PEACE WHEN THERE IS NO PEACE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 22 November 1907, Page 4

PEACE WHEN THERE IS NO PEACE.

The slow, wise smile of .dipjomaey may well be provoke*! by a of what is being aimed htiitd tvofiie'd for bjryiie Hague Conference, and what is actually happening in .Morocco, Persia, the Congo, Corcn, Italy, and elsewhere " writ«s Dr. E. J. Dillon, in the Contemporary Keview. I bus, within three days steaming Atlantic, a city whose narrow streets a?e blocked with bales of merchandise ojiid with Wrliancd' figures ill flowing lobes, one of the most civilised peopleß of Europe is pouring a murderous rain of bullets and shells alike upon the just and uifM Jloora. Doubtless 'there is a- nlost excellent reason? Doubtless. But it from .Rotterdam, in a walled city on the wduld'be a boon to the race if one could aoolish the necessity togetlier with the eunsier coiiEeiiuencee vfliich it is taken to justify. PERSIA AND THE CONGO.

Another picture of dismal realities which oiler 4 sharp contrast to the idyUfi; Aims 0/ Xhe Hague Cbniercnce may He contemplated in constitutional Persia, laborious villagers, earning thcir bread in the sweat ot their brows, were over and over again attacked by Kurdish liigiiwayinen from Turkey, who killed scores ol them with impunity, and then included uu American missionary in the JMtt. to -oi 4lwur - victims. .. W hou . .theI e...:...i Ce .ci 1 liluollt leceutly endeavored to pat an end to the bloodshed by dispatciiing troops to protect the surviving 'viiragCTbVtlic Tnrkisn rcgalar lioops sided with the Kurds, fell foul 01 the Persians, mkt-dfove eiitnf'fiom tlio dislriit, which ■js,;thui'vfyre mux ja ,ju.ey ,y», tie Wlipm cious application' of ordinary civilising JnllueiKCb might easily U;uisioim inu> g<xkJ, useful eitizetls. lii the Congo tilings alrnoat' equally 'bad are daily done, ujid dune deliberately in fold blood lor the j ' siiiiei ■tt)c cnnuuals there u.re iiot whom U extern uiiluencqs .ijiiglit leujould and civilise, but 'lielgiim 'culUire-bearens acting in the name of King Leopold, ujid -Willi tiici or openly cxpresiS^U approval oi a section of the world's preis, th© of lira ;*Alerning %i|fl)|tell"j eerie,. atorfes of kindred acts in Seoul and elsewhere—adts rftcWly (lone ; 'in the interests of the people,' 110 doubt, but which iill the "inimamtarraii -fiSIISSSP-IiSE iajui'iuii'e. JiltfihprJJic <Jt etliical perfectibility are not dTspfegorfor a J&uje, <-!»■» io? ■ (iri iliaiv'idual 'lt is'truly'mffitillt 'to saj'' a word ia law 4>f Corea,' which was the incarnation of Jazine&s, <n| WBupyfin, T Still, " Sjfle fdels'a : ipuiigl<ol tegieU'tltat waif suclf a civilising work as JapMi.hus undertaken there cannot be carried : out'Without bloodshed and cruelty, and'that there is no Hague, Conference to Jay down obligatory rums .(or civilised iiationt in their deitil-' ings wjth .'itifcriui-: States 011 uocivili&ed peoples.

IN MACEDONIA. "In Macedonia. Creeks,[(under JJulgars in tojd bI<XKi. und arc p;r#ud. the.be feats/which provoke venguuxe on the part of. lliti Slavs, anil »so on, until, one may truly affirm that ail war , iacK>—Uui Christian races wiio aspire'to the Vole of' culture-bearers in Uks war futuro~ie now being systematically waged.- Is it absolutely necessary ? Can 'i'hy ? ,Areopijgii.es feel happy or easy iri ifimd while stich'exceptional _ blood thirst, i.s throughout tlic world'' Or is it not really exceptional: ' Do. tin; .di;leyal<£' liV The Hague, with their water-tight compartments of lino demotions, their ingenious hair-splitting and fccho.lastio faithfully' represent their respective peoples? Is diitrust of ca'tlV other one of tlie diar.K tcri.stif: traits tho political connnunitics of the -world? If so, no pfopus;ds,' however mil received af- tlVc Con* fereuce, ■\yill uproot Uio cause's of war; and &•> long as the cause continues operative, the effect will bo produced , uocos: airily. We must begin At the beginning, Publio opinion must vsT% mi-diplomatic Action if Meed the- mankind are jpa.to Hitf ittew fitepifcl<j gejgljbji-'