Show Ideas of Peace-Fear or main argument ad-Hk the advocates of expansion to commend for the battleships to and the common the American 10 want these costly Jf pure- 3 f aS M C against the dan- Jp images has been accepted much reflection by our fellow Is if Grotesque Jr is certainly something i filer grotesque in the idea mat fittest way to promote peace is all the time working to in- our for waging K It looks still queerer when to the dealings of men each We can all see r sen a kv nto me to seek his fortune armed knife and the most likely way to ft K him as an peace-Ik I Friendly A Kobe constantly talking in neighbor's supposed designs and to be firing at a target near jR is not specially calculi to promote friendly John L. Sullivan seemed to me a strong-i for peace than Edward little Ships Friendly II Fat is the effect of a national I f naval Jn the first place it clearly and perpetuates a warlike Aw and deposition mX the people and leads them rather than or in resort f The mere presence t battleship on the j Wast has probably retard- e Progress of the cause of the warlike D the younS men of 1 1 mind is easily aroused to martial let him recall the fighting enthusiasm created by President Cleveland's Venezuelan war or read the hysterical and wicked war talk of congress-men before the declaration of war against Must Use the Sea Such a policy is surely to guaranty against an aggressive or one declared by our own Indeed the martial spirit and aroused by a great naval would tend naturally to put the nation in a mood for settling international disputes by a method that would test the strength and value of the great sea monsters that it had been rather than by the less picturesque offices of the court of the Never Large No navy can be built so large as to save a nation from possible attack by Even Captain Hobson hardly imagine the construction of a fleet enough to resist the combined navies of the world should the nations ever wish to form a general coalition against Great naval strength is no Russia and both strong in naval flew at each others' throats with reckless A roused to intense will fight regardless of A Good In 1812 the United without a single ship of the line and with a little navy of twenty besides declared war and waged it successfully at sea against the strongest naval power in the with her fleet of On the other hand we do not find from modern that the absence of naval and military strength in a country has generally led others to attack Greece have not suffered from the battleships of their great A quarter of a century ago the United States were inferior in naval strength to every great naval power in Europe and to several countries in Asia and South Yet no however wanted to fight us and our navy was still small when Great Britain herself refused to go to war over the Venezuelan The real fallacy of the navy enthusiasts is in their theory that the great nations of the world are roaring lions going about seeking whom they may They are really nothing of the Whatever sins and outrages they commit against what they consider the inferior they are very reluctant to fight each Even France and Germany in 1870 had at the last moment to be goaded into war by an artfully worded telegram devised by Bis-n-ark and There are only seven great naval powers Great the United Italy and isTo one of these I wants or can afford to fight certainly any of the six would t i make sacrifices rather than send its battleships thousands of miles exposed to all sorts of dangers to attack I am disposed to believe that the argument is not quite sincere and that the naval expansionists do not care so much for peace as they do for the power to control the Pacific ocean and to bully and dictate to the If that is our real then I- admit we need battleships The best guaranty of peace is not brt a just and friendly course toward all a diligent observance of the golden rule and a cessation of extravagant preparations for coupled with an insistence on a resort to rather than in all But there is no possible guaranty against the imaginary and fantastic dangers conjured up by a deceased However many ships we build the Hobsons will go on clamoring for but it is devoutly to be hoped that they will not always receive aid and comfort from the White DAVID G. Boston Sunday BURN YOUR BRIDGES BEHIND If the positive man makes a he is not likely to be long rectifying but the man who never makes up his mind until he has consulted and then is always ready to open up every question for will never accomplish Roosevelt says man who doesn't make a mistake is no The man who is always after a who has no dare in his who is afraid to risk anything until dead sure that it is going to turn out never amounts to It is a thousand times better to make a mistake now and then than never to settle but to be always weighing and |