The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1911-05-06
NEW PROPAGANDA
FOR WORLD PEACE
The Gospel Of Peace Must Be
Widely and Earnestly
Preached.
A FEDERATION IS NEEDED
II Is Pointed Out that the MANY Peace
Societies Are Lacking in Or
ganization-- Education
Is Essential
Associated Press Special.

! St'NN'eA''
/ Baltimore, May 6-"The Newer
| Propaganda for Peace" was outlined
by Prof. Samuel T. Dutton of Teach
ers' College. Columbia University.
before the Third National Peace con.
gress at yesterdays session. Prof.
Dutton said in part:
| 1t is evident that the hour has ar
rived when the gospel of peace must
be widely and earnestly preached.
doubtless many influences are work
+; ing for the establishment of perpet-
ual peace. Human progress and the
growth of the institutions of civiliza-
ton are charged with that altruism
and with that sense of solidarity
| which are fundamental in the peace
movement. Men and women the
world over must apprehend and APP
pi eciate these things. The five hun
dred peace societies of the world are
doing much but their work as yet
lacks organization and direction.
Those who are able to finance the
peace cause may justly insist that
the peace forces in this country
should be federated upon a basis of
equality and cooperation that tne
whole land may be covered and that
such a wise, constructive and educa-
tive program of propaganda be or
ganized as will give the United
States distinction and enable her to
take a place of leadership along the
new path.
Assuming that this may be
b. ought about, what shall be the ma
ture of the propaganda which in the
pulpit, on the platform, through the
press, by means of books and tracts
is to be presented? To most people
it will come as new idea that the
age of war has passed, that as we
can see in Europe today vast mus
Gums full of ancient and medieval
weapons kept as souvenirs of the
barbaric past, so it may be predicted
that few years hence the horrid
engines of destruction which modern
genius and science are constructing
will be objects of historic interest
rather than of practical use.
There will be, unless all signs
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there are to be no more religious
wars. Wars of races and religion
having passed it can be shown that
nothing remains to cause war except
national cupidity or some fancied in
suit of national honor. Thus it can
be shown that war has no place in
system of modern justice and that
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when the conscience and reason of
the world will demand that every
dispute whatsoever shall be settled
in a court of arbitral justice.
The new propaganda will inter-
pref and enforce the idea of a league
of peace so often urged by Mr.. Car
negie and clearly stated by Mr.
Roosevelt in his Christiana address.
Reduced to it's simplest terms 1T
means that while nations may en-
ploy force to suppress disorders
within their own borders, unlawful
conduct on the part of any nation af-
fecting other nations shall be taken
in hand by an international force un-
der the direction of the league.
THE propaganda may show the
diminishing Importance of physical
force in the world as compared with
that of moral force. 1t is moral pow
err that is lifting up the backward
peoples and making some of the
! gl eat nations that have long been
dormant arouse themselves for new
action. In China, Turkey, Cuba,Por-
to Rico, and the Philippines we see
this moral awakening.
Another theme which has not re-
ceived the attention it deserves, is
! the moral and social influences of
/ CONSUMPTION. 1t is not difficult &"
show that it is out of harmony with
I the doctrine of individual liberty, it
does not encourage but suppresses
/ true patriotism, it-partakes of the
nature of slavery, which the chris
I tian world has abolished
Among the newer propaganda is
the possibility of extending the prin-
cipe of the naturalization of terri
! tory to keep pace with the advance
! ment of public opinion in the direc-
| ton of world unity and cooperation.
while there can probably be no
immediate limitation of ornaments
in Europe the United States may
I! well set an example and while there
is little danger of war, the danger
of increasing poverty and human
suffering because of the economic
| waste now incurred calls for ener-
getic appeal and protest