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Show PEACE TREATIES. Secretary Bryan's peare treaties have been agreed to by the represent.'! t i ves of Great Britain, Prance, Spain and 'China, and the conventions will be j signed in the near fulure. Similar i agreements with Turkey and Greece l are said to be almost ready lor signa jture. Gerninnv, Hussia and Japan have 1 signified their acceptance of Ihe principles prin-ciples of these treaties, although Ihe ; negot ial ions are not sufficiently advanced ad-vanced to warrant Hie drawing up of j I he necessary document s. The present war has been n great educator lo all Ihe pepe f tM, i v- i I i.ed world and the need of some such agreement, as that prepared by Nocic-jtaiv Nocic-jtaiv Bryan has bee,, keenly fell, 'r j na'f "cooling time" allowed and , a peace coiumisinn been appointed to sift the causes the present wfi, catastrophe, catas-trophe, entailing (je Im-n of hundreds of thousands of lives ami the destruc. tion of millions of dollars' worth of property, would never have bee,, precip italed upon civ ilial ioM. It was the irony of fate (hat (hi, war should break nut i 1 1 1 r 1 1 i i .-(,. 1 v f,m.. ling the pcaee prop'i.'i Is of H,iH country I which, 1. v the wav. were not hailed with any marked degree of c n l h usin m j by Ihe ,.,ea i,j ,. Vv,u,. ., ,,, , , ineeiu.. death on ,,, fir,,,,, ni,.. .,,r ! ""' "' r.,rv t,, ,M11 I Ihe s, a, , -,,. f I.;,,,,,,,,. , ., f,lU ..,, I i "'I of : I,,- ,,,n ., 1 1,,... ,, ,. , nh ( j and i-r. if, a I ion a- vi.ll. I l.v cf nim c il,,. , ,a ,.,j.t eUr,l.,, fear has been expressed that the United ISta,cs would be drawn in by some uncontrollable un-controllable and uiif.irseen chain of circumstances. cir-cumstances. The signing of the treatic-.i agreed upon with Great Britain ami j France w ill prevent anv such deplorable action, or at least delay it until all honorable efforts to keep the pcae. have failc.i. The man who would sneer at the work so far accomplished is cither nli.idiy partisin or lost to all the finer instiiicls ot humanity. |