Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-06-06
PROF. BRIsCOEs ADDRESS.
Memorial Day HonOred in Speech of
City Superintendent.

Cost of the Civil War: a. In men,
1000, 900; b. In money, 5000 mil
lion.
The cost of armed peace: To
establish and maintain a nation
al university incurs an eXpendi-
ture of $4,000, 900; as state uni
versities. an expenditure of $1,000
600: 100 high schools in each state,
$4,000; noTmals in each state,
100000; technical schools in each
state, 100000: 80 agricultural
schools, SIS, A further eXpendi-
ture is required, to add to the school
fund of each state, Sl,000,000; to
give to each state for libraries one
quarter million dollars; to purchase
school books for every child in the
United States.
Since the expenditure is so stu
pendOus, and is on the increase year
by year, at staggering proportions,
thoughtful men have set about to
find some method of escape. Presi-
dent Jordan of Leland Stanford says
that the annual war maintenance
fund for the United States. Germany
France and Russia is larger than the
total value of the wheat and corn
crops of the United States; that the
war maintenance fund and pension
bill of the world is greater than the
value of all the productions of the
United States This outlay for what?
To build engines of destruction at
such an enormous expenditure; to
patrol the seas with dreadnoughts
that compel peace; to take from
productive occupations the flower of
the nations; to be ready to maintain
our national dignity we sap the ma
Jion of its men and money
Is there no solution for this ques-
tiOn save the laying on the affairs of
the god of war these great sums of
money and the sacrifice of young
men to the hunger OF the remorseless
dogs of war?
Into the calendar of nations there
has come Peace Day-a day that in
all probability is to be to the nations
of the world as great and glorious
as Christmas. In the summer of
1898 there went out an invitation to
all the representatives of the differ
ent nations assigned to the court at
St Petersburg to attend a conference
for the purposes of discussing the
best methods of securing universal
peace At the same time it was Sug-
Sested that the meeting should be
held in some one of the minor ma
tions that no sinister motive might
be attributed to the powerful nations
leading in the movement. AS re-
suit of the invitation of the Czar of
all Russia, on May IS, 1898, there
assembled in The Hague, representa-
tives of all the great nations. The
Queen of the Netherlands gave her
summer residence as the meeting
place for this conference. 1t is a
beautiful place, only short dis
tance from the city, and is known as
The House in the Woods" The
general sessions were held in the
ballroom, whose walls are decorated
with some Of the finest paintings in
the world. Upon the walls in front
of the presidents station is the won
derful painting, Peace Descending
from Heaven. " In the preliminary
remarks of the chairman he touch
ingly referred to the appropriateness
of the building and remarked that
the beautiful picture was a splendid
prophecy of the future ages when
peace like a gentle river should flow
in and out among the nations of the
earth.
At this and subsequent meetings it
was agreed that two nations having a
dispute, serious enough to cause war,
might call in another nation or ma
tiOns who would view the matter i'm
partially and try to bring about a
friendly settlement; further, that one
or more powers strangers to the dis
pute might of their own free will
offer their friendly offices in set
tling the trouble Under the last
clause we Americans with pride re-
member how our own government,
through the friendly offices of Presi-
dent Roosevelt, was the means of
bringing to a close one of the most
sanguinary conflicts in all history
Under the provisions of the first
clause England and Russia were able
10 adjust the "Dogger Bank affair"
to the entire satisfaction of both par
ties.
To June, 1919, there have been ad-
justed in this court ! / cases of great
international troubles; and we Amer
leans are proud once more to claim
the honor of having submitted all
our International difficulties to this
court of honor and that at its portals
we have received justice.
We also have a just pride in the
fact that our Scotch Laird, Andrew
Carnegie, has by his generosity made
ii possible for this court to have its
own permanent home in The Hague.
In 1905 $1,500,000 was set apart by
him for this structure. All the ma
tions are bringing to it their richest
and rarest productions: England
four stained windows; France, tapes
tries and pictures; Dutch govern
ment, a collection of paintings; Ger
many, the monumental entrance;
Norway and Sweden, the granite:
Italy, the marble for the corridors;
United States Of America. marble
group, Peace Through Justice"
Members Of the G.. A. r. and of
the w. r. g.. am glad TO meet with
you here today II has been set
apart Dy a great nation In gratitude
for ferslces rendered and fOr sacri-
fcea Willingly made IL is said that
tniB Gag. May 80. was chosen because
HH II ihe iast ~ the soldiers of the