Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1894 — EUROPEAN WAR. [ARTICLE]

EUROPEAN WAR.

Prospects and conditions for actual war between European powers continue favorable, and the hope of a release of the great opposing interests from the oppressive burden of military preparation is remote and intangible. A great English journal in discussing the situation says that nations are as certain to quarrel as individuals, and that when any quarrel of vital importance shall arise it is most unlikely that they will submit to arbitration. War must be the inevitable result. Nor is war regarded by this authority as the worst result of any quarreling that may ensue. Actual hostilities are preferable to the long continued bickerings and armed frontiers that have characterized the relations between France and Germany for the past twenty-three years. Scientific progress has shortened war, and superior commissary arrangements have made an invading army a comparatively light affliction to the conquered country. Modern soldiers do not commit the acts of brigandage that in olden times rendered an invasion as great a calamity as a pestilence. There may be improvement in the sentiment of civilized nations, but should the opportunity or occasion arise, war with all its horrors, itisrbelieved, will as surely ensue as at any period the in world’s history.