The Cairo bulletin., 1911-08-21
Regards Carnegie's $50,000,000
Peace Gift Mitstake--Compreh-
sive Arbitration Impos-
sible.

international Court of Arbitration
and world peace are very fine things
but that they are practically unat
tainable.
We who have always maintained
that there can be no international
Court of Arbitration, he declares
triumphed doubly: firstly, because
| facts have proven ineontestably that
we are right. and, secondly. because
two German chancellors have not
only foreseen that it is right. but
have had the courage to express their
opinion openly, and in spite of the
great crowd of hopeful friends OF
peace. We consider, he adds, that
this is a sure sign that German for
eign politics are directed with sound
understanding and firm courage.
When country wishes to avoid
war, says the writer, it will endeavor
to do so, but when it does not cherich
this wish it will send no delegates
or will instruct it's commissioners in
accordance with its intentions. In
other words:
Nothing has been changed or i'm
proved in regard to the prospects of
eternal peace either by the Anglo
American so-called arbitration treaty
or by President Taft's latest circular,
and least of all by the expressive
but empty appeal of German-Ameri-
cans to us, their compatriots,"
Vice Admiral Won Ahlefeld also
points out that Sir Edward Grey's
peace speech in the House Of Com
| mons on March 10 last was received
with extraordinary rejoicing, but
that in the first place the British
minister declared that the way to
tho Court of Arbitration was very
long, and in the second place he
acquiesced in a naval program of un-
paralleled size
The position to Mr.. Carnegie the
writer contends that wars though
they appear at the moment to be
harmful and painful, like operations
on sick persons, are nevertheless
useful and salutary to mankink when
their effects is considered only from
quoting the reasons advanced by
men such as Knat, Nelson, Moltke
and Ruskin for the usefulness and
necessity of wars. and wishes only to
repeat that wars--that is, Just wars
as distinguished from those waged
from personal malignity or from the
mere lust of conquest-hase often
promoted culture, or at least civili-
zation, and certainly the perfection
Of the human race.
Fighting Enobles.
Civilization, like wheat, grows
best, he adds, on ground that has
been plowed; that Is to say, on
ground that has been forcibly freed
from all wild-growing plants, and
that has been MANFRED. Mr.. Carne-
gie's "Fifty-Million-Dollar Peace
Fund" he declares to be an action
directed against the promotion of the
perfection of the human race. and
I'VE are sorry for him that he should
have committed such a mistake"
The vice-admiral concludes his
article as follows:
According to naturel laws only
the weaker and inferior will and
must go down. That this is so is
salutary from the point Of view of
the perfection of the human race,
and who the weaker is can de deter
mined only by war, never by court
Of arbitration People who are well
acquainted with the African hunt
ing grounds assures us that game
thrives best when it grows up with
beasts Of prey. AS soon, however, as
overwise man kills off the predatory
animals for the sake of eternal peace
the high class game also disappears.
In this case, too. nature teaches
that lighting ennobles while peace
leads to degeneration, Our view Is,
therefore, expressed in few words
Comprehensive world courts of arbi-
tration are an absolute mpossibllity
II there were possible they would not
yiye US world peace, and If they gave
IS world peace it would be mis-
fortune for the perfection of the hui
nan race"