Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-08-28
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CONGRESS ON
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Many Reforms Urged BY Heads
Of Trans. Mississippi
Organization
International Peace Means
Mutual Respect and
Mutual Trust
Ry Associated Press.

David Starr Jordan, president OF
Stanford, Jr., University, discussed
1.-THE Case Against War" before the
delegates to the Trans.Mi Mississippi
Commercial congress.
He declared that the greatest loss
to a nation from war was not the
unreturing brave but "those who
might have been but never were.'
Mr.. Jordan said in part:
1.-The aim OF the peace movement
is to do its part to keep unreason-
ing anger out of the councils of the
world The absence of unreasoning
anger between nations is the begin
ming of peace. But our ideals OF
peace are not met by bankruptcy
armed to the teeth the state of Eu-
rope today
international peace means mutual
respect and mutual trust, a condition
in which the boundary line between
states is not line of suspicion and
hate, but, like the boundaries of prov
inces. convenience in judicial and
administrative adjustments"
"Such a boundary as this is found
in the fourthousand mile line which
separates Canada from the United
States, an undefended border which
for nearly a hundred years has not
known a fortress nor warship nor
a gun. There is nothing of which
the two great North American ma
tions have a greater right to be proud
than this boundary of trust and con-
tidence'
ITO control it is not necessary to
own. We find the difference in our
American problems of railway man
agement. AS one may control rail-
way without owning it, SO may one
control likewise a nation 1t iseneces.
) sary only to control its debts. or
rather it's demand for more debt. Tie
debt of, Europe. mostly for war and
war implements and mostly contract
ed in the last sixty years, has been
controlled not owned by. 'das Con-
sortium' of bankers, by the sixteen
to eighteen families, the Rothschilds
at their head, who constitute the Un-
seen Empire of Finance"
Coming down to the cost, the
speaker went to show that without
war taxes each man could have his
house free, were the money to be
used in such fashion. The annual ex.
penditure of the world on armies and
navies in these times of peace, he
said, passes $4,000,OO0,00O every year.
Continuing his argument, DR.. Jor-
dan said:
1T is by the condition of the com.
mon folk that the prosperity of all
nations should oe measured. 1t is
not the status of the banker, the
trader, the land owner, the profession.
al men, the university, the theater,
the art gallery, which determines the
place OF the nation. Almost the
whole story of the rise of the cost
of living is told in the story of the
rise Of taxes for war debt and war
armament, the whole receipts earn.
ed and unearned of all the people
OF the United States, by far the rich
est nation on earth, barely serve to
pay the bill for war expenses Of the
world, for the year. The rich men
OF the world can no longer find gain
in war. They want no more of it.
"The biggest portion Of the address
was devoted to the support of the
assertion that war took the best
blood of any country, her young and
learless men and that only towards
remained, and from their brood came
forward new generations who hold
the history of the nation in their
grasp.
To war the speaker blamed the
deterioration of the European races.
Where is the country squire OF
English life and English history
Where are his nosy checked and
strong limbeda daughters Where in.
deed is the typical John Bull Of the
time.honored cartoon? Why is it that
three or fouf-0me say eleven mil.
lions of Englishmen are unable to
earn a decent living, or any living
at all in England today?
"Wh. is 1t that these same unem.
ployed are found unemployable in
Canada, in Australia, or wherever
they may go? Why is it that the
tendency in all average physical
standards is downward, while the
standards Of the best are always
growing higher! The answer lies in
the reversed selection of war.
Its effects are found in England
and everywhere else where strength
and courage have been rewarded by
glory and extinction. England has
exchanged her country squires for
tho memorial tablet. &
more than for all who have fallen
in battle, or were wasted in the
cams, England should morn the fair
women and brave mem that should
have been descendants Of her strong
and manly men. II we may personify
the spirit ofiithe nation, England
should most grieye, not over her un-
returning brave, but over those who
night have been, but never were,
those who SO long Us history lasts can
never be- -.