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Show 256 257 into shreds. Though an occasional battleship sometimes per- forms police functions and carries bread and blankets to earth- quake sufferers, every child knows that we are not building armor-plated vessels for such purposes. In building them we are preparing for a duel and not to get our quarrels settled in a court. Away with our silly, dangerous euphemisms, exalting the duelist and fooling ourselves with prattlc about "police." An international police the world will surely see this cen- is provided of getting justice. In Gladstone's school days every boy fought, today fighting is unfashionable on the playground. Human nature is changing, but whether it changes or not, the business of the world will not much longer tolerate two nations making a cockpit of the people's highways and dragging the neutral nations into commercial loss. The common people are getting their eyes open and beginning to see the relation between the destruction of more than two billions of dollars in two recent wars and the panic of 1907. A comparatively few influential persons in a few influential countries can end international war, and will end it. The majority of the 1,500,000,000 on the planet will have little to do with it. It is chiefly a question of statesmanship and will be accomplished without any essential change in human nature in forty-six nations, as interstate war has been prevented by less than one hundred framers of our Constitution for forty-six states, without all the people within those states becoming saints. The United States can show the way to achieve a United World. 3. The third fallacy is that all government is based on force. All governments use force certainly, but no republic could remain a republic and be based on force. Our republic is pri- marily based on the good-will and consent of the governed, and it is the stablest of governments because it uses the least force to maintain itself. Russia is the least stable because it uses the most force to coerce loyalty. The perpetuity of our government rests a thousand times as much upon its newspapers and schools as upon its navy. Abolish the latter and we can secure arbitra- tion treaties with every land to make us even more secure than we were twenty years ago when our navy was a negligible quantity, yet we were never attacked. Abolish newspapers and schools and presently our government would be like that of Hayti. Our government rests on a dozen things, and where it rests on force at all it is upon the force of the police and the state guard, not upon its menacing ironclads. Our enemies are all within. In tury. but rival navies and armies are doomed; thousands of lama, t auJu-I hum. years llL'ftH'C police can be discarded these monstrous anaehronisnis of civili"zttiott must be turned into bencfieeut messengers of cmnuteree. and Krupp guns transformed into lamp-posts and bridges. .\ little army and navy under orders from an international parliament will then police the seas and prevent war between such outlying,r regions as still are savage. Then and not till then can we speak of a navy as a police force. 2. The second great fallacy is: "You cannot end war until you change human nature. So long as feuds exist in Cot'Sica and Tennessee. so long as savages go on bloody forays and boys give each other black eyes. so long will wars continue." On the cmttrar'_xg \\{tl'> between any of the nations represented at the Hague Conference of 1907 will end a thousand years before all these other forms of strife disappear. It is only the visionaries who see insuperahle obstacles in the way. llut let us clearly dis- tinguish between international war and other kinds of strife. The confounding of strife wit/tin nations with strife Im‘rt'cm nations has rlztttecr<'>t:sly obscured thought on this subject and made a thousand pessimists where there should be none. The wune method of «ii uiratiiin and unity that today prevents war lttueen tlu- ltalian cities which in the day of Dante or Michael Anetlo new in frequent strife: the same method that keeps the p: Jlt't litl\\tl.l‘| Kentucky and her neighbors, though night riders (ll\lllllt lur in\\:.rd peace. will "ht-n applied more widely keep 1mm lututiu the nations, (ilrganizatiou and a Supreme Court :.t \\':i~h7"~u,u have prevented any one state of all our forty~six (\(1' unit, ".1 \tith another. llowevcr great Pennsylvania's graft or "(t in \Vii‘u's uruil in n‘stlt‘ting‘ their own citizens. upon their state liltt‘ hm litt‘ll peace and instice. Civilized human nature does not crave ldm‘xrlsln'd. it will gladly avoid it if an easier way all our foreign wars combined, since we became a natiOn, not over 12,000 men fell by foreign bullets, but little more than those murdered every year by the enemies within, which no battleship can reach. 4. The fourth fallacy is that hoary one, "In time of peace |