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Show 122 123 An American may never have seen America: an English sub- ject may never have seen an Englishman; a French subject may not understand a word of lircneh; a (ierman subject know no German; yet in each case all are one in government. 3"" mm" lfliml "" r\s in race, so in religion: within each nation are many diverse faiths. England extends sway over llindoo, Arabian, Negro, Egyp- tian: Russia has Cossack. Lap. liinn and Mongol in her family; France, Negro and Malagasy: Germany, the lithiopian; while, America extends its aegis over Filipino, Hawaiian. lndian, and, with true Yankee originality. imports its African bodily to the United States and then puts a prohibitive tariff on \vool. i It must be evident, therefore, that since a national entity is often a racial congeries of varyingY advancement. a psychic constitution, religion and custom. internal harmony, undcrstandine,r and good will are no less necessary to the strength. happiness and peace of a nation than harmonious adjustment of its international relations. l am well aware that the direct work and purpose of this great organization is to promote peace by arbitration between nations and not within nations; but while the latter is without the province of formal consideration. international morals must look with sympathy upon the coming of peace and good will between the race elements within the nation also. because the larger aim of all altruism is for righteousness everywhere. within as well as without. \\'hat will it profit civilization if Russia and Japan arbitrate while Slav slays Russian Jew? or to stay the sword of Ottoman against Servian, if the Armenian is butchered in thousands by maddened Turks? or England to adjust her interests peacefullv with Germany. while India breaks forth in another Sepoy rebellion? Futile achievement indeed would it he to bring peace between thrones and let anarchy work unhindered in the homes of the land. Such interneeine strife (and who understands it better than we?) resembles nothing so much as the old duels that used to be fought by deadly enemies in a dark room. The two adversaries are placed on opposite sides of the room. bowie knives in hand: the light is withdrawn, the door is locked and they are left alone. There they stand. half crouching. with every stnse abnormally alert; then they stealthily begin to creep about in search of each other. A slight sound is heard; both hinge forward with blind but murderous stroke. They elude each other perhaps for hours. but they must meet at last, and then-loud imprccations, a scuffling, two heavy falls, and all is still. Admonished by the silence, friends throw open the door, and the bloodless, lifeless bodies of two brothers who had been producers and constructive forces in the community he prostrate on the floor; or perhaps one crawls forth slashed, maimed and conscience-stricken for life, to apologize for the brutal thing his friends tell him is a victory. How long shall such gruesome tragedies be enacted beneath the same government roof. between brothers Whose ((15115 bet/i is an esthctic dispute over the dye in a pigment cell? No greater wonder has happened on earth than the conquests of the peace sentiment during the last century. It has ridden over jousting warslords till, extricatinl‘rY themselves from their Don Quixotic misfortunes, they have come ambling in on war-horses turned to palfreys; it has sent battleships, like merchantmcn, to carry grain to the famished of sister nations; it has set sana guinary soldiers to pitching hOspital tents for the plaque: ricken; it has lifted the red cross above the red field and made litters of crossed muskets; it has made conquering generals refuse a starian triumph, and cry from highest civic seat, "Let us have peace!" litut no glory has been greater than the reflex influence this international movement has exerted in abating race and class hatred among the factions and sections of a common country. There never were so many men pleading for fraternalism among compatriots as now: most of them led to their mood by the paths of international peace. If any one is surprised at this domestic effect of international peace movements. it is because he has not realized the unity of moral improvement. Peace between any two helps peace between every two: peace abroad spreads peace at home. Rig'liteousnev neither be kept abroad nor confined at home. It is the true citizen of the world. and is as elusive of localization and decanting as gravity or ether. It knows no lines of distinction such as national and international; it is simply for men. International arbitration for international differences is a certainty in the near future. It is being: surely brought about by |