Arizona republican., 1915-07-05

land the world will be looking nor,
 land more to the United States, anc
 will envy our condition as a natior that has emphasized the arts o1
 lpeace rather than the tramps of war At the beginning of her history oul
 Igovernment adopted a plan different
 from any power in Europe. She lfostered no purposes of aggression she was not smitten with fear O. other nations. She did not suuander her substance upon the mainten-
 ance of vast fleets and armies: her 1 course was one of peace industry and int rnal development And
 while the world stood aghast at the | horrors of the French revolution and | all Europe lay at the feet of am bilious and interruptions monarchs who were stifling the industry of her toiling millions, America was enter | ing upon her career of prosperity
 and glory. For a hundred years and
 more we have said that the push of
 the spade hs mighter than the thrust lof the sword" If we should now
 change our attitude and begin to
 place the emphasis on militarism it will be a calamity to the world Now | is the time to exhibit the glories of
 peace. When Europe is bleeding
 and the ruin of q continent is being
 wrought through a program of mili- | tarism il is no time for us to black
 en our tongues with the praise of
 war. Now is the time to herald a
 world program of peace.
 Dr. w. P. Merrill reminds us that
 when the present war broke out, 1 band of strong young men in Eng land were sorely perplexed. They had been taught to believe that war was always wrong But when their friends were sacrificing all to go to war they felt they must go too. Sixty or more went to the front for volunteer relief service. They car
 ried nc arms Exposed to death they are a the front unarmed, helping
 the wounded and ministering where
 opportunity offers.
 May We see that justice can come
 more surely through peaceful tribun-
 als than by the hazardous appeal to
 arms, for might does not make right.
 The work of righteousness shall be
 peace When righteousness reigns
 then righteousness and peace will kill each other.
 Some progress has been made The
 idea of peace has taken root in the
 heart soil of the world. National assemblies have taken note of the ideal of peace. Rulers have recog- nized it. Tribunals have been es- tablished. International courts have been created. But one says: The big stick of brutal force was sud denly thrust into the exquisite and delicate mechanism of civilization. and civilization stopped. stopped dead. Who bothers now, he asks, about pictures and books and literature and painting? Who cares now to hear what Bergson and Eucken think? We are back again in bar barism, in the age of sticks and stones"
 We are slow to learn that Christ's | ideals are true. We pay a terrific 1 price before we learn. Men have : called Christ a visionary, an extrem- ist, and only by passing through 1 baptism of blood and fire will we ! learn that Christ has the secret of i life for nations as well as for in- 1iViduals. We see what has happen ad by trying to follow ideals other than Christ's. The war in Europe )rOclaims the bankruptcy of the pro- gram of militarism. In the presence )f a warning world and of a contin- -nt that will soon be prostrate we ought to see the infinite stupidity 1f a program of war
 There are glints of hope. In France where Napoleon has been the national idol for a hundred years, some new appraisment of the value If the arts of peace has come. In he selection of the ~Frenchman who las done most for France and the world, Napoleon has been pushed rom his pedestal and Pasteur has been placed at the top.
 Mere physical strength was glori- jed in the barbarous periods of history. The man who could slay | hydra headed monster. or turn 'iver out of it's course. as Hercules lid. was defied. Even in intellec- ual Greece the wrestler and chariot r were crowned. The middle-age hivalry was but "guilded butchery."
 nd we feel more and more that are the shambles where luman beings are the victims. It s something that Raphael, painting is sweet Madonnas. is more honored low than Frederick IT, of Prussia, possessed of military genius and lower; that Angelo, carving his inn erishable statues, is greater in the l yes of the world today than Peter f Russia, who crushed his foes by l: orce of arms; that Dante, singing ( is Divine Comedy. is accounted l reater than Hannibal scaling the ls lips and rushing down their icy l lopes to knock at the gates of { some: that Milton, singing his inn mortal songs of freedom, is consid { red greater than Alexander grinding { ities to dust and pushing monarchs { rom their thrones; that William iarvey. announcing the circulation of 1 he blood and bravely facing the , ontumely that dared to call him a cracked Drained inmpostor,' is now { bought greater than a Caesar lead 1g the legions of Rome to the 1reck of nations: and that Jenner, II uenching with his shield of faith he fire tipped darts of opposition. { praised more than Napoleon rock lg thrones and empires. for we have ' ome to see that he who bleSses and ayes life is forever better and