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Show REED AS A LOVER OF PEACE. Rebellion a Reflection Against Com mon Sense of the Race. The late Thomas B. Rood's make-up, mental and physical, fitted him for conflict, yet he was a lover of peace. Tho American Friend, the organ of the orthodox Quakers, publishes this week extracts from letters which Mr. Reed wroto during tho Spanish war and since, which aro very characteristic of the man. It seems that In a letter written to his Quaker friend In Mnrch, 1898, ho complained that ho had received re-ceived so llttlo credit from peace societies so-cieties for his consistent service as a peaco man, whllo Mr. Long, secretary of the navy, was the Idol of tho socio-ties. socio-ties. Ho said In a noto at the end of this lotter: "Does thee remember tho book of Jonnthan Dymond? I havo never forgotten It, nnd havo it yet," Thirty-eight years beforo when ho was a student at Bowdoln this Quaker friend had given him a copy of "Essays on tho Principles of Morality," written writ-ten by tho English Quaker, Jonathan Dymond, in 1829. After President McKlnley had mado n speech assigning to Provldonco responsibility re-sponsibility for tho war with Spain, Mr. Reed wroto to this same friend, "No, It Is the devil," and he also added, add-ed, "There Is something better than tho fat of rams or ovon going to meot-ing meot-ing regularly." In 1901 bis Quaker friend sent him a pamphlet on war, to which ho replied that he would read It, "although Jonathan Dymond mado up my mind on It a good many years ago." This same correspondent also quotes Mr. Reed as saying that tho fact that tho North and tho South had to settle their conflict as they did, "Is n tremendous reflection against tho common senso of tho race." Boston Transcript. |