| Show I ARBITRATION AND WAR Drier bt Nt I1lnlII Distant by the Old boldler Yon know cant get over the fact laid tho old soldier that thorns n heap more heroes in tbo world than there wa all due to the civil war And yon cant tell where youre going 10 meet cm The man you buy a lead pen I oil of in the stationery store moy have I served and so may tho man you buy your clothes of In tho clothing store Just as likely us not the man that lrk fllnIb ji brings I your milk In the morning coming I i com-Ing along early through tho quiet effects 4 may have been at Gettysburg and tho man that twists the grip wheel of the cable car you rldo down Broadway in I may have marched ocr narrow couln t = roy roads through lofty forests with a I gun over his shoulder and a knapsack t on bis back You tee you cant tell Tho man in the pulpit may have been In It and so may the man that sweeps the streets I You cant tell about it Tho fellers dont stand round and holler about It but Iheyio heroes just the same tho salt of the earth on this continent and i the world I ii better for em a heap They tire self reliant and self rckpccttui 0 I citizens who help to keel the country I sweet And their children are proud of 4 i them How proud I And they grow up all tho stronger and better citizens for I this Inheritance I 1 Still I believe in arbitration on principle and I feel bound to fay that I bcllovo in It in practice too War is I n frightful waste of human life and of material I cant now and I never could ECO the ecusoof destroying things I and I think tho moat tremendously foolish t fool-ish thing I going el is taxing people out of Aouao and homo to keepupli armies I I standing that are finally to be destroyed I And still I cant keep thinking that I a war like ours about a real principle is not without its compensations It I sort of clears tho atmosphere distributes distrib-utes backbone around among survivors I and tends to tho perpetuation and enlargement b en-largement of freedom and the benefit of the human faces Now York Sun I |
