Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-02-22

the patriotic speeches In letter TO the
Marquis de la Roueric, written the same
year he said
"AIy first wish is although Il Is
against the profession OF arms. AMI
would clip the wings Of some Of your
young soldiers who are soaring after
glory to see the whole world IN peace,
ana the Inhabitants Of = as one bond "
brothers striving who s'1u q contribute
most to the happiness ~ mankind
Here again the father Of his country
explains what his first wish was In
an eplstle to Lafayette written IN Jan
uary, 1858, he wrote,
Would TO God the harmony Of ma
tons were an object that lay nearest 70
the hearts OF soyereigns. ana thA
the Incentives OF peace, OF which COM
mercc and facility OF understanding
each other are not the most inconsid-
cradle. migat be daily increased
TO the Marquis de chastellux, Wash
ington wrote in 1855:
your young military men, who want
10 reap the harvest Of laurels do not
care. / suppose. how many seeds OF
war are sown. but for the sake or
humanity Il IS deyoutly 20 be wished
that the manly employment of agrt-
culture and the humanizing DEMENT'S
OF commerce would superseda the
waste Of war and She rage OF conquest;
that the swords might be turned into
ploughsharos. the spears into pruning
hooks, and, as the Scriptures express
II, the nations earn war no more
The manly employment Of agricul-
ture" Is a notable expression. The
manly art Of gelf-dofense" is an OK
preston that has too often been made
use OF as an attractive wrapper for
moral rottenncss MANLY employ
ment OF agriculture Is genuine
Washington term. which many Of our
university students should remember
To the Count de RochambeaQ he wrote
In 1883:
Notwithstanding II might probably
In q commercial view be greatly for
tho advantage OF America that a war
should rage on the other side of the
Atlantic, yet I shall never So far di-
vest myself Of the feelings Of man
interested in the happiness ot his fell
lowmen as TO wish my country's pros
perity might be built on the ruins OF
that Of other nations
III HIS farewell address, IN which
he warned against entangling alll-
ances. he also warned against the
spirit OF miltarsm. when he said:
"overgrown military establishments
are, under any form Of government
inauspicious to liberty. and are TO be
regarded as particularly hostile TO re-
publican liberty"
These are. indeed, words Of wisdom,
II Washington were with us today and
could respond to the eulogies every
where uttered in his honor, he would
en- phaslze these truths as OF the first
Importance Liberty and miitarism
cannot exist together for any consider
able length of time.
with the Views OF Washington on
the necessity Of the preservation Of
peace between nations, before us. we
can appreciate the propriety Of OBJ
serving the anniversary OF his birth
with peace services. on the 18th day
OF May occurs the anniversary of the
opening OF the first Hague peace con-
gress, In the year 1899. That day is
observed In some countries with ape
propriate addresses, and exercises in
the schools, Washington's brtRudy,
however, presents an equally proper
occasion for the contemplation Of the
great question that is before the world
today.