Show i ARMAMENTS AND HAGUE TRIBUNAL The Hague congress is remiss in one particular I Wo We suspect that its delegates go under instructions fr front from m their respective governments and all work under certain limitations But if that is to be qs us hoped doped a parliament of the nations then it is time lime that it began to assert its sovereignty When the first battleship was built it cost which the the world thought was a fearful sum sura to pay for fora a ship The cost has since increased three and four Iol fol fold l and still stillmore more terrible l devastators e are being ng planned Our own government is contemplating contemn contemn- plating plating- the construction of two battleships which are ure to be the largest fleetest a and l most threatening ever launched I INow Now it seems to us that it is time for civilized nations to stop all that Of course Germa Germany Ger Ocr ma many T and Japan urge that they need n new w ships to keep keel pace with the thc worlds world's S 'S maritime powers Great Britain urges that because of her position she must have armaments equal to any other two nations of the earth and the United States insists that both her long coasts need reasonable tion Lion There is no way to arrest the time rage for new and greater and swifter ships except that all stop stop stop- and right there The rhe Hague tribunal should get in its work by a solemn and stern protest against the time reckless expenditures of the nations and in their incessant holding out of o f lime h T c i of new wars wills Some cheap gunboats vouL be bo enough to attend to the barbarous and semi barbarous world It Ii is time tim that the civilized nations be brought to a realizing sense that wars wais must cease among them if indeed the reign of peace is ever to be ushered ushered ush ush- ered cred in iii An agreement by hj Great Britain France Germany Germany Ger Ocr many Japan and the time United States would fix the business in a tl day daj Tho rhe Hague tribunal ought to tobe tobe tobe be powerful enough by this time to compel that agreement r We e know that our country would be glad to join in the agreement we know now t that France would U the e two that arc are not ready arc are Japan and Germany German and pressure ought to be brought upon them and the matter fixed so 50 that when present plans Ire are carried out omit sn say three years hence the time further building of great fighting fighting fight fight- ing lug ships should be stopped slopped The rhe worlds world's sense of justice would be he behind every cry effort made along this line by the tribunal and amid no nation is strong enough to long oppose tho the j opinion of Half the time world still waits waits' redemption fields fields' are arc to be reclaimed and cultivated roads and and bridges and cities without limit arc to be constructed there is use for all the worlds world's mone money and people in the walks s of peace after the educations educations edu edu- of men and women arc completed and no 10 noheW new heW war engines are arc needed The Time worlds world's history is is made up chiefly of wars and the final thial balance sh sheet et shows that save a few wars for freedom they do not pay par |