The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-11-18

seums and armor ana ordnance Will 30 10
the junk shop
A reign of peace will come; call It MIL
lennial or whatever: the crimson sway of
Mars will cease and the olive branch
win take the place of shot and shell.
who may compute the deleterious moral
and economic effect on the race. of the
wars Of only the eighteenth and nine
tenth centuries? And the effect on tho
physical development OF humanity as the
strong and robust--''the young men in
their prime''-have been slaughtered. ieav-
ing the more untitled to perpetuate the
species from depleted loins7 No thorough
student is unaware that the hideous
nightmare on the brain of Europe,
known as Napoleon. so Slapped the vital
ity of Ia belle France that to this day
that nation has not yet recovered from
the emasculating effect.
1t was he, more than all his contem-
poraries combined. that gave to tubular
warfare its science and he impelied 1t
with a velocity that drew all tho Caucas-
ian peoples into its irresistible vortex and
which still holds them as with the fiendish
grasp of an unrelentings giant There II
not nation in Europe now that Is not
more the victim than the author of Its
military establishment due to Naroleon's
colossal genius In that direction, who
flung It on them as clinging octopus
and delivered 1t with such intellectual
momentum that they still grcan ana
stagger, but come to the lurid altar with
ever increasing sacrifice and cannot and
VIII not shake It on.
So much, then, for the effect Of one
mind only, the foundations of whose
cerebral genesis were laid amid carnage
and destruction in the obscure island Of
Corsica.
came from the impressions made on tho
mind of Madame Lettia Boneparte from
a losing loyalty to vanquished patriotism
and which were bequeathed in psychology
ical transmission to the mind OF the un-
born son.
Every tear and every sigh. and every
sight OF every drop of blood came back
again in crimson harvests--came back in
the tread of myriads of armed Amsn ana
reproduced, in anguish and misery. a hum
dred million fold. and--the end Is not yet
There are signs ominous Of coming
events casting their shadows before"
What is all Europe but an armed camp7
What is there for its motherhood but to
rear sons doomed for the red dragon of
destruction. Beholding its womanhood.
the heart sickens Mt the prospect. and
with Byron one might exclaim:
Mine own with Indignation laves.
To think those breasts must suckle
Even Columbia, that so long serencly
stood aloof, shows signs OF having taken
the common infection ana listens to the
Siren as she whispers in soft accents.
Arm and become world powerv'
Must this. then. go on forever? Surely
not Like the avalanche, 1t would at
length hurl itself to It's own destruction,
but like Samson. humanity would be be-
tween the pillars In the common ruin.
This will stop. only when new factor
can come into the arena that with its
appalling power can uplift the weak to
the level of the strong and make war Inn
practicable.
There will be no martial strains, moth
ing beautiful or imposing in this power
of humiliation that is coming-there will
be no bandstand play when armies yield
10 the disintegration of chemical action.
and war departments can then operate
the productive industry OF making con-
quests over the unfavering forces OF Ma
ture. Consider what will be the revolu-
tion when, from an inexpensive airship,
with few barrels OF nitric acid and the
came Of refined grease. a fleet OF the
rnightiest ironclads that ever rode the
deep, may be dared and defied and X
they approached, DO stricken from the
earth.
Certainly those who have capital and
soft emolument, those who have contracts
IN 'embalmed beef" and other snaps. will
enter protest and so will the monarch
ical heads OF the various governing estab-
iishments who prefer an expensive war
system on scale that the weaker can
not copy. Count Zeppelin has no other
IDEA OF an air ship than to provide a
cumbersome and costly appliance to make
observations with, in the interest of the
present methods Of prosecuting war. All
his mentality. as refis~ted In his construc-
ton, Is In this direction
some weaker power In a strait will make
me hreak In seif-defense and this will be
decidedly defensive, rather than an Of
iensive weapon. No laden flying machines
WI ny across the sea- Such a possible
destroyer VIII not be long restrained
from entering on It's iconoclastic mission
OF injecting entirely new dynafnics into
our civilization.
dozen factors have made the nirship
their foci--the oil well gave kerosene. gas
oiine ana benzine for light motors, and
ceiiea INTO being the acme In chemical
expansion and the flsrcest power known 10
chemical dynamics. Subordinate TO this.
the interest that longs TO explore the
earu 3 axis OF rotation. no long dsfying
man pravest endeavors, will now crafty
ltself. With compound cylinder airshiu
whose cost would not exceed 81, 600. the
Ahoree expedition. under ordinary condi-
tions, might have reached the North moi.
inside OF forty-eight hours. have made oh
servations over hundred-mlle radius ana
nave zone all this before tn. close Of
me polar day. This in no fanciful ideal
ization. but strictly analytical prosnosls
possibilities The future Nanaans.
1 .,s sNercruDs. Borehgrevinks and
others viii readily reach tba ne,lea and
~hen We date 1922. hundreds Of men will
nase FAXED on those centcrs OF rotation
ailu yet ~ih have seen no more IN ali ex-
lernsl aspects than hundred men have
$3.50. s.u aarssay. THIS problem within It's lin
, ,aason. ~, = nowise more difficult than have
oeen other problems in mechanics. what
. needed Is rational comprehension az
me subject and an adaptation of means
ane modern fast printing press and the
,S,ts, y ,naenines are far beyond any
ming IN Tying machines. az ili,,sfrattnns
=, ~ M mechanical synthesis But there
- probably not another subject under
y, sne sun tina, men take hold with so mnch
rsuip'aent as aerodynanics.
tne reid OF meteorology. as IL reiatss
70 tho navigation m 49, 80. .xs