Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-06-03
CIVILIZATION AND WAR.

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Impress the civilized nations with the
necessity Of limiting the opportunities
for warfare. For many years when
ever war has been unavoidable between
two countries other governments have
exerted their influence to localize the
conflict, go as 10 prevent a general rag
narook but It appears that the effects
OF war can no longer be oc0llzed.
Floating mines may collide with neu-
irn ships and cause immense loss Of
lfe aud property, II Is conceivable
that such engines Of destruction may
sink vessels on the high seas, and that
their fate may never be known. so
completely may their destruction come
that not soul viii be left 70 tell how
Il happened. The remedy against this
is not to prohibit a belliserent power
from protecting It's ships and coasts by
whatever means II has at It's command
but 10 make waf unnecessary, because
Of the abolition OF a better mode OF
settling disputes. This has to be done
for the simple reason that all the world
ls so closely united that what affects
one nation cxerts an influence upon
others 1t has been well said that,
'whon Russia floats n war loan IN Par
Is, New York business men find their
credits curtaied to help furnish the
gold WHOM Japan sinks a Russian
merchant ship an American insurance
company may have TO pay tho loss.
When Kuroh cuts the Manchurlan rail-
road he destroys the profits Of Ameri-
can mining companies. When skryd-
Ion sends out floating mines against
the japanese feet he may sink an
American ship"
There Is nothing unreasonable In the
suppositon that the nations viii grad
ually be 80 closely united as to make
war entirely obsolete Families have
united into communities, and these into
states. or provinces, and these again
into countries republics, Kingdoms,
empires. But this process Of eonsolda-
tlon ls by no means finished. II is GO
ing on continually through the achieve
ments Of arts aud sciences, OF COM
merce and social intercourse. Why
should there not, in time, be world
parliament. making laws aud statutes
for all the world, and courts with uni
yersal jurisdiction and force enough to
justice according TO the de-
crees made? The world Is getting
small. 1t Is easier now To send mes-
sage around the globe than 1t was to
send word from the Atlantic coast to
the Pacific a short century ago Race
prejudces and national animosities
vanish as International intercourse be-
comes more intimate, and when these
have fallen there Is really no obstacle
to a world parliament representing a
universal brotherhood
There has been some talk Of union
between the United states and the
United Kingdom. Benjamin Franklin,
Il IL said, dreamed OF Ireland and
Canada MS members OF the American
union, And this dream has never passed
entirely from the minds of those who
believe IN the destiny OF the Anglo
Saxon race, Only II is supposed that
not only Ireland ana Canada, but Eng
land Scotland Wales, Australia, and
perhaps India, may join gigantic fed
GRAFTON OF states In which the United
States are included There is no harm
IN such dream, Its realization would
mean much TO the entire world. II
would presage the approach OF a MIL
lennum And II is really not more
impossible than was the unihcation Of
Germany before that work was under-
taken by German statesmen. The ten-
dency Of the world now is toward
union,