The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-11-12
POWERS SHOULD
KEEP HANDS OFF
Only Hope for Permanent Peace
In the Balkans Is to Let
Allies Win All.
(By II. W. Massingham in London Daily
News and Leader.)

"' oHu LOauVlsl
Again war. Again its horrors. cruel.
ties, follies, and crimes. Again wounds,
and massacTes of the wounded, again
murderous fevers, agonising deaths,
painful sufferings of starving and frost
bitten men lying out on battlefields,
broken homes, Wholesale robberies, the
destruction of crops and all the instru-
ments of peaceful labor, thousands of
men who escape the bullet or the she'll
made useless for civil life. Again crush
ing taxation for millions of peasants
End workmen. Again glory for few
scores or hundreds of princes and gen
tiemen. Again, maybe, a futile peace,
cleaning few grains of good from the
harvest of evil and madness. Again
solemn talk of diplomatists, ignorant,
foolish, constituencies men, neither able
enough to suggest a remedy for these
errors, nor strong enough to apply it
when discovered.
| Thus the round of state life in Chris
tan, civilized Europe goes on. What
can one do but apply the reflection of
the Latin poet, and say of the peasantry
of the Balkans that these innocent folk
are atoning for the sins of their fore
tathersG For the old popular hate and
dynastic quarrels pursued in the name
of religion. For the incapacity, proved
and proved again, of the Ottoman race
to govern people of an alien faith and
stock. For the reckless handling of the
Near Eastern question by the European
Powers. For their senseless divisions,
tor which the statesmen of Britain bear
Their full and special responsibility.
For the policy of Lord Beaconsfield and
the much applauded feat by which he
tore up the Treaty of San Stefapo and
substituted the Treaty of Berlin. For
the absence of all foresight of the mer-
table consequences of the failure of
the Young Turks, failure for which we
again are largely culpable.
An Avoidable War.
| Thus we see for the hundredth time
the need of constant criticism of the
men who work the machinery of foreign
] relationships, men who by the nature
of things lose touch of common sense,
of public morals, of the true interests
of communities. of the obligations
which they themselves contract and
rarely attempt to fulfil until outside
pressure is applied to them, or until the
march of events overtakes their slow
-" pi".'S uioPo9i'ios. II the Typ
resentatlVes OF the Powers had only the
hanlt OF meeting with some regularity,
az The BOARD of business house meets,
to discuss the problems which their own
treaties bind them to keep in mind. this
catastrophe in the Balkans could have
been avoided. If there had been enc
foreign minister able to give Count
Berchtcld s proposals due shape and EN-
rha sis the Macedonian nrobIam-tha
DANGER of which every Journalist knew
might have been put in trim for solu-
hon. And II SIR Edward Gray had had
ne courage and wisdom to tell Turkey,
which trusts England, or, Mt all events,
thinks her more DISTINGUISHED than the
other Great Powers (Which in this mat
ter she isl, that her only chance of saw
nc her dominion in Europe was TO put
Macedonia in charge of committee of
rhe Powers. with commission to draw
up scheme OF internal autonomy, and
70 superintend its execution, her sover
I,a, h n,I "i i P'ssru. ana sne g2Ill1
s,,ooo 4''''
DlVloed Europe.
BIT il is vain to put forward these
considerations SO long as Europe is
h'N l'iN'ls 81 lOu3 rs England watches
everv move of Germany. and Germanv
Enaland and so long as Russia and Ans.
tria dispute with each other for any
fragments of Turkish TERRITORY that
may still fall their prev. there is mn
stable situation in the Near East Tho
concert is a form, decent cloal, thrown
over the naked lusts and fears of Chris.
tian Europe Nor can any form of NH.
lie law, such as that which the Hague
has in charge. be cast into Z
any durable or practical shane so long
rs no powerful public opinion exists TO {
enforce it when the need arises Ttnlv ;
me chlet offender in this new crime ;
ber LA gu" n oIner OF clvillZation, opened ,
moi onr onnniI iipoil WIN our assent. II
,nce of thn ri,ht 49, ny cYmfhi den d..
- th, fa "r itS".s Vi nations, and even q
rrihmnaI no .ho "hl. Ss lot the hague
sor s+aU ," 80 E o. an appeal, even :
-bouab4 90 "oS'ii'les' was ever +,
No wonder that Tolstoi poured con. !,
i".f ON me whole procedure and or