Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-05-12

he had the greatest respect. In his audi
ence were American soldiers, Spanish
prisoners and Filipinos. In the hospitals
or on the field in ministering to the SOL
diers the father never drew the line. At
that time there was nc news of the cars
peace proposals and it might not have
been safe to urge it upon the Montana
soldiers, who loved peace so we'll that
they wanted to fight for 1t, but who
thought it their first duty to disarm the
Filipinos and Aguinaldo and his crews.
When that is done they will be ready to
return to their homes and turn their
swords into plow shares or miners picks.
n United States is a nation of peace
and is patient and long suffering. 1t will
not fight until it has to, and in this war
it has been a rod in'the hand of the AL
mighty to chastise those who have been
unfaithful and wicked, a rod hat will be
respected by the Filipinos after it has
been properly applied to their backs.
Father Doherty won enthusiastic APP
plause by his patriotic declaration that
he believed as an American and a soldier
that anything that savored of criticism
of the government or President Mckin-
ley in the conduct and prosecution of the
war was both unwise and unpatriotic.
DR.. J. L. Albritton was the next speak
er, his theme being The Religious Sig
niticance of the Peace Proposal" Said he:
1T seems to me that this is the signifi-
cant feature of the proposal. I see in
this the beginning Of the fulfillinent of
~Israels greatest prophet. uttered 700
years before the advent of the Christ.
His name shall be called the Prince of
Peace 1t is the harbinger of better
days, when they shall beat their swords
into plowshares and their spears into
pruning hooks when nation shall not
lift up sword against nation, neither
shall they learn war any more Does
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in originating with the car of Russia?
l think not, but rather more. The Greek
church is Christian and the czar's wife
is a daughter Of Queen Victoria and,
judging from this meeting called by the
women of Butte, what influence may not
the woman from the palace of Great
Britain exert upon the car of Russia?
The time has not been SO long passed
when Romanism and Professionalism were
whetting their swords and piercing each
other with them in the name Of religious
conscience, but that day is past, and
there will never again be a war between
Professionalism and Roman Catholicism,
for we are brethren of the one Christ. AS
a prominent man sale not long ago, the
attempt to create a feud in America be-
tween Romanists and Protestants ended
in a few sulphurous words and went out
in a puff of smoke The Catholic church
of Butte is filled nightly with an anxious
throng Of people of all denominations
and no denomination while the Paulist
fathers conduct their mission as an Old
time revival, while Mr.. Crittenton, a de-
voted member of the Episcopal church,
comes and without surplice or prayer
book breaches Christ, and all denomina-
tons work with him in rescuing souls
from sim"
The topic assigned to Mr.. j. H. Dur
stan, editor of the Standard, was "Arbi-
tratiOn and a Permanent Tribunal - He
said in part:
Because I believe the better reason to
run that way, l shall speak in opposition
to the proposed permanent tribunal.
That tribunal is an institution which
shall so operate that international griev-
ances shall be settled by the equities and
war shall be no more. First, the tribunal
is not the right evolution; that is to say,
it is not the goal toward which mankind
is moving. Second, this permanent
tribunal does not regard the interests of
those who ought chiefly to be regarded.
Third, it is not practical. Fourth, if it is
practical nevertheless it is not a good
thing for mankind"
The speaker discussed each of the
propositions In turn, arguing that even
national arbitration had not been a sue
cess, and that it could not be expected
that international arbitration would be.
He referred to the various compromises
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United States preceding the civil war,
and how at last the great question that
divided the nation a to be submitted
to the arbitrament of arms.
Speaking Of the ongress being i'm
practical, he said he felt satisfied they
would satisfy their own judgment if they
pursued the inquiry he had suggested
hat the legal mind is not essentially the
mind to deal with many Of the questions
that lead to war. Because they would
discover that touching the right or wrong
of war, there is really no conflict between
the intellectual and physical world.
First. These are questions that must
find their solution in the heart as well as
in the mind; not in society but the heart
and mind of the common people. Sec
ond. There is a limitation to what can
be accomplished in the arena of debate.
Men do not pledge merely their intel
lects to their fatherland; they pledge
their lives, their fortunes and their
sacred honor. Third. The permanent !
tribunal is an invitation to quarreling. |
1t would prove to be an agency for dis
cord and a machine for the manufacture
ing of trouble. Fourth. The right way
to make war more infrequent is to make
1t more dreadful.
In concluding Mr.. Durstan said: The
peace tribunal is an illusion. We are
not so sure that there are finite bound
aries to the time when the permanent
peace tribunal will be not practical. We
are not sure that there will not be war
in heaven. We are taught that there
will be no pain there, and no night and
no marriages. but I do not recall that
there is not to be no war. There was a
war in heaven The Bible says there
was. The time came when the denizens
of heaven concluded that it was idle to
arbitrate with the devil. And a woman
was at the bottom of that war. Doubt
less she was a member of the Celestial