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Show Work of the Hague Congress. Wo-are told that The Hague Congress will confine con-fine itself to efforts not to bring around peace, but to try to ameliorate some of the ferocities of war. That will doubtless be of good, but the world is growing old and it is time for at loast Christian nations to begin to check wars altogether. alto-gether. Compulsory arbitration would do in many cases. That would have stopped tho war between Japan and Russia, for that war came of land lust on tho part of Russia. Whore a nation begins a war because of the abuse of its citizens in another country, that should not be compul-sory.tarbilrntion, compul-sory.tarbilrntion, but the rule even then should be that tenders of mediation should bo most prompt' and that every considerable nation should join in the tender, ovon as President Roosevelt and President Diaz of Mexico united to pursuado the quarrelsome wretches in Honduras, Nicaragua and Salvador to stop their foolishness and attendant violence. And the Congress should insist upon being granted more and more powers, until It can gradually grad-ually formulate a code that the nations will agree to The outlook for peace in India is not good. Turkey and the States of southeastern Europe are liable to be at each other's throats at any time; tho Boxers of China are restless and wicked. Tho Christian nations should in those symptoms discern possible trouble in tho near future, and try to unite- the pale races of tho earth to act in concert Wllierever trouble may bo incubated. In tho meantime, while the son voice is good, our country should never lay down tho big stick, for the jleit way to avert difficulty dif-ficulty is to have the alwr fellow know that if war comes, the United States will be ready for it. |