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Show \i 340 you see that barrel would go to pit-t'es if it didn't have water in it?" ln like manner they tell us that we must have a great people and pay a great price to support a great navy in turn to do the other things. and when we shall profit by sense rather than by torce we shall do lll'llL‘l'. - Treaties \ilelt‘tl our the banrpiet table are quite as binding at. llrnt' J. . at the point of a bayonet. It was ever so. I doubt if 'il‘it'ilt'lllll of one per cent of the people of the United States ran 4‘\t‘l' till why New York and San Francisco should be i'urtitied to meet an trimming probable enemy and Chicago not hate a lirerracker to shoot at the incoming hordes that might _:.,unu W \ "NM" [1 rims \onr litantiiizl lake. There is: room on this lake for all the New oi the world. as bi}; as they are. but in 18i7 a treaty waL sight d between lingland and the {inited States to the effect that there should he no warships on the Great Lakes: perhaps two little revenue cutters to do police ditty and to fire a few toanil o1 ‘itlllits when the high and mighty should come. Just tlaat and nethnig more. and ('hicago is as secure as New York, thi- ont tit-ati signed under the duress of sense. the other signed llll'ltl' the dim of imagi 'xy force and fear and the hysteria that rhaiatteri/ol smite of our people during the late skirmish 'a'th the Spaniard». I lllitll rtake to ~ay that public opinion lies at the. base of the pom-i ot every shettti' more than the powder that is back of the bizlat lie may use; and publir nion lies at the base of the ful- til‘antnt or «‘\t t_\ national law and of every international law that nun be made. tot as soon as all the people shall stand [or it. that won will we ban the ioires that ii. for peace without the hardships that mine through \ . '. I take it too that if by any \llitlit't' wt ~hould . \e a \tar the viii/«u s ddiers could be gotten together to i‘l"tl a iy inrouiiu; array. tor t'oi'sooth I am not rash enough ti uzdirate that we :.~ totally disarm until in like manner \Illlt‘l' nzitiwtis Imp pare with its. but I would argue far and lii‘j‘tdlx the good wishes u-t' this eotuitry to take the lead and mi t‘it t\::' i I ' (untitlenre we manifest in our why» and in others we \\lll sit an e\;:!utile that wins them to the pram propaganda l take it that as t‘oni‘ts have supplanted duels in the indi\i«lu.il ‘~tllik‘lli\'lllt'l‘ll"‘l1l".k'\"I\"ll'l'l‘lit‘l\\t‘i‘ll nations will settle 34I their difficulties, and that one is the basis ot evolution as well as the other. Many people, as I have said, are hysterical in their notions, and want to take unnecessary precautions; and it reminds me of the old woman through whose farm a railroad passed and she had never seen the trains before. The station was set up near her home. a little rural type, and she and her daughter on one occasion desired to cross the tracks; and a little crippled woman went to the station agent and looking through the win~ (low said: "Mr. Agent. is there any passenger train coming south at this time?" "No, my good woman." She went and reported to her daughter and hobbled hark to the agent and said: "Mr. Agent. is there any train going to the north at this time?" "No, my good woman; no train is going north." And she hobbled baek and reported to her daughter, only to come back again and say: "Mr. Agent. isn't there any fre lit train comingr alou‘t‘r about now in either direction?" No. She went back and reported to her daughter and then once more she came back to the agent and said: "isn't there any haudvrar coming alongr here about now .7" And he said: "No. my good woman; there isn't any hand-ear coming: along about now." .‘\ud then she said: "Sarah, I guess we can cross now," and she gathered up her skirts and hobbled across. The simple little woman was not greater" in her simplicity than many bright, keen fellows that take hysteria and go madly after every thought of incoming hordes and imagine that wrong: will come I do not speak with disrespect. hut l wish that men like Captain liobson, who (lid so much {or the glory of our country. would cease goingr up and down this land preachingr the gospel of hate, preaching: the gospel of fear and preaching the gospel of the inroads of the Japanese. \\'e have too much sense to pro- voke a fight with the Japanese. and the .lapauese have too much sense to provoke a tight with us. \\'e are brethren. and one of the things we need to learn and one of the thing‘s we are learningr day by day is the brt'ntherhood of man. In civilization there are two c it forces running parallel. one of government and the other of religion. A lofty government means a high and lofty and pure religion. One weak, so the other; and as they go parallel, so they supplement and help *aeh other. Civilizatiun profits by two other forties" one the "MINI Milk" |