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Show 15(1 nations are not willing to be honest and truthful with their tellow men. Miss JANE Annams: I am sure you all know Mr. Robert Treat Paine, President liraternal orders teach men conlidenee in their fellow men, .\ of the American l'eace Society, and we will all be glad to hear a man who has not eontidence in his fellow men is a dangerous eitii zen to the nation in which he lives. have not confidence in their fellow men are a dangerous "Wide and that nation is a menace to the peace of lli'lllttlls. .\ man who thinks that no one (1%. a ponest lint himself is apt to be dishonest W mum WWMHN word from him. (Applause) The people oi :1 nation who with his fellow men because he wants to treat others as he thinks others are treating: him. So it is with :1 nation whme people think the people of all other nations are dishonest; they are uni» \‘crsally dishonest because they attempt to "get even" with those of other nations whom they consider dishonest. .\ dishonest nation needs a big navy and a big army. The more tli\ltliltt‘\t a nation is, the bigger its navy and army ought to be. Such :1 nation is educating: its people to believe that might makes right. Such a nation is educating its people to regard the Holden Rule as :1 joke, and is teaching them that justic‘ and liberty are good things to preach about but bad things to practice. l-‘raternal men are rapidly realizing that the Golden Rule, is :1 rule of business necessity. A perniament business must be, an honest business justly condnctwl A dislat'inest busine‘» or a bui ness dishonestly conducted means, sooner or later, bankruptcy. A dishonest nation 111 >ans. sooner or later. bankruptcy or war. In other words. men and nations, sooner or later, get their just deserts. Men and nations. as a rule. get out of the world what they put into it. Men and nations are treated by the world as they treat the world. If men and nations want war they sooner or later get war: if men and nations want peace they sooner or later get peace. \\'e cannot expect fraternal orders as organizations to endorse this or that peace moyement, but we can expect all true fraternal men. individually, to encourage and to work for peace. The members of the fraternal orders in the United States not only advocate but earnestly desire peace, and the day will come when they will get peace and our nation will then really help 1') free this old world from the pestilence and rayages of war. MR. ROBERT TREAT I'AINE: LADIES AND ()1: 'J‘IJCMEN: This is rather a sudden surprise, and ] never had the power of speaking without preparation, but one. cannot refuse to obey Miss Addams, in Chicago. (Laughter and applause.) We have learned to admire her so much in our distant city of Boston that obedience here Would be e' ' if one were able to do so. I cannot refrain from saying one word to express the pleasure with which l have listened to this last address, because we have been strugglingr for peace almost hopelessly and I do not know what real ground we have for confident hope unless it is the great masses of the people, the fraternal orders, and I think I am right in sayingr the great labor unions, those who are reprc‘ sented by Mia (ionipers, whom we shall bear later; unless, possibly they take tip the cause of peace and present it with the fairness and thoroughness and splendor with which the last speaker has done. The capitalists. I think I might almost say in my despair, have failed to bring about the desired result. Some people maintain that the capitalists are on the wrong side: that they are Illllk‘ ing larger profits out of war and the preparation for war than they can make in any peaceful way. \\'e are beginning;r now to see that the results of war are prew'igr with cruel burdens upon the masses of the plain people; that the tremendous debts that are, rolled up by all this preparation for war in Germany, in l‘rance, in England, and even in our own happy country, which until recently has been free from the burdens of war, are oppressing‘ those nations with a mass of debt which really in the last analysis falls upon the labor unions, the laboring men and the fraternal orders. And therefore they have the right on the noble ground that has been presented to us of what I will call Christianity, to make their appeal to each other in behalf of peace; and also upon the economic ground that the burdens which grow out of the cruel debts of war are borne by the laboring people themselves, and |
