| Show TO AID I I Continued from page 6 men then and nations have fallen short of their sacred duties Shall we not Relieve lieve that the plan of ot God for peace joi pm oi l earth rth will yet ret be realized Sj Iet us remember that the doctrine 0 ace was vaz first first- taught in a world In which every mans man's hand was against every other man P ace ce then was an impossible Idea Yet what do we find today Do you settle your difference with your neighbor I with your fists or with the sword I or with a gun Has not peaceful equity among men inen men been established by law Is it not a rare thing for formen men to fight Why Get Collective Peace f c Shall we say therefore that while T r wa we may have peace among individual men we cannot have peace among nations I refuse to admit this I believe that out of the terrible and consuming turmoil of ot the present European European European Eu Eu- war will come that peace among nations that has been a hu human human hu- hu man ideal only in recent years When the passions and the pride that caused this war have become exhausted by the struggle and when r the cost has been counted the counted the cost in men and in treasure the cost in suffering and g grief I I I do believe that there will be such a revulsion of ot feeling against war that the nations will with one consent turn to the remedy now ignored the peaceful settlement of International disputes by arbitration Then instead of mobilizing mobilizing mo mo- armies and wreaking death and destruction upon each other the nations will appear as litigants before be be- fore the permanent court of arbitration arbitration tion and pea peaceful equity will be substituted substituted sub sub- tog for combat in the disagreements disagreements disagree disagree- ments of of nations as well as in the difference of ot individuals And this is what all v peace move move- ments mean Peace does not mean that nations must weakly yield rather than fight Peace means that the great nations must organize as a community and refuse to permit war Just as every community j In the civilized civilized civi civi- world organizes and refuses to permit fist fights or duels or Y less acts of private vengeance or private aggression It takes strength to enforce peace No community can compel order without a well wen organized and sufficiently sui- sui strong police force The law abiding citizens cannot control the the brawlers brawlers by moral suasion alone Law and order require preparedness In the shape of ot night sticks revolvers and handcuffs I. I The brawlers among the nations can be prevented from breaking the peace only by such strength on the part of ot the peaceful and law abiding nations as will overawe overawe overawe over over- awe the quarrelsome law breaking nations and compel th them fn to behave How different It would have been if America and the other great iou nou- nations could have said to kaiser and to king Think of the terrible temble misfortune into which you are plunging ing your country its country its citizens for fur whose welfare and happiness you as asa asa asa a ruler are responsible Think of ot the dreadful consequences and of the d doubtful benefit paid for with the precious blood of the hundred thou thou- sands War Contemptible Brawl For in the last analysis is there anything at all atlin in this war but a miserable miserable mis rats erable contemptible brawl between n the two biggest powers And is there any reason at all for this war except that there was no concert or community among nations sufficiently sufficient sufficient- ly powerful to prevent it 7 Now the power to do this thing thine the the power to prevent war war can can be achieved only by the most roost thorough preparedness on the part of the nations nations na na- na- na that want peace and order in inthe the he world This I maintain Is the overwhelming reason aso why America should have a a. powerful navy and a strong army and the ment essential to the efficient use of ot this power We Ve need preparedness not preparedness not not to fight batU battles s but hut to prevent battles being fought We Ve need preparedness not to defend this nation against foes but to compel and guarantee world peace And America alone o of ot all the nations nations nations na na- na- na is is-in is in the position to make male such use of ot power as will curb and control the bickering jealous nations that keep leep this world is such turmoil 1 deny emphatically that preparedness prepared prepared- ness leads to war I assert with deep conviction that thorough preparedness preparedness preparedness pre pre- on the part of ot America will willbe willbe willbe be the best guarantee that the world can have that there will be ho no more wars If it is possible for this country to tobe tobe tobe be threatened by war war and and who can cansay cansay cansay say that it Is not possible possible can can such a calamity be better averted by weakness or by strength If it Is possible for this world to be delivered from rom the fearfulness of war war and and who can say that it is not possible possible- can such a universal benediction be pronounced by any other nation than America And can America enforce such a world peace by weakness or orby orby ory by y strength America the big young Brother of the nations has been made maden in n the process process of ot the worlds world's development development development develop develop- ment the keeper of the peace of ot the world for there is no other nation so strong In its resources and so unselfish unselfish unselfish un un- un- un selfish and so free from International international lonal entanglements as to be able to execute this role Duty America merica Owes World It is therefore to my m mind ul a duty that hat we owe not only to our own people eople but to all aU the world to be so thoroughly well prepared as to be benot benot benot not only invincible but able to say to any nation that that- presumes to disturb disturb- the he peace of the world Take your quarrel to the court of the nations the he permanent court of ot arbitration And to say this and yet escape being made foolish we must have the power pow- pow j er the preparedness to summon the offender before the high court if it he presumes to affect not to heed the order to keep the peace Y You ou ask What shall patriotic men do doT My answer is Make America America Amer- Amer ica ca so strong In preparedness that It will be able to guarantee the peace of ot the world This may be an ambitious am am- idea but America has every right to be so blessedly ambitious What a father would do t to protect protect protect pro pro- his children a government should do to protect the people It Is the duty of our government concentrated on the welfare of the United States to io make nake such preparations and au authorize au- au such expenditures as will saVe sae us from the experience the horrors Inflicted upon the nations of Europe If It the government has its duty the individual citizen also has his duty This Is my suggestion Let Americans blessed with peace and safety spend in relieving the unfortunate Europe at least a part of what war would cost us Individually if it the blessings of ot peace were removed Let every man rich enough to pay an income tax give ive to the war sufferers an amount equal to his income tax Let us show our gratitude not by eagerly striving for profit but by proving sympathy For each voluntarily voluntarily voluntarily volun volun- to tax himself for the well wen to todo todo todo do of this nation to contribute a fund of ot or more in the year to the unhappy sufferers of the nations at war would be to give practical proof that we appreciate the peace blessing Wise Vise Wood spoke strongly in favor of ot an appropriation by congress to in increase increase increase in- in crease the army anny and navy according to the recommendations of the general gener gener- al 01 boards He spoke of ot German ambitions ambitions ambitions am am- in South America and de declared declared de- de dared that it is in the power of one European nation to set down upon our Atlantic coast in six forty-six days more than men with sufficient artillery ammunition and supplies to last for three months and on the Pacific Pacific Pacific Pa Pa- coast could be landed In sixty sixty- one days approximately 3 men with supplies and weapons He said that all aU nations have been put upon their notice in the unmistakable language Ian lan guage of ot action that when Germanys Germany's moment to strike will have come neither treaties nor vested rights noran nor noran noran an attitude of born of ot the consciousness of ot right will save them from her desires L. L Hollingsworth Wood made a plea against armament and declared that faith in our fellowman is what is needed I |
