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Show PEACE. :: ' ( - ; There arc many who l"ok upon the peace conferences con-ferences and ilie advocates of universal peace as i though tlicy haI somclhing ihe matter villi them. ; j These onlookers say that universal poaT wouhl he . j a good thing, no doubt; but then there are quos- i lions in which the national honor is involved where J arbitration would he inadequate, where the arbitra- j ment of arms ran alone settle ihe difficulties. Now j this thing- t-alled national honor is a very delicate j thing: some nations have it mure finely developed if titan others, especially if they have a large military j force. Nations are like individuals in this. And :f the individual who defends his honor with a pun is ! f:'"v.i oil upon in these piping times of peace; he is haled he fore the courts, and long-drawn-out trials : wiih jdicnis'.s and experts and lawyers with hypo- ! thetieal questions galore furt'.isli the news for many J j v. reks. The "field of oitr" is a tliitijs of the past 1 1 mi America between iiifiivi.lo.ils. mid we cannot lr.it ; j erl lha! t'i" field of national honor will soon follow the duelling ground into disuse. j Surely there is nnthii'g in the movement for . intern;.! ional p-.-acc ami the limitati n or anna- t inert s that i not natural and that should fail to I nttraoi the synm;;hv of all men. It mav he that little has been jice.mp'iiiic-d by the peace confer- i e;e-es so far held, l.ut that they have served to at- trnet attention to the waste of war and the awful ". tax upon the people of the earth cannot be qucs- i tiened. And with ihis enlightenment, surely th.e i . time is not far distant vhMi the wisdom which is now guiding the minds of the advocates of peace will become so general that there will be a universal I demand for a cessation of hosijlo preparation and I limitation of armaments as now advocated. |