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Show ?Bj OVER-GRASPINC . jfl ARE THE NATIONS. Recently a conference was held in H .Moscow at which representatives ol KuEsla, Finland, E?thonia and Latvia ---jjB were present. The purpose was to 'jH .ireo on terms of linntailun of anna-ments. anna-ments. But not one of the nations H i cprcsented was willing to give up vm the idea of aggression . jH All our wars not purely of a reli- HH! yiuus nature have beVn caused by a jH ''.' sire of the powerful to prey on the weaker nations. jH All those countries involved in the Moscow conference would have been H advanced had they decided to turn jHi lrom Ihe thought of aggrandizement H and proceeded to develop (heir re-jH re-jH sources. They would have been dealt Hi with in a kindly way had they been Hj prohibited from looking other than to jH their own fields of opportunity in the working out of their destinies. Russia. Latvia and Esthonia are greatly in need of internal advance-ment. advance-ment. They possess wonderfully rich acreage and Russia in particular jH has store houses of wealth which have Hi been untouched. Whenever the Rus-Hians Rus-Hians get away from the idea of en-H en-H v eloping other lands and turn to the resourcen they have neglected, there will bo an abundance of every thing ths.t contributes to happiness within the grasp of the people and they will fl grow and prosper. This rule of conduct mlcht well ap ply to ally nation, except a country as thickly populated and as limited In natural resources as Japan. r |