The Calumet news., 1912-08-29
David Starr Jordan Makes Out
Strong Case For Peace in
Splendid Address
FOUR BILLIONS SPENT YEARLY
Mas Been Steady Rise Of Taxes
to Meet the Expense

Starr Jordan. president OF Stanford,
Dr. University discussed The Case
Against War" before the delegates 20
the Trans Mississippi Commercial
Congress.
He declared that the greatest loss TO
a nation from war was not the unre
turning brave" but those who might
have been hut never were"
| Mr.. Jordan said in part;
The aim OF the peace movement Is
10 do its part 10 keep unreascning an
ger out OF the councils Of the world
1.-THE absence of unreasoning anger be
tween nations Is the beginning os
peace. Hut our ideals of peace Gre
not met by bankruptcy armed to the
teeth, the state OF Europe today.
| international peace means MUTUAL
respect and mutual trust. condition
states Is not line of suspicion anu
hate, but. like the boundaries of prov
lnces. a convenience In judicial and
administrative adjustments"
such a boundary as this is found In
the four thousand mile line whi,h sep
arates Canada from the United States,
an undefended border which Tor near
| ly hundred years has not known a
fortress nor warship nor a gun.
There is nothing of which the two
great North American nations have a
greater right to he proud than this
boundary of trust and confidence"
DIR. Jordan reviewed the history Of
wars and the money lenders who made
them possible. Continuing, he said;
ITO control IL is not necessary 10
| own We md the difference in our
american problems of railway manage
ment AS one may control railway
without owning IL, so may one control
likewise a nation. II is necessary only
to control its debts, or rather it's de-
mand for more debt. The debt OF Eu-
rope. mostly for war and war imple-
ments and mostly contracted In the
! last sixty years, has been controlled
not owned by 'dasi Consortium' of
bankers, by the sixteen to eighteen
families, the Rothschilds at their head,
/ WHO NOIHllluit lnt ofiStth A~ihPAAN ~
| Finance"
Coming down TO the cost the speak
er 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 expenditure
of the world on armies and navies In
these times of peace, ne said. passes
| - .0OO, 900. 0OO every year.
Continuing his argument. DR.. Jordan
said.
1t Is by the conditions OF the COM
mon folk that the prosperity of all ma
tions should be measured. IL is not
the status of the banker. the trader.
the landowner. the professional 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 earned and unearned
of all the people of the United states,
by far the richest nation on earth.
barely serve to pay the hill for war ex-
penses OF the world for this year The
rich men of the world can no longer
find gain in war. They want no more
of IL.
THE biggest portion of the address
was devoted to the support OF the as
sertion that war took the best blood OF
any country. her young and fearless
men and that only towards remained,
and from their brood came forward
new generation who hold the history
Of the nation in their grasp.
70 war the speaker blamed the de-
terioration of the European races.
Where is the country squire of
English life and English history?
Where are his rosy checked and
strong limbed daughters Where in
deed is the typical John Bull OF the
time -honored cartoon? Why is IL that
three or four-some say eleven mil
lions OF Englishmen are unable to earn
decent living. or any living at all In
England today?
| why is ID that these same unem
ployed are found unempJoyable in Can
ada. i'm Australia, or wherever they
may go? why Is u 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 ex-
changed her country squires for the
memorial tablet.
more than for all who have fallen
In battle, or were wasted In ths
camps ENGLAND should mourn the fair
women and brave men that should
have been descendants Of her strong
and manly men. IL We may personify