The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-05-07
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 for what it represents are brothers. The
 cross is the symbol of the Philippines
 and the Bible is the text book of the Boers, and the nations now doing their
 utmost to wipe them off the earth are
 the most Christian nations in the world.
 Surely those who believe in this kind of paradoxical religion must interpret the
 words of Jesus somewhat after this
 manner: Love your enemies when they
 are dead in the trenches If thine ene-
 my hunger, feed him with Mausers; if
 he thirst give him sheels, for in so do- ing thou shalt heap coals of republican
 government upon his head. Resist not
 evil, unless you have better position and a heavier battalion. DO good to I those that hate you after you have
 plundered their towns and killed their
 relatives, Whatsoever ye would that
 men should do to you, do ye even so to
 them, if it pays. "Tel me not" said
 Napoleon, that Jesus Christ was
 mere man, Caesar, Charlemayne and
 myself founded empires by the sword and they have dropped to pieces like ropes of sand!' Yes, and so will all empires got by the sword, for with the 1 sword goes tyranny and oppression. God i has had His innings with all these en1- pfres and so He will with England and
 America, unless they are just and mer-
 ciful and humble.
 | II. War is Economic Waste The
 time has come" said the Rev MT. Nal
 thus when the earth is no longer able | to support her children. Therefore we
 must diminish their number War, to
 MT. Malthus, was a vertable blessing
 from the Almighty, for it rid the world
 of so many mouths that the tired and
 overburdened earth had to feed. Along
 side this foolish fiction place the fact
 that the population of the globe could
 be put into the state of Texas and still i have less then ten to the acre, and this additional fact, that the money spent in
 war in a century, if applied to agricul-
 ture, would feed the population of the world for million years. We bought an empire of 75O,0O0,OOO acres from France for s15O0O, ,O00 and another em- pire of 60OOO0O0O acres from Mexico for BPS, 800 900, and it cost us $12,100 000, coo to settle the question of "squatter sov- ereignty' in 1S61-5. The millions of men sacrificed according to the polit- cal economy of Malthus made it easier for the earth to support those who were left. This scheme of benevolent annihi- lation has worked very well, One-tenth of the worlds inha bitants have been swept away by war. This is the tithe we have reigiously and patriotically paid to Moloch. The common people do | the fighting till the soil and pay the | bills. What more could be asked of | them? Only this-that they do it in a | reverent and patriotic spirit. Europe ] spends four billions and half annually | Gin times of peace) to her standing | armies. Standing" means permanent | and ready. What for? They know not the day nor the hour their bosses will | have a quarrel and send them out to settle it. While the strongest men are settling, by brute force, the difficulties of their masters, the farmer, mechanic, artizan and tradesman are making the money to pay the damages.
 III. War Engenders Hatred. Crom- well made a successful campaign in Ireland. Militarsm has canonized him years ago and biographies continue to pour in. But despite his religious zeal and popularity the Celt continues to abhor the name of Cromwell, because of his unwarranted brutality in the Irish campaign. The hatred continues It may be noted here that Cromwell had | printed what he called "The Soldiers I Pocket Bible for the use of his men. The American Tract society resurrected this marvellous compilation for the spir- itual benefit of the American soldiers during the Spanish war. I have been | unable to find out whether Bob Evans or General Shafter had copy each or not. This compilation consists of nine ty-five quotations, ninety of which are from the Old Testament and five from the New. Curiously enough, one of the latter Is Love your cnemies.' This is followed by directions how to do it, Psalm cXxXix., 21 by hating -hem It takes an immense standing lrmy in India to keep them loving Eng and The wars of generations ago are still felt in the hatreds of to-day be- ween England and France, and the ha- red that exists in this country toward 1 England undoubtedly dates back to 1776 Ian anything make the Boers love Eng and after this campaign? How much benevolent assimilat tion" will it take to l wipe out the stains and horrors of our criminal aggression" in the Philippine | stands? Hatred between nations is not 1 III. Scarcely had the smoke cleared way from the hot cannon than the | eading admirals were kniting each oth-