| Show AM ABOUT A it B I 1 r RAI ION 1 dr and ana prospects of ct anle laconi rna I 1 arbitration lady cook writes of the tha of war ani and tho the war the unfailing theme of ita effect uvon and aba tax upon the people i just as any rope is good to liang hung a dou doe with so BO in the past any cause has been good enough for war chronic international I 1 hatreds and jealousies made the nations ripe to light fight for imaginary injuries or advantage as for real ores ones thus thua a spirit of contempt and animosity towards for eigners was encouraged by rulers io so that they might the more easily etelee the ins to war fenzy whenever they desi reil it the patriotism and genius of posts poets were enlisted on the same side A A century al ay mo the mercenary pen of dibdin fired the navy to incredible heroism ile he flattered every prejudice arid and foible of our simpleminded tars not a forecastle but rang with his bongi while english bosoms english hearts well tip em ein till hll round roand EL loach W tie aitu ardour arbour vacal ach jac that nothing cje call mil I 1 well bang the be labour the ilia dutch now the lh philean ileAn harato bar snug aou and io bo hl asly bout boul their courage they make a fine rout if theu d have ta alic a iii hole world not be A lieve e v e il t ft a lie then d k hy by dorit dont they come collie out of nelson kelson he wrote I 1 I so dyoll you see the dispatches was easily batow d i T tas st no use se with a bistry lo 10 to chaice ch em all I 1 1 hed occasion for only the old farbion fast ion mode taken burnt and deri destroyed desti oyed boyed as aicer per marcum thus with one of his precious limbs livars buot anay I 1 bold nielson naw A il 1 well how howo t nick em i so as for or the french as much its aa to eay any we can tie up one hand band and then ick em 4 next the connary corner in il for a share then ot of En england glaud that wonderful country sing i where weve thousands of 0 joy if ie we lye need cm mild liwa laws that protect us tie a protestant stant kins king lovely N conlen grog brox biscuit and free lom 1 when died in ISM ber anger was twenty four and had at al ready made himself hiir self a name an an earnest and true poet he was content to stiffer for his hia opinions and was equally free aiom venality and servility but from purer motives he did for the french army much the same that dibdin had lone done for the english navy this french anacreon who pang eang so sweetly of love also t tuned his lyre to war and with those witty sare sarcasms asnis which the french so appreciate animated the hatred of his country against its old aristocracy and against foreigners the opera of charles VI by II If alevy brought out in 1843 3 1 contains a sont song by casimir Casi cair arid and germain delavigne la franco france a du E et t si g grand rand qui beoit le dan danger ger plus grand encore est son courage luand it il taut faut chasser ac ic i c the chorus is intensely arid and amusingly gallic guerre aux jar jamaes ala jamale en an france his bis jamaes lAngla iiii ne reg nera bis big non non noni non jar damaia nals non jamaes en france jamaes biang lais tie ne reg nera non thus from abts aga to age from homer to tenny tennyson son one of tile the two grand themes of poets great anil and small have been nien men and deeds of war the sweet voiced calm eyed muse oi of peace has been seldom heard amid the fanfare of trumpets and the roll of drums peace li it is been despised men of peace have been classed with ith women and cowards we to day the greatest of all manufacturing am and I 1 commercial peoples that have exis existed ted do all we can to make war att attractive we bedizen our meanest soldiers with gaudy apparel cover the breasts of their chiefs with stars and orders although we pay them all badly from the tha beginnings begin arid and neglect them after afier years of faithful ser service vice the soldiers foi fol diers ot of peace bo however vever the it rank and rile file of industry are far more neglected the heroes of science are feebly recognized an and scantily rewarded by our rulers all however ever will acknowledge that the ultimate happiness of mankind must depend upon tile the universal rule of peace the abolition of war is daily becoming more and more moe a vital necessity to civilization trade shrinks arid and withers at the mere whisper of war the industrial armies of europe cannot be ground down much longer to maintain tile the costly organizations of destruction one man out of every five is withdrawn from the producers and becomes a non producer at the the cost of the other four if the twelve millions ot of men in europe the most robust the most moat energetic ene reetie and the best trained who ar are taken from the fiell fields and the workshops to learn how to kill and destroy skillfully fully could be restored to the ranks ranka of libor imbor and permitted to become husbands lius bands and fathers perhaps we should not have bave starving stara ng women in london making shirts for seven pence a dozen nor so EO many fallen sisters pacing its weary streets it is no do easy matter however to abolish customs which are coeval with the whole existence of mankind and which were doubtlessly derev ed from their beast like ancestors pra brorn m the times limes when ined fought fht 0 with fangs and claws to the present war has been more or less lees their normal condition but the more they become