The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1911-05-05

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this task is now the subject of Paur-
parlers between the American and
British governments, and it is not
probable that diplomacy may gradu-
ally solve the extremely difficult
problem of finding practicable bases
! of negotiation.
"The every day work of peace
through benevolent and candid di-
plomacy, as well as the definite
working out of the occasional mark
! ed advances in international moralf-
! ty, must fall upon governments and
! upon departments of government ex-
perts in the facts of international re-
lations.
Every reasonable man is for
peace Just as every man would pre-
/ fer to go To heaven; but to secure
| the one or the other requires some
thing more than aspiration The mil
! lennium will not come for the wish
| ing. International peace must de-
pend upon international self-control
and sense of justice, and, the spirit
! Vi a ldliou btlHS Dul Ildt VI q IClitS-
ton of individuals, one comes
straight back to the schoolhouse,
| the factory, the farm, and the news
paper. There must be self-controlled
hand patriotic and enlightened citizen
ship if there are to be peace-loving,
to remain at peace.
at is almost to state a syllogism
to say that next to national charac
| ter the gretest factor toward peace is
true international understanding,
| and that, after diplomacy, the news
I papers play the most important part
1 in bringing about or retarding such
| true understanding of the American
| people and of the true ideals and pol
| icies of their government is horri-
| bly, hampered by the fact that, in the
| Far East, for example, and still
more in Latin America almost every
thing bad and nothing good of us is
reported in some section of the
newspapers of most countries.
Thinking of Mr. Carnegie's NUM-
IICNHt Sill, II OtNuIo W IliC LLldb tlc
establishment and subsidy of four or
five newspapers in Latin America
and the Far East, with means to give
adequate and respectable telegraphic
news service would be a splendid
and proper means to that interna
tional true understanding which
must be at the basis of peace.
"In these days when we honor the
soul and the mind more than the
body and when the world is regulat
ed by moral and intellectual rather
than physical forces, is it not still
more strikingly important (to speak
only of the cause of peace) that the
minds of the people should be fed
and not poisoned in reference to in
ternational affairs?
when one newspaper promulgates
an interesting story of impending
war one can hardly blame its more
conservative contemporary for giving
the story for what it may be worth.
The harm is done by those very few
newspapers" The newspapers print
ing stories for purely commercial
purposes as a penny dreadful for
the debauchery of the seeker after
sensations should be suppressed like
said Mr.. Wilson.
ITO indiscriminately embarrass the
of the country throIoh |
frivolous misrepresentation or maui |
cious attack is not to assail any ad- |
but is to attack the |
country itself among the nations 81 !
the world-s something for which !
there is an ugly name, and as to !
which there should be sonnet lins be- |
yond the present statute ! am happy |
to say that | have in mini isolated |
instances only, and that believe |
the American press, as a whole, is |
already beginning to respond to its |
patriotic and moral obligations so
Increased since the United States en-
tered on its destined position as a
great world power
"The subjects of peace and of ar
maments are usually associated
sometimes even as if disarmament
were means 10 peace. foi liitl L ica-
ident Roosevelt recently pointed out
that to be prepared for war no more
meant an unpeaccable disposition
than to carry fire insurance meant
special expectation of fire; that both
meant merely a common-sense safe
guard against an off-chance, the off
chance being always that it takes
two to insure peace as well as to pre-
cipitate war.
Il am sure the American people
are protagonists of peace for a high
err reason than the economy of dis
armament If ever a country could
afford ornaments it is ours. AS
business proposition it would save,
/ in the unfortunate event of war the
appalling loss of life and money IN
volved in headlOng hasty prepare
tons and also the time necessary to
make a people already warlike also
military.
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