| Show Industrialism ard WaIt Wa-It Is I a familiar theory of the philosopher philoso-pher that the Industrial spirit IB I antagonistic an-tagonistic to the war spirit Comte In his positive philosophy l gives sometime time to showing how the development of the Industrial spirit Is I to banish war from the earth Buckle Is I of course able to demonstrate this In all the conn dince ot his sweeping logical processes and Lecky discovered SO years ago that ratlonlstn and Industrialism had extinguished ex-tinguished the possibility of any more religious were and nearly completed the extinction of war on account of trade and conquest Nevertheless what do we see In these closing day ot a half century of Industrial Indus-trial growth such as the world had not experienced btfore In any measure of timer Not since the opening of the century cen-tury has the earth been BO far fllled with the tern threat and Preparation for armed conflict and It to I Where the commercial spirit run highest that the talk ot war Is I loudest The armaments arma-ments of the great Commercial Powers have nvor been BO large either relatively rela-tively or absolutely as today but this Is I nol enough and lo England special call I for I1SO 000 000 for more warship Franc echoes 1100 000 000 llussla 170 000000 Germany quite an much and the United State anywhere from S50 000000 to JIM 000 000 In special andre and-re uiar army and navy bills And It Is I In the very intensity the Industrial spirit and the lenslly of the Industrial situation that this extraordinary extra-ordinary call to arms arises Large letters of the earths surface are coming com-ing I Into the market remarked Lord Salisbury two years ago when the in lernallonal complications which now vex Ihe world were ripening Into the present measure of development What he huM have said was that the fierce commercial spirit and pressure In the great judo strild Cent tern wr forcing the chI < I powers Into a Wild career of grab through the parts of the earth remainIng i remain-Ing unconquered by modern Industrialism Industri-alism Tittering possibly the United Staten It Is I all the Incitement of the commercial spirit and the greed of markets It Is I a question of markets which brings France and Great Britain Into collision In east Africa I la I a question of markets which draws the first powers of Europe In Jealou and greedy aspect to the shores of tile Chinese empire nussla not before known an a commercial nalon has caught the spirit of the time and Industrial l In-dustrial purposes mark Its career of expansion In eastern Asia The industrial Indus-trial revival In Japan Provoked and now feeds on the late wax with China The fever of Industrial colonization and conquest holds Germany tightly In Us I grasp And the great organ at conservative Hellish opinion an pounces that the Cause of war or peace are to I lie found for that nation In the balances uf trade with the outside out-side markets which are to be opened or which BAnd om other DILlon seeks to close And the United States We must believe that the great majorlt of the people are moved by purely humanl tarlan Impulses In the call far Cuban Intervention and there Is I enough go Ing I on In Cuba to Btlr the coldest heart to protest Nevertheless the chief nwl > ape which advocate Intervention Interven-tion and war dwell long and emphat ically on the supposed Industrial benefits bene-fits of wr and way down deep In the commorc lei consciousness of tile Ila tlon where It has long existed Is to ba found the unhallowed Impression that free Cuba or annexed Cuba would nf ford to the United states a new unit most profitable field for commercial exploitation nt our hand The same spirit supports the demand to annex Hawaii and hold 1 I ns an outpost to guard the ways of trod and clear the avenues to new market 11 Is a rampant and greedy cam olm rIm which will now apply the match to the powder mngazlh the wide world round if the match is I di plied at alla commer c lallsni whose mllon and ways arethe vaunted one of peace I Is the Socalled peaceful force of an Intn I Industrial Im which now drive on to Ihe filling of Armament Upon armament and to an International Competition In the creation of armies and navies no less fierce and grinding upon labor than that which prevails In the production and sale of the commodities producton Jut the commodites corlditic ar cOldllion ally right 7b Industrial spirit In I naturally And normally antalonllIr 10 the war spirit and the war spirit cant flourish In a healthful Indus I trial state I la an unhealthful and abnormal Industrial which a elate which ere area the present troubled situation In ltuaton International affairs The tierce quest I of the greot commercial Powers for nw markelahow othrwl Is It to explained In the face of tile act that their home markets are still the abode 01 enforced Idlns and discontent ana Widespread want of the very com modities whose overabundance drives the nations In all the fury of the war spirit to seek Outside purchauera even at the cannon mouth It necessary I IB a onesided aberrant Industrial overdevelopment which now threatens threat-ens the peace of the world and brings civilization I face to face with perhaps the most serious situation which has confronted it since society at the end ot tho pagan regime toppled back over upon Itself and began the long course of rejuvenation In the sleep of the middle ages For certain It Is I I ht under conditions jof full I and profitable And td Op utf employment for the masses throughout the commercial com-mercial world and of fair and Just distribution the produces of that cm plojment 1 the war spirit never could find such root as to be able to load upon the back of tabor the paralyzing weight of the Immense anti wasteful armament now everywhere In process If I limitless Increase 1 Is the Jre wide spread feeling of Industrial discon tent and dlsmittsfactluii and hopelrss nessthe spirit which Suggests every thing to gain aM nothing to lose by great and otartng ehanwhlrh renders tolerable in the civilized world I today this extraordinary call to arms on behalf of a cause which cannot live and flourish In their light Spring eal i field I Hepubllcan I |
