The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1905-07-12
rHE PEACE CONGRESS.

TnE PEACE CONGRESS.
The Representatives Of two great
empires are about 10 meet in our
country's capital to try to arrange
peace. 1t is . strange fact that our
country should have been selected for
such q purpose-ours the only really
great republic in the world. It en-
phasixes the fact that our nation has
become a world power in the worlds
estimation. On the eastern contin-
emit the Caucasian Is confronting the
Monaghan, the Indian and Malay.
With Japan triumphant it will not be
many years until 1t will be found that
almost imperceptibly, her genius has
infused China with a spirit of az
gressiveness, and that her myriads
have been trained in arts of both
peace and war. 1t was In anticipa-
ton OF this that the German en-
peror. not long since. expressed SYM
pathy for Russia, adding: Russia
is fighting Europe's battle" That
Is, tn fancy he saw the Asian hive
swarming in terrible competition for
the worlds trade. IL not IN arms for
the western worlds conquest. Asia
and Europe are Joined. but we are so
situated that we look to the east for
Europe, to the west for Asia. Plain
as We may be we can no longer keen
our sphere Of influence to ourselves.
This time two great empires seek
our shores to find place in which
to arbitrate their differences. Next
time our nation will have to be the
arbitrator.
Looking around over our country
a wonderful spectacle is presented.
Our harvests are feeding half the
world: our textiles supply half the
worlds looms; our mines are yield
ing suc- tremendous volume Of
wealth that soon, of the gold and sill
yer OF the world, our country will
possess a vastly undue proportion of
the world.
Moreover, of the world strong
races host equal in numbers to the
armies of Russia and japan are land
ing upon our shores annually from
foreign countries, and merging with
our people. Keeping in mind that
God was watching at Valley Forge,
at Saratoga and Yorktown; that He
was watching at Lundy's Lane and
New Orleans; that He was watching
when Texas and California and the
treasure-laden desert was wrenched
from Mexico to become a part Of our
republic; that He was above Vicks-
burg and Gettysburg and Appomat-
tox; that our republic might be
saved intact; that he turned the mis-
siles aside from our ships in Manila
bay and of Santiago; it would be i'm
possible not to believe that a pur-
pose was behind the creation of our
great republic. To our dimmed eyes
1t looks as though that purpose was
to reverse the rule of the ages. In
all the past among the nations a few
people have been everything. the
masses nothing. Is not this present
purpose to prove that man is nothing,
the people everything; that is, that
there is to be readjustment and
the grosser forces are
to wither and that heart and brain
are to rule the world? And is there
not purpose in filling our land at
the same time with an irresistible
host of people and with inestimable
treasures? Does it not mean that
our country is to be the final arbiter
between the east and the west, and
that our tree of liberty is to expand
until reconciled world shall rest
under it's benign shade? Who
knows?
But the possibility should cause
our people to the more perfect them
selves in all the arts of both peace
and war, that we may never be
caught unprepared; that the man
hood of the nation be all the time
kept alert and equipped to the very
highest point of efficiency, and every
man in the republic trained to think
that the safety and the glory Of the
country rests in part upon himself,
and that failure on his part to
make the very best of himself be
reproach to the FATHERS, dishonor to
the fiag.-Goodwin's Weekly.