Show NATIONS SWAYED BY A AKINGS AKINGS KINGS FOLLY The San Francisco Cal Call regrets that are 8 so easily involved In war and concludes The queen of Spain has crosse crossed the frontier leaving her ro royal al consort I to fight It out a as best lie he mar wih with the The troops draft drafted ed fO for service In Africa are as might be expected of men rudely tor torn from the of their hives anti and knowing that their are Ikel lIkely to starve In iii their absence sence This Is militarism on schemes of for foreign olga eign conquest and aggrandizement I If It be urged that Spain hns lma long longheld longheld held the African whIch 13 no now the subject of cOll conflIct t with the lie Mool Moors it may ite he that Spain has no betor bettor right than England has hason hason on the rock or of Gibraltar und and that is 19 none at al all I If SpaI Spain wore were rich enough to an arm army of mel met counties such as England Englan keeps lp tip for or of foreign conquest the LIme hardship or of extraterritorial wars would fall on those who engaged In the tho business with their eyes open but In Spain the load 1081 Is called carried b by the un fortunate conscript drafted against hIs wi to promote tim tho ambitions of rul rulers rulers ers I It Is the stor story as old and older than lie tho Trojan war the tho Icings rge rage he people suffer Thu Tho world is coming coating to look on mil in a new light anc anti compulsory military service cnn can he be Only as a measure or of national defense D But L lie command of a great grent and powerful weapon a dan In rulers The tin lons tremble because the they know that tiit tho they are In peril at the whIm o of n a fe few men who can easily Involve thiem In iii deadly anti and ruinous wIth neigh neighbors hors bors who otherwise would never or of aggression The Tue war scare in Eng lune lane Is i an example of this Mell sense e of danger A war between r ane and Germany bo be a crl crino ne against against humanity Thee There Is absolutely neither cause nOl hut reason for armed between these naton nations a Yet this con Is seriously contemplated as aB aBa asa a and oven even probable The Tho of oC a t powerful and ox pensive army an and navy nar Is lie tho strong strongest est temptation to The Tho lere mere of the come cause or of a conflict Is i enough to stagger Perhaps 1 Pt tt lb to sanity begins to be indicated The Now York Post sa says commenting 5 on n s sentiment In Great Britain has been so 30 prevalent that it Il is r re to SOl see a healthy stand being taken against It It The formation of a womans entente corn com designed to end the incessant and mutual suspicions o othe of the lie two countries Is therefore to bo be boI acclaimed ns as the hopeful precursor of ofa I C a more general sanIty The he new movement hns n a powerful Im Impetus petus pettis from the thc position of is its projectors I It was organized at at atthe the home haute of the chancellor o of the ox ex and began Indr the patron patronage age of the tho wie wife of the premIer cordial appreciation of the movement shown by bJ the Jeter letter from the German Germun I ambassador Is another god good augury |