The Owyhee nugget. ([Silver City], Idaho) 1905-1984, 1909-11-11

was insecure; cities were swept out OF
existence, their inhabitants massacred
and sold into slavery the arts, the sci
ences, were smothered, or glimmered
feebly, and the world was sunk in bar
barism because the world was in a con-
stant state Of warfare, and these were
truly called the Dark Ages.
Picture that day and this and you will
see, without argument, that not only
has there been steady and tremendous
insistence on peace, but that the greater
advancement Of mankind has been Who'll
ly due to the greater peace of the world.
War is destructive. Peace is construct
i've. Peace is the period of mental and
commercial activity. In peace men ac-
cumulate that wealth and knowledge
which they waste in war.
If Italy can progress from time
when Milan warred against Venice,
Venice against Florence, and Florence
against Rome; if France, England and
Germany can progress from period
when every Duke in his battlement tow
or was war lord sallying out against
his rivals; if Japan can change from her
feudal days when there was constant
warfare between her samurai, why can
not the nations of the world change to a
larger peace? II the trial by combat be-
tween private individuals has fallen to
decay because Of its folly, why cannot
the trial by combat among nations be
abandoned because OF Its greater folly ?
General Grant, great general, only re-
peated the saying Of great statesman
when he said that there has never been
any question settled by war which could
not have been better settled without il,
by the calm intellect of man. The the
ory of the old trial by combat between
individuals was that just God would
not suffer the wrong to triumph. But
the God OF war is not God of Justice.
He sits on the side of the heaviest bat
talions; and, if justice is to be arrived at,
some means must be found for the ma
tions, as was found for the individuals,
better than the hazard and chance Of
war.
1t is not only the dreamers who
expect the Golden Age of the friendship
Of nations; the men who deal with the
hard, practical facts of life are the ones
who are sure it will come; more cure
even, than are the dreamers. These
men of the almighty dollar can almost
put their finger on the hour in the CLOCK
of Time when it will strike Peace.
Molinari, the great French economist
says that though the peace periods have
grown longer and larger, the cost of pre-
serving peace has steadily increased
until at the present time the states o
Europe are paying for an Insurance.
against war price so excessive and 81
out of proportion to the risk that it can
not long be concealed from the masses
who, when they awake to the fact, will
abolish the state of war among nation
as effectually as the plain people abol
ished the state OF war among feuda
: chiefs by concentrating their supper
upon a central power the king. Hi
suggestion is that there will be an inter
national tribunal, whose decisions vii
be supported by an army and nav
:, obedient to its command, and no singl
nation will desire to keep, or be pei
mitted to keep, more than its quota t
the general international police force.
He says that no single nation will b
able to defy all the others united, but
more than that, the relief from war wi
be so great that no nation will wish t
, defy the edict of the tribunal, and
calmer moral sense will prevail anon
nations which win be stronger tina
force. He does not expect this grea
moral reform from any growth of mora
ity, or any ethical sense among the nj
tions, but purely because of the econ,
, mic pressure, the dollars. and cent
question and he cites that the Wa
debt of the principal European states
twenty six billions Of dollars, sum tt
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