Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-02-21
FOR CAUSE OF PEACE.
Justice Brewer Explains Mis-
sion of United States.
PROFOUND TRUTH IN LIFE
Jurist Delivers Address at Univer.
sity of Michigan.
END ARBITRAMENT OF SWORD
America Well Circumstanced to
Take Lead in Movement and
Will Not Fail.
PROFOUND TRUTH IN LIFE
END ARBITRAMENT OF SWORD
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
ANN ARBOR, Mich. February 90
Mr.. Justice Brewer of the Supreme Court
OF the United States delivered an address
at the University of Michigan yesterday
His topic was THE Mission of the
United States of America in the Course
Of Peace"
FIRST a thought, a wish, then a faith,
next struggle. at last a fact" Justice
Brewer said. so have entered into hui
man life and history some of it's pro-
foundest truths. Such has been and is
to be the story Of universal peace.
For untold centuries on the battle
Held were settled all tribal, all national,
disputes. Blood was the ink and death
wrote the Judgment. Yet in the heart
was the thought that there must be
some better method of settlement, and
they who suffered looked longingly for
It's appearance. But thought and wish
were only the shadowy pictures of a
dream.
There Came a Change.
Twenty centuries ago there came a
change. The heavens above the plains
OF Bethlehem were filled with a white
robed choir. and the only song of the
heavens ever heard by the children of
men broke the stiffness of night. Peace
on earth was that angel song In a
manager in the little town of Bethlehem
lay a newborn child. His mother bent
above her sleeping babe. and though the
record is silent, you may be sure she
heard the angelic song. For no ear is
so acute to catch the slightest notes of
prophetic song as the ear Of a mother,
Around the early days of that infant
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Mary kept all these things and pondered
them in her heart The child grew to
manhood, revealed Himself in a short
and wondrous three years. and in the
upper chamber bidding farewell to His
few followers, declared, Peace 1 leave
The increasing multitudes who have
looked up TO Jesus Of Nazareth as their
leader have taken His life and words as
promise and prophecy. and faith in the
coming of universal peace is the inspira-
ton of humanity.
Now we are in the third era, and
earnest men and women are working and
determined to put an end to the arbitra-
ment of the sword. The coming music
will not tell of the pride, pomp and cir
cumstances OF glorious war; but will be
refrain Of the angelic song Peace on
Earth Our own loved land witnesses the
strength of the struggle and will be the
great leader And this is SO notwith-
sldHuinS present shouting Tor larger
navy"
Peace Versus War.
Continuing, Justice Brewer said he
would not stop to discuss the question
whether a state Of peace is better than
one of war. To lead in the cause of
peace, he added. no one Of the great
nations Is SO we'll circumstanced as is
the United States of America
The speaker gave a summary of those
circumstances and declared there is a
reason deeper and more significant than
the mere matter of ability and safety
why this republic should lead in the great
work of establishing universal peace.
SO we have the United States" the
tant from other nations and thus in the
least danger of attack, with a continental
population of eighty millions and over
with resources unequaled by those of any
nation, with the most cosmopolitan popu-
lation, population gathered from all
races and hence linked to all by home ties
of affection, with the freest government
the widest popular knowledge, the most
loyal In its devotion to the Christ Of Cali
lee, and therefore with an ear open to the
music of the song of the angels of Bethle-
hem, and thus, may we not truly say. in
dictated as the fitting leader in the great
cause of peace.
LAS the leading nation on this western
hemisphere surely the open door Is be-
fore us. If we fail the cause of peace will
not fail. We shall simply stand out in
history as the nation which lost the great
opportunity. Who can say that in case of
our failure there will not be developed on
our north a mighty republic, which will
be true to the cause Of peace and stand
out in history as its national leader? In
deed, there are possibilities reaching far
beyond this. We fancy that ours is and is
to be the leading race, the one out Of
whose efforts the great benedictions are
to come to humanity. We are wont to
look at the South American states with
feeling Of almost pity or contempt, but
are we sure that If we fail the Latin race
will not be the chosen instrument of &C
complishing the Infinite purpose? Indeed.
one can see in the events of the last few
years some suggestive foreshadowings."