men the farther they recede from the processes of brutes tile the recent restrictions on war and the humanity introduced into it are au augi garies iries of a time when it will be ranked with cannibalism and other outrages 0 upon our lace face and the question quentio n which concerns us now is by what methods may it most rapidly and most effectively be roade made impracticable disarms ment has haa been proposed by many critics this appears to offer insuperable difficulties which are the powers that should disarm and to what extent and who will take the initiative what guarantees can there be that any agreement on the matter would be respected by all parties religion could once enforce the truth of god and the sword for a time rusted in its ite sheath but the power of the popes and the forces of superstition have been broken to what new powers can we appeal there are only three the growing necessity of unrestricted interchange of national productions the increasing sentiment of tile the brotherhood of men and the widening v widening sense of justice brotherhood and justice should hould be the new watchwords of the peoples and then alien wars and other oppressions oppress ions will moie fuels speed ily decrease if all countries were in the same state of civilization or if civilizations did not contain large proportions of the uncivilized complete disarmament might theoretically take place but in much of the world nothing short of the fear of military chastisement can repress the turbulent and predatory instincts that are always ready to burst buret forth in london alone we have fifty thousand regular thieves besides other savages and but for our soldiers it might be sacked at auy aljy moment so ho long as force threatens any community force must be provided wherewith to meet it the worst war is pr preferable fer to anarchy to suppose that war can cease all 0 oer er the world is an idle dream the imperfect development of social order in the greater reater part of it makes universal peace an impossibility nevertheless the greatest powers could co uld easily determine should ort to an international court of arbitration instead of settling their disputes by ruinous wars for it is those who have most to lose who should be the keenest in favor of peace and if they were once earnestly and loyally loyal to agree to arbitration tl 1 lesser powers would be constrained to follow them and by degrees disarmament would take taire place naturally and spontaneously if france germany austria russia the united states slates and england would but take common action on this thia p point it would suffice for the whole world an international C court 0 urt of arbitration established establish ett among and for themselves would eventually become a court of just jus t ice ica for the rest international laws already exist and would woul I be added to and improved imn irrin roved anil be come identified with international morality at present the whole geld field is one of uncertainty and e conjecture but a new and large class of international lawa lawyers ers w would arise men of wide research Bearch re and equitable views to digest formulate and plead the rules of the science which is destined to give peace to the nations As in ordinary courts of law the ablest and most profound pleaders plea ders should succeed the judges of the international tribunal and decide by the passionless laws of equity alike free from diplomatic chicanery and political heat beat the lofty standard of justice taught by bv international lawyers fiam grotius down to this day dav has been largely ineffective because causes have always been decided by statesmen instead d of by professional 1 I judges professor sheldon amos said of tile the arbitration at geneva under the treaty of washington i m 14 ton that it has been a C pod good deal marred by the tha national party iee I 1 I 1 eeling line by bv which some of the arbitrators arbitrator were agitated aita 0 ted and from which bich a perman per mantly lly constituted chart of might in ig t ir if it dould could be found at all be expected to be ba moderately exempt other causes too have contributed to this and and similar results the canons of right and wrong differ in different countries 0 owing 19 to opposite usages r but equity equit y is is spenor to usage and the proposed court coun which would be a Sup renje tenie court of justice for the world would be essentially a court of equity at present there is no canon of right and wrong to determine when it is ia justifiable to go 0 to war or whether any given war or unjust although the most moat wanton belligerent always feels compelled to offer a pretence predence pre tence of justification for breaking eakins br I 1 the peace but a court of arbitration would laws as well as the judgments many causes of war are lying dying among among 0 states of equal eidal civilization civilia tion religious 1 toleration free trade trad colonial S independence a wider sider diffusion of knowledg knowledge ge freer a and nd the decreasing influence of royalties and aristocracies are rendering obsolete the most moat notable causes of wars in past times limes and when the guffra baft rage e li is extended to women a as to men their vote for neace will be so unanimous unini aud and so powerful tart thy nu no government will be ba able to exist culess its policy be ba for arbitration as a prevents twe t ve against war |
