The Alaska daily empire., 1914-11-27

.eoterday at the Union sefyleeo here. ] We need go no further along lhi.
 line. for lt is already evident thaI we abali not arrive anywhere. 0ns thing Is plain; the old Latin phrase ] Decenms Ayerno est iaolis is eas lily fixed to 1t this situation. and ii ! Sherman was right Che change nee1
 not be made and we may simply sas ] the DESCENT into hell is easy ] National treaties Of the most 5ot emn natme have thug far in human ] history offered but little friction
 IN 1793 Prussia, after having guar anteoed only tive years before the in. l dependence of Poland joined in the participation Of Poland;
 In 1907 Great Britain entered the iharbor of Copenhagen, belonging to
 9 notion with which she was at peace and under relations Of amity and de.
 stoyed the Danish fleet
 In 1904, Japan having guaranteed tho Independence of Korea, violated
 the ancity of the harbor of chemul-
 pho by attacking tho Russian Fleet
 there.
 In 1908, Austria, after having signed
 the treaty Of Berlin in 1878, under the
 terms oi which tho political soyerien- ity of Bosnia and Herzegovina were given Co Turkey, turned around and herself annexed those two principal ities.
 And in 19l4 poor little Belgium, pro- teoted by the most sacred treaty right has been trodden into the very mlre of her own canals.
 The causes Of war are many its pre-. cipitation easy and we may also add it is always disaster. 1t sometimes benefits one nation but always at the expense of another And in this age there is no nation but is affected by the welfare of misfortune of the rest of the world
 War involves biological, moral and economic losses concerning which we pile up figures and make long state. ments. but the full rnvage of which the human mind is incapable of work ing out or grasping.
 We are taught these days that the loss in war to both Greece and in the Roman states. were princeiy responsi. ble for the decline of Greece and Rome. That the decline of the Bo- man Empire was physical rather than moral; 1t perished because the Ro- man stock was killed off This re-. versed selection, as David Starr Jor- dan terms it, has wrought untold dam age to human society
 Economically; 1t Is found Chat near y every great panic has been preced ed by a great war The panic of 1858 by the Crimean war the panic otl 1873 by the American War and by the Franco-Prussian war; and che panic Of 1907 by the Russo-Jananese war The immense sums which war diverts from commercial enterprise becomes a tremendous tax upon the worlds business and to that extent retards prosperity
 We are appalled, at the recitals of history recoundng the horrors of ancient wars--yet all this Is mild-tem- pered and merciful compared Co mod ero warfare! wish bombs dropping high attitudes into defenseless cities, concealed mines exploded by electric ! ity annihiliating a whole company or even the better part of a regiment Of marching troops, or moving trains, or battleships; submarines with their trackless messengers of wholesale ! death; ponderous suns hurling deathI from distant fleets or Qualifications; 1 not to mention the automatic and rap id.fire guns or smaller caliber but high velocity and long range All of which are in use in the present strug- gle and are literally drenching theI earth in blood and making the land and sea a crowded sepulchur of thel dead.
 The Revolutionary War cost Great Britain S6OO,OOO,O0O and 1t lasted eight years. No first class power today could wage Che briefest kind of a war for any where near that figure. It is costing the four biz powers of the present war practically that much a month apiece.
 The cost Of our Civil War is by no means measured by the debt and the deaths as is seen by the fact that in ,86O 65 per cent. of our foreign conn nerce wasNcarried in American ves- lelg, At the close of the war only ,7 per cent Our merchant marine ias never recovered from the deadly blow administered to it by that war. t has steadily declined ever since md in 1910 only S.S per cent, of our commerce. was carried in our own hips. Tho present war would seem o be reinstating our merchant marine, iut at what a terrific cost to the rest ,f the world.
 HOW IRRATIONAL. INSANE, UN- IT ALL ISi
 The howitzer the submarine, the are instruments to extend aap's efficiency as lighting animal ust as are brass nuckles.