The Minneapolis journal., 1902-08-30
Is IT LASTING; ST, III /; :PEA,.cEp "a.

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Is II LASTING PEAcEp :#
4 They tell us that te4for,e ,ethe first time in
scores Of years tie world is at peace.
The white mans police duty fights the
world Ground are not counted. Eng
lands little scrap with some Arabs, our
little trouble with the Moros, the insur-
rection IN China; are not worth mentions
ing. Nowhere in the wide earth is there
9 war between natiopssor great civil
strife. - =
Along with the cessation of lighting
has come much peace talk. The king OF
Italy Is bobbing around Europe trying to
unite the dual and triple alliances in
sort Of peace league. Germany protests
friendship for France. England protests
friendship for the United States. and from
one end OF this nation to the other we
are being taught that we shall certainly
never have another war with Great Britt
ain, with whom .We have been fond Of
fighting, aud probably never another war
Of any kind. Even the antagonisms
aroused by the American Invasion have
been placated, and though the nations
are scheming to conquer, each others
trade they zraingle their&voices in a cho-
rus OF peace on. earth and good Will
among men. |s{ :. .
It is more than. fifty years since there
was SO much peace talk as now When
the drsts great International exposition,
that Of London in 1881, opened It's doors
to theaadmiring snlultitudes there was a
flood sof perpetual peace talk, Of interna-
ttopaI good siWllI :yad a Wayln without war
drums. Men thought the exhibition, with
ats great and tie
products Of the arts of all nations, would
tnptesssall with the wisdom o. peace and
the folly Of war. The age zof sautocratic
government had about departed and the
feeling was widespread that the vars Of
the past had BEEN the wars Of kings
rather than Of peoples. But while all this
gush was gushing there were "a few, like
Lord Palmerston, who knew better Man
Is a hghting ANIMAL" said; Palmerston.:
y Recollections OF the exhibition ;were
still fresh when the Crimean war broke
out and FIVE nations plunged gladly into
the bloody fray. D. X - sire; Z: (:
+ Then came war upon war. The Ameri-
can north fought the American south;
Prussia fought Austria Germany fought
France Russia fought Turkey; ), France
fought China; England interviewed in
Egypt; Japan fought China; Turkey
fought Greece: Russia slaughtered the
Turkomans; the United States fought
Spain; Great Britain fought the Beers;
France conquered Madagascar; Great
Britain fought the Burmese and the
Atridis; the United States fought the Fill
ipinos; the allied nations rrepressed. the
Boxers, and scores Of frontier and colo
fniai wars lit up the frtnges OF civilization
everywhere and always -, 49,
Now have we really arrived at the verge
Of the millennium or are the nations after
hundred years of Killing and burning,
merely taking rest merely getting
their breath? Probably the latter" The
military budgets are not reduced. the
navies grow, national ambitions arc not
whit reduced. <At least four nations
Russia, the British empire, the, United
States and Germany aspire to world pri-
macy. All things considered, the British
empire, perhaps, still holds this position,
which is about to be taken by the United
States. All is serene now, but q mere
trife may set these colossi to uuarreling
among themselves! !ss.- IS@*=:. 2.+ I.
The practical statesmen Of the world