Show PEACE WILL COME friends of ef peace note with tion the growth at home and abroad of the fraternal frate roal societies that teat exist for the purpose of teaching the nations nation to arbitrate their differences without appeal to brutal foroe force their aim Is the establishment of a permanent international court of arbitration to be governed in its ita decisions by international treaties between the civilized nations nat lone gradual disarmament would follow it to la undoubtedly true that a sentiment in favor of peace has hai in this thia century more than kept pace with the human that lead natrona to spend lives and money on dit cultivated men and women everywhere boffin begin to view things differently from what the ancients ano lenta did many now new questions tlona in relation to this subject are asked Is it absolutely abool feces nary ary to spend the fruit of peopled people in indus try often none too abundant on SP ap for navies and armies ip id not to live a useful life as aa blurb an order of patriotism as a to go out to kill and be killen why are more statues raised in honor bonor of soldiers than to the memory of philanthropists and nokle women why do historians record war and bloodshed blood abed in preference to the achievements of on eni lence enoe and why during allt this bi time of militarism cab arbow monero blem and diplo mallm has baa the expense to the peace ful law abiding citizen of baling governed generally been out of all tion to the actual benefit derived at prea ent bobev if r the nations of the earth are hardly prepared for corn com plate disarmament several deveral problems remain unsolved some soma of which like the gordian knot have bays to be out over by a well directed sword past ware wan jim in europe have mixed national elements element deemin seemingly ly incapable of assimilation in memo russia in Aus austria tries in the countries occupied by bj turkey this condition is particularly evident the slays slav naturally gravitate toward a common center the teu tons subject to the same natural law must ultimately join the family from which many or of them are yet separated completing the work to which prince bismarck devoted his bis gigantic energy the christians under mohammedan rule also are subject to an anomaly that cannot be permanent all thew the wrongs for which past centuries are responsible by cutting up and dismembering dismember ing na bione tione and coun countries trier and for the perpetuation petua tion of which the present century has invented and experimented with the iniquitous doctrine 0 ot f the european equilibrium will h have ave to be atoned for and the conditions readjusted on natural lines before permanent peace is possible when the time has come for this thin readjustment a terrible clash between all these bodies will undoubtedly be the result an explosion liberating the various ingredients and diffusing them in their primary elements and then the armed struggle will still continue as lone one as 0 on the borders of the reconstructed ted states are found low less civilized hordes existing of plunder and lawlessness the most peaceful government Is under the necessity of protect ing its outlying districts from such and resort res art to force is as yet the only method known when the time shall come however that nations are u united according to kinship common tr tradition and mutual interests and aten when every nation on earth hal bac learned to respect the rights of other nations nation as a law abiding citizen respects the abe rights of his fel lowman fellowman then disarmament and international arbitration r fre re sure to come towards toward this happy defection of mankind and its entrance into imo a universal brotherhood its present history is tending it Is the work ot of providence and cannot fall fail in every direction processes of tearing down and building up are going on preparatory to a new structure on this earth over which shall wave the ensign of universal peace it is the resu result it of the announcement on earth in these latter days day of gif the mighty principles of truth and of the work beyond the veil of those who lived and died tor for these theme eternal principles |