The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-05-07

CT for the honors. Have they ceased?
 II has now apparently developed into
 blackmail and intimidation The same
 was true of the generals on land. The
 air in Cuba and Washington was thick
 with islander and vituperation. The vocabulary of the gutter was scarcely
 vile enough to supply words for them. l If newspaper reports be true, the fa- nous rough rider and a college presi
 dent are now calling each other liars
 over the war Dr. Jekyl seems to be
 friend to the president of the college,
 and MT. Hyde is the bosom friend of the
 president of the United States. This is
 the natural result of conflict. Men hay
 ing plundered foreigners turn around and plunder each other of their good | names and reputation.
 IV War is Cowardly. The Associ-
 ated Press published July 21, 1899, a
 dispatch from The Hague peace confer
 ence of which the following is, a quota tion: "The second point, prohibiting the
 use of asphyxiating projectiles, was agreed to by all except the United States and Great Britain, whose absten- tion nullified the agreement of the oth- | tlS. lie tHlIu punt, WHlCll IGldlcS " expanding bullets, occupied the major
 portion of the sitting owing to the dunn
 dunn bullets used by the German army. Andrew White, head of the United States delegation, then made an impor tant speech in opposition to the prohi- l bition of such bullets as the dunn dun. | MT, Whites argument made a great im- pression on the delegates and especially
 when he explained that the adoption of | the proposal as submitted would not | prevent the use of another bullet which | had already been invented and which | would attain the same end as a dunn
 dunn, but in a more cruel manner" This
 might be termed the brutality of refine
 ment The British and American dele gates fought to the close for the reten- ] tion of the most cowardly and brutal | measures of war. Andrew White is an
 eX-college president and Seth Low is president of Columbia and teacher of | large mems Bible class in New York. | A bigger farce than such Christianity I | cannot conceive of. The conference did |
 accomplish good, but paragraphs like ! the above force one to liken it to con ! ference of vutures discussing the dis 1 posal of a carrion. Pugilism compared | to war is the very acme of moral lux | ury Pugilists fight according to their | class, Nations do not. Unfair fighting l disqualifes a pugilist, but the same thing in war is called superior strategy. | Here is a trained pugilist. He meets on the street consumptive A fight en- sues and the consumptive is beaten.
 The crowd applauds the victor. What
 I ed and triumphal arches are erected. ! He is paraded before the public. Mean
 time the consumptive is expected to re-
 spect him and come to terms, any terms
 the victor proposes. This is a true pie
 ture of the engagement in Manila Bay
 It was wood against iron, tugs against armored cruisers, brains and wealth against ignorance and poverty. The Spanish fleet in Manila Bay was fleet on paper only. The test was between wood and iron. The torpedo, the explo- sive bullet, the dynamite mines and all the scientific apparatus of modern war fare are morally equivalent to stealth- ly creeping up behind man and stab ping him in the back, What twaddle it is to talk of humanizing or Christian izing this cowardly monsterl How can that which is so intrinsically and in- berently rotten and unfair be made pure and just? It cannot. It must be abol { ished Christian war" Is impossible, paradoxical and absurd. Imagine Jesus ( giving His sanction to recruiting the l foul human scum of the earth, decking them gaily and sending them out to get , square with a nation whose symbol was I the idolized cross on which He died ( Imagine Him saying, well done, good l and faithful servants" when they had l annihlated force infinitely inferior! l Imagine a God who is never Cow of l the lighter battaions! Imagine a God t who would condone the wholesale plum f der of the Indians and achievement of q the colored race only because the plum 1 derer and the despot was an Anglo-SaX- 1