The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-06-08
BARONESS VON SUTTNER, 69,
 WILL TOUR AMERICA

Baroness Bertha von Suttner, per-
 haps the worlds greatest feminine
 apostle of peace, is celebrating her
 sixty-ninth birthday by planning an
 extend from the Atlantic to the Pa
 cific, eliminating with an address be-
 fore the clubwomen of the United
 States and Canada at their convention
 in San Francisco this month: The
 Baroness was born in Lower Austria
 on June g, 1S43, and was the daughter
 of Count Franz von Kinsky, field.
 marshal of the Austrian army, and
 Fraulein Korner. She married, in 1876.
 Baron Gundacar von Suttner, whose
 ancestors in war. About twenty-five
 years ago this daughter of a soldier
 began her propaganda in the inter-
 ests of universal peace, arbitration
 and disarmament, and carried on her
 crusade so effectively that in 1895 she
 was honored with the Nobel peace
 prize The basis of .the award was
 her great and terrible novel, Die
 Waffen Nieder,' day Down Your
 Armsl in which all of the ruthless
 horrors of war were wildly pictured.
 Throughout Austria and Germany this
 book spread, and it's circulation reach
 ed over million, arousing tremendous
 popular indignation against warfare.
 It was one of the most effective blows ever lodged against the spirit and
 practice of militarism, and it's au-
 thor we'll deserved the Nobel prize.
 The Baroness declares that prepara- tions now under way indicate that
 the world is soon to be plunged into
 the most terrible and deadly conflict
 in history, and she looks to the wom- en and the worhingmen. as the only salvation It is the workingmen who are killed and the women and their children who weep and suffer, she as- ,serts, and to them she makes her ap- peal.
 '.Feverish preparation for war is| Europe" says the Baroness. "1t isl useless to deny that the peace move ment is at low ebb and that the spir it of war is flaming ever higher ana higher. Press. parliaments, even pull pits are under the spell. The great states of central Europe were born of war and christened with blood. So- cialism is becoming so powerful that it is feared that militarism, always before regarded as the symbol of glory, eninence and fame and offer ing the highest and most honorable of pursuits for gentlemen, will fall in- to disrepute. Therefore it has been. decided that there must be war, and soon, in order to stem the tide Of So. cialism and to restore mi1itarism to it's old time supremacy. Might. and prestige in Europe, and especially m Germany and Austria, are still on the side of the military system; In all the parliaments of Europe there IS not a single peace party except the Social Democratic There is not one daily newspaper, aside 1 from the Socialist press. that stands | for peace. Wealth. capital, the royal courts, the church, the influential politicians and statesmen, the manu- | facturers of machinery, of war, are, with honorable exceptions, all on the side of militarism.''
 Baroness von Suttner declares that America and Americans are among | the most potent factors for world l peace, and that she hopes to put In motion a new and great force for peace by her appeal to the federated women of America to join with their | sisters of Europe. At the present, the Baroness admits, the future looks black. but she does not despair or averting the threatened crisis, through the creation of public sentiment against war.