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Show Everything For Peace THE modern cry that we should do everything for peace is right, only some people do not interpret it right. If a ruffian, full of benzine, becomes noisy and dangerous, in the interest of peace he should be knocked down if necessary and put in the calaboose cala-boose until sober. If, down on the border, peaceable ranchmen are being murdered or kidnapped and their little homes looted, in the interest of peace United States dragoons with carbines and machine guns should chase them to and across the Rio Grande, shoot and keep shooting until peace can be secured se-cured through removing those who would, if they could, make peace impossible. If blatherskites preach treason and anarchy on the street corners, they should be taught the music of hammers on a rock pile until they decide de-cide that they have no ear for music and to escape es-cape it are willing to emigrate. If Great Britain continues to insist upon breaking break-ing the peace of the seas by holding up and looting American ships, sailing under the American Amer-ican flag, then the next merchant ship that goes out should be convoyed by a dreadnought that peaceful sob of the sea may henceforth be undisturbed. undis-turbed. " Peace is the greatest of blessings, so great indeed in-deed that when jeopardized it is worth fighting to maintain it. And the strongest guaranty of peace that a nation canpossibly j3e.cure.is, by its jacis. tocon- vince outside nations that if any power seeks to disturb that peace, that power will have to pay with costs and damages added for the offense. |