The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-10-19


war. and their vitality and significance were
! increased through the war.
| TO take its proper place among the other
! nations of the earth, nation must be known.
as she Is to those nations. The world, today,
never before, knows and confesses the
greatness and the power of America. The
world today admres and respects America.
| The young giant of the West, heretofore neg
! lected and almost despised in his remoteness
and isolation. has begun to move as becomes
! his stature, the world sees what he is, and
| pictures what he may be-
All this does not happen by chance or &C
cident. An all-ruling Providence directs the
movements of humanity. What we witness Is
momentous dispensation from the Master
! of men. 'Magnus alb integro saeclorum
nascitur ordo-with the revolution of CEN
| turtles there is born to the world a new order
of things sang the Mantuan poet at the
birth Of the Augustan age. So, today, we
! proclaim, a order of things has APP
! peared.
MEANING OF AMERICANISM.
America is too great to be Isolated from the
! world around her and beyond her She is a
World-power to whom no worsd-interest is
alien. whose voice reaches affair, whose spirit
| travels across seas and mountain-ranges, to
most distant continents and islands-and with
America goes far and wide what America IN
her grandest ideal represents: Democracy and
liberty, a government of the people. by the
| people, for the people. This Is Americanism,
more than American territory. or American
| shipping, American soldiery. Where this
| grandest ideal of American l:fe is not held
| supreme, America EaS not reached; Wnere
this ideal is supreme, America reigns. The
| vital significance of Americas triumphs is
not understood, unless by those I,umphs is
understood the triumphs of democracy and
| of liberty.
If it was allowed to nations to rejoice
over the results of their wars. America may
rejoice today. Shall we then chant the praise
of war, and change this jubilee of peace into
a jubilee of war? Heaven forbid
I'VE love peace, not war" The greatness
| OF America makes it imperative upon her to
pnf0 Nn1n
| Her mission as world-pOwer demands that
she be a messenger, an advocate of peace be-
fore the world. Fain would make her
| jubilee of peace jubilee of peace for all
nations. At least the message from it to the
world shall be a message of peace.
That at times wonderful things come
| through war, we must admit; but that they
come through war, and not through the
methods of peaceful justice we must ever
regret When they do come through war,
their beauty and grandeur are dimmed by the
memory of the sufferings and carnage which
were their price.
We say in defense of war that it's purpose
Is justice; but is it worthy of Christian civil
cation that there is no other way to justice
than war. that nations are forced to stOop to
the methods of the animal and the savage?
Time was when individuals gave battle to
one another in the name Of justice; It was the
time OF social barbariSm. Tribunals have
since taken to themselves the administration
OF OF Justice ard how much better is It for the
happiness and progress of mankind? 1t IS
force, or chance, that decides the issues Of
the battle. Justice herself IS not heard, the
decision Of justice is what it was before the
battle, the judgment of one party. Must we
not hope that with the widening influence
OF reason and OF religion among men, the day
is approaching when justice shall sit en-
throned upon great international tribunal,
before which nations shall bow, demanding
from 1t Judgment and peace. Say what we
will, our civilization is a vain boast
TIL the war-drum throbs no longer, and the
battle flags furl'd
In the Parliament Of man, the Federation Of
! the world
There the common sense of most shall hold
a fretful realm in awe.
"And the kindly earth shall slumber, rapt in
universal law
PREVENTION OF WAR.
1t is Americas greatest soldier, who said:
Though l have been trained as a soldier.
and have participated in many battles, there
never was a time when. in my opinion, some
way could not have been found of preventing
the drawing of the sword. | look forward to an
epoch when a court recognized by all ma
tons will settle international differences in
stead of keeping large standing armies, as
they do in Europe Shall We not allow the
words of Gen. Grant to go forth as the mes
sage of America?
Some weeks ago, the car of the Russias
said: THE maintenance of general peace
and the reduction Of excessive ornaments
which weigh upon all nations present them
selves III the existing condition Of tee who @
world as an ideal towards which the en-
beavers Of all governments should be dl-
rected;" and in accordance with these views
he invited all nations to send representatives
to an international peace congress, in wnich
the question of reducing the ornaments Of
the several countries of the world, and other
wise preparing some plan for the prevention
of wars, might be discussed The car is
r.oved by the miseries accompanying war
aid the distressing drain continuously made
upon the wealth and the energies Of nations
by preparation for war. The miiltarism Oh
Europe is q curse, second only to the terror
Of the battlefield. In the present condition
of the world. whatever the immediate meas
ure Of success that may atterd the propos al
of the car, 1t is not to be expected that a
universal peace shall be secured or genera!
disarmament effected. But some thing may pa
dCre and that is worth contending for. The
proposal for a universal peace congress is sn
advance, however small, towards what must
ever be for the friends of humaaity, for the
disciples of reason and religion, the ultimate
goal of their hottest ambition
Shall not America send to St. Peter sburg
a message of goodwill a promise OF earnest
cooperation? America, great and powerful,
can afford 10 speak for peace. Woods OF
peace from her will be the mora gracious
and kindly, as they who do not know her say
that, maddened by her recent triumphs, she Is
now committed beyond return to pohcy 81
militarism and Of conquest. The proposal
was once made for the establishment OF a
board Of arbitration. t. which all disputes re-
tween America and England should be re-
| ferred. Better If it be possible, that a
universal board Of arbitration be establlshed
for the settlement of the quarrels OF nations.
The proposal for the establishment OF su Il
board would give no occasion for jealousy
or suspicion, and the ideal of humanity, uni
| versaI peace would plainly lie the g3al OIL ell
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thyself, in peace for the world. When war is
necessary, lead, we pray thee, IN war; put
when peace is possible, lead, we pray thee
vet more lead IN peace; lead in all that
makes for peace, that prepares the world for
| peace.
thee. Thou Invest for the world. The new era
is shedding it's light upon thee. and through
thee upon the whole world. Thy greatness
! and thy power daZe me; even more thy
RESPONSIBILITIES to God and to humanity daze
mel would say alright me. America, thou
falling, democracy and liberty fail throughout
the world.
And now know, in the day of thy triumphs
and victories, what guards democracy and
liberty, what is thy true grandeur. Not in
commerce and industry, not in ships and in
armies, are the safety and the grandeur Of
nations, and more especially, Of republics.
Intelligence and virtue build up nations and
save them; without intelligence and virtue,
material wealth and victorious armies bring
corruption to nations, and precipitate the ruin
of liberty.
Americans your country demands intelli-
gence and virtue Build schools and colleges.
norance. Practice and encourage virtue Let
America be the home Of honesty and of JUS
tice Of social purity and of temperance, of
honor and of faithfullness, Of self-restraint
and of obedience to law. Even more than in
telligence is virtue needed, that America live
and be great.
And now, America the country Of our pride
our love, our hope, remit thee for today
and for tomorrow into the hands of the
| Almig hty God under whose protecting hand
thou canst not fail, whose commandments are
the supreme rules Of truth and righteous