| Show IN THE INTEREST OF PEACE A great ninny many people belle ballee e that tho the present war will mill make the american people hunger for martial glory and cause them to seek quarrels with other powers this feeling Is quite general g in europe it prevails more or 1 jess e as in ia the spanish american states it has found expression even in canada this comes of want of knowledge of 0 the american people it la Is a joy for or americans to hear bear of a victory by their army or navy but they would mould vastly prefer that no such victory should e or cr be necessary they love I 1 peace more than any other people because they are arc more enlightened the hey y aro are more fond ot of their neighbors than any other people they havo have less trouble among themselves and they we more generous to strangers colln coming to male make homes among them than any other nation on all this earth wars have been going on since the stone age but there has never before been heard in the exciter excitement nek and exultation 0 of victory such euch an expression as that which broke from the lips of 0 capt philip 0 tho the texas when ihen lie ho cried out to ills bis command don bont t cheer the poor devils are arc dying that one re remark mark shows the spirit of the high souls in our army and navy and it but reflects the spirit of 0 tile the high souls of 0 tile tho american people ab absolute blute political arid and personal fre freedom edorn makes men love order and abhor the savagery which fear and tury fury go before and violence and frenzy and death follow the longer too that this w war ar lasts the more do tire the american p eople deplore the tha deaths of 0 innocent men through the war ur the more are they convinced that among enlightened nations there should he be a more sensible gensib I 1 0 11 way of adjusting differences than through the sword por an example look at the prisoners at ports portsmouth and at santiago they cannot read they have no idea of 0 why try they were called upon to fight they are thinking of 0 the little homes that they came from find and wondering whether father or mother or litlie sister and brother are still living and Nh whether ether in the fate fare that has bus como come upon them they are arc ever to see ceo any or those loved ones again they do not know even which way may to stretch out their arms toward home bound does doca any one think that looking at them the american people havo have any lovo love for war nar or any desire to pain gain military glory by lighting fighting such min dion bilut while they alicy want maul no wars chile the their ar very desire la is to advance native land to such euch enlightenment to such a mair mastery tery of tile tho arts arta and sciences and to tho the carrying on oil the works of progress as no nation over before axelred to that doc does a not imply that they will mill not hot lust just as aa promptly fight m when lien necessary there Is in a story of an english lord NN ho he was once forced for ced into a fight with till settle toughs of to low 17 degree and who explaining tile tho matter uter later depleted the ilia fact that ho he was actually forced to soil ilia hla hajian by striking the canaille but lie ho struck out straight from the shoulder all the same and lie won in tho the same way may when necessary the american nation can right fight and though it makes no great pretension it has hag been found of lato late that it too has haa a mailed net fl a t that strikes hard but it would so much rather settle diffene differences aces peaceably that the world may settle betl a down to tho ilia conclusion that when the united states slates engages in war it will always be after all honorable means have been exhausted and that it Is ia absolutely certain that tire great ailep ablio Is in ia the right richt we flo do not despair of the future rather ma a have it a presentiment that one of tho the reasons why our na tion has been so blessed has licen been that by and by we may bo be strong enough to peace to all the world |
