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Show ll 338 339 alone bv way of West Point or Annapolis, but it comes through servicerto humanity in the arts attd in the marts and in the manuiactures and the labor and the home rather than upon the field of battle. Some men can see that and more will see it. We are coming to see that to recognize the horrors of war is not itself an element of cowardice. There are those who as thev read history have their eyes llash with indignation as they think of the awfulncss of the past, and yet they think that it makes for cowardice that they shall speak of war and its horrors. One illustration, and I doubt not that it will help those of us who shall rivet it in our hearts. On a train the danger signal sounds; we look out; a man is hurled by the engine into the ditch below, mangled and torn. dead. He is put into the baggage car and all of the passengers talk about it until they reach the city, horrilied that a man is dead. -: up - v n l IIIW; \I\\\ll\\h\"l , One man, one widow, a few orphans. a few si>lers and brothers and members of the immediate family only to sorrow. and yet a whole trainload of passengers horritied. Yet our school buol-zs, our newspapers, our teachers, our preachers talk of the glory of war that teaches that wherein one hundred thousand men were killed in one battle 'was a great thing to be cheered and it is said that in Russia and Japan there Wt re something like two hundred and twenty-one thousand orphans due to the awful horrors of that war. As for my part, 1 stand for peace and for sense and for arbitration and diplomacy: nowhere cowardice, but with a rec- ognition that is right, a recognition of the horrors of war. And why not? lior if we prosper by our discoveries, doing the best we l\ll(l\'\'. why may we not instead of killing half the people and worryingr ourselves to help the other half, save them all? l doubt not that it will be fair to say that it is not cowardice to one recognition to or to call attention to the waste of war. "but it all the millions of men now engaged in the war of this and other nations Could practically all be put into the trades and into industry? I d.» not think it would bring the millennium, nor give an end at once to all our trt uililes, but any man that can think can see, it seems to me. that it would mean shorter hours for labor. and why not? If a home and family are good for you and me are they not good for the millions of conscripts that must go through the militia of the European governments because their heads have not had the brains to profit by the past as they will in the future? (Applause) I doubt not I shall speak the truth when I tell you that wars and the waste of war, more than the horrors of death-I count worse than either the heritage of hate and the jealousies between the nations. France and Germany have cordially hated each other. No German ever quotes a Frenchman if he can help it, and vice t'El'StL,' and the books that I read as a child in the public schools, and likewise the older of you, taught us that every man of England was a bloody Britisher and that somehow he was the child of Satan. The books that were written for the children of this country a generation ago, when I was a child, taught wrong on the one side quickly to be matched by wrongr on the other side, and we have now reached a time, bless God, when the truth, let it be either for the enemy or the friend-what mat- ters it to the historian when he studies for truth? I speak the simple fact and he not when I say that the heritage of hate has done more to hamper and hinder the social development and the heart throbs of fraternal sympathy in this great country of ours in the last forty years than any other one thing, and by as much as northern men shall travel to the South and Southern men and women shall now and then come to the North, by that nutclt we will see more of each other and know more of each other and love each other better. Therefore instead of our implanting in the childhood of our present hatred for our foes or hatred for any given section we will preach the gospel of peace for the future without reference to the past, and I venture to suggest that it will be well, for we shall profit by it in all the years to come. It may be suggested too that fear lies at the basis of all war -lies in that it is fundamental to war; lies in that it misleads and is positively false. That there is a fallacy in this statement is true~a great people will make for a great navy, and a great navy will make a great people. It reminds. me of the story of the farmer who found at the well at the back side of his farm a bar rel full of water He saw it there for weeks, and finally he asked the negro man, "Sam, what is the barrel here for ?" "Why, boss, can't you see that the barrel is here to hold the water?" " lut, Sam, what is the water in the barrel for ?" "Why, boss, can't imuul Muwvl |