this extra
ordinary call to arms arises Large
tracts of the earth's surface are COM
ing into the market, remarked Lord
Salisbury two years ago when the in
ternationd complications which now
vex the world were ripening Into the
present measure of development. What
he should have said was that the fierce
commercial spirit and pressure
tiers were forcing the civilized
powers into wild career OF grab
through the parts of the earth remain
ing unconquered by modern industri-
alism. Barring possibly the United
States, 1t Is all the Indictment of the
commercial spirit and the greed of
markets. 1t Is a question of markets
which brings France and Great
Britain into collision in east Africa. 1t
IL question of markets which draws
the first powers Of Europe in Jealous
and greedy aspect to the shores of the
Chinese empire. Russia. not before
known as commercial nation, has
caught the spirit of the time and in
dustrial purposes mark its career OF
expansion in eastern Asia. The indus
trial revival In Japan provoked and
now feeds on the late war with China
The fever of industrial colonization
and conquest holds Germany tightly
in Its grasp. And the great organ of
conservative British opinion an
nounces that the causes of war or
peace are to be found for that nation
I'm the balances Of trade with the out
side markets which are to be opened
or which some other nation seeks to
close.
And the United States? We must
believe that the great majority OF the
people are moved by purely humans
tartan impulses in the call for Cuban
Intervention, and there Is enough GO
Ing on in Cuba to stir the coolest
heart to protest. Nevertheless the chief
newspapers which advocate interview
ton and war dwell long and emphat-
icaily on the supposed Industrial bene-
fits of war, and way down deep In the
commercial consciousness of the ma
ton. where II has long existed, is L, be
found the unhallowed impression that
free Cuba or annexed Cuba would af-
ford to the United States a new and
most profitable field for commercial
exploitation ut our hands. The same
spirit supports the demand to annex
Hawaii and hold It as an outpost to
guard the ways of trade and clear the
avenues to new markets.
1t is II rampant and greedy conn
mercinlism which will now apply the
match to the powder magazines the
wide world round IL the match ia an
piled at ALA commerclalism whose
mission and ways are the Wanted
ones or peace. 1t is the so-called
peacetui force or an intense Industrial
ism which now drives on to the Milling
OF armament upon armament, and 10
an international competition in the
creation OF armies and navies no less
fierce and grinding upon labor than
that which prevails in the production
ana sale OF the commodities OF peace.
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ally right. The industrial spirit ia
naturally and normally antagonistic
to the war spirit. and the war shirt
cannot flourish in a healthfui indus
trial state. 1t is an unhealthfui and
abnormal Industrial state which Gre
ates the present troubled situation In
International affairs. The fierce quest