Show I HOPE OF PEACE LIES IN WORKING CLASSES SAYS WM THURSTON BROWN The Alternative of Militarism was the subject of a sermon by Rev Re William Imam Thurston Thurton Brown in the Unitarian church yesterday He said gald in part No countr country on earth is expending e so s large lar a percentage of Its Is revenues for military mitar purposes as this country If 1 we Include what it spends as os a a result of for former former former mer wars war the States Is expending I more money for tor militarism than any I Iother other nation in the world But for the eight years ears from 1903 1905 19 to 1910 1910 congress has appropriated nearly one billion five hun hundred hundred dred millions for the army and navy What does that mean 1 It I means mean that this professedly Christian Christan nation is spending more for the purchase or manufacture of instruments for killing men a sum of money that would duplicate all al the uni nfl universities of America that in ten years this Christian Christan nation naton has made into bat battleships battleships I fired fred away In target practice and used up in preparation for tor wholesale murder three times the value of the wheat crop of the United United States Stats The he cost of a single big cannon shot In target practice would feed clothe and shelter sheler the average family fal for over three years would pay pa the sal salary salar salary ary ar of one of at our best teachers teacher in The public schools for over two tO years ears would send a boy bo or girl through any American college The application of these tremendous tremendous dous dou appropriations in this country countr to instead of or purposes to public school work on the land hand the rivers and harbors would ab absolutely absolutely abolish involuntary poverty perty and transform the face of society It I would double the educational facilities of at the nation If r devoted to building homes it I would within ten years pull pul down every slum on the continent and replace them theft with th healthful structures and give work to every ey unemployed man while g It I was wa being bing done I The American America Peace society was or in ISIS IMS and the first international peace pace congress lOngres met in London In 1841 1843 Since that time the earth has line been ben fairly deluged with wih human blood blod in wars war be between b between tween the very el nations naton represented at t that congress Since S c the organization of or orthe the first peace pac society more mor money has been spent in equipment for war more human energy expended in training for forwar forwar war wr more ingenuity and mental effort wasted waste in devising new nw ne methods of wholesale murder than tan in all al the thou thousands thousands thousands sands of oC years before since history began begnAl AH All Al the Immense equipments for war have hae come into being since sin the formation of oC the American Peace society sety Since that society was formed over ten millions of lives lve have been destroyed by wars war most of them between betwee Christian nations There must be b some reason why the Christian Christan church though professing to worship the prince princ of o peace pee has never put an end en to a single war or averted one why our peace congresses I have nave been as much a farce far as that which was called caled by the th czar car almost on the eve of ot the te fearful war with wih Japan involving a loss lO of at nearly four hundred and fifty thousand lives and the waste of ot nearly near four our billions of ot dollars a war for which Russia Russia was preparing at the time of oC that peace pace congress conge Russia precipitated and nd which the czar approved There Ter Is I a reason for this universal failure of at peace societies That reason lies le in the fact that our nations today toay represent the will willand wi willand and wish of ot that class cae of people who live hive by b profits on ownership That simply makes our nations naton rivals for a a foreign market The hope of or international peace pec lies les with Uh U t class clas of people who have every everything ever everything thing to lose and 8 nothing to gain gin by b war warthe wr warthe the th class cas of people whose interests are to tobe tob tobe be b served not by b heartless hertes competition c but bf b completes cooperation the th in international International working class clas of the world |