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FRIDAY, AUG. 20, 1915.
UNIVERSAL PEACE
War is but a word of three
letters, yet, perhaps, no one has
peace." So long as oppression fo"1czi01z5
is rite there can be no peace to
the parties upon whom it is
practiced.
Americans believe that they
have the best government under
the sun and we all feel justly
proud of it and its achievements
but come to think of it, what is
it founded upon? Is it a king
dom of love? Xo. That is the
kingdom of heaven. Is it
founded upon hate? We would
dislike very much to admit such '
foundation. Well, what is it
founded upon? The power of
its armies. Kvery dollar's worth j
of property, backed by the
strength of the whole country is :
ever yet been able to define 1! 8lrengl
the suffering, heart-breaks and I bl',,ind 0ur government and all;
i . . . i i i
uwiei governments, Kinguoms.
empires or republics are builded i
upon like foundation that of
property and arms.
Arbitration will not reach very
far unless the guns of the arbi
sorrow that are bound up in the
meaning of that small word, the
definition of which has been as
varied as the groups who strove
together for mastery.
Wars may be classed as just
and unjust and the sole cause is
injustice on one side or the other
A just war is one in which peo
ple must fight for their rights
ami liberty, and an unjust war
, is when a nation fights for con
quest, where fame and gain are
the leading passions that lead up
to the strife, and where nations
are forced into strife to defend
themselves. These latter we
call unjust because the nations
who inaugurate them do so with
out just cause.
There are many peace advo
cates who have many peace
plans. Some want it brought
about one way and some an
other. W.J. Hryan is the great
arbitrator, which is, perhaps, a
gooil scheme for peace, but to
the mind of the writer there
must be something to arbitrate
first; a preparation for arbitra
tion; a condition of readiness, i
you please, wherein two or more
parties will submit, their cause
to a hoard of arbitrators for at
judication.
Without this preparation there
can bo no adjustment ami when
it is a matter of disagreement
between nations how will arbi
tration be enforced? One party
may say mat tuey had given
that subject no thought, whil
another may suggest that it be
entorced by stress of arms. So
iar as we can see a resort to
arms is the only means of en
forcing arbitration..
Take Kurope as it now stands,
and what is the hope for arbi
.... ... i i . .
uuuou, or wnere should you
begin to secure it? Take Ger
many, will she listen while seem
ingly she has the best of the
controversy? Not unless there
is a large indemnity coming her
way. Likewise with the Allies;
have they been conquered ? Have
they reached a place where they
can stop with safety and credit
to themselves? No. Neither
party has yet suffered sufficiently
severe so as to want peace. They
want revenge, and while Ger
many might be content to make!
peace and hold all she has taken,
the Allies are not ready and
were all the world, that part not
warring one with another, to
bring to bear all their influence
for peace, they would either have
to back up their demands by
force of arms or let the warriug
factious alone.
It was Patrick Henrv, we be
lieve, that said during our own
struggle for national indepen
dence, "Gentlemen may cry
peace, peace, but there is no
trators are bigger and their
armies and cash stronger than
those who do not wish to accept
arbitration.
Socialists have a method pe
culiar to themselves for dis
pensing the blessing of peace
and are making strong efforts to
induce the world to carry their
peace plans into effect. How
ever, Socialists are making the
same mistake that other parties
are making regarding universa
peace. They leave out the
Christ, He whose right it is to
rule, and consequently they have
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'aders whose knowledge is lim
ited and who will not be able to
lead them into conditions ce
estial, for celestial conditions
can obtaiu only under divine
leadership.
Men may talk universal peace
and try various kinds of plans
for its adoption, but it will only
come in the way and manner
designed by the creator of heav
en and earth, and man cannot
hasten it except in obedience to
the divine will. God willed to
work together with man, but the
leadership and plans are his
own and man must seek him for
direction.. If there is no direc-
tion there is no progress, for,
"Except the Lord build the
house, they labor in vain who
build it."
Some Peace Scheme
Germany, after footless weeks
of diplomatic inouthings, con
tinues her campaign of under
sea piracy. England, after a
fruitless series of Anglo-Saxon
phrases, clings to her ruthless
practices as self-anointed mis
tress of the seven seas. And
each nation justifies' its lawless
uess by charging the other with
"tlagrant violations of the nrin
ciples of international law." '
Meanwhile the flag of the
American republic grows in de
rision day by day as a symbol
of liberty and justice and as a
shelter for the lives and rights
of its citizens and a guarantor
cj "
of the peace and safety of the
lesser peoples of the Western
hemisphere.
The situation has become in
tolerable. Has not the time come for
American leadership in a world
wide demand for peace? Hasn't
the United States strength
enough and spirit enough and
courage enough to enlist every
peaceful nation of the earth in
a sharp, unyiejding, unified,
demand that the belligerents i
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submit their differences to a
world-court and begin the end
ing 'of the European horror?
Both England and Germany
have, with coveted, sneers in
dicated their willingness to sub
mit their differences with the
states to arbitration. And that
fact, the Blade believes, offers
President Wilson his opportunity
for the opening wedge. If the
hulking military giants who, in
their blood -madness are over
turning the peace and happiness
I of the world, are willing to ar
bitrate with Washington, they
can be forced to accent arbitra
tion with every other country
now at peace. And if our gov
ernment can persuade Sweden
and Norway and Spain and
Denmark and China and the
Latin-American republics and
every other capital of the earth
to join us in a demand for such
action, the central empires and
the allies will be brought sharply
ace to lace with the prospect of
losing, for generations, the
friendly, unhampered commer
cial intercourse with the world
that is vital to their national
future.
The United States cannot ap
proach the problem with finger
bowl and powder puff. If the
world which is suffering from
the European war-madness is to
deal with the situation it must
deal with souared
l auu
bared fists.
But if the blood at Washing
ton is red enough and the back
bone strong enough, the problem
can be solved now. Toledo
Blade.
Warsaw in History
will tell whether the Teutons
will give up their prize.
De Lesseps based his prophecy
on the fact that Warsaw, because
of its location, could be devel
oped almost indefinitely. He
had seen the population grow
from 161,000 in 18(50 to 483,000
in 1885. In 1913 it was 900,000
and when the war came this is
said to have reached more than
1,000,000.
The importance of Warsaw
lies in the fact that it stands on
the Vistula at the junction of
great trunk railroads which run
from Berlin and Vienna to Mos
cow, and so on to Asia, Siberia
and Pekin. It has become the
great clearing house between
west and east. The population
bas grown rapidly and industries
bave increased in pronortinn.
Warsaw's importance lies not so
much in its military value as in
its situation at the gateway of
commerce.
Europe began strucrsrlino- fnr
Warsaw's possession with the
beginning of the seventeenth
renfnrv T i
j' " as almost a con
tinual battle between the Swedes,
the Russians, the Brandenburgs
and" the Austrians. Charaa
Gustavus of Sweden captured it
looo and kept it for a year
TIip PaI
1CLUOK U. huf o
'ost possession During th
tition of Poland in 1794 Warsaw
withstood attacks bv p0;.
d Prussians until the Russians
credit street by street and
Perpetrated a terrible massacre.
From 1795 to 1806 the eit.v
'as in possession of Prussia and
became the capital of rt, .i
created duchy 0f Wawgw "J
was held b pawn by Napoleon
unti 181? n.k 1
center of Polish patriotism. If
it should become the capital of
autonomous Poland, it is a prac
tical certainty that the winner
in this war will not give full in
dependence. Warsaw is too
valuable in any plan for com
mercial expansion, Journal.
Dr. M. J. Butler
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