The Alaska daily empire., 1914-11-27

Delivered ay sss 8sg. 3. steseRsi
 have taken for ae snhieet oe m9
 addre The Loglc and Blesslng of j Peacee and to keep myselt from wan
 dering farafield upon ao biz sub
 ject have iastoned tho thread Of my
 narrative to these sheets ol penor
 which trust ali will pardon and nonC
 be frightened nt
 Peace. you remember wag che lest
 gift oi Christ Co his disciples before
 the cruciiigion and hic iirat giit to
 ther after the resurTceslon Il there
 was higher blessing be Woold doubt
 less have invoked t upon thanar and lupon Che world And yot Ia spite oi ! the important position ha gaYo it its l career through the succeeding centur-
 ies has been mpet tragic.
 Not pnal comparatively recent
 date has there beon anything like
 a national DO, to mention interne. 1 ton1ifor interf2clal elforts to protect ! peace, make spermonentor farreaoh-
 ing During the last feW decadoa
 however it's friends haye rapidly ins creased until the psaco movement
 is no longer aaubject Of controversy
 the difference Of opinion being co Go
 method! whether arma ments or courts were .the best inslremint for pfoGerv- ing peace. All civilized nationa arc i theoretically agreed that war is an evil to be dispensed Wlth aa soon as some practical plan fos ilB suppression. is found. But the De2sins lact is discovered that International conduct is judged by far lower gtandard than chat oi Individuals. That 9 man, who would not think Of Gssauitlng another to gain an end. in fact. who would suffer great loBa and Do proud of it, rather thar obtoin Q right by such mothou. wih insist that thc nation should be ever ready to assert its claims by blowsi that pence honor able for the Individual. in national form is unrighteous and shameful.
 In other words that tho nation is Co maintain peace by being SO con-I spiouously armed that no ono would dare to attack it, to terrorize our na- tionnl noightor8. into respect This is apparently the position sof Theodore Roosevelt. iR his miHtaFistic article in the Times, Nov 8. but in enforce ment ot hi8 argument he says Most Western Americans can remember etc. when every man W0Fta bis salt had to be prepared to defend him-l self and usually. although not all ways, the fact that he was prepared saved him from an lrcablo, where as unpreparedness- was absolutely eer- tain to invite di5asterp Isuppose Air. Roosevelt thought that he could get by with this statement, but an sure most Westeruers Will immediately 1 question it; I.lived in Montaha. prob ! ably longer than dr. Roosevelt, and in the regions ol tho great gold strikes where the Yigilontes ranged. and knew several of tho old mem personally, and ! if they are to be believed. tho man who went armed to tho teeth. and cowed others by his probgredness for trouble into respect oi him. was gen. orally the man who was found one frosty morning hanging by bis neck to cottoh-wood somewhere along l the bottoms. The man who left his gun at home and tended to his busi- ness had no trouble. While the peace loving armed men dll large percent | age Of Montana's early, unmarked graves.
 Ordinarily even in private life. 4 a ! man aims to avoid conflict he shows | some confidence in the good inten-i tions Of others. Nor, on the other hand, does he esteem it necessary to Hash a sun in every .passer by's face to proclaim his paBsionate desire to be let alone.
 Under ordinarily clrcumstancea @ Frenchman and Q German meeting in Q jungle would not ay to cover and take Q crack at each other. admit, that they probably would now, but not under ordinary circumstances. They would immediately strike hands and be glad to pitch their unguorded tents nearby But tho mind does not seem to work the same in. considering national conduct as inoDergonal con duct We need to examine this as-i tonishing fact
 In our study Of war between nations wo naturally turn first to their causes and immediately we gro in maze of facts.
 Chancellor yon Bethman-Holweg I said to the Reichstag e few months ! ago, that wars are not planned and brought about these days by g0vernfl ments but noisy and fapatical minori- ties drive nations into war.
 Theodore Marburg in his "Phil0s- 1phy Of the Third American Peace I says "8ilg8overnment leads 10 foreign complications. It was in-' Justice and oppression pracuced by -he Turkish state which drew down ipon Turkey the vengeance of other ! powers. f just government has ob- aimed in Cuba the island would still belong to Spain; and unless the Jo-l had been opprossivelyl .axed there would have been no Sout African war. Why is it, he coneiodo8. hat there is danger Of interference oy the United States in the Internal ] ,ifairs Of Mexico and no such danger with respect to Canada?
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