Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1900-03-08
VOICES RAISED FOR PEACE
Interesting Meeting of Della
ware Peace Society.
ADDRESS BY CHIEF JUSTICE LORE
An Able Argument by Mr.. Her
bert Welsh.
Anti-war Sentiment Fprcsfully Expreshea'
ann the War IN the Philippines Parficn'
larry n-precated-Psopie Urged {" En-
deaxor TO Kensay ExistipE Conditions.

Chief Justice LIRE and Herbert
Welsh, the latter Of Philadelphia, made
interesting addresses under the aus
pices Of the Delaware Peace Society, /
Thnrsiay, at Friends .MoBtinghopse, /
Ninth and Tatnall streets, before
large and attentive audience.
Chief Justice Lore. the first speaker. |
! said. There is German sdage that
Speech is silver, silence is gold.
/ Yet there are times and conditions
when silence may amount TO parti-
l cipatiop in crime, or the abdlca-
! lion of moral manhood. He who
| will not speak to save the reputation of
I those be loves or to prevent great
/ wrong, lacks the courage Of his conv;r-
tions. to put it mildly. This holds not
only in social life, but in broader fields
as well. Under cur form Of govern
ment each individual is responsible for
its policy, and as public opinion is
largely the controlling element in shsP-
ing that policy. it may be moral
cowardiee TO shrink from, the public
condemnation Of wrong.
| firmly believe that is orr condition
to3ay. We are engaged in oasolating
foreign Wal war of aggression and
conquest; seeking 10 force our saxon
civilization upon the Mala!an race,
while We frankly admit the race 10 be
Incapable Of receiving IL We are u
The Philippine Islands unlimited,
against the viii of the people, under
the frank and brutal admission OF
> Senator Lodge that We bought them
, from their Spanish masters when in
fact those masters had never subdued
, them and did not own them. II is q
, war of conquest and determination,
urged under tire euise Of humanity. by
, the most advanced of Christian nations.
: The far of islands of the $50 are ask
! ing for liberty and We give them death
= they ask for freedom and We insist
! they shall be slaves. They ask for the
! right of that enlightenment for the
: establishment of which our forefsther:
: fed from eastern bondage TO this west
ern world, and We give them martha
law.
Strip this war OF the lust Of oun
quest, the greed of commerce and tbs
. pride Of dominion, We have left opil
the sham pretence of the promotion 0
Christianity and civilization, usinl
as its instruments the sword. tn
j, bayonet, Calling guns, death-dealinl
% shot and shell.
Z A distinguished United States Sens
oBlt4 4OE 1lc nba4Ah9 ALe PSSA
: prandial speeches, few days sine
i said that the objectors to the Philip
. pine war were dealing with academi
ii questions. II be MEANS that the
81 are questions involving right an
wrong, eternal justice, then perhaI
n be is nearer the truth, the real issue
n than be imagines. Academic cues
- tons cost Charles / of England hi
:. kingdom and his crown, and robte
"a England of her greatest America
:. colony, 1t is the violation Of eternl
Justice enforced by despotic power thu
"a. has ever stirred up human wars to
al met by the countervailing force OF II
"a Almighty. In the end the Almigh'
N. prevails.
an From the hour Of Bethlehem, God
q. message to man has been, Peach
isf earth and good will among men.
n. Under this broad shield ChristiE
n. nations must gather or be condemns
nd Measured by this standard, where {
~ the United States stand in this va
III Are we for right, justice and liberty :
~ England and the United States see
both 10 have slipped from the orbit
a adyapced civilization. Both are wa
~ ing bloody wars. and have retiograd
N to The arbitrament of blood. THAI
"A heaven we have cut their commune
~ tiops at last exclaimed Colonial Sc
NO rotary Chamberlain recently. upon res
az ing that the Beers had left their Bib
tor behind in their evacuation Of Magel
as. fontein. When the representative
i+x the greatest Of Christian nations i
for ioices that they have cut the commui
cation of any of the struggling poop
ION of earth with the Bible. the word
~ God, nothing it seems can add TO
he iniauity of such war or to its trut
no izing effects. Under such circu
ius stances it is not amazing that 800.
tbs Beers bid defiance to the 30J, 600,
orv of the British empire, or that har
md fol of Filipinos could for is months
~ sist 6D,OO5 trained American soldi
ant with all the modem appliances Of VI
War determines might, not right.
,ary yindicates brute force, NOT truth a
IiIi Justice. Decentralization, destroct
~ and death are her crowns, ard cri
.ss and brutality brood over all her donna
"a lust. rapine and ruin are her herita
IN, multilaied forms and desolated hor
ms are her trophies. But God oyerru
llsy wars as He does the madness of men
na6 His purposes, but He does not nj
war. Our prayer should be that
great moral questions involved in
war may not be dragged into the Il
NAT. of politics: to be determined in pass
pa.s In the mad struggle for Office as pa
question. The issues are those
New Humanity, Christianity and lust
was They are too big, too broad. 10 bect
ing. the playthipgs of men who are hight
ling only for the loaves and the fishes
con. those who are in Office and will do q
mold thing to stay in, or of those who
the out Of office and will dc'anything to
The in. In the main our officers from
we've highest TO the lowest desire the pu
alley good; they at least have wholes
saar. dread of public condemnation.
pcre. If any of them will refuse TO exeI
ssin. the popular will when clearly as
tates tanned. 1t is our duty to show
man public servants that the great majo
+ to of the Gud-fearing. lieerty-ioving
wars and women of this country are opp
mis-. TO this war. That the children OF
the men who gave up loved homes,
a al became exiles in the wilderness for
ID on privilege of self-eoRernment will
q the to it that that privilege is secure
/, two all peoples. / have faith in cur ru
# a but they often need the tonic I
,tter. healthy public opinion distinctly
cnn- pressed, divorced from selfish ar
lands tions, cred and partisanship.
-tant. In the formation and expressic
this opinion, lies peculiarly won
work. In the creation OF a healthy
I and dominant public sentiment, in al
eview lighteped community, there is no
rk of equal to loving Christian womanh
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