Show SLAVERY DECET DECE T CRUE TY FAMINE ARSON PILLAGE AND DREAD CHILDREN OF WAR PL SI sv war has had many children since the world began the new york mall mail remarks some of N them are dead now but others are alive ft NN ar a first born was flaver elaver the savage who can con his neighbor in the forest killed him as a matter of course but he made captives of his family and his dependents and these captives were slaves by and by it became so profitable to hold slaves that conquered men were A ere not killed but epard for a fate worse than death and in the measure that war drove and spread and became vaster and more dreadful slavery spread and flourished too it was but yesterday that we ended it in america and it Is not 3 et gone from the earth wars war s next child was pestilence she was hideous but not eo so hideous as slavery she follows war like a shadow with the wings ol 01 the vulture she hovers over the camp born on the battle field she flies over all the world tor for that point of vantage and her victims vastly out number thoe of 0 war itself she la is so closely as socia soc ted with her blood stained parent that it Is probable that it if war were no more on the earth there would be no more pestilence as long as the world endures then famine this sister came later than pestilence and her ravages have been more dreadful in this age and quarter of the world we do not have famine in the same guise as that in which hach she visited the middle ages and still visits asia our people do not die and rot upon the streets as in lucknow or but famine stays longer with us when nhen she comes 4 she visits us in unemployment and adversity she drags out her curse over the years the crust may vt not be wanting but the horrible waste and charge of the armaments upon the western world withhold from the mouths of countless thousands the nourishing food to which their hard toll entitles them famine as the child of war means tor for us the untold billions that are squandered on battleships which in a few years are junk to the robbery of legitimate industry hatred between peoples fratricidal enmity Is another child of war this ugly sister of lence and famine m e have had with us many years in america even to this day after halt half a century she waves her bloody shirt in ift the halls of congress then there Is arrogance which Is war a legitimate offspring and deceit for all la Is fair lif war and the student in the military academy Is taught first of all to tool fool the enemy with all manner of lies the baser the better and arson and pillage are they not the children ot of war that survive to this day last of all the ultimate breeding power of war has been well expressed by one who said war Is the father of more wars never was there a war that did not leave its offspring in hatreds that had somehow to be worked out the world is full today of wars that are merely awaiting their declaration the state of etrope E drope is more like war than it is like peace every dreadnought every added regiment of the mighty arms armaments imenes Is a war ar child of the monsters that napoleon napole 1 and bi Ble marck let loose upon europe ihlam 4 A aa i fc A |