Show I WHOLE WORLD IN ARMS t Why the Russian Ruler Is Pleading For Peace > 4 TaE PEOPLE ARE CRUSHED 4 PSENT POLICY WILL LEAD TO ANARCHY 4 Gloomy Picture of the Preset and Future Panted by the CzarI pea Policy of Expansion Brings Distress t AllDiscontent of the Multitude 4 New York Dec 19A dIsptch to the Times from London says At the great public conference held Sunday after I noa in Sf James hal favoring an in teratonal ratification Gf the czars ratfcaton czars peace proposition William T Stead sad that though he could not give the exact words of the czar in a recent interview in-terview the substance of what his majesty ma-jesty said wa as follows i look out over the word I study our civilization and I do not find it very god I see nations all engaged in seizing or trying to seize all terri powers tovy not yet occupied by European I look at the results They do not seem to me to be good For the native races what dos Im pedal expansion mean Too often opium alcohol and all manner of foul disdases a great gulf between the governed gov-erned and those who rule and crushing taaation upon the natives for the blessings of this civilization civizaton this civilization And for the nations who seize what dos it mean A continual increase of suspicon jealousy and rIvalry the hieeping up of fleets and armies In order or-der to take part In a scramble with the world with the result that the army and navy arc swallowing up more and nor millions that should be used for the welfare of the people and the advancement ad-vancement of the word On top are a very few rich and comfortable rtable Down belo with an eve increasing pressure of taxes for arma mets Is the great mass of poor pee pIe whose position is not very good There is an everincreaing multitude of those below with their breeding discontent ripening into socialism and developing into all kIngs of anarchy No I do not find our civilization god Why do we make it so We have at the present moment arrived at this stage that we put all our very best manhood in the army So much is this the case that we mobilize the whole fabric of the social community War has become so expensive that no state can stand the strain of pro trcted war without having to look bankruptcy in the face and we are so perfecting our mode weapons of destruction de-struction that no army can go into the field wihout losing so large a proportion propor-tion of its officers that when the war is over even if that army be victorious the war will have inflicted irreparable loss on the country What wih disconnection dis-connection caused by mobilizing what with empty excheQuers what with de cmltd ranks of leading and governing govern-ing men I see nothing before any na ton but a terrble heritage of revolutionary revolu-tionary anarchy |