Show J t of cf Mr Mn T By y Edgar S I it p pre r e fl il I 1 I c l t ion III 1 about a future Federation 1 i T of ot th the York WorM when whan the U 4 war drum throbs throb no Ion r er and the tM battle flags are furled has always alway struck I trie as All poetic ten out never profound Drums may indeed cease ras rea to throb and SIa lIR be furled hut only bc we like I awl and cavalry strategy ii their suppression I k War Var may also alo reuse yet hardly bary until J and the heart of or him is Ia so 80 perfect perre perfected t ted ed that saint int of ot the future will the of ot today as we regard the luna g d e n ai as a sport war has 4 1 tor oc the Use moment im ment lost los it its favor far ml is Jk k ot of it Yet nothing IK j i J l tut Lu Change hangl hange Peace however hOer 1 p pleasant IB IS s ne he r permanent War Val is la I normal sort l 1 condition r On the front page pege of ot the first history Is a murder Two brothers are face tace j to face Their Ideas conflict One kills the other The brothers are succeeded by bl clans dan Thue re are tents and pas pea passions j sluM There are families races race na nR nations nations Hons empires But the con conflict un lct of Ideas Wea always the Ute strife which ensues I The lite wry story of 01 civilization Is hi I a bulletin I rr battle ba The lesson If on which disengages from it is the Ow th right of or There Thre II never has bas been any alY other The Roma Romans l summed It up In two words Vae They were right Th criterion of war Is IK the result In it ft there Is 18 sat sav Ma for casuists no ques QU S tl m ot of Justice jUtie or 01 Injustice There is a I merely mertI of or ic tory and defeat d t at I EIther r make for peace but not i 11 or r Its ret re tE m That would voul l pass all un und II d 1 er ar r has bas been be n defined as glorified The scaffold replaced by the triumphal arch atch would be more figura figurative figurative figurative tive A condition of things qualified as extralegal would be more exact War Var is 18 the paradox of ot Jurisprudence It sanctions that which is forbidden honors that which is punishable and rewards that which hl h is reproved But it is normal condition De MaItre Maistre whose whoso theology was per for perhaps ler haps a t De ardent regarded it as a a purifying purit process preliminary to uni universal un 1 versal ersal expiation It Jt may be that he was not entirely correct I who was quite as dis dia discursive cursive maintained that war would I end when the world does It mar rna ma b bo that he too WI wrong wrung I The point is hat at peace is elusive i i The earliest t effort to domesticate it j I I was that of the Greek f The effort was pral but as i two tolerably resonant fights were ele the tho I i j direct outcome one may hesitate to toj toI j I call it a success i In projects not similar t but connate cognate c the middle ages alls were Mere prolific One or I two of these subsequently interested I the fourth Henry of France From 1 them he produced a u plan platt width which I time later had the merit or ot u William Penn The Quakers 4 tf t tI I result They are the real lora J Of I I peace But with every respect to In their one m pisy y bi b a t Joe ana a perfect roe rod The lh Society fo lety of J ignore sno C c poh I h t which Is the tho basis of society Itself Itsel I Kant was 48 bet Oi i advised d He took I that criterion and on it a n white I flag which he called Arbitration a de do d dt I I I Ivice vice kp which it has since bean b hoped t would enable potentates and presidents I Ito to declaim with the late Mr Ir Taylor i We Wb Ve are at peace with all the nations I f the tie earth and on friendly terms with the rest of mankind That hope in spite of ot the present i tsar and his relatively relative recent has thus far tar proved chimerical But the Hal hag had beet beep waved aved before The Idea del of it was not original with Kant KantI I if nc found it when rummaging through tb pandects of Justinian There GIO Gro tiu had already alread found it and what J i more had tendered it to the Chris Chrls Christian tian powers I Dowers looked the other way wa That is not surprising There Is glory in war Rr frequently frontiers and usually coin cOlu coinAges Ages Agen ago produced a little play in which he showed Sho oed that it tva not but the army ton on tractors In whose favor war was waged rles has hos been called a cynic I not invent human nature how ever eYer and that has hils altered preciously little since Times however have changed Europe has sown pretty nearly all aU her wild oats There was an epoch when war vaL ai was as to her a sport a trifle violent p perhaps r aps but in which she engaged pro professionally professionally and out of which she made what she could It jya l when it did not I haIJ to atlon After all allI I people must get along somehow and that too in spite of re remark remark remark mark that he did not see sec the necessity But latterly the Boer Boor episodes assist assisting assIsting assisting ing perhaps war has come to be re regarded regarded regarded as an enter enterprise less profitable than peace The profits proUts which used to from conquests and contracts are now obtainable with less exertion and far less Jess risk In trade tade Business complained is an oth r mans money mone Though nail naif the I complaint Js S just Even so business s Is organized now as it never wa was before and In such a fashion too that it en enables enables enables ables an enormous number of or people to become enormously rich Said a young yeun barbarian to an old Roman What is glory To create reate grandeur was wu the reply or to destroy it Business men halt at t the alternative In spite of the p industrial de do depression on oa the other ohe o hel ai sie fe e they ha have e created and are creating both abroad and at home if f net grandeur at least leat grand accounts They find peace profit profi profitable able It is for Cor this reason we think it sar sarto saVe a arin to assume m that t war a as a sport Is d rin There is n h Liat L t pays pa s better beHer now no Yet nothing is con constant conI constant stant but change When en the gam I I ceases ease to nay pa war will ensue It Is hu I I s normal condition EDIR SALTUS c |