The San Francisco call., 1898-06-05
THE UNIVERSAL PEACE UNION.

T seems to be demonstrated that the white-wnged
 dove of peace and the American eagle don't fly together after war is declared unless the dove has transportation inside the eagle.
 The American branch of the Peace Union has been evcted from its quarters in Independence Hall, Phil adelphia. The president Mr. Love, addressed to the Queen Regent letter on April 2I in which he sug- gested that she grant independence to Cuba as of averting war. But he accompanied this ad with rather excessive compliments her Majesty and her people. Perhaps he sugar-coaed his in- dependence pill rather thckly for diplomatic but any way the sugar, as they say III the Custom house. seemed to be the component of chief value, and the letter enough violating the statute against holding correspondence with the enemy in time of war to justify an outbreak against the Peace Union and all its works.
 For the sake of the work of an international ganzaton to promote peace in the world it is to be regretted that President Love did not administer his benevolent counsel little earlier in the affair before war was on. He would then have saved himself and the union from position which will tend to discredit its work in the future.
 The misfortune of such organizations is that they are possessed by too many dreamers and controlled by inopportune people In the hands of practical men and women the Universal Peace Union has workin the enlargement of policies that make breach of the worlds peace less likely. The international rule that one country cannot be made the mere prey of another, that must have and provocation which rule has grown up with diplomacy, has very much lessened the number and likelihood of Formerly a nation which had improved peace by amassing the wealth that is the fruit of uninterrupted industry to be the prey of any predatory nation strong enough to descend upon it, and its wealth was footed when it had offered of The next advance made was in arbitration of causes of war when nation had provoked another Before appeal to way offered by bitration for the honorable recession from position which without such means of honorable withdrawal would make fight necessary.
 In its platform of principles the International Peace Union maps out for itself policy in line with diplomacy and arbitration, and practical men oper ating its activities that platform would be helpful to governments In its recent action, however, the American branch of the union seems to have merely succeeded in exasperating rather than in soothing public sentiment, and has put its whole purpose at very great disadvantage
 We hope that the suggestion will not be taken as the expression of too militant spirit if advise the Peace Union that way to peace is to represent truthfuly to the people of nations that edging toward their respective conditions to sure war footing. Spain has been kept in woeul ignorance of public sentiment in the United States. and in equal darkness to our military resources and capacity to strike crushing blows if forced to do If President Love had requested the Span ish vice-president of the Peace Union Arturo de Marceartu, inform his people the facts exist ing in the United States, the extent of our power, that have Io,oooooo men of military age and fighting capacity, while Spain has total population of only I8,ooo,ooo it is quite possible that a more reasonable temper would have to those hot headed people, and instead of urging their Govern to war by threats of domestic revolution they might have supported the Queen Regent in the very recover from the impairment it has suffered.
 In the heat which the episode has engendered it is to be hoped that the American branch of the Peace Union will pass into better control and its usefulness recover from the impairment it has suffered.
 Meantime though the white-winged dove of peace is not laying any eggs just it is well courage everybody in taking pot shot at her