Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-05-06
INTERNATIONAL PEACE
Address BY Baron d'EstourneIles de
Constant on Patriotism Before
National Peace Congress
at Baltimore.
ny Associated Press

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Baltimore, Nd. May 6.-"The first
duty OF every interantionalist is to be
gin by improving his country and him.
self In his country" said Baron d'Es-
tournelles de Constant In speaking on
patriotism In its relations to the peace
movement at last nights session of
the Third National Peace Congress
here.
The services of ones country can
not be neglected In time of peace, diff.
ferent as this service is from what is
required from us in time of war;" he
said. Our country embodies not only
our interests but those of all other
countries as well; and this must be
clearly understood. | have long felt
ashamed at having to explain such
self-evident things. The high-minded
and the simple see them we'll enough,
but stress has to be laid upon them
for the benefit of the half-educated
and the selfish. Let me then repeat
once more that the existence of the
fatherland Is as necessary to us as
that of the family and the liberty of
the individual. The existence of the
fatherland Is the basis of every ma
tional and International organization.
Countries must exist II, like individ-
uals, they are to be brought into asso-
citation. AS the progress of any asso-
citation is in proportion to the worth
of its members, so an association of
nations will amount to what the ma
tons themselves are worth-the value
of their activity, education and dis
ciplne. All this is evident, and, this
being so, the first duty of every in
ternationalist is to begin by improving
his country and himself in his country !
"But here the conflict of ideas be-
gins. That great word "fatherland,"
which ought to have but one meaning, |
is interpreted differently by different i
Some look upon 1t as the |
of yesterday, with all It's |
traditions and privileges; others in
terpret it by the light of the present,
and others of the future. In word, |
We make it in the image of our selfish
selves. In very few cases we make |
1t what others would wish it to be.
. "Our duty is to love the fatherland
Of the past, serve the fatherland In |
the present and prepare the way for
TIC litHtl idHu vi lHt luluit, Which
will be the fatherland of all Ameri-
cans. We must realize that every in
1ividual existence uselessly sacrificed
Is source of danger, like grain of
sand or nut dropped into a piece Of
We think it is of no con-
sequence until the accident comes.
Everyone realizes the truth OF
hose principles In regard 10 everyday i
affairs, but people either fail to see
hat they apply with equal force to the |,
national life or else they give 1t up as
90 complicated. And yet, such Is the (,
sublime regularity of universal order
hat nature accomplshes this master
piece every day. And yet even this
example is not enough
Woman Is perpetually accomplish
ng human miracle before our eyes.
Daughter. sister and then wife, she
changes her home and name without
changing her heart. AS a mother she
Iacrifices everything and yet remains
herself. Here we have the very image
# the fatherland, bound to the past,
lttached OF the present and forgetting {
verifying for the sake of the future. {
And there are people who can not see
his! II
THE cultivation of peace through {
light should be our first and foremost I
orm of cultivation. 1t is still at its /
BEGINNING, but 1t has triumphed over {
ge-long difficulties. We have now I
egion of international organizations, {
angling from the Postal Union to The 1
Hague Tribunal People laugh at in /,
irrational arbitration, but it has
hown its value. 1t has averted what ]
night we'll have been war between q
russia and England over the Dogger- q
ank affair, between Germany ana
rance after Casablanca, and between
he United States and England after
century of disputes over the North
atlantic. Progress has now acquired
UGH Roadway that it can not possibly
e stopped. People are now convinced
hat war is not natural punishment
nd are rising against it. Even gov
themselves are being con-
arted y