The Ocala banner., 1921-10-07
WHICH rs THE MoBLER, ThE 5ET
TER THOUGHT?


many, the following good natured
passage e-atarms occurred between SEN
ator William Fl King Of Utah and
Senator Thomas E watson Of Geor-
gia
We would like to know which our
readers regard as the better. the
nobler thought?
Senator Kink said:
q do not rise for the purpose Of
precipitating any constroyersy 4
would have none with my distinguish
ed friend, whose friendship i prize so
highly.
1t seems to me that the views of
Senator. IL they shall prevail in the
hearts OF men, are prophetic of very
gloomy future They would indicate
that as the centuries come and go
there will be no evolutionary develop
ment, no altruistic progress which will
bring about happier condition of
affairs under which humanity may
dwell together in peace and amity.
Does not the Senator think, Christian
as he is. broad humanitarian as he is.
that the seeds of justice and righteous
ness and peace are so planted in the
human heart that even black men
and white men and brown men ulti-
mately may be brought together in
condition where they may live in
concord and in peace?
Even if that is not possible, does
not the Senator believe that it is wor-
thy the effort of the biggest and the
littlest Of us, of the greatest and the
humblest, to try to effectuate some
international union, not that will de-
stroy nationality, but such cooper
alton or union of peoples as will
eventuate at least in the for
nation of a tribunal to determine in
ternational controversies, if not to ac-
complish something along better and
broader and more liberal lines?'
Mr.. Watson of Georgia. Mr. Presi-
dent, in answering the question of my
friend, the Senator from Utah, might
remind him that it is the dream of the
philosopher and that war is the his
tory of man. There is not step
that the human race has not made up
ward and onward that is not filed
with human blood. 1t is the price we
have to pay. and the Good Book tells
US that until the end of time there
will be wars and rumors of wars.
Man is fighting animal, and when
he ceases to do so he will live on
beets and celery and asparagus and
thin soup, and become a noncombat-
ant, and therefore a degenerate.
Mr.. King. MIR. President, may I in
vite the Senator's attention to the
fact that Herbert Spencer in his great
work on synthetic philosophy and he
was a good deal of materialist=af-
firms the proposition that there IS.
first, the disorder, the confusion. the
contradiction, resulting from ignor-
ance; then there is the confusion and
the disorder that results from inves-
tigatiOn and inquiry and finally there
is the harmony which results from the
triumph of reason and of truth We are
passing from the triumph of reason
and OF truth. We are passing through
the process of inquiry We must, by
the attriti0n incident to the develop
ment of progress, erode away those
peculiarities and faults incident to life,
and does not the Senator believe that
ultimately the lives of humanity bot
toned upon great principles of truth
emanating from God Himself, may
evolve some form of civilization that
will prevent the horrors of war and
bring into this world of our peace
and concord? Are we forever DOOM
ed to the treadmill of war, the atroc-
ity of bloodshed? Shall it always be
said that the path of progress is
macadamized by human bones and
cemented by human blood? May we
not have the path of progress strewn
with the primroses and flowers of
love and affection, rather than with
the hatreds that are incident to this
infirm condition of the world at the
present times?
Mr. Watson of Georgia. Mr.. Pres
ident, the vision, heavenly, millennial.
which the Senator from Utah con-
jures up, is fascinating: but the truth
of it is, it is not founded on human
nature. You give us different hui
man race and we will have different
conditions; but, so far as we know
anything about the past, the human
race has always been pretty much |
the same everywhere as it is now
Intelligent selfishness has been the
guide of nations.
&#&
Ills paper has sdiu Iline anu I
time again: Men want war We
bow down and worship at the shrine
of the man in uniform.
1t is done in the pulpit; it is done in |
the pews-it is done everywhere by
all sexses and conditions of people.
Little children are taught to venerate
our war heroes. =
We may cry peace. We may put
words together so as to form the
most beautiful, the most eloquent,
the most impressive sentences that
can be used by the human tongue
in recountining the teachings of the
Prince OF Peace. yet at the first
intimation Of war they are all for
gotten in the desire for the clash of