Weekly journal-miner., 1915-01-06

tlld the run and OenSeIlC llc dIl- dal come out of the north and ov- erran the Roman empire. City after city of the glorious empire was de spoiled by these barbarians and final ly the city of Rome opened her gates without a blow. Is history again re- beating itself? When they have fin ished their fendish work in Europe whither will Aleric the Goth, Attila the Hun, and Genseric the Vandal turn for provender for the maw of war?
 And we so surfeited with our own importance that the God of Nam mon must receive our worship?
 Is this obsession an evidence of our decadence, or does it simply in vite it? History must answer. This may not be the psychological moment for congress to authorize an adequate military and naval protection but l insist that the thunderings from the European tragedy should awaken our slumbering nation to a realization of its insecurity without causing a panic or an attack of national hysteria. For our militaryism is a joke among the nations; our 100 millions of popula ton, unlimited resources and com mercial rank, merit more tangible protection.
 l hold that there is a law associat- ed with the destinies of man which if unheeded leads to destruction, while on the other hand, if practiced to the exclusion of all other laws, leads also to destruction. l refer to the law of the survival of the tittest. Between these two extremes there is or ought to be, means, l trust a happy means where the moral sua- sion which they exert and which de termines the 'httest," who shall sur vive, is backed by the iron hand of physical power. According to this classification the United States is as much under protected to survive un- der present world conditions as Ger many is over miltaryized to survive.
 In presenting a plan for world peace, l trust that l may not be mis- understood. The term sounda so paradoxical in view of the present status of the nations of the earth, that anyone presenting such topic for discussion is apt to be considered visionary, to say the least, while the less charitable among you may see in my views symptoms of dclusional insanity. Be this as it may 1 ask your further indulgence for a few moments in which to present my plan. This plan implies a direct ap- peal to the honesty and manhood of the nations. It does away forever with the thoughts that
 Kings must have slaves;
 Kings climb to eminence
 Over mems graves"
 It combines the ideals of Chris tianity with the power of enforce ment. It establishes the fact that we arc our brothers keeper and that we must love our neighbor as our self.
 It presupposes that mankind will fight until the peace of God which passeth all understanding shall have so filled the hearts and lives of all men that they shall beat their swords into blow shares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against na- ton, neither shall they learn war any more." That this state does not exist today is automatic.
 This plan presupposes the failure of the Hague as a tribunal of last resort, and war, the only success ful solution, as practiced by our bar barrie civilization.
 Finally, it presupposcs a change of world ethics superinduced by the stern realization of the appallingly great and unnecessary sacrifice of human life and indescribable suffer ings of the innocent, to the end that mankind will ultimately seek to re- ducc both this needless waste of hut man life and the suffcrings of the in- nocent, in the settlement of disputes, national and international
 q hate that drums discordant
 sound
 Parading round and round and round;
 To me it talks of ravagcd plains, And burning towns and ruined swains
 And mangled limbs and dying
 groans,
 And widows tears and orphans
 moans,
 And all that misery's hand bestows To fill the catalogue Of human woes"
 The Plan Outlined.
 A rational system of national de fense for all nations.
 1. The size and equipment of the armies and navieS of the world shall