The Minneapolis journal., 1905-11-05
MARK TWAIN HAD
A WAY To PEACE
But His Solution Failed to Please,
So He Has Quit Solution
Business.
Special to The Journal.

night of the Twentieth Century club,
the. chief dining and debating organi-
zation Of Boston, and before the meet
ing was over he had stirred up some
what of commotion by his comments
n various topics.
DR.. Benjamin F. Truebood, secretary
Of the American Peace society, and
Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin D. Mead, all fresh
from the recent great peace meetings
in Europe, were the advertised speak
ers, but Smauel B. Pearman, member
Of the club, took Mr.. Clemens along
with him as his guest, and of course
the celebrated humorist was called on
for speech .,.
Mrs. Mead in her address criticized
the secret treaty between England and
Japan, by which these two nations
tions without consulting others, al
though the whole world had an inter
est in the matter.
For the same reason she criticized
the new Interpretation by President
Roosevelt Of The Monroe doctrine to
settle alone with an offending and de-
llnquent nation in the Western hemis-
phefe. =. .s.
DR.. Trueblood said that the peace
conferences of this year had taken up
the idea of world federation, and that
many others, with Andrew Carnegie,
that a comb bination of five great pow
ers alone-America, France, Z England
! Germany and Russia-would be suffi-
c1ent to maintain universal peace, sim
ply. by the ostracism of any nation
guilty of infraction.
~ Mark Twain's Views.
Then Mr.. Clemens was called on.
When he rose he was greeted with loud
2nntqnSa ~ hol =
Mr.. Clemens said: :
- am different from those other
people who have been speaking. This
problem of universal peace used to be
one Of the uppermost things in nv
mind. used to study over it-no, r
will not say that I really studied, I
thought about it; how to get universal
ing, nearer and nSarer to a solution, and
at last | came to It. 81
"But the very day thought I had
solved 1T L was summoned to the pres
ence of an emperor. The first thing he
asked me was what [ was doing now
adays. L told him I had been working
out problem-the problem of uni
3 had found the cnly way-there was
no other.
"Then he wanted to know how was
going to bring it about, and / told
him: L am going to get chemist. a
real ,genius-and get him to abstract
= al! the oxygen from the air for eight
minutes. Then we will have universal
: peace. and it will be permanent,
= ihese young people who have been
/, talking before I began, still have an
Q interest IN the human race. But in my
case the clock may strike my years
any minute. am so near it that I don Il
E feel. that kind of interest. Let IS. see
abQut this interest in the human race
5 Everyone who has, it wants to know
J, how anything done will affect me.
Z The human, race, exists. in his own per
! son. He is wise and while no others are
< globe. Pa, as~' - '--i'
f "But I have got, where 1 can lool
d on the human race from dispassionat,
/; there IS no. use in my trying to solv,
Q its problems. -
:; Derides Craftsmanship.
J. r." Nothing; can be accomplished ex
g cept thru craftsmanship. Great ant
). noble profession! A mass of foolish
! ness! The craftsmanship of now is t,
e build ships--ships for each and ever,
g nation, until we have 25O,000 warship
e on, until finally we will be all ships. .
o mo, am not able to find a solution
e Of this problem. But I hope thes
t young people-with nothing else TO d,
:. .|-will keep on, For it will never be don
by anybody who has anything els
to do.
~ thank you for this applause. I
It IS more welcome because I think it j
f token Of forgiveness for what I di
II some, thirty feet back. when I was az
n plauding myself. Y our president, i
II seems, spoke my name and I didn
J. hear it. Everybody else seemed t
n clap their hands, and as I thought i
t. was the right thing L Joined in. o
y course it was wrong thing, but I an
, always committing some such mistake
Y. that got caught. have got over al
f those feelings of delicacy which ar
81 supposed to belong to good society an,
# now | don't care, for anything so lon
o as keep out of Jail. .,.,..,. %, .,-2, 4
= Used to Applause. = -
l. 'ttMost everybody bets into the habi
N of applauding when he sees others a
e it,, and for one, 1 cannot resist. b
n sides, I get SO used to compliment
g that cannot sleep nights.
II But took my goods to the wron
market. Emperors don It want peac,
permanent or temporary, on any sue
basis. They don It want any race su
l. eide. What they want is people, an
y then. more people. I was pretty COOL
le received by this emperor, and so wa
e nv proposition. And so I let it @,
II Every time I think 1 have formed
Y, solution of the difficulties: some on
le comes along and upsets it.
e. Ard that reminds me, five yeal
IS ago China bought two German mission
4 aries. She paid 100000 a piece fc
+ them, altho they were not very actiy
i at the time. But there ar several hui
u dred missionaries in China, and I'd b
glad to sell 'em all at the same price.
+. don It believe we have got down t
le l1es where we want to thrust our civiliz:
f tion on innocent people.
I In 1902 there were eleven mission
le aries in China, and in that year the
had a catch Of 5000 converts Judso
u Smith called it a harvest Thel
-. IL were 1920 pagans being born ever
II II day i'm China, and we were convertin
- them at the rate of two and one-ha
, - a day. So it would take quite viii
20 10 to get everybody converted
CZAR READY FOR FLIGHT.
Ia London, Nov. 5-Reynolds' new
e paper announces that it is informe
Or from a high source that plans have bee