| Show DISCUSSING PEACE At t a n discussion at Unity Hall the thc theother other evening of or the causes of oC war and agencies of or peace ace some of or the tue speakers maintained that wars wan were necessary to reduce r duee the surplus of oC production that thatIs It Is sure ure to accumulate during long peri pert period periods od of ot peace I It In IK by b no means certain that there Is III overproduction of or tins the necessaries o olife ot oC life at ut any time One cause of ot high hl h pi Ices Is III said d to tu be that production docs dae not keep up with tho the increase of or population lation And a writer In Colliers has hao lately expressed tho the view that In years from tho the United States will have no food toad stuffs to ex ox export x port Two millions of or people ho says fas including Immigrants are arc added to out our population every ever year y or He asks How are ate wo we keeping up with thaU that and then he Jun goes on The rhe answer anver oo l lis Is i that outS our soil ohl Is steadily becoming less le productive Thero being no pro proportional Increase In farmers form farm labor has 50 0 per cent In the last lust ten years Farm products have havo cost cOll that much more on our city tablet tables They rJ Ju ure going to cost as CS much moro more mONIn morein In ten years We Te need fifteen bushels bushel pur Ilet year cal more mOle wheat but our average product per ller acre acro Is becoming less les In Instead instead stead of ur more If 11 there thele Is any an truth in this thiM to advocate the deliberate do d of ot any portion of oC the products of oC human labor ax I seems e ms a particularly absurd rt We 0 do not destroy the thc property erty of ot our neighbor in order ordel to open a tt a market marke fur foi ui a surplus We v do not n t set fire firo to his hi house In order ol er to create employment fin fIJI masons carpenters plumbers etc or 01 to enlarge tho tha mar marI hot I for fill r r iii carpets carnets and so on On 1 the th contrary c t if ic a c does on 11 r we ne do all In our power powel to put the till lire out Civilized communities pay pa ia large sums Hums every Ocr year for un out efficient tire lire department In order that destruction tion ion may be prevented as far tar as possible pus pos sible albie This Titis is foolish If It it is is truo that thatto wo to c must have hae periodic catastrophes In order to 10 relieve tho market of oC ts to surplus Cities ought to employ armies of ur destruction to attend to tho the business of LC achieving the thc market at regular in intervals Intervals Instead of fire departments But that would of oC courso course bo ho absurd War Yar Tar is nothing but evil clI Sometime good has come from the conflicts of lC tribes or nations but nothing of value to human kuman civilization has been pro pru produced pr by b wars ats that could not have come through the agencies of ot o cu just as 35 well wellAnd wellAnd And the tho day cIa will surely come omo when peace will prevail Somebody has Just suggested that Mr Roosevelt bo be called call 11 home and that he h bo be given ghen the com commission commission mission from rota our government to open negotiations for tor a u plan of or uniting England Germany Russia Japan and anU tho thu United States State In a peace Icaco alliance Such an alliance it it Is thought would make mako war In Ia the world Impossible Pei Perhaps haps so But a better plan would be for tor some man of influence and talent tal nt to call tho Urn common people of oC the world together under the pure Jure white flag and form a brotherhood of peace pence determined ed to work for Cor that principle with all 11 the wisdom of oC the Jesuits and the per persistency persistency and enthusiasm of oC the Salva Salvation Salvation tion Army Some Somo such brotherhood would by b and by Influence governments to form alliances and adopt a policy of I restriction of oC armaments We fully Cull tx x poet that from the midst of or the In Industrial classes of oC tho the world such an anI organization will be formed when the thc I time timo is ripe and then we may moy look for results |
