Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1914-10-05
BRYAN SEES PEACE
FOLLOWING THIS WAR

New York. Oct 4.-Hope that the
European war will be the last object
lesson of the horrors of strife, and
that after it all the efforts of men
VIII he restored to production rather
than to destruction. was expressed to-
day by Secretary of State Bryan and
Oscar S. Straus. former secretary Of
commerce and labor. at the special
pence day service held at Carnegie
hall.
The meeting was one Of many held
in this city In accordance with Presi-
dent Wilson's recent proclamation
designating today as day Of prayer
for peace, The large hall was filled
and hundreds Of people had to be
turned away
To-day, when a number Of nations
all our friends, have been drawn into
the vortex Of war said Secretary
Bryan. "our first duty is to use such
Influences as we may have 10 hasten
the return of peace. There will be
ample time afterward to discuss ways
and means for preventing future APP
peals to arms.
an this age our interests are so
entwined with the interests of those
who reside in other lands that no ma
ton can live or die unto itself alone
If we had no higher reason for en-
couragng conditions conducive to
peace. we should find ample justifi-
cation in the fact that the burdens
of war are no longer borne entirely
hy those who are direct participants
in r. Today every neutral nation
finds itself greatly embarrassed by
the disturbance which the European
war has wrought in every department
of human activity
1--WE must not be discouraged, If
this, the greatest of all wars. breaks
out just when we We're most hopeful
Of substitution OF reason for force in
the settlement of international dis
putes. 1t may be that the world need
ed one more awful object lesson 10
prove cenclusively the fallacy of the
doctrine that preparedness for war
can give assurance Of peace. This as
is built upon the theory
that peace rests upon fear whereas
all history proves the contrary Com
tinuous preparation for war presup-
poses the existence Of an enemy who
must be hated until he can be over
come; but hatred begets hatred, ana
revenge Is the heaviest load that man
or ndtlon can chIlNs
"Most Of the errors which man
commits in international affairs
arise from "a failure to understand the
fundamental truth that moral prin-
ciples are as binding upon nations
as upon individuals. A nation is but
a group ~ Individuals and no group,
however numerous, can cspunSo one
syllable of the moral law
zone of the encouragements to be
drawn from the present European
conflict Is 70 be found In the fact
that the governments involved vie
with each other in refusing TO admit
that they began it. We have taken a
long step in advance when no civiliz-
ed nation Will either admit desire
for war or confess an intention tol
It,
In conclusion the secretary said
"Man has spent a considerable part
Of his time In the work Of destruc-
ton. In the day that Is dawning hei
can devote all his efforts to produce
ton. There is as much inspiration in
"a noble life as in a heroic death.
oscar straus expressed hope that
mediation would eventually settle the
European struggle.
Cardinal Farley making his FIRST
public utterance at st. Patrick's ca
thedral since his return from Rome,
said that II Europe had Needed Pope
Plus X the war would never had
started
"The pope" he said, "died amid
the sounds Of battle of the nations OF
Europe. praying for peace, his heart