Show THE IMPENDING CRISIS WAR WAP is established for the immediate purpose of destruction whatever may be the ultimate objects amed at it means destruction of everything before it everything that does not yield and sometimes yielding provides no exemption fro from the stroke of the destroyer ahe be strides recently taken in the diree dop of scientific warfare have no refer reference ence to a mitigation of its horrors or a lessening of its deadly effects vastly otherwise they mean more destruction in less time ind and a wi wider derfield field for the carnival of to be held in it is 18 simply a sam game of attrition with adventitious circumstances and skill figuring avely as factors improved avas means guns that will fir oftener and with greater effect and t decision d an than their predecessors asas st slaying ying more men and demol ming more structures within a given period of time war cannot of course be otherwise without this death and de adon truc tion it would not be war bel ap jape proclamations not having a so ob objects ejects in view would simply b bethe edicts of stage potentates and military which do not Ud land directly to them would be as 44 of consequence as a school parade when therefore toe therefore a 9 0 army advances it expects to lay y and perchance be slain the jt pe the killing to the point of new on one side or the oth other er H jk done one the sooner it will all a be 1 ik 3 1 1 74 the no tendency of the age not withstanding the numerous peace A congresses to is in the direction of war rope r has been shadowed with clouds for a dozen years these e been darker or lighter in aci rance with the condition of the klemento lle mento but several times it has veined OB as if the storm was about to abbt oal tibe the awful calm preceding fi outbreak now prevails and all ng with bated breath the lichen when the first sh shot ot shall be it 11 is doubtless the fact that a long and woody bloody struggle has been held back for the very reason that all are prepared for it the powers today are a vast series of ar armories morles the greater part of their adult population soldiers in undress uniform awaiting the word of command to change their attire arm themselves and go to the front and for what because they are ordered to do so and for no other reason Is there a disposition on their part to kill their neighbors because of a dispute between the rulers or for any other reason no the order comes to advance to the slaughter and it is obeyed without questioning many perhaps the majority of those who survive will not know what they fought for even when it is all over how strong and striking in contemplation temp lation of so fatuous a condition of things sound the words of a parisian paper la justice speaking of the success of the exposition it says the kings and princes are against us the peoples of the earth are for us MS and yet the people of prance france were not for the government when napoleon III proclaimed war against germany albeit they hastened to respond to the call and went into theone the one aided bloody conflict with all the courage and devotion of men whose hearts and souls were all their selfish and inconsiderate rulers most of the european wars are not begun for the protection of the fatherland from invasion and with the purpose of sheltering the fireside such objects would able and commend commendable a ble in nearly n ea r ly every instance enlargement of territory increase of empire the strengthening of a dynasty and a feeling of distinct and pronounced jealousy one or all are the underlying motives motive of the aggressive par ty perhaps of both parties the violation of one injunction of the de decalogue ca thou not covet is simply the precursor and generally the only excuse to be offered for the violation of another thou not kill |