Show I Governors Greeting Executive Sees Dawn Dam of the il JOHN C CUTLER Era Er of Peace that I 1 am am forced force to be e ab absent ab sent from your our second meeting leot leotto to the peace pece idea Ide I am still sti glad to have havethe havethe the tl of greeting you ou briefly in writing And I wish wl h to congratulate you ou and tile the other citizens of Utah on the beginning of this movement lust list May and nd to express the none that it will wt receive r olve an irresistible impetus ip from tin the tl meeting you OU are holding today toda There ThEr may have tave been ben times in the past history hl try of ot the world wold when war was hon honorable honorable pst justifiable le and even necessary neer There Then may ma be such times in the future But there neter has liss been ben and ever mever will willbe wi willbe be bl I a on war Is not brutal and inhuman I hope the time will wi come and that soon son when war will wi be no more a aran atan aan tan ran an of absolute ab lute prohibition being placed place on U ii bv by b the tIb nations of the world There may he ht honor honor in the t e cause Cuse for war there may mav be glory in its is results but In war itself iteI there Is nothing lovely lovel Dr or noble or I desirable War Wa is never justifiable when engaged I in for purely purel selfish s ll h ends Only when it itis Itis Itis is in defense defens of ot a nations or a peoples rights right or of at weak humanity against oppression can it I bo be approbated at all allAnd al allAnd And I am proud prou of the that if I Ireal real history aright our nation naton has en engaged engaged engaged in war only for those thoe justifiable causes In support and furtherance t f of ot tho ob objects of ot this organization I wish to say that there is 1 nor no ethical ethl l argument for forwar forwar forwar war No one can defend or justify It i on onI I trie ground ground of ot essential good In every respect so far as a war itself is concerned it i is evil evi It I has ha always been so no matter mater how necessary It has appeared It will wi always be so no matter mater how necessary necessary sary sr it I may ma become And yet et it is a sad commentary but buta a necessary one that looking at condi condl conditions tons and setting aside for the present our theories the conclusion is Inevitable that thata as a war has ha been found unavoidable In the time past U it I may be In the te future I must confess that I am not one of ot those who are so optimistic for or immediate and uni universal versal verl peace pece as to have the nation naton un unprepared unprepared unprepared prepared In event of war Yet I am more than willing to join with wih others in the creation of a sentiment for ultimate creaton peace and the disarmament of the nations while encouraging the idea of a preparedness for war If I It shall again agin become unavoidable able The old adage of the fighter of at the time past Trust In God and ani keep your powder dry dr is good and ant wil hold good goo until universal peace shall have been secured Therefore let the word go forth from this and similar gatherings that the ut utmost utmost utmost most and constant endeavor of ot this and tike like organizations shall be to reprobate I war to place it I on the piano of other hateful things to hell help forward the time I when civilized nations will wi not engage in it or ur permit perit uncivilized ones to do so This work I commend to you ou as individuals individuals and as a body ody I thank you for your past activities and invoke your our future aid In II this cause |