Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-04-16

coming year OF sl0e.o 900, 900. an increase
in three years OF s50000O0o. They were
also more than thlrty-seven times as
much as the expenditures for the army
and navy during the entire eight years
OF George Washington's administra-
ton. And such expenditures he shows
10 be wholly unnecessary.
For ensuring future peace, the Justice
argued, we may look to arbitration, TO
the business interests, 10 the laborers.
and 10 women
That International agreements are
making for peace. he Illustrated by re-
marking that Mr.. Root alone during
his administration had negotiated
twenty-four treaties OF arbitration. And
though nation may repudiato ats
agreement to arbltrate and may attack
US, no believed that the public opia-
ion of the world would be so strong
against such a pledge breaking nation
that IL could make such an attack only
at It's own imminent peril
An the business interests look ask
ance al war. They dread the destruc-
ton of property and business, and dis
like TO see the intellect and power OF
the nation turned from commercial
proht and industrial advancement into
devising and carrying out additional
means OF killing. waste, destruction.
and financial ruin. He shared MI Car
negie's belief that II any controversy
should arise between Great Britain and
the United States. it could he entrusted
10 the merchants OF New York and
London TO settle 81 peacefully and with
honor to both nations.
As TO the influence OF labor the great
mass OF the American people being
toilers, their votes determine the policy
Of the government. they can veto any
war movement and will do so. when
once aroused TO the meaning Of war
TO themselves and their children Re
Gently in England the labor party
compelled the government 20 submit
TO the Hague conference a proposal for
the limitation OF ornaments; and their
leader kler Hardu has repeatedly de-
clared that all the laborers are op-
posed TO war. and demand the settle
ment Of international disputes by arbi-
tration.
As TO women. the justice observes
that they are no longer purely home
body, but have entered largely into
public life. and we need little assurance
that their voice will always be for peace.
NO mother nurses her baby boy ana
raara hin, O., ,,,.,t,.a thu a~.aa
that his life may in its prime be cut
of by the merciless bullet.
There never was a time since the be-
ginning Of days when women longed
Tor bloodshed and the carnage Of war"
The concluding words Of the great
jurist may wen be added:
with the eve Of faith l sec unrolled
TO the canvas OF the future a glorious
picture. in which shall be seen every
laborer dwelling beneath his own vine
and fig tree. receiving eyer a living
wage for his toll, every merchant ami
manufacturer pursuing his business
and his industry without a thought ~
interruption by the ravages OF war and
men OF science and wealth combining
IN the achievement Of more and moro
gigantic results. adding not merely 20
the necessities. but also 10 the COM
forts and luXuries Of life. taking pos
session Of land and water and air. ami
all the forces to be found in them, and
making them minister 20 human lifo.
In the foreground will be seen that
highest type OF womanhood. the Ma
donna. and across her bosom viii be
these words Mary hath kept all these
things. and hath pondercd them in her
heart while underneath viii shine In
letters Of fadeless light, The United
states OF America has fulfilled its mis-
sion