Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1899-08-29

international arbitration must and viii
largely emanate from this association
The period when nations will war nc
more is probably far in the dim and
distant future National jea;ousies
commercial competition, desire for ex-
pansion, imparialistic ideas, will not
down while men. combating individ-
ually for supremacy, give to the states
the same combative instincts and de-
sire for advancing power.
True it is that there are some ma
tional conditions far more disastrous
than war and until the millennium shall
ccme war from some causes is the in
evitabIe; but surely there are many in
ternational issues that can and win
be settled by arbitral tribunals and
the signs of the times were never more
propitious than today. The great as
ISOLATION we greet as guests will speed
the time and blaze the way to has
ten that most difficult of all evolu-
tons, the evolution of perpetual
peace
Mature in her evolutionary pro-
cesses moves with a deliberation only
equalled by her precision. Her motto
seems to be, make haste slowly The
reaching of mans best estate, that
millennium of peace that lies under
the rainbow of promise, seems to our
impatient souls to be much delayed
II the presence of the mighty armies
of the great European powers; the up
building and maintenance of the gil
gantic navies; the annual increase of
the budgets to keep the nations upon
a war footing; the piling up of their
stupendous Indebtedness; the develop
ment OF more destructive fighting ma
er of the great guns; the forming of
more and more velocity and penetrat-
ing power into the enormous projec-
tiles; the invention of new and fearful
explosives; in short, as we behold all
the power CT civilization turned into
preparation for war, more destructive
than the world has ever known, it
seems as though the dove, bearing the
olive branch, will never return to the
ark, but that mankind would continue
The struggle for national supremacy in
a sea of blood.
We feel that DeMaistre spoke truly
when he said history unfortunately |
proves that war is, in a certain sense. !
he habitua, state of mankind; that is, |
hat human blood must be shed, here !
ind there, without interruption upon |
he earth; and that state of peace is,
or each nation, but a respite Said I
he fiery Mirabeau to the Quaker: !
Thou wantest peace? Well, it is the
weakness which invites war
The student of history reads of the
low steps from the pure savagery of
he individual man. when he slew his
elbow from mere appetite for blood,
II hope of personal profit, down
trough the ages when the will of the
amily and then of the tribe was sub
tituted for single caprice; or the long
'eriCd that followed before the civic
ederation, called by what ever name,
anne to control blood thirst and of
he still longer time before the COM
nand of the decalogue, Thou shalt
ot kill'' could be set aside by a few,
he very few that, as the representa-
i've heads of great nations, hold in
heir hands the power of life and
cath, and reaching near unto the end
f the nineteenth century, looks upon
he state of Europe, with every city a
and every hamlet a gar
isOn, with boundary lines marked by /
uns and governments held place by
ayonets, and despairs Of the coming
escribed long time ago how beautiful
pom the mountains are the feet of
i'm that bringeth good tidings, that
ublisheth peace
But suddenly in the east while men
there shone a great light,
Ike new star of Bethlehem. The
reatest autocrat in the world, the su-
RENE ruler of one hundred and thirty
billion subjects who dc his bidding,
le all powerful commander of over
eur million drilled and disciplined
o1diers, sounded the recall to armed
Europe. The great car of Russia,
cad of a military empire so mighty
5 to be unconquerabIe, invites the
vilized world to meet in conference
lat armies may be reduced, navies be
.ssened, oppressive taxation for war
Idgets be relieved and peace, blessed,
sting peace dawn upon the nations"