New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1898-08-31
TO PROMOTE PEAC
The Gar of the Russias Proposes Reduction
of the Big Armies Of the Old World.

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of Europe.
He declares that peace and the reduc-.
ton of the excessive ornaments now
crushing all nations is the ideal for which
all governments ought to strive.
The following is, in part, the cars
argument:
''The maintenance of general peace
and the possible reduction Of the excess
sive ornaments which weigh upon all
nations, present themselves in existing
conditions to the whole world an ideal
toward which the endeavors of all gov
ernments should be directed" rxE. u
The imperial government thinks the
present moment would be very favora-
BILE to seeking the means. .#
international discussion IS the most
effectual means Of 1nsuring all peoples
beneft-a real, durable peace, above all,
putting an end to the progressive devel-
opments of the present ornaments.
'sIn the course of the last twenty years
the longing for general appeasement has
grown especially pronounced in the con-
science of civilized nations; and the pre-
servation of peace has been put forward
as an object of international policy. It
IS in its name that great states have con-
cluded among themselves powerful ALI
ances.
sit is the better to guarantee peace
that they have developed in proportions
hitherto unprecedented their military
forces and still continue 10 Increase
them, without shrinking from any sacri-.
fee.
"Nevertheless all these efforts have not
yet been able to bring about the benefi-
cent results desired-pacifcation.
''The financial charges following the
upward march strike at the very root of
public prosperity. The intellectual and
physical strength of the nations, labor
and capital, are mostly diverted from
their natural application and are unpro-
ductively consumed. Hundreds of MIL
lions are devoted to acquiring terrible
engines of destruction, which, although
today regarded as the last work Of
science, are destined tomorrow to lose all
their value in consequence of some fresh
discovery in the same field. National
culture, economic progress and the pro-
duction of wealth are either paralyzed
or checked in development. Moreover,
in proportion as the ornaments of each
power increase, they less and less fulfill
the object the governments have set be-
fore themselves.
lit appears evident that if this state
Of things were to be prolonged it would
inevitably lead to the very cataclysm it
is desired to avert and the horrors where
OF make every thinking being shudder
in advance.
"To put an end to these incessant arm
aments and to seek the means of ward
ing off the calamities which are threat
ening the whole world-such is the su-
preme duty today imposed upon all
states.
Chilled with this idea, propose to all
governments whose representatives are
accredited to the imperial court, the as
sembling of conference which shall &C.
cupy itself with this grave problem.
"This conference will be the happy
presage for the century which is about
to open. It would converge into one
powerful focus, the efforts of all states
sincerely seeking to make the great con-
ception Of universal peace triumph over
the elements of trouble and discord, and
it would, at the same time, cement their
agreement by corporate conservation
of the principles of equity and right
whereon rest the security of states and
the welfare of peoples s .,..-
w. Eibner, Col. Baasen and Anton
Liesch returned from the Milwaukee
convention Sunday afternoon. I'd
John Schneider is beng gloomed by
the Springfield people for the fusion
nomination for Sheriff.
The ladies class of the Turnverein
gymnastic schoul enjoyed picnic at
Golden Gate last Sunday.
P. D. Rafferty, Of Home was in the CT
ty yesterday, looking after his political
fences. Rafferty, wants the nomination
for sheriff at the hands Of the republi-
cans.
Senator DAVIS stated early in the week,
after an interview with Adjt. General
Corbin, that the Twelfth Minnesota
would most likely be retained in the