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Show 148 current of life can overrule, or modify: lJ/ce Ilie .tm‘d is the Iran-ext. It is related that (iuizot once asked this question of Jamcg RIIS\Cll Lowell: "I low long will the republic endure ?" "So loner as the ideas of its founders remain dominant." was the answer. But again we have this question: "How long will the ideas of its founders remain dominant?" Just so long as the blood of the founders remains dominant in the blood of its people. Not neee» sarilv the blood of the l‘uritaus and the \" ginians alone. the MM ‘49)va mum original ereators of the land of free states. \\'e must not read our historv so narrowly as that It is the blood of free-Aborn men, he illC-V Roman. Frank, 3‘ xon. Norman, Dane. Goth or Samurai. It is a free stock which creates a free nation. ()ur republie shall endure so long as: the human harvest is: good. so longr as the movement of history. the progress of peace and industry leaves for the future not the worst but the best of each generation. The Republic. of Rome lasted so long as there were Romans; the Republic of America will last so long as its people, in blood and in spirit. remain free men. At the Close of President Jordan's address. the session ads journed, THIRD SESSION SOME PEACEMAKING FACTORS IN MODERN SOCIETY Monday Evening, May 3. at 8 o'clock )It‘sie IIALL. lam-2 i\irrs llt‘lI,l>lX(;. Miss .IANI'I animus. [mm/7",, Miss ADDAMS: There are a great many forces working for peaee outside of the American I'eaee Society and the International l'eaee Societr. l'erhaps one of the strongest of these is the many fraternal organizations and others which we, tiud throughout the eirilixed world, the members of which try to keep war at least outside of tlieir own organization and to lire within that organixatiou as we hope after awhile all the world will live togetheix Mr. llurtt. who has been most active in bringing together the various tra- ternal orders of Chicago, will speak to us this evening on the fraternal orders and peaee. lt gives me great pleasure to intrw duee Mr, Joseph I}. Burtt. Fraternal Orders and Peace Mn. josici'u l‘.. Ih‘n'r'r \Vheu a famous general of our country was diseussiue tile subject of war. he bluntly and tersely said. "War is hell," and every sane man in the [inited States fully understood this ditiui< tioir And well they might understand it. for Masons had been shooting I\l:tsons, ()dd Iiellows had been sllltutltttf (Md lit-Hons. (‘atholies' had been shooting Catholics, and l'rotestauts had been shootingr I'rotestauts. \\'ar had changed the freedom and ban piness of a peaeeful and prosperous nation into a hell of eaiu and crime. \\'hen our (‘ivil \\'ar began the Masons and (tdd l"t'll‘tt".\ I49 |
