The times., 1898-09-12

| idea.'' said the fiery chieftain ''of ac-
| quiescing in the refusal to execute the
| treaty will not, / am confident, be for a
! moment entertained by any branch of
this Government; and further negotiation
] is equally out of question And further
| On: ut is my conviction that the United
| States ought to insist on a prompt exc
| cution of the treaty, and, in case IL be re-
| fused or longer delayed, take redress into
! their own hands. / recommend that a
| law be passed authorizing reprisals upon
| French property in case provision shall
| not be made for the payment of the debt
at the approaching session of the French
| chambers. .
There can be no doubt whatever that
| Gen. Jackson would have precipitated the
| country into a war with France had not
! the English government in the nick of
| time offered its mediation. This was ac-
| cepted and the affair was speedily ar
ranged-the French government paying
the money, principal and interest.
| The United States had completely full
| filled their part of the compact and were
so committed that the delay the part
| of France was both an injury and an in
| suit to them.
And now. having seen that our treaties
| have generally had to be signed with
pen in one hand and a sword in the other,
we shall consider how the country has
been benefited by the sword alone We
have always triumphed In war. The Rev
olutionary War secured our independence,
| the war of 1912 made our navy respected
on the seas. the Mexican war almost
doubled our territory, the civil war kept
US united country, and the Spanish
| American war added to our possessions
| and freed from the grasp of monarchy
| a gallant little nation struggling for lib
erty.
But it may be said there is another side
of the question. How about Spain? The
war will prove a curse to heri Very true,
and why? Because she is in the first
place not a military nation has been in
no way prepared for war, and the money
that should have gone to the building of
battleships has been squandered in sup
porting a worthless aristocracy.
Vattel, in his Law of Nations book
l. chapter xiv, says:
II is its strength alone that can enable a
| nation TO repulse all aggressions TO secure its
rights and render itself everywhere respectable.
| Ii is called upon by every possible motive 20
neglect no circumstance that can tend to place
1t in this happy situation. The strength of a
State consists in three things-the number Of
the citizens. their military virtues, ann
we may comprehend fortresses. artillery,
arms, horses, ammunition, and IN gen
eral all that immense apparatus at present neces-
sary in war, since they can all be procured with
money.
The survival of the fittest is law of
| nature. The weaker die, the stronger
live and thrive History shows US that
the warrior races are the fittest. other
wise why should the peaceful races be
! trampled out. Greece under Alexander
| conquered all wes-ern Asia, but upon
Greece giving itself up to ease and pleas
ure the empire fell to pieces and did
not recover its independence. Thus we
find Rome prosperous and in the height
of glory under such warrior princes and
dictators as Julius Caesar Cincinnatus,
and SciDio Africanus. ard We see her
decline in the feebleness and licentious-
ness of Tiberius. Calgula, Nero, and
| Vitellius.
Let US look at the countries of the
| earth as they exist at the present time.
| The civilized nations are the military ma
I tions and the military nations rule the
world.H This frs step taken by Russia
| toward civilization was when Peter the
Great moved his seat of government from
Moscow 10 the sea coast, in order TO es-
| tablish a navy. 1t is not the various
| scientific inventions that have marked the
| progress of England and America but the
! blood and iron that make Che Anglo
Saxon, today as always. master and a
conqueror.
In this age of books and printing
| Universal Peace Unionists' have never
| ayailed themselves of the advantages
which the nineteenth century gives. We
| hear from them a great deal alb tut the
new era" twentieth century universal
brotherhood, etc, and yet while they
| prophesy on what will happen in the next
! century they really know not what is
| happening at the present day. If these
peace unionists would but put aside Ed
ward Bellamys Looking Backward
and such air ship literature and vote
! their time TO daily papers they would
come to realize that the nations Of the
world have never been nearer to n uni
verssll war than they are today: that su-
premacy on the sea and the acquisition of
territory are the goals To which all as
pire. and the nation who in these critical
times turns her sword into a plowshare
will in a short time have no ground in
which to plow
1t should be an interesting thing to
know just what the countries of Europe
think of the license allowed the editor of
| the New York Evening Post and the
chief of the Peace Union II will be re-
membered that on May % last. as men
| toned in The Times. Alfred Love, the
! president of the Peace Union, forwarded
the Queen of Spain and Senior Sagasta a
letter expressing open sympathy with the
| Spaniards. In one part of this eXtraordi-
nary and unpatriotic letter were the fol-
| lowing lines: Our hearts are full of SYM
pathy for you and your no doubt embar-
rassed position, but the right will sustain
you"
When this letter was placed in the
mails it was sent back from Washington
| to President Love, the postal authorities
| refusing to transmit ii. Mr.. Love how
ever, exultantly informed a reporter later
that he had outwitted the Government
and forwarded the note in "a roundabout
way"
1t was in the rooms of this society in
Independence Hall that the Spanish flag
was discovered hanging proudly in the
center of the hall, and was not taken
down until after the attention of the au-
thorities had been called to it. The un-
patriotic utterances of Larry Godlxin the
editor of the New York Evening Post, are
too well known to need mention.
And so this is the boasted universal
brotherhood of the Peace Union. While
our boys are battling at the front dying
from wounds and fevers, President Love
tells the Queen of Spain that the right
will sustain her. While our soldiers are
giving their life blood for the Stars and
Stripes at Santiago and Ell Caney. the
Spanish flag f1aunts defiantly in Inde-
pendence HALL
If Larry Godkin and Mr. Love had
been Russians, living in Russia. and writ
ten such stuff about the Cars govern
ment as they have about that of the
United States the former gentleman
would have unwiilingly taken up the life
study of salt mining in Siberia, while Mr..
Love would have died suddenly in the
! Neva Fortress
The Car of Russia desires peace and
disarmament, but for any lover of peace
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