The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-05-12
BOTH SIDES OF THE PEACE
QUESTION WERE PRESENTED
Eloquent Addresses at the Meeting Held Under the
Auspices Of the Butte Woman's Club to Discuss
the Cars Call for Congress in the
% Interests of Universal Peace.

passed on fact, then what shall we say
but that peace Is at hand, since mil
lions of the mothers of the land have
been moved to rise up and say, Let us
have peace. 1t must come. The COM
bative and beligerent male portions Of
the race know that it is useless to pro-
test and destructive to contend any
longer. They will Immediately and as
gracefully as their awkwardness VIII
permit, surrender without terms.
1T will be advocated perhaps that
war is conducive of progress and that
peace brings stagnation. For me I
think the reverse is true. In times gone
by war seems to have not been an UNI
mitigated evil. When nations were
separated from each other as they :re
not to-day. there was tendency TO foil
into rut of NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. to
let well enough alone; which Issued in
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. of thought, in
vention, discovery, in social amenities
and business enterprises, and war seems
to have been the only awakening power
for nations that We're thus at Il stand
still. Invading armies have played a
part in liberating the human mind from
the bondage of CONVENTION and break
ing up those barriers that have often
been detrimental to human progress.
But we must remember that up to the
close of the first quarter of this CEN
fury the means of international cCm-
munication We're slow, irregular and
expensive, now it is rapid, regular and
cheap. 1t requires no invading army to
carry new ideas, customs ana inven-
tions to awaken a sleepy people, now,
for steam and electricity do shat in a
moment of time. Whatever is invent
ed, discovered or found to be Of prac-
teal utility to mankind in one part of
the world to-day, all other parts of the
civilized world know of it tomorrow.
Let us admit that the military
achievements of the Roman empire and
the crusaders of the middle ages and
the conquests of Napoleon exerted
beneficial influence, but it was so be-
cause of the then prevailing conditions.
They are changed to-day and we may
not predict good to come from a SINH
lar cause in the future. Was not the
car thinking of this change of the
worlds environments when he said the
present moment is considered favorable
for the inauguration of a movement
looking to the quiet of the nations? l
think so. There is time for all things
and the time now seems to be propi-
tious for advocating universal peace
with reasonable hope of success. When
it is established humanity will have
time for meditation, which is only an
other word for thoueht, and thought is
the underlying force, or germs that can
grow, expand, blossom and bear fruit,
which is progress. War is a hindrance
to meditation except on one subject,
how to destroy, whereas, the medita-
ton in peace times takes in the con-
sideration how to build up. improve and
make better 1t has been said that
military morals can direct the axe to
cut down the tree, but it knows moth
ing of the quiet force by which the for
est grows 1t is in times of peace that
two blades of grass are made to grow
where only one grew before. 1t is in
times of peace that the wilderness is
made to blossom as the rose.
Il trust some one will show us to-
night in glowing words how war is
productive of crime how expensive it
is and how cruel it is, for when it is
portrayed in it's true colors we shall
be able to appreciate the more how
much of a benefactor he will be who
discovers and establishes the machin-
cry by which national quarrels and
disagreements can be settled by some
other means than that of the sword.
All praise be extended to the car for
proposing a conference of nations to
consider the matter and let grateful
thanks be given to the women of the
world for their earnest efforts to fur
Their this idealistic condition of men.
This much must be said for the ruler OF
Russia, when the Alexanders and Gaze
SafS ana NdDoleoilS nave peSiI ioi ST.
ten, he will be remembered and revered
as the patron saint of nations as the
first mighty monarch who had courage
enough to say Let us have peace. His
manifesto is unique. There has been
nothing like it since that morning
when new life was born into the
world and a heavenly choir serenaded
the infant with the Incompatible song,
GLORY to God in the Highest, On Earth
paace and Good Will to Men,
Father Doherty, who recently re-
turned from the Philippines, was the