Show PEACE WITH A STRING TO IT the most moat magnificent naval display which mortal eye ever rested upon was that at new york a week ago on no similar amilar occasion were there ever so 80 many nations represented nor so go many first class clase ships in line while the ex pense incurred in various ways must have aggregated a large fortune it is ie estimated that the cost coat of the powder exploded in the great guns when president cleveland stepped on board the dolphin was As several such salutes were fired it is a a reasonable calculation that the total cost for powder alone was enough to givel give a good start to our longed for and needed road to deep creek but of course bette repent thus thu with the loudmouthed loud mouthed cannon belching forth a friendly greet great tug ing than vomiting balls and scraps scrape of iron jim in front ot of the smoke and flame with deadly and destructive intent it was a spectacle in some respects worthy the age and the people the at implements of war and subjugation not curtailed in any measure or degree deroe roe ot of their deadly power nor yet f easbey like dogs of war but obedient to the will of man become as an so many majestic admirable picturesque set tings tin 9 8 in a grand international spectacle this does however but suggest that the peace of nations is an ary quantity field in place by diplomacy interest anti and fear that while one extends to another the right hand of friendship it oo 00 keeps keep the left upon a weapon ready for use one at an instants itYs notice thus oon con eldered the display in hampton roads and on the hudson amounted to a comparative examina examination tiou of the nations respective abilities to cripple if not destroy each other completely the lions and tigers are behaving unusually well but the iron bars bare are all in I 1 lace and none or of them Is broken or detective defective the display brings us at once to the question as to what it is those ships which paraded so splendidly and peacefully were built for certainly bot ot for that mal purpose but for one as different as a gentle spring shower is different from a destructive down pour of hail and sleet accompanied by a howling blast as the flight of a dove la Is different lerent dif from the flight ol of a bombshell brought down to the last analysis it is shown that they were intended to aid in the oppression robbery and murder of one community by another or to prevent the attempts with such buch ends in view being consummated in remote times limes when every maua mans hand was against every other man mand lit and such intercourse as occurred was guarded and watched with zealous suspicion bow much superior was man to the brute creation and yet on a scale commensurate with our education and experience this naval display was simply a reproduction on lagrander ug rander scale of the old time tactics a display unconsciously perhaps but still a display or of the ancient but not honored methods by which our race was controlled it may be pointed out that warships are still a necessity and by the same logic that a militia system is also a necess ty because there are certain human weaknesses which time and experience peri ence have not yet erased and to maintain public order these inse must sometimes be overcome or atlease at least over awed by force but as has boon been shown many ti tameo m e there is really no necessity fo for r n nations a eions to go to war any more if indeed there ever was any such necessity accord tug ing to human standards great britain might eventually have overcome the colonies but there were those in high places in england who n ho realized that it was not right to do so and the discouragement which they created eventually led to peace and our independence SO bo it might be on all occasions if the cabinets cabinet of the nations contained each but one firm influential justice lovings loving col headed man it is a matter of doubt as to whether proclamations of war would ever be issued theu then might the armored ships and ponderous engines of conflict pass pan into that condition of desuetude out of which comes no other harm than a recollection of money thrown away still after all ail to is said and done there is a ray of comfort in the thought that a hundred years ago no do such peaceful display as that alluded to could possibly have been given if not actually at war several nations were in a condition of armed and hostile boodle peace ready at any moment to clap hand ou word sword and let bose 1 oae the murde murderous roar of conflict it if in one century the world has made so much advancement may we not hope that at the end of another there will be no such thing as war ships at all |