It is not definitely known how these wise Christian statesmen and scholars discovered that a three-hundred pound explosive bullet might properly and lovingly be used by gently sensitive Christian butchers, but that a thirteen-ounce explosive bullet might not with propriety be used by these loving followers of the gentle Jesus. Possibly the discovery was made by some deep-seeing pot-house statesmen and scholars after a prayerful study of the Sermon on the Mount,—with champagne on the side. War is “human” or “inhuman” according to the orations, discussions, confusions, delusions, conclusions, decisions and provisions of these perfumed, patent-leathered fighters after a long fast—on terrapin, porter-house and “Mumm’s Extra Dry.” The eloquence of the Hague Peace Conference literature concerning its long list of extremely “glorious achievements” would lead the uninstructed to suppose that till this organization came on the field there had never been a dispute settled without war. It modestly claims everything in view. Note here the fact that: _“There is no period known to history in which instances are not found of arbitration as a substitute for force, and we can only wonder when we consider the historical antiquity of the former that the latter should have maintained its hold so long, so constantly and so fiercely.”_[240] “Where are thy portents, Peace? What sign on land or sea Of thy great coming, of thy rule to be? The fighting and the drumming do not cease; Gun-thunder smites the air, And shakes the earth beneath. Bait we not the war-dogs in their lair, And toil at harvesting of dragon’s teeth?... Must it forever be a poet’s dream— The land secure, the mind at rest, The cut-throat tamed and laboring at an oar, The braggart silent and ashamed, The toiler as a monarch seem, The woman with her baby at her breast, Aglow with joy that war shall be no more?...” —J. I. C. Clarke, in New York _Times_. Prominent people—prominent chiefly because they are elevated upon the shoulders of the working class—have been _talking_ about peace for a long time. But peace born of _justice_, peace founded upon _fairness_,—that is neither thought of nor talked of, by the ruling class, in the pompous and pretentious peace conferences; it is not on the program. Father and the boys of the working class will themselves have to place peace on the program of mankind. And one of the first things to do is to bring up the subject of war and peace in every working class organization in the world—_for discussion_. (See pages 272, 283–289. Index: “Carnegie.”) =A Special Notice to the Hague Peace Society:=