A Positive Proof
“ARE you sure that Percy really loves you?”
“Positive. Why, at the dinner last night he offered to divide his last dyspepsia tablet with me.”
The Butcheries of Peace
BY W. J. GHENT
Author of “Our Benevolent Feudalism,”
“Mass and Class”
WE hear much of the butchery of war. Mr. Edward Atkinson and his fellow-anti-militarists are always opulent with statistics of casualties in armed conflicts; and in their violent denunciation of warfare are eagerly joined by the various peace societies, the Women’s Christian Temperance unions and such militant, though ephemeral, bodies as the Parker Constitutional Clubs. A prominent educator has characterized the Civil War as the Great Killing, and the popular imagination has been led to look upon it as a carnival of almost unexampled bloodshed. The militarism of gun and sword is denounced as though it were the greatest scourge of the race, and its horrors are pictured in the most lurid colors.