The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-05-27
(By Albertus Vogt.)

1t is amusing the talk one so often
hears nowadays by folks who ought
know better-about the fulfilling of
the scriptural supposition of wars
and rumors of wars" and the almost
expressed hope that such prophecies
will be presently pulled off.
do not make any pretense of or
thodox religion and l pray most |
faithfully that l may never be vic
tim of any such hallucination as will !
carry with it any obligation to be-
lieve that that force in nature which F,
for the lack of better name we call
God, did, can, or will ever ordain
and purpose that destruction of life,
happiness and humanity as is now
progressing on the eastern hemis-
phere, shall occur as precursor to
any sort of millineum.
Very many centuries ago there be-
gan to obtain on earth "The Sisters
of Mercy" that was continually be-
ing recruited from the converts and
these self-sacrificing and most noble
women that they might be at all
times physically fit for their errands
of mercy, accepted celibacy, and thus
openly renowned individual mother
hood, that they might the better
mother the suffering world. and,
while they never had the supreme
Joy of their firstborn's breath on their
virginia. blossoms, they did mother
what is now the worlds Red Cross"
sisterhood that carries Christian So
lace to the dying and every possible
degree of comfort to the wounded
and sick on all battle fields and in
hospitals throughout the world :.
These noble women, renouncing self
must and will restore peace to the
d world and they will and are doing ii
slowly and surely by quiet talks with
t the convalescents of all the armies
), And in all of the recruiting ant
. preparatory camps witness all of the
If present talk of CONSUMPTION and thu
d war not yet yearling, and compare
l. that with the first rush to the colors
'e The proletariat of all the nations
l. realize now the war is not for an.
4 national injury, inflicted or sus
Us tanned by any unit adversary. The
&c know now that it is solely a ches
i game being played with human sac
Il rifice, to crafty the insatiate ambi
~ tions of few vicious insects VIII
claim royalty of breeding and right
49,, The flush of enthusiastic hghtin
=. is over, the butchering of the mi
tlions of lives and billions of none
10 has not gotten any country to tf
IT, controversy anyhere, unless 1t ma
be on the road to reason. You ma
,r- be sure all of the principals to tt
nd holocost in their every waking m
in ment wish they were well out OF
ng and some of them are SO sick as
ice be sorry they were ever in it.
,p- And the talk of few jingoes
America about any immediate da
Dr. ger of war with Japan in the cal
IAN premises of reason is preposterou
ri Including Korea, japan has pc
by ulation of only 66,000,0O0 and n
Isl tional debt of $3.50 900, 900, pre-
Gated On total assets of $4,000
w III 900, GOO.
d. The United States has popu
h.n ton of 100, 100000 and debt
w." only $1,000, 900, 900, predicated
=" assets of s16O,OOO,OOO 1t
farther from Yokohoma to San Fra
cisco than even from Gen. Frenc
o,a trenches to Tipperary, and the inc'
arc tive at San Francisco is negat
compared to the raven-haired, bi
led. eyed Irish lassies.
itch There is not one single inform
, of man in all of the orient anxiou
bar expecting conquest in the
to s. A. and there is not one sin
educated citizen here who fears
even anticipates it. Not now.
the Ours is a great big attractive
ould all and most delightful to live
isla- country, with super-abundant g
year things to eat, drink ana wear an
with there may be any unfortunates
at so lost to patriotic appreciation
dis the myriad heart and eye and st
. in ach gladdeners at home, that pos
but ity may bene1t, let US ehoou'
not them to get into or between
care warning eastern firing lines, for
suits written