The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-07-27
WILL GOOD coME our OLE CHINA

" I'LL UOOO COME OOT OH CH1NAY
What will be the far-reaching result of
the present murderous outbreak in China?
Something must come Of it that shall be
Of great and substantial benefit to hui
nanity If the sacrifice of valuable lives
Is to be recompensed. If complications
should ensue causing a general European
war, that would only pile grief upon grief
for civilization, and no man could pre-
dict the end Of or see any possible good
in, such a course.
This world has witnessed war almost
continuously for many centuries, and the
theory is generally accepted that it makes
for progress But, even with this conced-
ed, there Is a limit to the progress war
can bring about. Beyond this limit come
ruin, desolation and the tearing down Of
those things that should endure. War
between nations IS hardly anything else
than the rivalry between individuals on
an enlarged scale, where is substituted
for the weapons of brain, ability or cum
ming the machinery for taking human
life. Underlying all strife in this world is
the desire for physical ease and comfort,
and for the safeguarding of loved cnes
from want. If civilization does not mean
the realization Of those things without
war among nations or brutality and OPP
preston among individuals, then ciYiliza-
ton must be counted a failure
But we have not yet reached the state
of perfection in civilization; 1t may be far
away, or it may be just within reach
where, yelled by the perversity of human
nature, it can be seen and utilized only
after great shock has caused the scales
to fall from our eyes. The pathway the
foremost nations are treading NAV be
leading them on to better results for
humanity in general than now seems nos
s1ble, as one views the maze OF rivalry.
jealousy, suspicion and self1shness. But.
II the Ideal condition Of humanity is TO
be realized soon, it is plain that there
must occur some shock or great danger
that will rend the heartstrings of all as
Of one common kindred and cause them
to see the logical course for enIighten-
ment to adopt and adhere to if 1t is wish
ed to avoid international suicide.
The great fleets that are gathering in
the Orient from every quarter of the
civilized world certainly portend some
thing. The shock has come in the great
peril of the foreign ministers that has
made the nations comrades in a common
cause.-the establishment of perfect law
and order. The Yellow Demon of the
Orient will never find the foreigners at its
mercy again. But, after this task has
been attended to by the Russian. the
German, the Frenchman, the Englishma
the American and the Japanese side bv
slde' they must turn to each other for
the cue to further conduct Is IT too
much to hope that there will then sprinp
up the kindlier and nobIer feeling thar
brings silence to the artillery and gives
reason sway2 Out of this approach to-
ward international brotherhood and SYM
pathy great problems reaching from the
individual to the nation ought 70 ba
solved as becomes the highest and hast
CIVILIZATION. If that shall be the bannv
outcome, the transformation will ha
great for it will mean the breaking in all
Its glory of the dawn of the millennium
of peace!