The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1913-11-14
is UNIVERSAL PEACE Poss,a,

DR.. Lyman Abbott, editor of s.
Outlook" in a letter in Life tai
us fiatfooted that universal peaces
not possible. That wars viii end IN,
when injustice ends. That peace ii
never pronounce its benediction IN
world unjustly ruled
We ask in all sincerity of purpos
/. if the theories of this learned tbee
logan are correct either as a phiIol
ophy or a religion?
Ii war and war alone is the corrac'
or OF evil, then on what hypothesI
does he base the coming on earth |,
the Prince of Peace"
II we unchain Satan and the min
ions OF hell with him, and let thar
stalk the earth, shall we expect iniua
tice to fee before them and the bles.
ings of bountiful peace to follow
their footsteps?
He'll, with all the meaning thar
implies. is General Sherman's de6nIH
ton of war, and does Dr. Abbott tel
us that justice is its ministering hand
maiden and plenty and contentmens
its harvest?
Was it SO when barbarians fough.
barbarians, or has it ever been :
when enlightened nations met esel
other on the field of mortal combat 4
fight out their grievances? Was zen
tleness, justice and everything
good report at any time the legitimat
harvest of war?
! In his book, entitled, "DestructioI
and Reconstruction, printed in Isl.
General Richard Taylor devotes ser
eral pages to recounting the profiga
cy, corruption and bitter and intenss
hatred following in the wake of ou
civil war.
To recapitulate all that he san
would be but to open afresh the fes
tering sores of those evil times which
perhaps are better undisturbed but
he ends several pages in the mos
classic description of the dissolute
luxurious and profiigate corruption he
found at the seat of government, that
would. he says. have put to the blush
the age of Nero;
The years of Methuselah and the
pen. of Juyenal would not suffice Ia
exhaust the list, or depict the benight
ed state into which We had fallen:
but it can be asserted of the popular
idols OF the day that, unveiled, they
resemble Mokanna, and can each ex
claim:
Here, Judge if hell, with all his DOW
er to damn,
Can add one curse to the foul thing
ami"
That was the condition of the NOR
ais and the justice that the greatesE
war the world has ever known LED
this country in.
We can say with all solemnity and
candor that it has not even yet re
covered from its dissoluteness, pro
fligacy and corruption.
Will universal peace" ever be en-
throned? We had rather believe witt
John Mitchell, the. organizer of com
mon labor, than with the eminent the
ologian who edits the Outlook.
John Mitchell says in the same
number of Life"
my judgment is that in very muca'
less than one hundred years the dit
armament of nations and the permT1
nent establishment of internationa
peace will be consummated TheFs
are many forces now at work in this
direction, among which none is more
important than the organized laboI
movement and as this movement q
labor grows in strength and inhuence
Throughout the world, as the doctrine
Iof the brotherhood of man which
exemplifies finds Judgment in te
hearts of all men, their determination
to refuse to fight to kill their broth
|ers will grow, until. war, with its dc
vastating power and brutalizing eI|
feet. shall have been banished iron
the earth"
And John Mitchell might say thai
there is another movement on foo
that will hasten the end of the forkea
tail and cloven foot of war, and thai
will be when the ballot is welded b5|
the mothers of this land.
The ballot in their hands will "a
the ministering angel that win carr
in one hand temperance" and q
the other universal peace"