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Show j EUROPEAN DISARMAMENT. If Emperor William really means to disarm Europe he will make an excellent excel-lent impression by begining with Germany. Ger-many. Philadelphia Inquirer. It is a signticant comment on the young German kaiser's talk of European Europ-ean disarmament that Russian increases tha army and navy estimates by 9,100,-000 9,100,-000 robes. Washington Critic. If the young German emperor had the ability to see it, he would find more menace to his empire in the starvation of his subjects than the combination of his enemies. St. Louis Post-Dispatch. If the Eniperior Willian is realty in earnest about seouring the disarmament disarma-ment of Europo he can lead off with Germany. Germany has led in the work of armament," and she should keep the leadership in going the other way. Pittsburg Dispatch. It is stated that the next mora of Germany's Ger-many's reform kaiser will be to invite a eomferenee of all tho EuroDean Dowers to consider the question of a general disarmament. William should call unoa the United States for suggestions. We are engaged in the disarming business busi-ness just at present. Indianapolis News. Emperor William it said to enter most heartily into the scheme for the gradual disarmament of Europe. The The movement is consonant with the spirit of the ago. and the idea just such as would appeal to his romantic mind. The plan, if carried out, would be more of a eivilizer to tho continent than a hundred years of school instruction. Elgin News. Europe to disarm, quotha? It cannot be. The spectacle of disarmed Europe pursuing paths of peace while the veins ! of Amerirnu industrp were drained ' supporting old soldiers would be too I exouisitely droll to be vouchsafed to a world atill in bonds of iniquity. The cry whales would acquire the human faculty of laughter and oysters die in lockjaw in convulsions of glee. New York Sun. " (r Rumors are'., again current of a European disartnameut. fathered by the Gorman emporor, a young man who believes himself able and in duty bound to accomplish eleemosynary impossibilities. impossi-bilities. Tho history of the world makes ' for universal peace, just as surely as it , makes for tho universal freedom of , trade The two are by some theorists i supposed to be not distantly connected. The dream of a European international interna-tional arbitration peace league is often in the minds of men, sometimes of statesmen. New York Commercial Advertiser. |