The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1913-01-21


as to what difference there is in the personnel of
the committees as appointed, and what they would
have been il appointed by the speaker. Really 1t is
hard to tell. The Democrats after all their blus
ter had to be content without single Craftsmanship
and the machinery is going along just as If
nothing at all had happened. ssa'.e
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UNIVERSAL PEACE .4..
The Fra: 1t is quite within the range of pos
sibilities that Emperor William of Germany will
visit San Francisco in Nineteen Hundred Fifteen.
The Emperor has expressed great interest in
the proposed Universal Peace Congress. The idea
now of the fourteen great powers that control the
world getting together peace basis is no long.
idle dream.
II the Emperor makes the trip he will
his yacht by way of Panama.
The presence of the Emperor in San Francisco
will be the greatest influence for peace and
tual understanding among the nations that has
ever occurred in history.
The individual power OF Emperor William is
greater than that of any other ruler Not only
does he occupy a very great Office but he is
great individual.
Time has tempered him, and if through his in.
itative universal peace could be established
through int national disarmament, It would put
MIN absolutely first among all the kings and EN-.
perors. who have lived since time began
And it is interesting to know that the En-.
peror himself realizes the fact
1t is now generally conceded that we have got
ten out of the struggle of war all that there is to
be attained.
We have reached not only the point of dmin.
ishing returns but We have reached the point
where there is absolutely no return at ALL
Armies terrific overhead" tax Soldier
ing in the year Nineteen Hundred Thirteen stands
for consumption, woe, want poverty, disease, in
efficiency and incompetence.
That the resources of the world should be used
for purposes Of destruction, and that numbers
of men should be kept constantly under arms. is
crying evil.
Five million men in the world-the very pick
and flower of manhood-are engaged in the non.
productive business of drilling and training to de.
stroy what other men have by labor produced.
Doubtless when pirates roamed abroad through
the land, and every nation secretly plotting
the undoing of its neighbors the individual sue.
cess of a nation demanded big army.
Now the world is getting together The tele.
phones, the telegraph quick transportation, is put.
ting every nation in touch with all others.
The nations are ruled by bankers not by
the warriors.
The economist, not the strategist, is supreme
Adding machines and cash registers are our tools
The typewriter is mightier than the sword 81
It is admitted as good psychology that since
We train men for war, great many men-and
good men, too-will look upon war as a necessity
And these men, trained to thrive through the busl.
ness of war, may bring about war if the tools OF
war are in their hands.
The growing intelligence of the time has shown
us that we can thrive only as other people thrive
The idea of any one nation thriving by exploit
tation, annexation and destruction is obsolete
Nations, like individuals are today held in
place by public opinion. '"
No nation can afford to fly in the face of the
ieals that are held and fostered by other nations.
Publicity is the greatest disinfectant.
So thoroughly is this understood today that
kings have their publicity bureaus. They not only
know what other nations doing and saying,
but their endeavor is to put themselves in the best
light in the worlds assize.
We are ruled by public sentiment and as no
Individual can succeed in an enterprise with public
sentiment against him. so no nation can hope to
achieve success and prosperity unless it is NOV
ing in accordance with the best leas of the best
people of all nations.
Alexander, Ceaser, Napoleon represent for us
destruction violence, dissipation, death.
They fought for worlds peace. But the peace
they brought about was the silence of death.
When their peace had been achieved there was
no one left to build. The discovery was made
that while the pick and flower of the manhood of
the world had been fighting for peace the unfit
had been producing their kind. And the soldiers
that came back, sick, sore, lame, tired were honey.
combed with disease. And these men then con.
tributed their weakness to the general fund
War is the one thing that has made calamity
of so long life. And successful war is form
Of defeat It looks as II the year Nineteen Hundred
Thirteen would take its place with the immortal
dates, Fourteen Hundred Nine,two and Seventeen
Hundred Seventy-sx
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