On Thursday week Mr. Edward Price Bell, the well.known London
correspondent of the Chicago Daily News, was enter. Mined on his departure for a visit to his home in the United States. In a very eloquent speech Mr. Bell drew a picture of the world of the future, as being divided into two groat domains, the domain of recurrent war and the domain of perpetual peace. Between these lay the "abyss of domestic civilization." An attempt was being made to build a bridge from the domain of recurrent war to the domain of perpetual peace. This, as Mr. Bell said, is " the most ambitious attempt in political engineering that history has known." We must make sure that the bridge is built on two good and solid piers. "One of these piers is the land power, the sea power, the intellectual and moral power of the British Empire, and the other is the same power of the American Republic."
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