Defenseless America

n active campaign in the cause of peace, employing the best me

uld arm for the fray, or disarm for it. Shall we go into the fight with sword and buckler, and with armor on, prepared to return blow with stronger blow; or shall we go into the fight with bared breasts, and, w

nge. He might have said also that there is a no more con

that, as he grew older, the more and more he realized

he ignorance of men that makes them ridi

dynamics, which enter into all questions and problems of peace

on and traveling no faster and no farther in any direction than warranted and justified by ascertained fact. The irrational or illogical mind, on the contrary, is unable to discriminate between belief and knowledge, between facts a

especially with respect to the maintenance of peace where practicable, and the control of wars, when w

oft stuff. The mush and moonshine of maudlin sentimentalism are their element. They possess no powers of discrimination between the actual and the erroneous. The guise of fact is no recommendation to them unless it fits into their scheme. An error is far more welcome if it comes in a garmenture that conforms with their ideals. They put their union label on what we receive by the grace of God, but they fail to recognize and appreciate that th

ist is usually a most arrant coward. In time of war, the cowardly sentimental pacifists are the loudest in appeals to Almighty God to fight on t

o whether or not a world should be made in which all life should feed on other life, and half of the animal creation should be made prey for the other half; whether everything should be made tooth and nail, claw and scale, hu

nds are doing that constantly. It is my humble opinion that the Creator di

e with P

e, in erring r

lear-whatever

der is confusion to the mind that

tude, and that we, in comparison, are mighty only in our arrogance;

but very much for races and species; little

idual may not be so for a large aggregation of individuals. The welfare of a natio

weak, the ri

two terms ri

ought out t

weakness, all

tive

reation was prey for the other half. He was one of the hunted. Yet, with less strength but greater cunning, he was d

His teeth and claws were no match for those of the leopard and the sabre-toothed ti

fight upon his hind legs, and gave him his erect carriage. But he had to travel a long and thorny pathway indeed, armed only with a club, before he invented the s

ll at long range, were his next weapon, an

d shield, with the right arm free to wield the s

ipped still better for travel; and ever since travel has be

ome savage common enemy forced different tribes to unite and build up nations. Union against da

at he is. His life is a series of reactions to environing stimuli; and he is actuated and shaped by those stimuli, and just as those stimuli have been necessary to his growth, so they are still necessary to his continued growth, and even to his very existence. In other words, the formative influences that have made and sustained man are still necessary to his maintenance. The character of the strife may be changed

position with man, and business today is a struggle for e

be law-abiding, still the weak go down under it and suffer and die under it as surely as they did in old-time wars. The relation

more and something better than they have. Though the condition of all classes has improved, the stru

e greatest prize ever offered to stimulate the working genius of this world,

complete living than it had previously progressed in all the ages that had

accumulate the necessary energy and enthusiasm to go far enough in the right direction,

eedom ends when it aims beyond the spirit which st

he struggle for existence under modern conditions. They were normal components of society in the past, when all me

join in an inter-tribal or an international war for

rtant it is then that they should be taught to know and to understand that in the use of this weapon

ion of La

otation in recent years. Anciently all wisdom was taught in poesy, and we have never yet quite freed o

f Holy Writ. Now, this line of Tennyson, "The parliament of man, the federati

substitute law for war. We must, however, keep strongly in mind the interdependence of law and force, and the consequent interdependence

empt to construct experience into prophecy. We are able to judge of the

ciety with government, and civilization with enlightenment. Society is an order of things by virtue of which we are able to co-operate with one another

c, and altruism is becoming more and more profitable. We are not so barbarous as we used to be, but we still slaughter one another to adjust

ing under practical laws the nations

business proposition, which can be effected only to the extent that

reams of the pacifists? General Homer Lea answers the

ational Arbitration come of its own accord as the natural outgrowth of national evolution through the individual. As nations are only man in the aggregate, they are t

bears arbitrate with the lambs they are about to shear; when the thief arbitrates with the man he is about to rob, or the murderer with his victim, and so on through

notoriously corrupt, notwithstanding the fact that they have much stronger incentives to be honest here than they would have in dealing with foreign nations and strange peopl

when some weaker nation tries to get its r

s to the people of this country through the failure of our laws to suppress these iniquities is enough to support a standing army of half a milli

ower? Has the human race progressed so much lately that privilege and oppression will not follow pow

grow old and die; and nations, like men, have their

tanding with the Great Reaper, whereby, through certain incantations or breathing exer

fact that the carrying out of their project will devolve, not upon them-not upon t

tical advantage was bartered for political advantage. It was no real love of peace that dominated those tribunals: only the powerful nations spoke or were heard

it, and there is no reason to believe that those politicians who will have control of th

st Be Back

ion goes into effect, we shall no longer require any armaments, but may forge our swords into plow-sha

resentative of the requisite gold available for its redemption. A well-known orator came very near becoming President through a popular mis

nt. Any law to adjust international differences by arbitration will simply be an embodiment of the collective wisd

international arbitration for all it is worth. It is a good thing to push along. It will unquestio

ciable Di

untable differences between various nations and races of men are always sure to arise,

eir differences are, by consequence, insurmountable, and not justiciable. The harmony of nature depends upon inharmony between the meat-eater

the various races of men that the task of harmonizing their interests, aims, and activi

subordination of any one to the welfare of another. Will arbitration be able to place all peoples upon a plane of equality? Will

an, and the Oriental meet one another on common ground, and share and s

f it does not treat all with strict impartiality, then those wh

icroscopic influence as a deterrent of war. Self-interest always has been, and always will be, the deciding factor in the

