The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-07-08
By Knseshaw

war will not do that! The Allies have
won the greatest war Of all history
and they are now preparing for the
next war!
If winning war would end war, war
would lhave been ended long ago. Ac-
cording to M. Valbert. the various PEG
pies Of the earth have fought and won
not less than 5000 wars since 1900 B.
c., and not one Of them, nor all of
them, put an end to war. Why?
Is it possible to put an end to war
by waging warp Surely it would be
as reasonable to try to put an end to
burglary by burglary. or to murder by
murder. If war is ever to Be ended
it will not be done by fighting, or even
winning a war after it has broken out,
But BY PREVENTING 1T FROM
BREAKING OUT.
To do that, the people must transfer
their attention from battlefields where
wars are merely fought, to the places
where wars are made. For. strange as
| it may seem, wars are not made on
battlefields; they are only fought there.
Wars are made in much more com
Portable and safer places than battle
fields, and. stranger still though it may
seem, wars are not made by soldiers;
they only fight and endure them after
they have been made. Wars are made
in the Foreign Offices of the various
Governments by small groups of men
who control the relations of the peo-
pies Of the earth.
When they say We must love each
other we do so, and there is peace;
when they say we must hate and
slaughter each other we do so, and
there is war. No one else, neither peo-
pie nor Parliament, have anything to
do with the making of war. TheadipIo-
mats, who work in the dark, make the
wars.
The people are mere pawns and
playthings. moved about by their hid
den hands. The agony the people en-
dure has no higher purpose than the
schemes which the diplomats hatch in
the dark, and dare not discuss in the
light of day. The diplomats are the
deadliest enemies of all mankind, for
they make the wars which plunge man
kind into Hell, and they work with hid
den hands. The Foreign Offices in
(which they work are the Matching
grounds Of war. 1t is to these the peo-
pie must divert their attention if they
would rid the world of war.
Winning war never has, and never
can, end war. WAR CAN BE ENDED
lONLY BY PREVENTING IT FROM
OCCURRING. To do this we must be
something more than obedient pawns
awaiting the command to march to any
war the hidden hand may make. IT is
1.-THE MAKING OF WAR THAT MAT
TIERS, NOT THE FIGHTING OF
| THEM. Up to the present the people
have been considered so utterly inferior
that they have not only never been con.
suited about the making of war, they
have been denied even that knowledge
that wars were being made for them
), Their business is merely to fight tht
wars whenever they are so command
ed, and ask no questions. From among
the host of witnesses to this truth lie
us take the following:
+ But when you come to our Foreigr
policy, you are no longer Engishmenj
you are no longer free; you are re
commended not to enquire. If you do
you are told you cannot understand it;
you are snubbed, you are hustled aside
We are told that the matter is too deeI
for common Understandings like our
that there is great mystery about j
d . = IN the innermost recesses of i
1.-THE Foreign Office we find some mis-
cradle intrigue. in defence of which il
every cline, and traversing every oceal
your armies are perishing. and the pre-
cious blood of our country children i
squandered as if it had no price. Johl
Bright at Glasgow. December. 1858.
You and your friends complain of
secret diplomacy and that wars ar
| entered into without consulting the PEG
| pie. Now, it is in the Cabinet alone tina
questions of foreign policy are settled
We never consult Parliament until al
ter they are ed.-Lord PalmerstoI
TO Golden (See Morley's Life Of Cob
den, p. 695.
| If we attempt discussion before wa
breaks out We are hampering the gov
eminent in negotiations and endanger
ing peace. If we wait till the war j
upon US then it is said that in an Yin
patriotic way We are dividing the coun