The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-05-06
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last three days much against the army.
] have always felt that the profession
of my father. of myself and of my son
was a creditable one,
81 doubt II my son Will live long
enough TO see the gun turned into the
plow share, to see the sword beaten into
the pruning hook. | hope that before
that time armies will not be needed
for the protection of the people, but
up to the time that You do need armies
believe it behooves the people of this
country TO maintain their army and
their navy in an efficient condition,
and I believe that the twelve.inch guns
along the coast of the Atlantic and the
Pacific, with well.dri!led body of men,
Will do more in maintaining peace than
all the talk of all the peoples of the
world will do.
'sIt is your statesmen and your peo-
pie that create war. First the people
become irritated, generally through
some commercial transaction. The
statesmen then take hold of the mat
ter and they compromise or try to If
the nationas are nearly equal. If thev
are not nearly equal the stronger one
slaps the weaker in the face and the
soldier is called in to settle the mat
ter -
"If is a lameutable page in our his
tory continued Mr.. Love. "this show
ing to the world the gigantic destruc-
tive Dreadnaughts, our boasted iustru-
meuts of death, causing other countries
to initiate this cowardly, selfish and uu-
neighborly nationality that can say on
its intercourse with others repudiate the
psalmist when no says the Lord is our
refuge and our strength, "
An exchange of formal greetings be.
tween the diplomatic representatives of
various nations and n business session
to consider the principal results of the
gathering constituted The days work.
Joseph B. Moore, Justice of the supreme
court OF Michigan, presided over the
business session.
Mrs. Fannie Fern Andrews of Boston.
secretary of the American School Peace
league, told of the work Of that or.
ganization.
'EThe American School Peace
league, she said. Gains to secure the
cooperation of the educational public
of America promoting international ius.
tice aud equity. The league aims to nc.
quaint the public of America in order
that the teachers may be influenced to
emphasize the broad humanitarian prin-
cIples Of right and justice which tran.
scend all national boundaries The
teaching of history. geography, science
and literature lends itself admirably to
this end
Many Speakers Heard.
Other speakers were the Rev. J. T..
Tyron OF Boston. assistant secretary of
the American Peace society, who spoke
of "The London Peace Congress of
l9l0.' and the Rev. Gilbert BowIes of
Toxic, Japan. Congressman Richard
Bartholdt of Missouri presided at tbc
international greetings session. The
prlnclpal speakers today were Count 10.
hann Heinrich Won Bernstorff, the Ger.
man ambassador: WI Ting Fang. tbo
Chinese ambassador, and Secretary OF
the Interior Richard A. Ballinecr.
Mr. Bailinger spoke III part as fol.
lows;
II am commissioned by the president
OF the United States to bear 10 yo,,
lidings of good will and encoura cement
in your praiscworthy efforts for unlver-
sal peace
The first president Of the United
States wrote this message Of peace:
Observe good faith and Justice to-
wards all nations, cultivate peac. and
harmony with all Religion and moral
ity enjoin this counsel II will bo worthy
of free. enlightened and at no distant
period great nation, To give to man
Kind the magnanimous and too often
novel example of people always guided
oy exalted Justice and bcncvolence'
This doctrine. by Its coutinus; .reIter-
alton during the history Of this republic