The age-herald., 1898-02-19
REASONS WHY THERE
 WILL BE NO WAR
BY FRANK V. EVANS.

l and patriotic soldiery, and it is to be fear
 ed that the pen-pictures of war with
 Spain, and the numerous war-maps and gingo utterances with which we are daily
 regailed, will have tendency to enthuse l to degree, which must result in harrow l ing disappointment.
 l It is hardly possible that a single shot
 will be fired by this government of ours
 against Spain. for the simple reason that
 the money power'' of the world, now so
 potent in it's influence, opposes it; and
 what the money power" opposes. whether
 it be religion, finance, politics or morals,
 war or peace, under the present order of
 things, must succumb.
 No observant man can doubt that the
 "money power'' has all along beerf stif1ing
 popular sympathy with the Cuban insur-
 gents, because it fears business results.
 Money, not being humane, cares nothing 1 for devastation and massacre. It only cares for interest on bonds. Being su- | premely and eternally selfish, it views all questions from the point of view of my l interest"
 l If it could be shown to the satisfaction
 of the money power' that war with Spain
 would be its benefit, it would favor it. The
 influence of the "money power" in all in
 ternational relations is invariably pressed
 in behalf of it's own selfish interests.
 Where war sees for it's own benefit the
 ''money power" is in favor of it; where war
 is to it's injury, it opposes it. History is 1 full of illustrations of this fact.
 | The money power of the north, then 1 centered chiefly in the commercial and seafaring interests of the seaports. was | bitterly opposed to the war of 1S12-14, be- | cause of it's destructive effect upon our | commerce. It was the money power Of l the north, too, that last of all yielded to 1 the necessity of settling the slavery ques- ton by civil war. But when we waged our war of conquest against Mexico, the money power'' of the dominant political section, the slave-holding interest of the
 south, was warmly in support
 As the seat of the greatest money power the world has ever seen, England's later history is full of illustrations. Beginning with the plundering of Spanish galleons by her sea rovers in the Eizabethan age,
 about all of England's wars over North America with France and Spain were in the interests of her business and commer- cial classes. India was conquered with great effusion of blood for the benefit of the British money power, and throughout
 the 18th century that "thin red line' has been engaged in countless petty wars in order to extend British markets over the world It was the British money power" that compelled the occupation of Egypt by force the bombardment of Alexandria and the overthrow of Arabi Pasha. There has never been and there is not now the least hesitation to make war when the risk was not extra hazardous and the benefits to De secured for trade seemed to justify some blood-letting We have only to study the career of Cecil Rhodes, who proudly boasts of having added 100000 square miles to the British empire, and who, whiie prime minister of one of her maJesty's colonies, conspired to overthrow friendly state, to know that the essential fac.s have not changed so far as the tendencies are concerned. War of the old blood-spill- ing sort is still the money powers favorite weapon whenever it can profit thereby. | But when it cannot profit from open ag- grandizement there is no force more pow erful in preventing war. The situation In Europe today is the best possible illustra- tion of peace rendered imperative by the interests of the money power" England is allowed to remain in Egypt without more serious protest because the French hold | CTS of Egyptian securities receive their in- terest with delightfully."- unfailing regular ity. Abdul Hamid, ''the great assassin" as Gladstone calls him, continues the more easily to maintain his outlaw rule at Con- stantinople because of the influence of the European holders of Turkish bonds, who much prefer that some value remain to these securities than to have government by massacre extirpated from the earth. Why this terrible fear over the break-up of the Turkish empire? It is due, not all, of course, yet largely to the dread the "money power of all Europe has regard ing the results of general scramble and conflict for the pieces. The money power of no particular nation can figure out that at the end of war its own interests would have been conserved. The cowardly course of Great Britain over the Armenian massa- cres, as shown in the final acceptance by the majority of the policy of Lord Sails bury and Lord Roseberry, rather than that of MT. Gladstone, revealed unerringly the influence of British business interests AL though responsible before the bar of his- tory for the present control of Armenia by Turkey with its horrible massacres and gen. eral reign of anarchy and plumber, the Brit ish nation shrank back from the chivalrous task of freeing the oppressed people from an atrocious tyrant, and embracing its money bags, exclaimed with Lord Rose berry, that noble son-in-law of a Roths- child, that the integrity of the Turkish en- pire must be preserved and that war Is too horrible for civilized folk to think of. And the spectacle of civilized Europe coercng Greece is the latest example of the money powers horror of war, when it fears the results to its own security. Greece was engaged in righteous cause in trying to free Crete from Turkish rule,
 she would wage just war, war in which
 she ought to have been supported by every civilized European power in case her own
 strength should prove insufficient to