The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1914-12-30
THE GRIMMEST JEST in ALL HISTORY
Is the Peace Palace at The Hague Destined to Be
come the Worlds Greatest Monument
to Failure?
(By David Starr Jordan.)

(By David Starr Jordan)
In recent number of popular magazine Wel-known
Towering above the Carnegie Plain gers the Peace Palace
htory gmest jest and the worlds greatest monument to
/; lure
Dsregarng the anmus Of this cheap let look at
who have worked for the of law and deceny
and greed in international affairs have found Holland
side the currents of mtam and Of rival explorations which
courtesy of the capital city place
meeting of the and tribunals devoted to the extern
sion of security and law The friends of have also met in
capitals notably Brussels Bern and Stockholm but of
all available cities The Hague has been usually the most
recognition of these needs, Mr. gave the gov
the halls adequate the purposes of
tenaona activity The people of Holland have put hand
have surrounded it by beautiful garden. - ' -
The building does not glitter nor is it any sense
palace though its Dutch Vredenpalast translates itself
No one expected that hall of meeting would of itself bring
greedy world which spent half Of its earnings
the cultivation of hate It was simply meeting place for
that must ultimately triumph which must outast
armies and naves and kings and empires Not to believe that
civilization be made abdng would be to despair of hui
man destiny
Just halls the law-breaers
understood that the faithful Professor Ludwig Quidd
opened shall find thousand ready for the against
where there the careless and cynical days before
Shall need these halls again. Is the riot Of murder and
robbery for which no man nor nation dare stand sponsor the
Manes and Louvan and Rhems there higher than
the ate Is there public opinion voice of God above
the of the howze Is the crush Of rival military ecen
cies the end of Christian civilization?
We do not believe this We have faith and therefore
the God within him. We have been heading straight toward
gathering the sacred of We
shall fill the halls again when the pirates swept from the lanes
of traffic There hundred maybe thousand who see war
today for what it is, when there year ago.
When have buried dead and fed the starving millions
that has robbed shall The Hague again and this
Hall of Peace will be only of ten thousand shall need and
find all the world
What then the grimmest jest the coste failure in all
through the peace the of barbarsm
defense against barbarism Europe has SlOOOOO
itself against itself Armies
destined purpose this purpose not
efficiency bring victory brought The for
the the abyss it's end the
Europe Exhaustion pestenc DEATH the wedest magma
ton could nothing than what happening today
ITO safeguard must for war This is the
watchword of the grmmest jest the coes failure in history
Since the writer began this note barely hour the
has already in that short time cost than the Peace
Palace The Hague Every day of the costs forty times
Mr. Carneges gift Every six hours of daylight spends in de-
structon much all the world has paid bring the
of security and mutual trust And the greatest part OF the
few millions to this work has been American All
that the continent of Europe has spent for abatng
hatred and suspicion would keep the going for hour
Ever week this must cost of America,
baan under the flag when hatred dies the of
palace The paryzes enterprise while the other
hand it forces the duty of feeding the nations crushed
der the war-god's heel.
Indemnity enough the world to make
good the suergs of Belgium Seva Poland by the
rivaries of her three flags.
1t is bind up the wounds soften the hatreds to
hold charity toward all and malice toward
But the terrible lesson must forget War breeds
and there nothing costly mperona hate the
worlds gmmest the costiest failure history is the
use of military efficiency insurance for peace.