Bisbee daily review., 1905-06-11
COUNTING THE COST.

COUNTING THE COST.
 War has ever been a hideous mon ster; presenting no attractive face ex cept to him who glorifies in the bat tie and seeks to reach place and power in the smoke and dust of the carnage. From the beginning it has been the same; a hateful tribunal to which the world resorts to settle its difficulties and adjust its balance of power If anything it is more hateful and repulsive in the morning of the nineteenth century than ever before. It ought to have no place in the mod ern world with its civilization and en- lightenment. Yet out of war great good has come to many people and countries War has been and is a great leveler and civilizer. Fields that once run red with blood of battle are now the monuments that mark the advancement of the race. Modern re- publican France is the progeny of the French revolution and the Neapolitan wars; a gift from the battle field to the civilization of the world. The United States, the great western republic. was born in the fog and smoke of bat tie and cradled in a cannon's mouth with the noise of the battling hosts singing its lullaby. Who would now stop to count the cost. To the world, 10 civilization, to human progress it is worth more than the cost in blood and treasure of a thousand wars.
 War uncoyers the weak spots in na- tiOnal life and from out of conflicts great reforms are born. The vanquish- ed oftentimes feaps greater ultimate results than the victor. France is greater and better for having fur nished Napoleon his field of action and England was cleansed and purified by Cromwell; yet each of these great leaders of men, military chieftains, left a footprint of blood on every square mile of his country. The war between the states, our own great civil war, The most bitter and merciless strug- gle of the modern world, has amply paid its cost in the results accom- plished. From the clarified atmos- phere following that storm the repub- lie has grown to its present gigantic proportions and commercial suprem- acy. Even the south though van quished in the struggle has gained more than she lost by the new condi- tions and new life that followed.
 The Russian-Japanese war is rapid ly drawing to a close. Peace negotia- tions are undoubtedly under way and the cost is to be reckoned. The cost in blood and money on either side has been enormous but out of it all it is more than likely that more good will come than will amply repay both countries for the sacrifices made Japan will know her. own strength and has impressed her personality and power upon the world and will take her place as one of the great powers. To the Flowery kingdom the good accruing to her out of the war will bo immeasurable. It will help her civilization at home and give her standing and character abroad. She will understand herself better and be able under wise leadership and con- servative government to work out her destiny in a more Intelligent manner with confidence in her own people and respect from all countries. Just emerg ing from oriental to modern civiliza- tion this war will do more for Japan than half a century of peace. The results obtained will be cheap to her at the cost expended in money and men.
 Russia, which has borne the brunt of the contest and suffered the humil iation of defeat, will reap from the charred and dead ashes of battle ben efits worth ten times the cost of the struggle to her. The autocrat of the east will now be compelled to turn her attention to her own domestic affairs and clean her own house which for years has been in bad order. Instead of dreams of conquest, the building oi forts and preparation for war she will have to cultivate the gentle arts oi peace. She will learn from this wal that a good soldier must love his country. that rottenness and corrup +ion in public life will have to be erad icated. that ber millions of people need Q better government with voice in it's management. She has learned her weakness as Japan has learned