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Show 100 YEARS OF PEACE. Yesterday was tho one hundredth anniversary an-niversary of the signing of the treaty of Ghent. Owing to the war in Europe a series of celebrations in this country coun-try and Great Britain has been postponed. post-poned. Nevertheless all who are peacefully peace-fully inclined will celebrate in their hearts the one hundred years of amity between Great Britain and the United States. In this connection it may not bo improper im-proper to point out that two nations sincerely desiring peace may be able to preserve it in spite of discordant circumstances cir-cumstances of the most threatening kind. In the one hundred years following follow-ing the war of 1812 many poiuts of dispute dis-pute arose between Great Britain and the United States. Sometimes angry passions were aroused on both sides of the water, and the jingoes raised their voices for war. Sometimes even those who clung devotedly to peace were indignant in-dignant at a loss which they believed their country had suffered or au insult it had endured. There were controversies contro-versies over fisheries, boundaries, trade and the Monroo doctrine. There was the crucial test in the war between the states, when the English Tory government govern-ment lent aid and comfort to the enemies ene-mies of the union. In a word, there wero any number of disputes more serious seri-ous than that which has pluuged half the world into war. And yet peace was maintained. On the great lakes both nations disarmed dis-armed and thereby revealed the possibilities possi-bilities of disarmament. We can see the policies of disarmament aud of armament placed side by side and we can note tho results. On the great lakes there has scarcely been even a threat of conflict, con-flict, while on the coasts of Europe there were several naval battles in the one hundred years prior to the present war and constant threats of warfare. Is it not reasonable to assume that what Great Britain and tho United States accomplished ac-complished for peace by disarmament on the lakes can be accomplished for the peace of Europe by some similar arrangement ar-rangement on the seas'? |