| Show END OF THE that monster about to devour his own vitals r AT LAST ailant perfection of the tirana it runs of destroying life removes apo creation for doing it now how battles A will ailt j ise 0 O boucht in the future manly warfare long lone bill since boad gopi coil right li by john clark claris Rid III the tha ball of the slew new magazine rifle is is and sized like an inch and a liala of lead land pencil the force of it is diabolical it penetrates 32 inches of 0 solid oak it bores boies through three plates of three quarter iron set an inch apart and only then ceases to penetrate pene trat 0 because it is belted and the tha first none man killets with it in a 3 prisoner at fort S sheridan was shot on tile the luu ims at the distance ut yards the bolt burst his hia skull pissed passed through a 3 live oate oak eight inches w it diameter diamente r and buried barred itself three feet in a clay bank it is tile tho cobl deadly swall balb tilla that ever split the air it carries two miles iles and kills wherever it kisses for BOO yards thia flying dath pin rises but 8 3 4 10 feet from a right line tire tha vertical range for all this distance is only from the groin to the fore forehead bead of a man loan the missile is feo be light that tho the soldier eaily carries carrica round in his hie belt the magazine of the rifle holds five rounds that tha tiAre are emitted in three seconds in a horrid death spit at the close of 0 the charge no mortal foe can stand before the blast the balls of our old guns guis flew up in a trajectory over tile the h abada ei iasi of the intervening enemy and dropped in spots doubtfully and spent on P v distant line hue but this mortal lead sting eting goes straight and kills all tho the way A man at the distance of a milo mil and a halt half is visible only as a mouse but aut the little bolt finds and pierces him so much for the work of the open field tile the great guns of the moderns modem ship bip and fortress are fiill more terrible the new 18 13 inch and 16 inch rifled cannou cannon of great britain throw bolts that ale aie ir irresistible the range is 12 miles and more A fleet armed with these guns anchored off coney island can shall grants tomb oneff one of these monster ell engines enn can drop its vomit into the gut of broadway below city hall ball and send trinity church and alad wall street howling alter after tile the ghost of tweed A abot out ont ot of one of these hell bell throats threats will go through tho side 44 0 any american men man of war as though the plating were a cockle it is high time tima that samuel J tiddens Til dens essay on coast defenses should bo be revised and enlarged the general effect of this is a prophecy of the end of war that monster seem to 0 tie be about to devour his hia own vitals the indications are that he will soon gulp alp down ilot only his spleen but also his us heart and liver the tha progress pro giess of modern modem welfare lies has been een masked by alternate improvements in offen offensive hive find and defensive weaponry it baa been beau the contest of and armor fust first invent an irresistible alls mis sila allu and then an impenetrable plate it is an enlarged example of tho the contention between the burglar and the the burglar wants to force his hie way in ia and ana the safe wants to keep coop him out on oil the whole the progress of the two has leen been commensurate sow now the burglar has bad it and now the Bate maker for awhile offen offensive sivO weapons have haie been most improved and then hea for awhile the neana of mens lave iava been perfected we va have had bad also the lie offensive defensive paradox as illustrated lust rated in our existing marvelous navy that cust cost the american people laba year more than and andi ia snot not worth a beut this is a hard saying but aut worthy 0 if all acceptation tb writer would fain withhold it 11 he a would not utter such a judgment it if h he nod had a fear for his country or his coun try arys Is honor but lie ho regards war as th thi remaining lema ining goblin of the dark ages aul aud all preparation for war as a mere mera dia play of that ignorance which refuses to recognize moral force and justice as the only invulnerable panoply and shield of a nation at the pre present time science makes th thi greatest advances in project projectiles iles that id in improving the mearis means of destruction science in this age is in her tive riot not her protective mood the dib covery ct f explosives has been beca correl correlated atad with the invention of enginery whirlie would have paralyzed the imagination only 30 years ago the in im pro provement of the hie means of f attack and destruction has been so BO overwhelming that war has beached leached the verge of absurdity thought has bas so eo combined will vitt the physical animosities of the world that those wlm alio wield the agents of dost destruction st are aio obliged to pause before pulling the linyard and laugh at the criminal cri mindl 1 he ha who is fit ablo able to ro destroy the lie enemy need le cd vot not do it I 1 living having tho the power to an albi albalate late it bic bolmes unita a crime to exer exercise cis it tho only rational struggle whether individual social or national is in thiet chich aich leaves t ti each of tile hie combatants L ahe be to fair Nive ethcie tie be a chanco chance of winning and a c chance of exit rit war has bag couie come to the complexion complex in klat one army bets gets into tho power of on an by f strategy that done nothing remains but for tile ho army in to see the signal and file ent there is 00 oo need of firing when the enemy y is beaten eie aba alist come warfare e feln haq 1 thus I 1 isen till ough the tha age agency ncy of science to the level of thought the battle is won oll en the plane of lifo life and not on the tha plane of death it loola as though bru bality yand and violence were about to vanish ill tho the wind of genius the feign of if orce is about to cease by its own limi actions at ions god is tired of war I 1 rejoice that it is so BO I 1 dejoice that war lar his haa reached the reductio ad absurd aul am 1 I wil am glad with a 3 great gladness that hat tile the era has haa dawned in which justice slid truth and righteousness must et at to sway the actions bud anil poll poli sies ies of men inen and nations fighting is vell nell ellough among tile the forces of nature rhe sea aea may lash the thore the winds winda may jostle the pines and mountain mount ain oaks