Show REAL CAUSES OF ALL WARS Leo Tolstoi In Now York Journal Jf two men after excess quarrel l bavins drunk to I cannot under over a frame of cards Condemn either any clrcifmstanccs of them however viiicln may be the con other The argument of the behavior does cause of their disgraceful richt of one not reside in the just or the other fact lint but In the lliey Judged It useful drunk to and get play cards Instead ing of work quietly and then sal vs resting thcm Thus In a war I to find one could nVcr agree party no matter which elusively guilty We may find ex I that of l the parties Is one other but the acting worse than the gree of culpability examination of the de of the not cxpIain parties can absolutely the for the true causes hard so appearance Inhuman of so Icrrlble so a war in To phenomenon as every man who docs not willingly shut his e eyes these causes are perfectly evident and itS flearly discernible they are 110 Jn the Transvaal war nal so they are In all limes wars of recent cciual Tiio causes distribution ire these First the un the of wealth that Is plundering1 of one by another ondly sec the existence of a military class or party lhal Is of to the commission people predisposed of cially murder and spe educated to that end thirdly the false and scientifically iOus deceiving reli u doctrines by which time young generations are forcibly educated It Is for these reasons that I believe it not only useless but also bad to consider the Chamberlains and the Em neror William ns the causes of war because by so doing we hide the real causes which are more proximate and ones In which we are participants VI may get angry at Chamberlain or Emperor William and we may throw insults at them but our anger I and our Invectives while polluting OUI blood will not change the course of I human events because Chamberlain I and the Emperor William arc but thc < blind instruments of the forces which are behind them they act as they do I because they cannot do otherwise I All history Is but tim continuation of j the conduct f i of politicians exactly simi lar to UiOHc who have caused the Transvaal war it Is therefore abso lutely useless and even Impossible to get angered with them nnd condemn them when we can perceive ihf I roni causes of Ihelr actions and when we also feel ourselves guilty of one or the other of these actIons according as we net relatively to the three principal causes above referred to Until we shall enjoy wealth exclu sively while the multitude of toilers are crushed bv labor there shall always exist was for Lime appropriation of com mercial outlets of gold mines etc as a to necessity systematise our CX elusive wealth War will Inevitably exist so long as we shall heloiig to tie military classes so long as we shall permit their exist ence so long as we shall not fight them with I all our might If wo do not virtually belong to the military classes we consider them not only indlsponsl l ble but as worthy of praise and we are doing more than that when in time of war we blame a Chamberlain instead in-stead of blaming them Above all war will be inevitable as long as we not only confess but admit without indignation or revolt the de formation of Christianity called church Christianity and which admits I the ex istence of Christian armies the bless ing of cannons and which roeognlxes war as just and holy and as Christian work We are teachingsuch religions to our children we proclaim It ourselves and then we tl chare Chamberlain or Krugar I Erulltv because men are killing each other I This It thc reason why I cannot blame the blind instruments of igno ranco and evil and I can see the causes 1 I I in the phenomena III whose Increase or dwroAse I can myself cooperate To lllve lot the brotherly equnllza I tlon of Qulthilo I enJoy In the small est possible degree ones privflqgot tile refusal of participation In nil military venture destroying at the tame lime S Ihe hypuoiKm llnough which a person j I Is 1 transformed into I a iiHrceiuiiy nmr deMi who believes he is doing u good deed In becoming a soldier and aho tall t-all tIme profession I of a rational Chris tlan religion endeavoring to destroy much ns an nosslble thc Imposture of fater Christianity to which the ation Is being educated young1 gener duly of constitute the every man who honestly desires eagerly and to do good and I J la who justly 1 shocked by the horrors Leo of war o Tolstoi TOim4toiimiNow I I I i York Journal I TEE T |