The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-05-15

this conference. its influence in the fu-
ture will be most salutary.
1t is, OF course, too utopian TO expect
a general disarmament or a universal
peace among the nations as the i'm
mediate result of this gathering, but
who can estimate the value of an in
ternational ideal of this character
Some time universal peace through in
ternational arbitration is bound to be.
only in the enforcement of national
| disputes is resort to arms considered
right. Individual rights, both personal
and civil. are guarded by arbitration or
| legal remedy, a form of arbitration.
Attempts at enforcement of these by
force brings upon the offender the full
weight of an outraged public sentiment
| Why. then, should there exist one rule
OF action for the individual and lesser
social aggregates than the nation and
| another rule when questions between
nations are involved?''
He then discussed the necessity of
war in the evolution of nations, saying
that its usefulness in that respect was
past; it no longer developed the physi-
cal strength of a nation through the
principle of the survival of the fitteSt.
Under the conditions of modern war
fare chance nor no other law told who
should live, for shot and shell were no
respecters of persons.
The effect upon industrial conditions
of the present are equally at variance
with that in primitive times. Large
standing armies rob productive indus
try of vast numbers of those best able
to do its work. 1t also forces upon
those still remaining in industrial pur-
suits the painful burden of producing
for all these idle men.
Finally, as regards moral effects,
modern conditions are quite as radi-
cally opposed. When battle meant
hand-to-hand conflict; when it meant,
if it ever meant, the testing of the full
personal power of the human being
bringing out the most self-denying, the
most fearless, the coolest of nerves and
swiftest of eye and hand then it may
have meant something of moral devel-
opment. But in modern warfare men
are provided with destructive ma
chimes; are matched, not man against
man, but costly machine against less
costly machine, and individual heroiSm
becomes question of pathetic loyalty,
and not of moral culture.
THE historic evolution of the world
is written down in a series of revolu-
tons. and at the root of each revolu-
ton lies d thought. But that thought
is the thought of the people-neither
political or social forms can long en-
dure. unless they reflect the convictions
anu the conscience or the people under
them. And changes in popular senti-
ment or social conscience must always
find expression through changes in So
cial or political forms. Thus it will be
readily seen that we are units in So
ciety.
The religion of enmity faces back
ward toward savagery. The religion OF
amity fronts the future 1t is in the
line of evolution. 1t is slowly gaining
strength. 1t demands, and of right,
your allegiance and mine. 1t means
the REIMBURSEMENT of the dictates of
the lower and baser passions as mo-
tives in human conduct and the in
stallation of the highest and the noblest
faculties of his nature 1t means the
cooperation of each with each for the !
larger good of all. Under its reign hui !
manity shall come into its birthright of :
and march onward to the |
larger liberty that awaits the sons of |
God. Under its reign will there be born |
that new heaven and new earth where |
in dwelleth righteousness. Under its |
reign will be ushered in the reign of |
Peace on earth, good will to man