till their proud heads break and crash dowil aown the precipices the volcano with ill its lava av floods and ash clouds is well ati anongd ough and the earthquake is not cot only but commendable animal lifo life mere brute life may if i it will expend itself in violence that is natural and good but man is of another mold he is either a creature of moral forces and lid purposes purpose or else ho be is nothing if he ha possesses thought and no ethic he be is a devil and ought not to be possessing thought and conscience he has struggled up from mere savagery koward the big high level of the lie civilized life he is just now with difficulty climbing over tho the edges and planting hi himself on oil the higher plane his habit babit of destroying his hid follows in war var belongs to the dark and bloody world which he be loaves behind him certain as man Is 13 man certain as ho has haa a soul and canies a light tile the reign of warfare in this woi id enst end it must end some time sonic somewhere lehere and som somehow ebow all institutions that lire maintained by warfare must perish and pass away all plans and ambitions of men and nations that are begotten in the womb of violence must sooner or later issue in abortion and death either that or else all that pelt pertains ains to a higher life among mankind must be branded as a fatuous invention of dreamers ameis amels and priests ostensibly the world was never so BO warlike as at the tha present day to the casual observer it would appear that war and the preparation for icare it are the only thoughts of nations they are all in one ona mood even the political life which is the life ma m A 4 A evidence is ia only a aub ordinate play if m lie he real drama of war never before in human history were mere there thera su so many and so great standing diu armies never haver before were there such fleets and navies never fora were the ports and assailable shores of all oceans guarded with such buch impregnable defenses nen leei ei beffi a were the FO strewn with toilie does the slat nations ions seeni seem to ha be engaged in the ono one great business of if preparing to cut each others othera christian throat threats they thep are draining their resources to abo last drop in orde 1 to wash each ot licis 8 meadows and orcha orchards ads with a rain of blood there is ko however wever in all this an unmistakable symptom of the ell end the war fete grows big and boisterous in the last scene it is the melee before the col collapse callair lair faiq tha final pageant before the dawn of a new era there theio is something profoundly hollow ballow specious and hypocritical in the present display of force throughout the world it is seen to he be theatrical and spectacular it is the last great bhoj given by shy lock to his millions of peasants at their own expense for cent mies he be has been using the governments ern ments of the world as the rooks and knights of his chessboard and the people peaple pleas as hi his pawns spawns ha haa produced the present situation with a view to keeping hii hoarded treasures he has compelled the tillers of the world to organize armies to equip and support them in in his interest at this very hour he is digging a pit in his garden to hide bide what he tears fears cannot be much longer defended but bat this horrid horse play extending from to yellow river involving mankind in slavery slid and despair dee pair has hall now come to its last act and the supreme manager already lias has his finger on the call bell for the curtain curtail 1 the highest men have always dread dreaded L d war till and always tried to stop it hitherto they have tried in vain many havo have been tile pleas against the reign of violence lence a philosophers Iilo have cried out and in d poets have wailed their appeals the priests have bave always opposed it except when it was in the interest of their lind kind statesmen have denounced it except when tho the military contingent was necessary e sary for their success thinkers have reasoned med it out of existence orators like sumner samner bave played that the true irue grandeur grand of nations lies in tile the pursuits of jace all AH to no avail I 1 I 1 cut but another hand has now been lifted agai against livit human warfare war faie it is the hand band of science ienco hc what the humanities have riot not been able to accomplish i iu that they are weal science js is about to effect in that it is ia strong at tile the very time when all lations lave prepared tor for universal war ivi ai it if mutual faili Pet detraction ruction were ware the ene of nil all races at the deiy I 1 I 1 time tima when enedy state iu in christendom I 1 stands standa bristling like 1110 a porcupine toward 1 I 1 every ouid iu ill thit world at the very I 1 i time when from all the tha r slanting stray of flashing alaf lang bayonets is ig been the edict of wainee goes forth proclaim i ing all arillis tice i to prave tit far flier laughter slaughter of me men D by men gott god lui lu i his usual method of indirection war lias 1203 overdone ins ills own game gama and carl can go no DO onither chess is no longer when tile the first move mates the enemy As man by knowledge becomes become omnipotent warfare by ignorance becomes absurd battle is an air irish bull when each army de the other before the fight fl bt begins reu ren thousand men armed wish with the magazine rifle have a million cartrie cartridges 31 in their belts and every missile will kill I 1 for or two miles the other side sida so EO armed I 1 itis t is only a question which army shall get the first file having obtained the so as to got get the first fire it is oot cot necessary to fire at all when firearms were introduced the of the heroic crusaders were scandalized out of the field W with ith the tha thought that famous knights could be killed by boors at the distance of SO 80 yards i ards what was called manly w warfare ar was shamed out ont of existence exil tence with w th gunpowder after six centuries cen times t the he Jis discovery covery of the means of destroying an army ere it can show its valor dem ms an strates the absurdity of a conflict in which human courage is im unequally equally matched with the foakes of nature rhe perfection of the tha means of destroying ill life removes remove the lie leason for doing it the triumph of science in organizing the agencies of national murder is 13 ha be certain token of the end of it god is a physician enre cures diseases in this jy JOHN CL CLARK PK |