the past toward the weaker nations has been very s

will speak in the voice of the deep-throated guns behind them; their persuasion will be that of cold steel, and neither brotherly love nor international sympathy will be their gu

nst all others. There will be nothing new in such an arrangement. The Six Nations of New York did the same thing; they formed a federation and set

we expected that the Chinese would be forced upon us, or our rights and privileges curt

e, not mercy; and commercial warfare will become more and more severe as the nations grow, and as competition,

ing Hum

massacred two hundred and fifty thousand Germans-men, women, and children-in a day, in cold blood, while negotiations for peace were pending, and entered in his diary the simple statement, "C?sar's legions killed them all." Human nature is the same today as it was in the cruel old times, when war was the chief business of mankind, and populations sold as slaves w

ns and Destiny of Imperial Britain,

it, there abating it; it may be uplifted by ever loftier

as a nightmare, which shall be realized only when the ice has crept to the hear

l traits of human nature. The human nature of today will be the human nature of tomorrow, and the human nature of tomorrow will b

er of civilization, and it is as natural for us to rever

l being squandered through our notorious vote-purchasing pensions, we could place ourselves upon a war footing that would be an absolute guarantee of permanent peace. It is not,

a court of arbitration, can rebellion and civil war

fiabl

it becomes necessary" for a people to throw off the yoke of oppression, as we did in our War of the Revolution, or as the French people did in the French Revolution, or as the great Chin

m Theodore Roosevelt's "A

e two nations to mediate between the North and the South, so as to stop the terrible loss of life and destruction of property which attended our Civil War; and they asserted that any Americans who in such event refused to accept their mediation and to stop the war would thereby show themselves the enemies of peace. Nevertheless, Abraham Lincoln and the men back of him by their attitude prevented all such e

freedom from poverty, are slaves as much as were those made bondsmen in old-time wars. It matters little whethe

tential, and altogether the best thing that has ever been said illustrative of the uncontrollable massiveness of the popular

flake, the bee

mminent crags of

thrill the loos

havoc leaps

hered through t

f a People, w

trength in the du

uffering;-but th

pair of tramp

e hoarse yell an

ights with horny

nd for God with

emedy. The horrors of the French Revolution, bad as they were, remedied a condition still more horrible, for the condition of the French common people, "bowed by the weight of centuries," had become so abject that life was intolerable; no change could be for the worse. Un

ho fell under the leadership of Napoleon, the French people were benefi

en privilege that a people may secure its inalienable rights, t

emity of last resort. But we must appreciate and acknowledge the fact that the horrors of war, the sacrifice of treasure, the sacrifice of li

ich are worth the sacrifice. To prevent war i

erial evils of war are less than the

ianity

uestion: "Is it consistent for a loyal Christian, who believes that war is contrary to the teachings of t

war, are often called upon themselves to become warriors and to fight for their doctrine of peace. The

ty, or one people another people. On such occasions, it is self-evident that the blame for the wars rested with the ro

have been aggressors, as were Napoleon and Alexander in the Russian war. In the great major

is own revolver and shoot the malefactor, he does a justifiable act. We have here war in miniature, and it may be taken as a type of all wars.

justly held, did a wholly commendable act. Similarly, one nation which raises an army to free from bondage slaves he

t, slaves had to be freed, then the true Christians took down their old swords and shouldered their old guns, and went to the front. If we read

e can get with which to fight. It is criminal negligence for a nation not to be prepared against wa

rced upon the savage, and upon exclusive and unwarlike peoples, and now Christianity, ci

Resartus" C

, and charcoal drove Monk Schwartz's pestle

swer is th

rostration of force under thought,

e says, in t

n I, if thou have more mind, though all but no body whatever, then canst thou kill me first, and art the taller. Hereby

e say about Christ

enly host praising God and saying, Glory to God in the highest

phet of the Highest ... to guide our feet

called ... The Prince

om the nature of things, war is often the price of peace, and justice can only be enforced by the sword. In t

Christian armies that turned back and drove out of Europe the invading Moors rendered their Mast

t, and should the great "Yellow Peril" rise in its might, and threaten the Christian World, is there a single soldier of the Cross now enlisted in

ome of the pacifists I have met would not buckle on the cartridge-belt, but would,

quote from th

a man of war"

sts is his name

hich teacheth my hands to war, and

Christian misunderstands Chris

peace on earth: I came not to send

d fire on the ear

s garment and buy one ... for the things co

Paul

evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain; for he is the ministe

ica's big men, and one of the biggest of America

cience, but drove them out with a whip of small cords, driving the cattle before Him and overturning the tables of the money-changers and letting the money roll upon the floor. I am not afraid to follow Him with whatsoever force it may be necessary for righteousness to put on, when unrighteousness has armed herself to commit wro

hristian is warfare waged in the interest of justice incompatible with the peace principles which underlie his religious faith. Therefore, the true interpretation of peace is absence of war, where

rbitration. I do not believe that arbitration can ever be a universal panacea with which all evils can be cured wit

efield. Christ established the dictum that they who take the sword shall perish by the sword. War begets war. The sword brings

ly interested in preventing the tremendous loss of life from easily preventable railroad disasters? An international movement for safety equipment and sanitation, with an

in the streets, and other accidents-all very largely due to preventable causes-amounts to more than 500,000. In the Japanese-Russian war a total of 333,786 men were killed and wounded on both sides, not counting the losses in naval battles. During the same period

nation in attacking war and warriors than there is in the prosaic, tame, and glamourless enterprise of simply saving human life in peaceful pursuits for the mere sake of saving it? Is it the old