The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-02-13
UNIVERSAL PEACE-WAR is
MESMERlSM.
(By Arthur f. StilwellD

Arthur Edward Stilwell has written
his second book. Universal Peace
War is Mesmerism' is even more
original in thought and form than
Confidence or National Suicide?' SO
original in fact that it is unlike any
other book written on the much-dis-
cussed subject of World Peace. Com
ing from the pen of a very busy man,
a man of vast enterprises, the book
Is remarkable for the versatility OF
views and concepts it sets forth. Yer
satility is the keynote of Mr.. Still
wells writings. 1t explains how fl
nancier can write a series of telling
chapters on the railroad suitation-
which, by the way, have had a re-
markable sale, the sixth edition go
ing to press now-and within six
months burst on the world with an en-
tirely new focus on a problem that
the average reader has never under
taken to fathom.
famous writer has said of Mr..
Stilwells style that it rings clear as a
bell on a cold day. 1t describes his
fOrceful manner admirably, but it ap-
plies even more to the thought, incis-
i've, far-reaching and imperious. A
glance over the index is simply ton
ic. Listen:
Secretary of Peace-Who grants
the license to kill?-Interest pay
ments on corpses and ghosts-Ca.n
and Abel-Nations with colic-Bless-
ed are the pure in heart-President
Diaz-Japan-Peace and the Monroe
Doctrine-lcons and Mutiny-What
stands in the way-The Army of
Peace-Look Up.
Is there any book on record that
discusses the subject agitating the
world from such multitude of view
points, and those quoted are only a
few? And has anybody ever come
forward with the bald statement that
the Monroe Doctrine is rotten and di
rectly responsible for bloodshed and
misgovernment in some of the Latin
Republics? Mr.. Stilwells discovery
of the intimate connection between
disarmament in the Old World and
the abolition of the Monroe Doctrine
in the New World is a stroke of gen
ius that will go down in history.
Perhaps the strongest point of The
book is the fine humor-in turns, sar
donic and pathetic-that runs through
every chapter. 1t is the humor O.
the man of worldwide experience. O.
profound knowledge of the life of mar
and the life of nations; it is the caus
tic philosophy of the student of worlC
affairs; above all it is the clear-cut Ut
terance of the man who has tough
and won hundred battles in the worlC
o. big affairs, who has overcome dis
cord within himself and can look up
on the discord in the world as one
in it but not of it, see in its true
light, and then damn it as freak and
a folly. "Mesmerism" he brands it;
man never aimed truer or hit squarer
What strikes the reader so forcibly
in this book-and he becomes con
scious of it from the very first word
is the thoroughly practical spirit in
which the subject is treated. There
is a mastery constructiveness in the
ideas advanced, from the proposal to
appoint secretaries of peace in the
cabinets of the powers, to that of a
partnership between the United
States and Mexico for the furtherance
o. progress in the American tropics
and in the suggestions of gradual dis
armament, Of war insurance of one
power by other powers, Of the army of
peace. there runs the whole gamut of
inspired ideas from the simplest to
the boldest.
Look Up is the heading of the
final chapter, the grand summing up
Look Up" is the message of this
book. Long before you are through
with the initial chapter2-you know
that looking up is the reality of life
and the knowledge of it sticks to
you.
Here, then, is a mal who gives lem-
edies for the diseases he diagnoses;
rarissima avis! and he steps firmly
before the three greatest thrones The
world has ever seen and quotes Mica a
and the Sermon on the Mount.
Quaint, humorous, bizarre, cutting,
singing, uplifting, noble, prophetic.
grim, gentle. profound, worldy-wise,