The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-04-27
LET us HAVE PEACE.

ances more than keeps pace with repelling or pre-
yentive inventions, and will eventually serve as al
influence for peace instead of for war. A mine ol
torpedo, that can instantaneously destroy grea
battleship, with hundreds of men on board is toC
dreadful thing to be employed much longer, ol
very often.
Torpedo boats and torpedo boat destroyers and
similar inventions will not only serve their Original
and immediate purpose, but will also help to give
long pause to nations that tempted to go to war
The great Krupp guns have slain their thousands
but their thunderous tones speak for final peace
The nations will for awhile continue to build up
great navies but since war vessel that is up to date
and the perfection of the warshp builders art when
completed may become out of date and comparative.
" useless in few years. owing to new inventions
and more perfect contryances it may reasonably be
expected that nations after awhile win tire of build
ing them and viii mutually agree that there shall
be no more wars.
The experience Of England in South Africa, dur.
ing three years of horrible destructveness although
these terrible marine engines were not employed has
siekened that nation of the prospect or thought of
war England would go far to circumscrbe the
power and influence of Russia, but it would require
a most serious menace by Russia Of England's pos
sessions in Asia to induce Great Britain to resort ia
war Russia herself, while determined to possess
NIanchuria and extend its domain and power south.
ward toward open waters, will be slow, after the
Japs get through with it. even if they should be van
quished, in going to war again. The czar is doubt
less sincere in his desire for peace, but he is not
great or strong ruler and yields to the longpursued
national policy of expansion and aggression.
Under wise and conservative management, there
is no need or prospect scarcely indeed possibility
of the United States engaging in any more wars.
There are hints every little while that this country
will have to fight Germany at no very distant day,
but as the years pass, unless such catastrophe is
brought on in the near future the sentiment in favor
of peace will grow and become dominant, not only in
this country but in Germany too, where the belliger
ent emperor will with all his buster be obliged to
yield to the irresistible voice of the toers Of the
fatherland in opposition to war.
These comparatively new inventions of destruc-
ton to revert to the original thought of this article
are 50 WOHueflul, 80 appalling III tnelF power IOE
destruction that mankind will halt and ponder long
before employing them, and others to be invented
even more destructive STILL if possible. The hell
being enacted between Russia and Japan by which
great vessel and nearly a thousand men were de-
stroyed in a FASH by submarine mine, shows that
the japanese are fully up with the times in their
of these awful instrumentalites, and the
Russians may yet prove that they are equally so.
When the great armies meet on land and slaughter
each other by tens of thousands, the combatants
themselves more than others will have learned anew
the lesson that such thell" does not pay and that
the civilization that cannot and will not avoid it is
in a very large sense failure
This war may not be the last one OF large proper
ions but it is the line of natural and necessary pro-
,ress that wars should become less frequent should
be avoided by every possible means, and finally cease
among the civilized peoples of the world. Battle
ships and guns and torpedoes and mines will not goI
1ut of existence; the occupation Of the inventor
along these lines will not be gone for long time yet
1ut the voice Of the industrial and commercial world
will grow stronger and potent from year to year
n behalf of peace.-Portland journal.
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