The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-05-19
and next summer will see many of them
leave the country"
THE TIE, THAT ETNDS

THE TIE THAT BINDS.
Alameda Encinal: Our ambassador,
Mr.. Choate, has started in promptly
among our English cousins to strength
en- the tie that binds, and that tie, as
all the ambassadors Of recent years
nave round, is literature 1t makes lit
tie dlfference what may take place in
politics, or trade, or national compet-
ton, Shakespeare remains; SO do Mil
ton and Tennyson and Longfellow and
Captain Mahan. With these indissolu-
BILE links stretching between the two
countries. arbitration and brotherly
love must, according to the Embassa-
doris view, forever prevent Saxons
from cutting each others threats. How
they ever attempted to do so in years
past with Shakespeare and Milton still
in their places is now incomprehensfble
to the diplomatic mind, and it seems
very likely that if ever Canada or
Newfoundland or the British possess
slons should succeed in kicking up an
international row the two home Gov
ernments would get out their Shakes
peares, wipe away a tear or two and
rush into each others arms. This at
least appears to be the view which the
mind OF an ambassador holds when in
after-dinner mood. Mr. Choate playful
ly referred to the lion, Mr. Kipling,
lying down with the lamb, Mark
Twain, and from all the accounts fur
nlshed US of the literary fund dinner,
at which this touching allusion to in
tellectual compatriots was made. one
perceives that the heart of the Briton
was touched, and that he registered a.
VOW never to- turn his hand against his
brother so long as that brother contin-
ued to read the same literature as he
did himself. All this is very pleasant
and gratifying to the practical mill
ions who have been a little deafened
with the hammering of iron-clads and
the explosions of experimental guns,
for back of all the dire preparations
one can see the millennium dawning
In the cheap press and international
copyright.
UNIVERSAL PEACE.
Los Angeles Times: One of the latest
suggestions for the establishment of
universal peace comes from Homer L.
Boyce, a Michigan man. His plan. as
outlined in pamphlet, recently issued.
may be brifiy described as scheme
for the establishment of an interna-
tlonal insurance association, as the au-
thor puts 1t, for the sake and safety
OF our nations; for the sake and pro-
tection OF other nations; for the sake
OF civilization; and, yea, for the sake
OF humanity itself" The author of
this scheme argues, in brief. that the
principle of insurance can be applied as
successfully to the affairs of nations
as 10 those Of individuals and of cor
pcrate interests. If individuals and
corporations can be benefited by insur-
ance, why cannot nations be benefited.
and protected against devastating
losses, by the application of the same
principle, with such notifications as
may be necessary to make the plan a
practical success? The idea certainly
Possesses the merit of novelty. and it
Is at least worthy of careful consider
alton, though its general adoption. and
It's successful operation if adopted. are
by no means a foregone conclusion
The object Of the proposed interna-
tional insurance company, as above
stated, would be to avert wars between
nations by paying, in cash, disputed
claims for loss, either of life or prop
erty, and by paying the war expenses
OF nations which should actually en-
gage in war, in case it should be found
impossible to prevent such action