Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 September 1911 — Page 2 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

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WAR 'I MADE GREAT PROGRESS toward an I|| international condition in which war is less likely than heretofore. It is true that in that time we have had several freak wars —the war -. ’ e^ween China and Japan, the war between RusA s^a an d Japan, the war between the United States Spain, the war between England and the Boers and perhaps some others. Nevertheless as BpWP between the GREAT COUNTRIES OF EU- @ Underwood & Un- ROPE, which have armed themselves to the teeth derwood. - since the German-French war of 1870, peace has been maintained, and under the inspiration of a common desire, for peace treaties have been made with reference to arbitration and for the establishment of a court at The Hague for the settlement of international disputes. < AVIATION CHE possibilities of the development of aviation no man can measure. the transportation in an aeroplane of many people of the size of myself is not within one’s imagination yet awhile. I have no doubt improvement will be rapid IN THIS COUNTRY, and even those loaded with avoirdupois may hope to be lifted up. COLONIES SINCE 1898 and the Spanish war the people of the United States have been a COLONIZING AND COLONY HOLDING PEOPLE. We have become responsible for the welfare of Cuba, Porto Rico, the isthmus of Panama *and the Philippines. We have bad under our care and guardianship the hygiene and the health of tropical peoples, and, while I should be the last one to MINIMIZE THE IMPORTANCE AND VALUE OF THE BENEFITS THAT WE HAVE CONFERRED ON THE INHABITANTS OF THE TROPICS thus coming under our government of a political and economic and educational character, I do not hesitate to say that we have been most DISTINCTLY SUCCESSFUL in the measures that we have adopted, maintained and enforced for the improvement of the health and physical condition of those peoples in the torrid zone over whom we have assumed guardianship.

Will Not Unite For Any Purpose Not ___ Prompted by Self < Interest -Jo j* j* "*• ' ‘ ' * ' By HUDSON MAXIM, Inventor , , ?* ~ IS ARM AMENT is a beautiful dream, ' & P $ but it docs seem to me to be IMJLX POLITIC AND IMPRACTICA- IgW BLE. The coming international tribunal will need all its guns to enforce its mandates. THE NATIONS OF THE EARTH WILL NOT UNITE AND CANNOT UNITE FOR ANY PURPOSE NOT PROMPTED BY INDIVIDUAL SELF INTEREST. It would be impracticable sor the carnivora and the herbivora to make an arbitration pact to settle their differences, for the one is constituted to prey upon the other, and its very existence depends upon the sacrifice of the-other. Like the attitude of the carnivora to the herbivora is that of the big nation to the small and of the aggressive occidental to the peace loving oriental. There are HALF A BILLION PAIRS OF EYES in China looking admiringly toward Japan, There are in China and over the vast neighboring areas UNCOUNTED MYRIADS needing but a leader and arms and training to hurl themselves upon western civilization and SMITE US HIP AND THIGH as their ancestors smote ours in years agone. These people are NOW AWAKENING. They are training. They are arming. The GREAT YELLOW STORM CLOUD is slowly rising along the whole eastern sky, and it is only a question of TIME when the storm will BURST.

I Real Understanding Is l Foundation of Peace j -CARNEGIE < EAL UNDERSTANDING IS THE BASIS OF PEACEFUL ( RELATIONS, WHETHER BETWEEN INDIVIDUALS OR ' A W NATIONS; BICKERINGS, CONTROVERSIES, BATTLES, i ARE RESULTS OF RACE PREJUDICE AND OF A FAILURE TO / UNDERSTAND OTHER PEOPLES. ?