Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1912-04-27


the Review of Reviews-it says:
! Lord Haldane $ statement,
made in the course of the an
nouncement OF his purpose in
visiting Berlin, that we must al
ways regard international affairs
from the viewpoint of the world
at large, from the standpoint OF
humanity" forms the text OF an
article in the " international Jour
nal Of Ethics by Mr.. Il. M. Mac
/ liver, of the faculty of the Univel-
sity Of Aberdeen. The progress
OF the world, says the writer, has
brought us on an age in which
war is strictly and simply with
out meaning"
The social conditions out OF
which war arose have been trans
| formed into social c onditlons
| which leave no place for war
war, says the publication is a
lrGlatl0n between state ana SLale.
True, and there was time
when war had a very clear mean
ing as the hostile relations OF
states. AT that time states were
not ONLY independent but separ-
ate and separation makes hostility
possible. AT that time it was not
only states but communities that
were separate and independent
and state and community were
one. When the state went to wa
the community went to war. 1t
was the people, the tribe, the clt,,
til e nation, and not merely the
state that entered into war But
can we say today that the people
! is the state or the nation? Are
the United Kingdom, Germany,
IHrance, and the rest, states and
nothing more? We speak as if
they were and thereby show our
blindness to one of the most re-
markable and far-reaching move
ments Of modern civilization. Let
us remember war is the breaking
ing down OF all community, and
down of all community, and ask
what right the state has to car
Try on warfare, when, as Is now
the case, the state is not co-exten-
siye with society. Men are begin
ming to see that there is something
more ultimate even than the stat,
that the state is not the whole ex'
preston, or the widest expression
of the common will of man, that
it is one fundamental institution
created by society-in a word, that
society is greater than the state.
"The Over Sea Railroad to
Key West
january %, 1912, witnessed the
life dream of an American citizen
and the opening to traffic of what
is probably the most remarkable
railway in the Western Henri
| sphere. An all-rail route to Key
West the thing seems impossible
Yet the apparently impossible has
been achieved, and an over-ocean
iron road, which twenty-five years
ago would have been regarded as
the vision of a dreamer, has been
brought into operation and come
to be looked upon as a common
place factor in every day life.
The February BULLETIN of
the Pan American Union gives
some details of the work, from
which we learn that all construc
ton work of the ordinary railroad
kind had to be abandoned, new
methods and new principles had
to be introduced, and unique
system had to be devised before
accomplishment was assured. +"
This new system consisted in
"the erection of the track on
stone arches whose foundations
were the bed of the sea, and the
continuance of that substantial
trestle-work into the open ocean,
at one place even out of sight of
land"
This series Of viaducts connects
the small islands of the coast,
with drawbridges at intervals, so
that the navigation Of the fishing
fleets and small steamers is not
interfered with.
In The Worlds Work is an art
icle by Henry Bruere on The Blu
reau Of Municipal Research What
it has done for better government
in New York City.
The New York Bureau of Mu1
nieipal Research spends annually
500 1900 from the contributions of
citizens in promoting efficient
"a