| Show AS TO UNIVERSAL PEACE ARE ALREADY I under way fur r the meeting of o the pease congress COW II which ie is to 10 be held hel 14 in Boston la Sa October next n nA A bulletin says s that advocates of or peace from all over oer the worM wend wt t be there thereto to express their horror horrer hor of and aDd Its att eils vils It must be b confessed ti that t the situation just sow now is not DOt one o to toe toe toI I e frage rage the members mem of tiie tue congress S In h Orient Orli nt a bloody war wait is raging t a i 11 t i thee other sections of the world mEn m n r 1 llY las i ing ng g down their lives on ift altars of ofa a S pride conquest conquestS S f dj 13 will Mil deny den that at it would be a beautiful thing if war could be beI beLt td Lt I 1 It is l t e hUt liu or necessity ne seu In which nations t indulge J A Polish writer who up to the tho day 7 of ot his death was a strong streng tr do advocate cate of universal peace pence and a 3 strong believer er in itt its I ultimate accomplish a accomplishment a meat ment once onee said that from frem the money moneY standpoint alone no DO nation could af at afford afford ford Lord to go to ways wa He cited the civil 1 war as s an au example and declared the United States ml might have hae saved up upward ward rd of 4 by purchasing the slaves at 1 l 1 M a head bead instead of or free freeIng lug Ing I them forcibly The Th writer Baron Jean de tie Bloch did net nt explain how the other ch great graat ques question question question tion involved in the tRe It e war the ques question question tion lion of states teB rights ceu have been settled without war par That was the primary primary primary mary cause causs of rf hostilities The war was wasH not Dot H begun for the purpose of freeIng the slaves J ves b Kt in fsr to tD compel the return of fit the seceding g tas to the Union A L tremendous us sacrifice In lives aid ad d iney was made mad for this principle but we of a generation tint has grown lift since the tbs close of the th conflict C can easily BS y believe beU Te the sacrifice crI was worth worthwhile white while W Gerge Geprge W Washington Mad hail ss ns great gat at at horror of was war as any tam man could have He hesitated l long before he be cast the weight of his influence in ii favor of the ci and against King George Goor but hut when war was wu the only alternative Washington counted no DO sacrifice too great peat if by it victory might be b won w n Washington did not believe In a large standing standIa army grm He wrote a friend on one one e occasion Overgrown military establishments are under any anT form forni of government In Inauspicious Inauspicious auspicious to liberty and are to be re ye regarded as particularly hostile to republican Bean lican liberty Yet Washington stood always ready to offer 0 armed resistance ee to every foreign fo foe War Wr is ta a terrible method of settling an international l dis dispute dl pete pOte It puts pots the human race e on a level with the tower lower animal World but it is impossible lm Ib t b believe that any en ened nation naton will resort ort re tto th war as I II long r as any other honorable alternative to Is open epen |
