The Topeka state journal., 1911-05-26
PEACE FOR ALL.
Capt. ]. q. Waters Wants No
More War.
Settle Disputes on Basis OF Hon
or and Justice.
AN ACT OF SAVAGES.
War SeVerest Criticism OF In
tellectuaI Power Of Man.
Turn War Vessels Into Grain
Carrying Ships.

Memorial day was celebrated this
morning at the city schools. G. A. II.
representatives spoke at 10 O'CLOCK d.
the grade schools, and in the nlgh
school assembly hour Judge ). i.
EIdridge and Captain ]. G. Waters
were the speakers. Judge Eldrloge
spoke of the greatness Of our country
and recited an original poem
'swar is barbarian and savage" de-
clared Captain Waters, VINO was slt 80
warm ovation by the sluoehtS - a1o-,,-,,t % el1
institution, and who gave an eloquen'
address.
Il am here in advocacy of a Worlu
wide and continuing peace, Where no
sovereign has mortgage on SUI
ject's life and where disputes viii oe
adjusted on basis OF hon4r anJ arhi}ra- {rs
tice, without recourse to the arpitra-
ment of war. For all the ages OF tne
world 1t has been so deep IL the craIe
of war, that it has from force OF
habit, taken to it, on rasn linpuise,
fancied grievance, or, LOT wtlaI
worse. under the thin guise OF rlghI
conouested. looted and stolen what De-
longed to another.
"There is no king but what has been
the receiver of stolen property; .thell
routes to their palaces lie through con
duested provinces, and the story OF
wars butcheries dishgure every page
of history. Armies have faced each
other to supplant a reiEning dynasty
or to bridge with dead bodies the
highway to throne.
WAR is barbarian and savage. 1t Is
the severest criticism on the intellec-
tuaI mowers of man to believe that
bludgeon is more effective in a contro-
versy than the brain; thai guns can
effect more than gumption.
Expenditures Monstrous.
'T look upon the military expendi-
lures of congress as monstrous anu |
this pleasant morning of May. MAKE
this prophecy that I hope you Will
remember when you are gray headed;
That all our war vessels. now bullt OF
in contemplation, will have been so
long in the junk pile, without use TOT
any of them, that people will nave
forgotten their names l would can
this desire for continued armament
Caesarism, pure and simple.
1--WE have had enough OF wars Tne
great rebellion was war carried on IN
. defense of liberty and if the south had
had at that time railroads, news
papers or common schools, that war
would have been impossible. One
bright, brainy orator in a hundred
thousand of his ignorant fellow clti-4
zens crazed the south. The leaders
down south in deliberately urging the
war on knew the result would be
against them There was no mathe-
rnatics that could figure out its sue
cess 1t was for the protection OF
slavery and this was more than all the
other factors in the equation against
them. They entirely left out of their
calculation the everlasting and omni-
potent God.
Gas a soldier engaged in an humble
way doing a soldiers part in that aw-
full war, there has come to me at fire.
uuent intervals, one overwhelming and
keeps coming to me, and that is the
butchery of war, taking lives that only
the Almighty has power to take, the
vast misery, the horror of it and not
to say a word about its cost. That
war may have had it uses; it may have
taught it's lesson of peace; it may
have made the world more human.
THE time is coming when armies
will not fire on each other, and when
that glorious day dawns, war is no
longer a weapon, and the kindly offices
of peace will prevail You students
should open your books wider and
consider the things that are happen
ing now that make for peace
Favors Reciprocity.
There is a reciprocity treaty now be-
ing urged for adoption by the United
States senate, between the United States
and Canada. 1t should be a discussable
question in this school. The premier of
Canada, as well as the president of the
United SLaleSs Is 10 IT. MI
Lanier the viceroy of Canada, a few
days ago said to the assembled digni-
tartes of the British Empire, that the
boiIndary line between the two countries
runs from ocean to ocean, and that along
that extended frontier there was not a
fort not a garrison, not regiment, not
a gun or man to protect the one country
from the other.
"The politician, always narrowed be-
tween the eyes so that his vision may
converge on his own person, thinks he
-.,Tra xynfa hxr Cav fnO hat fxrri1l g.,
lure the farmer in reducing the price of
his wheat. Here is the problem: Given,
a swap of products between frost Bit
ten country, of sparse population, with a
country almost a score of times more
populous, which crops everything, makes
everything, with all the economies of
manufacture, which country is absolutely
certain to be the most benefited?
ssDo not hunt the book of answers, there
is but one answer, and 1 need not state
IT. When that treaty is approved, when
we in time shall make 1t complete and a
newly welded pair can visit the Thousand
islands without having their grips in
spected, twice on the trip, peace and con-
cord among the nations are making head
way The last thing a Savior would have
erected would have been a custom house
THE tariff other than for legitimate ex-
penses is the DEVILS own wall.
Century of Peace.
'sThis is a century Of peace. We will
garland our guns and let them thunder
in the offing, a good morning to eacf
proiectiles go down their muzzles Turr
the war vessels into grain carrying ships
to famine and hunger ports. 1 am more
in favor of a high school than I am of :
West Point or an Annapolis.
ssI am for a peace that shall not be in
terrupted at midnight by a call on tn,
mother for her only child. but where un
der ones own shade he may enjoy tha.
which his own thrift has gathered with
out the tax gatherer taking a tithfn,
from him to arrnor a ship, to buy re
cruit or waste iron by drawing it out int,
Springfield barrels.
wisdom should come with A man,
years, and the folly of life is to have gain
ed nothing by living. Every state pane
of every statesman elaborates this peac
proposition and still the armament zoe
on No wonder a woman works the field
OF Germany and tills the soil in France