The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-02-02

into agreement as to what they will
do in lines of trouble or disagreement
and each one holding something to
fight with. He says that any agree
ment made among such people Is
an arrangement for war rather than
an arrangement for peace.
After all is said and done regard
ing the matter of universal peace
there are certain hopeful signs about
it and very much may yet be accom-
plished. First, let it be understood
that the whole world is very anxious
for peace on almost any condition.
They know that nothing more ter
rible than war could be brought to
pass and anything that is lesser
evil than that would be better. With
the whole world in that frame of
mind, take into consideration that
it has not been so very long ago when
piracy was as legal thing as war
now is, and piracy has been practic-
ally wiped off the earth. The same
may be said of privateering. The
thinning out of fighting vessels to
prey upon the merchant ships Of the
world upon the theory that whoever
captures them is the owner of them.
This business has been outlawed and
relegated to the junk heap. In the
last hundred years dueling was out
lawed and condemned to the scrap
heap. Seventy years ago if two men
got into dispute it was legal for
them to go out and fight a duel,
either one numbering the other and |
it was alright from legal stand |
point. But at the present time, and
for the past fifty or sixty years duel |
ing has been unlawful, and if one |
man wounds another in duel SO |
that he dies, it is murder and he |
would be dealt with accordingly. 1t |
was only in the last generation that |
dueling was outlawed in Europe and |
it is no longer thought of as thing |
permissible or liable to happen.
Then too, slavery has been abolished |
in the world, and that has been done
in the past century. Nobody now
thinks that the world is going back |
again to accept human slavery and
let one human being own another |
any more than any one thinks that |
the world is going back again to
recognize dueling as proper and
legal thing.
Strikes have been recognized as
legal, and to certain extent proper |
expressions of the people. But |
strikes are getting in bad odor now
and the public has come to the con-
clusion that they are always the vic
Tins of the strike no matter which |
side wins, and they are tired Of being /!
the innocent bystander to be injured.
There is a perfectly good prospect
that strikes will be outlawed at no |
distant date and relegated to the |
scrap heap the same as duels.
With all this definite progress Of
the last century or so, with world
wide sentiment against having any |
more wars or any more strikes it is |
not too much to hope that both wars |
and strikes may be outlawed and |
placed on the forbidden list, so that |
any one that seeks to start war or
a strike is plain criminal and can
be handled by the criminal law.
There never has been law against |
wars and when the kaiser retreated |
into Holland at the close Of the !;
World War and everybody knew that |
he was responsible for the suffering |
of millions of people he was already |
convicted in the minds Of practically |
the whole world. But there was no
law in the world by which he could
be brought into court, tried, con-
victed, and condemned. The kaiser
and his military clique are alive and
have their liberty today due to the
fact that there is no law against war,
but only against certain methods of
conducting war; When the Germans
started the World War, they violated
a law in that act but in the early
progress of the war they violated
every law there is by doing per-
fectly lawful thing, that is, conduct
ing war. What the world wants
now and what the men of the world
are trying to do is to outlaw war
itself