Arizona republican., 1921-11-28
STALKING HORSES AND GHOSTS


 We send out the living armies of inc earth and give them instructions and power to recover the skeletons Of tLe dead of the last great war. and bring them to our silver high way and clothe them in the coats Of mail. that we have constructed for them a permanent home. The vast armies move, and excavate the far flung battle lines; years pass. but finally the last soldier. the last mur- dered babe and martyred mother is recovered: is placed in armor and springs to their home in the saddle: count them off: one, two three, s ten million strong. Can you, war weary world. conceive the task of recovering the skeletons of the flower of the manhood Of the twen-
 tieth century earth and bring them
 10 our silver highway; place each in
 silver armor. on silver horse. with silver sword in bony hand; the men and silver together with thirty mill lion additional outfits representing the actual waste of our last war? The concention is staggering: yet this is what we must do, so our eyes may see. and our hearts may know the why of this cry for war to cease. l Only one-fourth of our horses are
 manned: from whence comes the | hosts to ride our remaining steeds l?
 Again we send out the armies of the earth. with instruction and power to recover them from the dust. the l skeletons of all those who have fallen in war in all the remaining ages of
 the past ;the small and great, fair
 forms, the hory of age, kings and
 princes; the very last one IS finally
 recovered so here they come thirty million strong:
 From out the dim and fleetng past, Beneath the blue of heavens home.
 From every cline. from every sea. The dead raise up to find home, We deck them, all, in coats of mall; On silver horse on silver trail.
 i With silver sword in bony hand, We place each one: these are the
 Adead--
 The toll of war, thirty million strong
 we place each one. where all may ses
 The toll of the giided god of war.
 Though marts of trade. and busy
 throns,
 Through minds. and hearts. on jour
 ney long,
 They must rice on. eternally.
 These are our guests, the toll or war Forty million strong.
 We will now revert to our wa chest and divide among our guest i. the remaining silver dollars; the nea little sum of eight hundred an ninety mine million. two hundre thousand dollars remain: in makin an equal division each guest shoul get twenty two dollars and forty eight cents, as it is impossible { [ divide silver dollars, we have an 5 other causus belli: such is war l trying to solve impossible condition with an impossible remedy. : Our task is now eompleted: W I have our highway twenty feet wid s and twelve ahousand miles lon; ! paved with silver dollars every foe r of the way; we have our full size [ Ecavalry horses. four abreast. $ e thickly placed, that they are yer s much crowded. all the way-fort q million of them; on each silver sad dle and bridle; in each saddle q knightly guest in coat of mail: Il bony hand of eaen a solid silvs . sword and a few paltry dollars fe = each for pocket change.
 e This is what two hundred an a sixty billion dollars. and ten millio r men-the monetary and man DOW, e loss meShs or should mean to Y waiting. starving, greedy. bloc s thirsty, war mad world; we mu y quit war or take up the habitatic
 of the beast. The man power lo IS alone cannot be estimated yet he ' we have ten million of our very bes | together with an estimated thror F of thirty million from former wal e locked in silver coats of mail. ridil IS silver stalking horses right throul l. all business and pleasure: for V
 4aII t IS and ghosts of the wars of the pa. Ie shall ride through every hamlet. al II every waysiie. and every village. al SC every city. and every church, al l. every synagogue. and every tempt ar and must ride through every mi "a and every heart of all the wide. wi IS world, until all may see. and fe T. and know that war must be no mo CT Not one of these forty milli Fe skeletons will raise a bonv hand sh help solve world problems; nor lg any magic or device may we dissol IL this frozen silver conception, a
 restore these guests to their relatiy al and friends. or restore this was ol money to the sluggish arteries of t h- worlds trade. These dollars lock p up in this conception of world d u' aster, will remain eternally frog H. where we have placed them, will ts ne nish and send canker into the l lls stream of all nations; the great oI problem of this age and generati
 is to keep these stalking horses a ul ghosts from absorbing the balance e the worlds money in interest on { or past.
 all Should the war weary world strr pc gle out from under this crushing ne dictment. in actual disarmament, a - turn their spears into pruning hoo k. and swords into blow shares. l, he will these skeletons in silver arm, B. with silver swords on silver hors ial stalk through the web and wool I'd the fabric of all governments, so le
 as time shall last.