The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-05-08
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CARNEGIE's ASSURANCE,

Andrew Carnegie is n worldwide
worker for peace. He has erected al
least two Temples Of Pence, one in
Central America and one mt The
Hague. He is always industriously in
culcating the gospel OF peace, and
truly insisting that war is barbarous,
inhuman, and destructive of life and
property in an awful degree. War
tears down; peace builds up. Mr..
Carnegie is in favor of building up and
NOT Of tearing down. In all this his
ideas unquestionably are sound, and he
deplores the loss of human life, and
especially OF the choice of the male
portion OF humanity, which is what
furnishes the men to be shot down in
war. The flower of manhood is what
goes to the making of military forces,
and this is what is slain. The human
race can i'll spare the best of its
physical vigor at any time, and where
that destruction is continued for any
length of time and the hest vigor out
Of the race is sacrificed, the effect upon
the succeeding generations is neces-
sarily deplorable.
In all this argument Mr., Carnegie is
quite right, and on general principles
his theories are In accord with the bet
ter sentiment of humanity everywhere.
But at the same time, when it comes to
the pinch, neither Mr.. Carnegie nor
anybody else of sound, well-balanced
mind would want his country to be de-
fenseless under aggression. He wouldn 7
want the United States to be the
stalking ground for hunters for terri
torial acquisition, as China is today and
has been for the past ten years. He
wouldn t want the United States to be
a baby crying for peace, but rather a
giant so strong and with such command
ing position that no one would dare to
disturb that giants peace.
Accordingly we find this sentiment
the pith of Mr.. Carnegie's speech at
the peace assemblage in st. Louis.
He took great satisfaction in stating
that he did not believe there was to
be any war between Japan and the
United States, and as the sound basis
for that belief he called attention to
the fact that the United States is so
per cent stronger in naval power than
is Japan. The United States has 8
naval tonnage, built and building, OF
39S,345. Japan has, built and building,
5l3,724 tons. The United States has
eight modern battleships Of the dread
nought type; Japan has two. The
United States has twenty-five battle
ships OF the pre- edreadnought type;
Japan has thirteen. And these, of
course, are the strength Of any navy.
Japan has more torpedo boats than
we have, and more torpedo boat de-
'troyers, But these would cut small
igure in any war where the fighting
hips had to cross the broad waters of
he Pacific, as Japan 8 vessels would |
lave to do in order too fight us, while |
,ur great ships could much more power
,ully cross the sea and attack Japan.
Mr.. Carnegie, therefore, was quite |
light in his reckoning that there would |
,e no war between Japan and the |
United States; and he was entitled to |
he satisfaction which the naval show.
ng as between the two powers gave
i'm. His assurance was we'll placed,
md it was on a proper basis, but II
vas the basis of superiority on the part |
# the United States to the suggested |
nemy. And so may it ever be when
here is question Of peace or war be-
ween the United States and any other