The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1913-11-14
HOW LONG BEFORE UNIVERSAL
PEACE?

In reply L your inquiry. VIII Uni
versal Peace Among the Leading
Powers of the World Come in the
Next Hundred Years? my answer is,
Yes. much sooner. for these reasons:
First-Not a ruler of men in our
day. from Emperor TO Secretary OF
state but knows that international
reace is best for his country. and
hence earnestly desires it.
secoEd-Private war (duelling) is
already banished wherever English is
spoken. and the German Emperor has
reduced it from twelve hundred year
ly 10 twelve in Germany, one recent
year only nine. and has just urged
his generals TO inculcate among off,
GERS more stenuous restraint. Adolf
tion of personal war carries with it
abolition ~f national war as day
follows night. They spring from the
same poisonous root. and are both
destined TO die.
Third-Man was not created with
an instinct for further degradation,
hU, for ascension: hence the march
upwards TO the civilization already
evolved upon the ruins of barbarism
when, as wild animals, men hunted
their fellow-men and even ate each
ether. In this long and checkered
march upwards, the teachers and
leaders of each era have denounced
war and txtolled peace, from Homer.
500 b. c., with his declaration, at is
by no means fit for men stained with
blood and gore to pray to the gods"
fiend ever loosed from hell" down to
Grant and Sherman of our day. with
their parting words. Grants, Il never
wish TO look upon an army again,
and Sherman's. War is he'll"
Fourth-Only two years ago we
were within reach of laying the axe
TO the root of war and securing peace
to civilized nations Britain, France
and tthe United States executed a
treaty, Germany expressing approval
These three (perchance FOUR leading
nations, all deeply interested in the
preservation of world peace. would
have been in position to portest
against this being broken should any
TWO nations ever have threatened to-
break out. Sad, indeed. that this
treaty failed of approval in the SEN
tie by one majority on a vital point.
But let not the senate be unduly
blamed therefor. All the existing
.reaties of peace between the repub-
lie and other nations have been APP
proved by it in due course by the
needful two-thirds majority 1t is a
body composed of able, patriotic and
reasonable men.
We look to President Wilson in
ime to take up this vital question,
'ertain that he may be trusted to-
avoid the rocks upon which the last
reaty foundered. He is a likely can
didate for passing into history as the
nan who, of all the eges past, has
rendered the greatest service to hui
nanity. There is only one other who
is to be considered-the emperor of
Germany, who has reigned twenty
FIVE years and kept the peace, his
hands untainted by human blood; a
great, a holy record Were he to sub
nit a proposal to the coming Hague
conference that the civilized powers
represented resolve that international
luarrels be hereafter settled in the
Temple of Peace, under the canons
If international law, we believe it
would be approved by both the heads
and hearts OF the delegates, and by,
L number of the foremost nations, suf-
icient to insure favorable start.
Finally-Instead of barbaric killing
IF man by man in war lasting hun
dred years more, period during
which war. in the past, has been
stripped of many of its atrocities, |
believe that ten years will find most,
if not all land private war is becom-
ing a crime). of the civilized nations
freed from its stain, for no civilized
nation exists which does not reeog-l
nize and long for peace as its great
est blessing. This day fondly cher
ish the hope of seeing.-Andrew Car
negie, in Life.