Clemson University - Taps Yearbook (Clemson, SC)

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W. G. HILL, WINNER OF SECOND HONOR MEDAL IN INTER-COLLEGIATE ORATORICAL ASSOCIATION OF SOUTH CAROLINA.

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Zhe Clemson College Chronicle, Valeat Quantum Valere Potest. Voi,. III. CIvEmson College, S. C, June, 1900. No. 9 Xiteran Department L. O. MAULDIN, ) E. M. MATTHEWS, J Editors. The Battle Flag Unfurled. The nations are at war. The age of blood offering has not yet passed. At this period in the world ' s history, we are compelled to consider the morality or immorality of war. On the 1 8th of May, eighteen hundred and ninety nine, representatives of the world ' s foremost powers assembled at the Hague, amid the solemn peal of national bells, and the murmur of sweet music, interrupted by the thunder- ing of cannon at Glencoe and Ladysmith. A thousand enthusiastic pens celebrated the peace manifesto of the Czar, as the beginning of a new era in the history of the nations. Yet, to-day the world must stand convinced of the fact, that arbitration and disarmament is but a theory — an iridescent dream. No doubt you have heard much of the horrors and cruelties of war, of the beauties and benefits of arbitra- tion, and have pictured to yourself that longed for mil- lenium : When the war drums throb no longer, and the battle flags are furled, In the parliament of man, the federation of the world. But you have ever glanced at the obverse side and con- sidered the advantages — nay, even the necessity and