The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-25

chief topics of Justice Bureh's address
at the High school graduation exercises
last night. He said in part:
Because within the last decade the
most advanced and the most Christian
nations of the earth have believed il to
be necessary to resort to war for the
adjustment Of their differences, / trust
you may not have begun to entertain
false notions concerning that remedy
for national wrong. War is one of the
direst calamities that can befall the
people of any nation. 1t feeds and grows
upon the fe-blOOd Of human beings;
its victories are marked by heaps of
slaughtered men, weltering in the blood
of their mangled bodies and shattered
limbs, and by bruised and blackened
human forms scattered about upon the
face of the deep, the sport OF the waves
and the prey of the sea-mOnsters Turk
ing beneath them War strangles trade
and commerce, impoverishes the people,
cOrrupts the institutions of the state,
debauches the morals of the community,
both public and private, and installs
desOIation and disaster in the place of
prosperity, happiness and peace.
Il shall not undertake TO deny that
there is a quality in the brave deeds at
arms such that the memory OF those
deeds coming down through the years
stirs the human heart most profoundly,
and I hope the time may never come
when you do not thrill with pride at the
sight of the flag as it is passing by 1t
is the sign of the nation, vigorous, great
and strong. Equal justice, right and
law, freedom, honor and national glory,
all CLEAN in it's colors and with those
colors must stand or fall.
But. even in war, towering far above
the most dazzling feats of arms in nObil-
ity and moving power, are the deeds OF
courtesy, of kindness and OF human
brotherhood from foe to foe as from
man to man which find their proper
nourishment nowhere except in the soil
of peace and which nothing but the
love of peace can foster and inspire.
Admiral CerVera'S chiValrous message
to US of HObson's safety touches the
heart much more deeply than the superb
reckIessness of HObson's exploit. We
may be proud indeed of the manner in.
which Captain Evans commanded the
Iowa in the battle of Santiago, but he
rose to his manifest height when he re
fused to accept the profered sword of
the captured captain of the Viscaya.
The sentiments of this nation were most
truly represented after That battle by
the reverent burial by our soldiers, with
all the hOnOrs of war, of the Spanish
sailors who died on our ships; and the
words Of Captain Phillip to his men
when their antagonists were overtaken
by disaster never viii be forgotten:
Don't cheer, boys; the poor fellows are
dying Those are things which the
world will not willingly let die Be
prowess grows pale. They will live
when the record of every battle plan
has persisted. "a heritage for every man
who walks the troubled earth
For International ePace.
1.-The international events of browning
importance in modern times have been
those looking to information arbitra-
ton and International peace. One of
the finest pieces of craftsmanship ex-
hibited to the world within your day is
that which which brought about and
brought to a successful conclusion the
peace conference at Portsmouth; and
the magnanimOus counsel of the Jap
anese EmperOrs trusted advisers, the
Elder sta tesmen,' to withdraw the de-
mand for indemnity and agree to a.
treaty for the sake Of peace should in
sure to them a fame unsurpassed by that
of any of the most renowned partici-
pants of the war Among the greatest
of modern books is that of the Rus
sian novelist, Count TolstOy, entitled
War and Peace which, without a sug
gestion of didacticism, is one long and
passionate protest of the most poignant
kind against the atrocities of war; and
among the greatest poems Of the period
is that one which when read you never
can forget:
The tumult and the shouting dies
The captains and the kings depart
Still stands thine ancient sacrifice,
An humble and a cOntrite heart.
Far-caHed our navies melt away
on dune and headland sinks the fire
Io, all our pomp of yesterday
Is one with Ninevah and Tyre.
Referring to democracy and to the
need of following the scientific method
in the search for truth, Judge Burch
Enthusiastically democracy has a
firm faith in ideals and conseienuously
seeks the simple essentials of truth. It
believes that the search for truth
should be fearless, and that the truth
honestly proclaimed will make the
world better.
Because some of those who seek
/ freedom through democracy are often
swayed by pride and prejudice or by
Mea kness and ignorance. because they