The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-06-02

peace may be able to get t9getI
er. Also in the fullness of tin
The millennium win come. But up IL
late the aforesaid advocates are far
apart. Colonel Roosevelt is fQr peace
OF course he is. He is Determined 70
have peace even if he has to fight t3:.
! it Therefore he constantly exploits tie
theory entertained and preached hy
both Sancho PanZa and George Wash
ington, In times of peace prepare for
war" But Colonel Roosevelt was de-
termined not to be squeezed ont when
ii came to making peace suggestions.
so he clipped into the game with Gae
10 the effect that the nations should
agree on the maximum size and ten
mage of battleships. Fine theory, nota-
bic uggestion-about as apt to be
adopted as that the elephant rwouiG
agree to eat the same quantity of hay
ais would Shetland pony
Colonel William Jennings Bryan also
has a suggestion, and that is that mon
en- shall be contraband of war. That is
.ssockdolager" and if adopted would
ali once end all wars, but there's the
rub Nobody will agree to it. The poor
nations will oppose it because they
want to borrow money, and the rich
nations will oppose 1t because they
want to lend; but of the two sugges-
tons Colonel Bryan's is more sane and
feasible than Colonel Roosevelt's. Rry-
ans has the merit of having far reach
ing effects If ii could be adopted, while
Roosevelt's would simply multiply
smaller craft.
In the meantime there is one world
character who is not trying to pose as
: d peace advocate, and that's the Ger
Il man kaiser. Wilhelm of Hohenzollern.
ffe. nrobaDly desires peace as much as
ana of them, for Germany's present
anhzing commercial growth and pros
NapSty would not in all human proba-
billy be promoted by war. On the
eepzEary. they would most probably be
arded and might be stopped entire
sall of which-the kaiser has the Wis
d to comprehend thoroughly; but,
Aking through his chancellor, yon
Cow. he frankly says that he has or
sed his representatives at The Hague
ace conference to take no part what
zer In discussing any proposition 70
sarm. and the chancellor gives as
sasons that differences in geograph-
$al MHdation, etc, are such that what
kouIH be a reasonable armed force for
Ane nation would not be at all aae-
Auate for another While it is the
Voice of Won Bulow. it is of course the
- idea of the kaiser The more one reads
and thinks of Wilhelm the more one
recalls his mighty ancestors, the Great
Hector and Frederick the Great In
the foregoing matter his reasoning is
clear as crystal. Naturally Germany is
hard to defend on account of her topog-
raphy and geography She has no
such defense as England had in the
English channel when Napoleon az
sembled bis army of invasion at Beu-
logne. The chances are that had Full
ten got his steamboat to going twent.-
years sooner Napoleon would have con-
Quered England and would have clap
ped one of his brothers, stable boys o..
brothers-in-law on the throne occupied
now BY King Edward. Germany has
no such natural defense as both France
and Spain have In the Pyrenees And
50 on to the end of the chapter Know
Ing this. it is natural and reasonable
that the kaiser should study much
about geography and topography when
the proposition to disarm is to the
fore. There is no rational ground for
surprising that he seeks war, but there
Is much ground for believing that be
does not propose to relinquish any ele-
ment of strength he now possesses
He Is candid about his position.
President Wilson's Latest Discovery.
Some folks are always seeing
things. especially when they violate
King Solomon's injunction about look
s. ing too long on the wine when ii is
red IN the cup. President Woodrow
Wilson OF Princeton, Colonel George
Harvey's candidate for president, is al
ways discovering things. In his
character as political Christopher Co
1unbus he has made three brand new
discoveries, two of which were hoary
With age IL not time honored before he
3 Ills AsSft Ii T lISt+sstS discovered 31af
s ne speaker of 1 federal house of
representatives has too much power
he will read the remarks of Roger
Mills. Charles Frederick sCrisp, Will
nm e. Wilson and sundry other Demo
Gratis as found In the Congressional
Record of the first Reed congress he
will discover that his discovery No
Is no discovery at all. but is nearly
cid enough to vote Second. his next
startling discovery Is .'the laws delay. "
~ which | commented In recent let
ter Third. now he fairly takes our
breath away with the discovery that
there IL somewhat of boss rule in this
country Fl the spirits of the mighty
dead take any interest in his lectures.
Then Alexander Hamilton. Aaron Burr
simon Cameron, Thurlow Weed, Henry
lay Dean Richmond, John Kelly and
Ather more or less ancient WORTHLESS
must have grinned sardonically when
he announced that hair raising discov-
Good DR. Wilson started his