THE WORLD'S PEACE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 70, 1 July 1910, Page 4

THE WORLD'S PEACE.

The most astonishing feature about peace propagandas .is that lighting men run them. There is nothing quainter than the idea of Mr. Roosevelt, the mighty roughrider and slayer of men and beasts, as the angel of universal peace. He will become the apostle of universal brotherly love because he "has the instinct to fight for it. He is the sort of .peacemonger who, having insisted that peace was inevitable, would "punch the head" of the man who thought otherwise. Universal peace is only possible in atrophied nations. Decaying nations do not fight other nations if they can avoid it, but they fight internally. The history of the world is the history of war, There is no single i instance of a nation having become great by peacefful means. The present moment is a most appropriate one for the waving of the olive branch. All the navy dockyards of the earth are work-j jng feverishly. Mr. Roosevelt, who will fight for .peace, admits that every nation ! must lie prepared to defend itself until j some new form for the settlement of international disputes arrives. War is; so horrMe that everyone who has read about it wishes 'for its abolition, but tie 1 desire to be conqueror is so ingrained, in the fibre of jail virile people that war

cannot cease until the whole nature of man is changed. The man of peace loves to think what a great powerful engine the British Navy is, but the apostle of universal brotherly love is only an apostle until there is occasion for fighting. Peace crusades have taken place several times a century during the life of the British Empire. The theories arc always sound, but the results are never achieved. The man who with his mind's eye views the terrible preparations that are everywhere being made for war will remain in some doubt as to the success of any peace propaganda. He can only hope.