The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-04-03
MAKES STRONG
PLEA FOR PEACE
Address of Baron d'EstOur-
nelles de Constant, at
San Francisco.

SAN FRANCISCO, April 2.-'The use
lessness OF war, with the conflicts be-
tween France and Russia as the par
ticular Illustration. was preached here
tonight in the First Congregational
church by Baron ID Estournelles do Con-
stant the eminent French senator, who
has been speaking throughout the United
States for the cause OF international
peace.
He said in part:
without discussing recent wars. but
merely those that have taken place be-
tween France and Russia we may be
said 10 have lived through a chapter of
history which Will be written one OF
these days under the title that cnlight-
SnGa paIroIasm Iass ,Msn wo1a s,yG Century French
armies have carried war into Russia.
first TO Moscow and then to the Crimea.
Neither OF these wars has been taken
TO heart and remembered by the Russian
people and they have not held France
Responsible Neither at Moscow In Ma
poeon's time nor in the trenches sl,,s- before for;
cover any sign OF hostility. hatred or
incompatibillty among the Russians The
past has vanished; liking and aiiectlon
between the two peoples and the france
Russian alliance seems as II II mad al
ways existed
Lived Long in Error.
And yet the TWO governments. before
they came 10 an understanding. had
long regarded war between the two coun-
tries as natural and necessary state
of things 20 be generally accepted In viz
believed that both nations were bound
to hate each other. while the people
themselves asked for nothing better than
mutual confidence While the Two gov.
nations were friendly and neither defeat
nor bloodshed nor bitterness has been
able to sllG that sen1'ment; sent Tnr governments
10 admit that they were mistaken but
that did not bring back the victims to
life and TO the service OF their coum nn1,
II seemed as If were living the trials
and sufferings OF our unfortunate Grand
men we're mobilizcd for the campaign in
Russia.
Painful Memories Aroused,
MY way back to France from Moscow
by railway took me over practically tne
same route as the French troops fol~
press train 1t seemed endless. 1t took
q whole day and night. and The names
OF The stations, such as Berodino. SmoI
Iensk and Beresina. aroused painful
memories These were the places where
our troops had had to hght their way
back to hostile Europe the oattleneiu
of Leipzig and the nnal campaign in
II saw the snow spread out over the
plain like an immense white sheet. M9t
for MANY and many Il mle--a waste
through which our officers and men, des-
litutc OF almost all supplies, had 10 make
NJ In. Weaker Succumbed Shrouded In
Ice before they were dead they were de
voured by the crows and wolves; Think
ono sucnt In 81 sleepinG-Car berth seemed
long 10 me but what must 1t have been
10 them, and what All awakcnnS IL is
L., t, whether they mad more 10
fear from isolation or from ambush and
pursuit by fanatical enemy.
WAS II a dream? il seemed TO me as
II Frances children were lying asleep
under the snow and that as the train
approached they rose UP and held out
their arms imploringly, The saddest
to tRclr doleful cry We died for moth
inen