Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-18
CHILDREN CHEER FOR PEACE
Make the Welkin Ring at Auditorium
This Morning.
BRYAN SAYS WE MUST LEAD
Advises the United states to Wait
for No Nation, but to Take
the Lead for world
Peace.

Peace
over 1900 boys and girls from the public
schools Of Omaha sent enthusiastic thrills
through probably 1900 otner auditors at the
peace meeting held in Auditorium Tuesday
morning. with waving flags innumerable
Of all the colors Of the spectrum. they kept
the air sNlrling, and with voices OF keen
carrying power they made older ears ring
| as they seldom do.
School cries, class yells and many an
Inspired cry of the moment went resound-
ing across and up and down the big hail.
and was re-echoed from the vaulted roof
The youngsters were irrepressible land they
enthusod over the band, the glee club, the
chorus singers, the orators and everything
where they got half chance. 1t was an
inspiring sight they furnished, massed and
banked row after row and tier on tier
and every last unit full to bursting for
peace aad quietude-some time, somewhere.
Aside from the thrills put into the meet
ing by the glorised en- .dren. John Lee
Webster shot in a few along the line that
shivers the air when the warships clear
for action and the blue battalions wheel"
! And william j. Bryan electrified his hear
ers with some more whirs of feeling based
on Biblical thunders for the righteousness
that exalteth nation and the smooth
Christian spirit that should move the other
cheek into the firing line when one has
been smote.
Speaks of Sunshine.
! Dr. W. NJ. Davidson himself loosed many
shaking heart throb and many loud
hand clap by his recitation picturingN the
homecoming of q wanderer from abroad
/ to he Ia ha ofr 10 fn1 of
shine and the flag is full of stars" So
| altogether it was a great meeting, with
international peace for base and anything
but peaceful setting for a cupola.
| Everybody was satisfied and a happy
| multitude scattered from the many doors
| Just In time to find the dinner tables
| laughing with the fragrant loads.
Mr.. Webster, who made the first address.
spoke substantially as follows:
The parliament OF man. the federation
of the world, has been the hope of many
as the security for universal peace. 1t
has been called Utopian dream, a mis-
print on the page of history, but the
movement keeps on as calmly, but as re-
! sistless, as the current of the oceans, and
! by its influenced warming a sympathetic
and intellectual sentiment in its favor
among the people in all the nations.
| "A time will come when international
questions will be settled by the arbitration
! OF q great sovereign senate, which will
| be to Europe what the Parliament is to
| England what the Diet is to Germany,
what the Legislature Assembly is to
France. A day will come when theste two
immense groups the United States of
! America and the United States of Europe,
shall be placed in the presence of each
other, extending the hand of fellowship
across the ocean,
Universal Government.
"If universal peace is to come, 1t can
only be by the establishment of uni
Versal government, which shall have con-
troll over the destines of the sovereign ma
tions and clothed with the power to en-
force its DEGREES.
rs the age of peace to be inaugurated
by the union of all the people of the earth
into a universal brotherhood, based on the
| fundamental principles of the constitution
of the United States? The query is sug
! gested by the published outline of such
| constitution drafted by William Osborne
| Mcdowell of New York. Its introduction
| Is in language imposing, grand in concep-
ton and noble in sentiment. 1t reads:
| We, the people of this earth. in order to
avail ourselves of all experience and to APP
propriate its best results for the good of
the world, TO substitute justice for force,
| right for might in all human relationships
and to secure for all mankind, now and
, forevermore, all the blessings Of liberty,
peace, Justice and good will, do hereby
| formulate and agree upon this constitution.
Such a constitution would require the con-
sent for It's adoption, and to be included
within It's Jurisdiction a world citizenship,
made of Americans and Europeans, China
! men and Japanese, white men and black
men, Turks and Egyptians, Christians and
Mohammedans, Buddhists and pagans X ng-
doms and empires and republics,
"A writer IN speaking of such a proposed
constitution said 1t should embody all the
loftiest conceptions and aspirations of
| every race for tho uplift of the human
family, from Moses and David, Solomon
and the Hebrew prophets, from Buddha,
Mohammet, Plato and Socrates. to Wash
ington, jefferson and Lincoln 1t should
epitomlze in its spirit all the immortal doc
uments of liberty and peace the Swiss
Compact Magma Charta. the English Bill
OF Rights the Declaration of lndepend-
enoo, Lincoln's Gettysburg speech and the
constitutions of every iberty-loving nation
of the earth.
United States should Lead.
Should the United States be the intia-
tive in bringing universal peace and union
TO all the nations OF the earth under u
constitution so grand in thought and pur-
pose. 1t would be a glory to our country
SURPRISING all other Of its great achieve
ments in behalf of freedom in government
and the advancement OF the general good
OF mankind, Many things have been
| ted Of he al Of ba
United states but this Is one greater than
them all. so vast is its dream-lke con-
ception that, while It appeals to the hui
manitarlan, 1t dazzles and bewilders the
thinker and statesman. II involves trans
formation in human affairs, in Individual
and national interests and in race in
stiRots that passes human wisdom. 1t in
wolves the working out of an economical
problem among sovereign states, the like
OF which, in magnitude and Importance for
the welfare of mankind has never been