The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-06-19
DOES The PREPARATION FOR
WAR MEAN THE BEGINNING
OF PEAcE?"

One generally gets what he goes
searching for.
The time has not yet arrived nor
will it ever arrive, Luther Burbank
to the contrary Notwithstanding, when
a man shall go into his garden and
gather figs from thistles.
Every tree, every flower, every
plant, is as true to its kind today as
it was when the world was first Gre
ated.
AS it is in the vegetable kingdom
SO it is in the animal kingdom.
Every insect every fish, every
fowl, every creeping thing, is as true
to his kind as when God proclaimed:
LET the earth bring forth grass, the
herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree
yielding fruit after his kind"
The fifty dollar marsh tacky may
be developed into the ten thousand
dollar racer, but under no kind of
process or circumlocution can he be
transformed into an OK or camel.
The divine narrator says: THE
herb yielding seed and the fruit tree
yielding fruit after his kind, whose
seed is in itself"
Whether tie Mosaic CT the Darwin
ian theory be true; whether the earth
was created or evolved, the law
holds good, that like begets like.
We gather what we SOW. If we SOW
the wind we reap the whirlwind.
In the beginning of time if one of
our forbears painted for human gore,
he seized a bludgeon, skulked behind
a tree or a ledge of rock, bided his
opportunity and fell upon his un-
suspecting victim and slew him.
AS he advanced a step or more in
civilization he welded his crossbow,
or proudly buckled on sword and
boastingly slew a score or more.
AS he clamored still higher up the
sleeps of more cultured and refined
civilization as we find it diffused over
the greater part of the earth today,
he secretes his hammerless revolver
in his hip-pocket, or sends through
the mail box of poisoned candy or
q harmless looking explosive.
The thirst for blood, the desire to-
take human life, is just the same to-
day, is every whit as rife, as when
Cain slew Abel.
Court houses, jails, turpentine
camps, churches, newspapers, together
with all the implements for the in
iiction of punishment and torture, |
exerts every little restraining influ-
ence.
There is never a time that the
are not filled with ac-
counts of sensational or unsensa-
tional murders.
Our whole superstructure of civil
zation, seems somehow lacking in that
that makes one love ones
neighbour and we go on nursing a.
ranking desire that impels us to-
MAIN, injure. and kill.
AS it is with individuals so it is
with nations.
A nation does not erect affairs, dis
tribute anthems, sing songs and issue
proclamations of peace, if it is in
search of war; it does not establish
schools, mobilize armies,
gunpowder, and gigantic
of war, if it wants to tread
in the paths of peace.
A nation, the same as the individ-
ual, knows how, when and where tol
find what it wants.
1t knows that the preparation for
war" means war-it does not mean
peace until one or the other nation
becomes exhausted of it's resources
and lays down its arms.
History proves that wars are fore
told, planned, anticipated and precipi-
tated on one pretext or another.
If only peace was preached from
pulpit and press; if the exploits of
the soldier were not extolled and
glorified if an inhibition were placed
upon the manufacture of gunpowder
and guns, and all the munitions and
ornaments of war, war and the war
spirit would end
The desire of one nation to despoil
neighboring nations; to extend it's
own dominion, power and empire; the
greed and ambition of individuals to
become rulers, are at the bottom of
wars.
War is the antithesis of everything
Christ stood for, yet wars are upheld
and made not only possible but
popular by His followers.
What if Christ was cartooned as a.
lIwa~