The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-10-19

| low Tor war. q peace. welcome again
| to America.
War. how dreadful thou art.
/ shall not indeed declare thee to be
! ever immortal. ever unnecessary. ever
accursed. No; I shall not so arraign
thee as to mete plenary condemnation
10 the whole past history OF nations.
10 the whole past history of my own
America. But that thou art ever dread
fui' ever barbarous. shall not deny.
The Horrors Of War.
war: Is IL by cunning design, in or
der to hide from men thy true nature,
that pomp and circumstance attend
thy march. that poetry and music set
In brightest colors the rays Of light
struggling through thy heavy darkness,
that history weaves into threads OF rich
est glory the woes and virtues Of thy
victims? Stripped of thy show and tin
sel what art thou but the staying of
men-the Staying OF men by thousands
aye, often by the hundreds of thou
sands? With steady aim and relentless
energy, tasking science to its utmost
ingenuity and multitudes of men to
their utmost endurance. whole nations
work day and night, fitting themselves
Tor the quick and extensive killing of
men. This preparation is for war.
Armies meet on the field of battle:
shot and shell rend the air; men fall to
the ground like leaves in autumnal
storm, bleeding, agonizing. dying; the
earth Is Redeemed by human blood; the
more CORY the earth beneath the tread
or one army, the louder the revel OF
victory in the ranks of the other. This
Is the actual conflict of war. From
north to south. from east to west
through both countries whose flags
were raised over the field of battle,
homes not to be numbered mourn in
soul-wrecking grief for husband. father,
son or brother, who sank beneath the
foeman's steel or yielded life within
the fever tent or who, surviving shot
and malady, carries back to his loved
ones MANNED or weakened body. This
the result of war.
Reduce to the smallest the sacrifice
on the battlefield; one has died, and
some one has been bereft.
"Only one killed." the headline reads;
The glad news speeds.
The newsboys cry: Killed.. only one."
He was my son,
What were a thousand to this one
My only son!"
II was Wellington who said: Take
my word for it, IL you had seen but one
day of war you would pray to Almighty
God that you might never see such a
thing again."
1t was Napoleon who said: THE sight
Of a battle field after the fight is
enough to inspire princes with a love OF
peace and a horror of war"
War, be thou gone from my souls
sight! / thank the good God that thy
chastity spectre stands no longer upon
the thresholds of the homes of my fell !
ow-countrymen i'm America or of my
in distant Andalusia.
When, 1 ask heaven. shall humanity |
rise to such heights of reason and of |
md stories of battlefields but the sad |
iening echoes of primitive ages of the |
ace?
Means of Peace.
And yet, while we wait that blessed |
lay when embodied justice shall sit i'm |
Judgment between peoples as between
from time to time condi-
ions more repellant than war may |
confront a nation. and to remove such
the solemn dictates of rea-
on and of religion impose war as right
ous and obligatory. Let the life of
lation or its territory be menaced; let
he honor of a nation be assaulted; let
here be a grievous crime against hu-
nanity perpetrated within reach of a
lation's flag or a nations arm-relter-
y failing. what else remains to a nation
which Is not so base as to court death
r d!shonor. but to challenge the for
unes of war and give battle while
trength remains in defense OF its
and its affairs? War, in
eed. is dreadful. but let IL come. The
ky may fall. but let Justice be done.
War Is no longer a repudiation of
,eace. but the means to peace-to the
-alf .~fa .f.
njoy, peace with honor. A just and
necessary war is holy; the men who at
he country's call engage in such a war
re the country's heroes, to whom must
e given unstinted gratitude and un-
tinted praise. The sword in their
ands Is the emblem of self-sacrlfice
nd of valor; the flag which leads them
etokens their country, and bids them
our out in oblation to purest patriotism
be life blood OF their hearts; the
hroud which spreads over the dead of
ne battlefields is the mantle of fame
nd of glory.
Happy the nation which has the
ourage of just war no less than that
a just peace. whose sons are able
nd willing to serve her with honor
like in war and in peace! Happy the
alton whose jubilee of peace when war
as ceased is also a jubilee of victory!
re go to war we send 10 1t the best
nd bravest of the country
These words. spoken a few days ago
y the chief magistrate of America. en-
)dy a great principle of American DO
tical life.
In Humanity's Name.
Six months ago the congress Of the
nited States declared that in the name
humanity. war should be waged in
der to give to the island OF Cuba a
able and independent government.
agnificent patriotism of America! The
,ople OF the United States at once
ose in their might. They argued not,
ey hesitated not: America had spok- ,
!; theirs was not to Judge but to
'ey. In moment the money OF Amer !
a. the lives of America were at the !
sposal of the chief magistrate of the
Ition. whose sole embarrassment was
e too generous response to his appeal :
r means TO bring victory to the ma