The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-04-16
WANTED: COMMERCIAL PEACE.

The most potent and reverend seignors are be-
ing named for the universal peace conference The
Hague to which the auocat of all the Russias including
slice of China has invited the of the earth He
wishes the conference consider ultimate general peace
between nations and present means that desra-
bic end limitation put upon the ornaments naval and
military which nations may maintain. The financial
strain the purses of the nations that feel obliged
to be in readiness fight preserve
peace with the incessant increase and change
ment necessitated by inventions of deathdeang i'm
pemens and their adoption by another of the
tions together with the maintenance navies
has become that something done to re-
lieve it.
But the cars proposition relates only that form
warfare that is by navies
and rifles He to be utterly oblvious the
that greater need is the relief Of people of all nations
from cruel and rapacious that cow
ardy and demoralzing that is survival Of barbara
state whose feroey in other matters has been CLOSED
and which survives solely because it appeals
gross seshness of mankind If the time has passed when
to be foreigner conclusive proof of enmty whose
killing was virtue the sentiment survives in the feeling
that in commerce the foreigner is still enemy to be
kept without nations limits admitted under
and hostile restrictions How brutal it is, in the
rejoicing among people otherwise humane when word
from Austria in 1890 that thousands of men,
and children had been driven from work and
walton because Mckiney's tariff pearl buttons
destroyed the market this country. We again
the ubint expressions when the word from
Wales that the tariff had driven the workmen
the tin plate mills out Of their employment and
them subjects of public charity.
And the might find in his domnions the con
sequences of this commercial war, which he his
counselors as deeply engaged is the equally
lightened of the United States Ivan Oserof
professor in the University of Moscow, in the
Forum, depicts thesravageS of this among the
jects Of the peaceovng Writing industrial
Development of Russia, he says that the development
might have been still if there had been
lishe that very high indeed almost prohitive
tariff which, instead of serving nducement pro-
ductien apathy among Russian manufacturers
by assuring them almost fabulous dividends as may
added similar policy has reached it's logical fruition
in the that would limit production price
He tells that because of this against
maker of iron, the peasant is compelled ito till the soil
with his anteduvan pillow, to harrow it with dry wood
to reap the grain with his hands, to wnnow it by the
breezes grind it, if not in domestic cask in
windmill that contains not single iron nail and finally
to avoid using the macadam highway, which he
does not like to drive homeward with his unshod horse
and his untired rskng both himself his horse
The consequent consumption of iron in Russia is bur
pounds head, against 252 in England and 22S in
the United States.
This is but of the many instances which he cites
commercial the has been waging for years
against the ironmakers of other countries Is suf
cient throw side light upon his professions of
desire for peace while continuing his commercial war
fare