Evening journal., 1898-04-14
GRAMMER FOR PEACE.
Makes an Eloquent Argument
Against War.
HE IS A MAN wBLL-KTowN HERE

tOtlMiIfNL1 OlAll lOLNED Al
SMYRNA, BUT NOW IN BALT-
MoRE-HE VISITS WILMINGTON |
NEARLY EVERY LENTEN SEA
SON.
Rev. julius E. GrammerD D., at one
time stationed at Smyrna, but for many
years in Baltimore, is especially we'll
known in Wilmington, as Lenten sea-
son seldom comes that he does not
make one or more addresses here. Con-
cerning his attitude on the war ques-
tiOn the Baltimore Sun prints the fol- |
| lowing:
In the present critical condition OF |
] affairs between this country and |
Spain, growing out of the war in |
| Cuba, and the wreck Of the United |
States battleship Maine In Havana har- |
Dor, the following article by Rev. DR.. |
Julius E. Grammer, rector of Trinity |
Protestant Episcopal Church, address |
ed to the Baltimore Sun, will be read |
with special interest:
The issue before the country is
matter OF profound interest to every
citizen of the republic. Many people
are carried away by excitement and
a false idea of patriotism.
We have nowhere seen wiser coun-
sells than those in the admirable lead
ing editorial in the Baltimore sun OF
Saturday, the I'd instant If Spain
comedies all but the independence OF
Cuba; il she disavows any. responsi-
bility for the explosion of the ship
Maine; II she liberates the prisoners;
II she consents to supplies being sent
by the United States government to re-
lieve the suffering; il she is willing to
grant an armistice. and does all else
! but acknowledge the independence OF
Cuba, should that refusal be regarded
} as a casus belli?
z we might as we'll say that the con-
J duct OF Turkey in her cruelties to the
/ Armenians was a cause for war, or the
sufferings of the Siberian exiles justi-
3 fication of war with Russia, or the op-
preston OF Hungary by Austria, a war
rant for our declaring war against Aus
tria. We are not charged as nation
| with the protection of all the oppressed
OF the earth. If we are moved by mo-
tives of humanity in our sympathy
with Cuba, let us remember what
price we shall have to pay for a war
= with Spain. How many lives will be
D., sacrificed compared with those who
il were lost on the Maine, or who are dy-
ing from the Spanish oppression In
Cuba. Shall we Sow the wind and
reap the whirlwind?" Shall we see
~ our peaceful skies blackened with the
-, ( smoke of battle; our DEMONSTRATING
Il waters Redeemed with the blood OF our
fellow-men? Shall we see our prosper
Z | GUS industries embarrassed by the ex-
| actions OF expensive and burdensome
: | military and naval armaments? Shall
u we see our streets filled with mourn
ing women and children, and our hos
pitals with the wounded and dying and
a long train of untold evils follow In
the path Of bloody war?
When we contemplate the result We
are persuaded that in the light of rea
W son, religion and experience, we shall
find no Justification for a declaration
OF war with Spain.
General sherman said. ''war #
hell"
Milton makes the Prince Of Darkness
in his counsels In the cabinet OF Oe
mons, exclaim: MY voice is for war.
N Said the great patriot, Henry Clay
'Mr. President, II II were compatt
IS bic with my physical strength anc
official duty, / should visit every
Of town, village and hamlet in this wide
union and entreat the people TO paus'
~ and solemnly contemplate the awfu
t. gun which yawns before them.
should pray high heaven 10 visit US il
ie mercy with plague, pestilence or fam
Inc, rather than blind and Needles
a. enthusiasm for military renown."
The Lake Mohwak Conference on In
ternational Arbitration, which met las
June and was presided over by Senate
Edmunds, Of Vermont, passed thi
/ oh aff ~ t11TI
correspondent:
T. Resolved, That this conference mos
N cordially appreciates the expression 0
the hope made by the secretary Of wa
OF the United States at the recent dedi
ly cation OF the Battle Monument at Yves
e Point, when he said:
s- 1T Is the fond hope OF the bes
at minds Of every land that the time ma
ln come, and that in the near future
u when armed forces in the field shal
IS. no longer be required; when all differ
". ences between nations shall be settle
te, by the benign influences of mans bes
o. Judgment and that arbitration shal
* be substituted for artillery, musketr
n and the sabre. May we then hope
a. the soldier equally with the civilian
n that the day will come when, with on
ed accord, the great nations OF the cart
he truce Of God to the world forever.
nd said Senator Edmunds: we ma
It. consider reprehensible or Otherwis
ne that her majesty's government, circlin
ne the earth and holding under dominic
re millions upon millions of Mcslem sui
IN jects, is reluctant to interfere active.
w with hostile measures for what sh
Us may deem intrinsically right, for fea
X that the endeavOr to preserve the live
n of a number of Armenians or Cretan
* would expose the lives Of every Chris
es tian, Of whatever persuasion, in a
OF her East Indian and African domin
III ions. So in all this stress. whateve
ne may be the motive which has led
ne reluctant action or no action at all
u whatever may be the circumstance
OF which have brought Greece and Turke
OF into open and public hostility, (nO'
dr. happily suspended) we may feel the
n n ia tho onirif which this cOnferen(