Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-09-02
W'ashin9tun STANDARD
OINrEPIa. WASH.
EElDAl EVENING. SEPT ,. 1895.
A Suggestion for Peace.

- -'.'' +'t az! ilNttl'ltt'h az HlIlNtF>d
r."c. H. plan j. Tor i conference,
- al. tn powers - consider the pro
l"l~.;t'u |"r disarmament and di>hand
!ng %; -tind;ng armies. 1t is evident
that - prepare iur such a decide,
tu at IN an opposite direction, tn,
''iitrcIl'" must accurately dctcrmln,
and arn.caily alrtng, the various uh
yrrt- 81 contention which now distract
thu civilized world and seem to be :,
rapidly drifting thr great powers int
a heroic struggle i"r supremacy. Il
really appears, IN view OF this fact an,
that r,r>cr>ity OF human natur,
whch tind- reflex in public affairs
;hat the conference would be dcvidcG
int" irrcc"ncilahlc factions at the very
beginning ri lis laborS, and that all
effort I" conciliatc and harmonic con.
hicting Interests would be futile with.
"ut providential Intervention and a
IL di>pcn>atiOn ii divine grace that
seldom responds to organized effort,
although it may be hesought by the
most earnest and devout petition.
The prayers that went up from whole
nation for restoration of President
Garfield from the effects OF the aSsas-
SINS bullet is signal instance OF the
utility OF mortal effort in securing d.
rect aid from the Advise Father by n
suspension of the natural law of cause
and effect. The righteousness of the
cause OF peace may seem unquestion-
able to the finite mind, hut who can
see what may not be beyond even n
war of nations, as resultant of the
same law? Then the incentives which
actuatc nations and those by whom
they are governed, are essentially OF
the earth, earthly. There is as much
of deceit and dissemination under the
regal crown as under the straw hat of
the rustic. The Cars motives may
he wholly sincere, but how is that fact
to become known to the world to de-
gree that would justify disarmament
that might place confding nation
at the mercy of vicious and dishon-
Orable foe?
1t may be that peace conference
would bring about a better under
standing Of the causes of strife and
produce a better feeling and result in
more amicable relations. If so, the
effects will not be lost, and whether
the Cars plan of absolute peace, or a
suspension of hostilities, be the result,
it is an object which should be sup
ported by the heartfelt prayers of all
God-reverencing and man-loving peo-
pie.
Oily CHAws THE CUD OF DIsCoN-
TENT.-As another indication of char
mOny" which prevails in the Repub.
lican camp, Little Oily talks with
rasping accent, for all the world as if
he had been chewing scrap-iron, of
somebody who had criticised him for
emitting reference to the ward eau
cuses with the presumable object of
running a " still hunt" in the interest
of the office-holders' little watch charm
Senator. Oily says he was overworked
and hadn't time to "set-up" three
line call for the caucuses, while in the
issue of the day OF those meetings he
published three columns of drivel of a
disappointed politician who is seeking
to ride on any wave-crest of popular
sentiment which gives hope OF landing
him in that haven of rest-an office
with liberal ornamental emoluments
attached, like tassels to sofa-cushion
or gilt-edges to prayer-book, or pro-
badly better illustration would be,
the tentacles of devil-fish. Well,
thu plan-if plan it was-was entirely
successful, and therefore, rs Toot's
would say, cts of no consequence"
anyway. A pin is stuck merely be-
Cause our Republican friends have
boosted SO persistently of harmony.
HISTORY is often repeated. The ex-
ample afforded by the great Athenian
orator and statesmen, Demosthenes,
of walking by the seashore while de-
livering his pkillipics against the king
of Macedon, has found an imitator in
the ring candidate for Representative.
1t is said that he chooses the early
morning hour, when the brain is &C
tive, for perfecting himself in his ora
torical powers, and the barnyard for
his forum, with the assembled biped
fiocks for auditors. A gentleman in
the adjoining premises says that these
orations were at times so impressive as
to cause the hens to cackle with de-
light and even the wise old ROSTERS
added their clarion notes to the peans
OF anticipated victory. 1t is not stat
cd, however, that the rising statesman
carried pebbles in his mouth, as did his
illhstrious prototype, to strengthen
the will power necessary to overcome
any impediment in his utterance.
If the attendance at the Democratic,
Populist and Silver Republican primar-
les in various parts of the State, is any
criterion, there will not be fusionists
enough this fall to more than fill the
places on the various tickets.-Olympian
1t seems strange that our Republi-
can friends should be so much worried
over the apparent weakness OF their
foe. it looks very much as if the wish
is the father to that thought. AS the
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