The Hayti herald. (Hayti, Mo.) 1908-1922, 1914-04-02

be raised by the great armament firms
OF England and other countries. They
| must be the servants" he said, "and
| not the masters. Some people viii
| try to involve by suggestion the naval
expenditure in a cloud OF suspicion.
Let them mock. am convinced that
| a reduction OF naval expenditure is
| necessary for the welfare OF civiliza-
| ton. It is a question that does not
only affect governments and diplomats
but concerns parliaments and the peo-
pie. We must not be discouraged by
n want of success. The time will
come when the present expenditure
and competition in naval armaments
will be thing of the past and when
the great naval powers will look back
upon 1t with feelings of regret" The
significance of these words in the
making Of a different world tomorrow
comes from the fact that they are
the carefully-considered utterance of
the head of the navy of the greatest
sea power in the world.
Finance Against Increased Armament.
Other forces are being brought to
bear, though as yet vainly, in favor
of limitation of naval expenditure.
Some-a larger number than the ordi-
, nary news-reports Of the day indicate
"a number, too, that Is growing in
| extent and influence, would substitute
, peace policy for arbitration by the
sword and thus make unnecessary, eX-
} cept for police duty. the army and the
/ navy. Among the "pacifists," as the
} advocates of world peace are de-
scribed. it is interesting to Americans
| to note that the European press class
: Woodrow Wilson, the president of
8 the United States, and Champ Clark,
! the speaker of the house of represen-
, tatives.. In Europe the financial inter-
1 ests Of the continent have been moro
I effective than the eloquent advocates
t of peace in preventing war. 1t Is an
open secret that two years ago these
d financial interests averted a general
d war on the continent. They are now
|, becoming aroused to the evils result
r ing from "the mad rush of increasing
J, ornaments"
= Disarmament Sentiment Growing.
g Sentiment on the continent of Eu-
I rope is changing toward saner
I. policy of disarmament and of arbitra-
y ton as opposed to increasing military
y establishments and appeals to the
= sword though this sentiment has not
t yet been able to express itself in po-
litical international agreements and
legislation. The repeated strife in the
# Balkans is only an apparent exception
C in thn Uannro1 tranH Tho
% disciplined peoples Of the mountains
l. set their neighbors' houses on fire.
3 That the conflagration spread no far
II ther was due to the self-restraint of
u more civilized Europe and to a senti-
ment for peace, which was noneI-
istent a few years ago. All this must
| be written with some reservation.
| The millennium OF peace and inter
| national good will is not imminent,
| but, notwithstanding the portentous
| figures of expense which have been
j quoted, there are signs Of the dawn
i Supremely suggestive, perhaps, is the
i behavior Of European nations in re
i cent crises of international disagree
i ment. Fifty years ago. twenty years.
i possibly ten years ago, these crises
i | Wouiu nave ISSulleu III "dT. lOudy
i they have been settled by conference
j The recent treaties have been written
i with the pen and not the sword. They
1 smell of tobacco smoke, not powder
/ And not what man says when moth.
i ing Is happening to him reveals his
i real self so much as what he does
4 when something is happening to him
i And nations, which are but collections
i of men, are, in this, as otherwise, like
/ unto them. They are many men, but
] with the same mind.
Church Influence for Peace.
The powerful aid of the spiritua
group Of the church in Europe Is cast
for disarmament and peace. The
church exists under many names anC
- with doctrines and deeds much a
- variance. Set aside the large section
~ of so-called Christian church which
-. drills soldiers in Ulster, inspires blood
a. a. ritual prosecutions in Russia, blesse.
VI statues to Moloch in Germany, ant
~ worships Mars and Mercury. militar
'e ism and commerce, everywhere. Unto
~ these who call themselves Christian.
le Jehovah is a man of war and tn,
"a Christ came into this world to bring
40 not peace-but sword. They, fol
q consideration CT temporal power ant
~ afternoon teas and fat livings, ar,
helping him to this end all over thi
continent of Europe. Verify, the.
ne have their reward. Are they not chap
Ia lains-in-crdiuary to Mars at goot
ls stipend which enables them to dress
m in purple and fine linen and far,
IT, sumptuously every day? One meet
e. and hears them in all European lands
ne 1t is another and different group II
va the church. in mosque and synagogue
%. in cathedral and chapel in monaster.
III and mission house, which, increas
'o ingly potent and numerous, pleads TO
on peace and spiritual, as opposed t.
or Innrnl,r tnrnInEnl 4hi=nc Al..ana4 z.