Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1914-10-09
GREAT PEACE TALK
OF VIM. ]. BRYAN
Addresses Monster Meetings in
New York City on His Favor
ito Topic.

"The commandment, Thou. Shalt
Not XIII is as binding on a nation
as on an individual. A nation is
made up of group of individuals,
and there is no group. however pow
erful that can trample on a moral
code"
So said Secretary Bryan to an au-
dience of 1900 persons gathered un-
der the auspices of tho New York
Peace Society, in tho Broadway
Tabernacle church, Fifty-Sixth street
and Broadway, New York, in n speech
last Sunday.
Among other things Mr.. Bryan said:
ut is u significant fact that this
day the entire nation is thinking of
and bringing forth peace among ma
tions, and we may thank God that
we have in the White House man
whose heart is enlisted in the cause
OF universal peace, who, when he
deals in the affairs of nations has
pc nee uppermost in his mind and al
ways on his heart. l am glad that
our President is waiting and waiting
impatiently to renew his offer of in
tervcntion, which under his leader
ship may he the means of bringing
tho warning nations into conference
and peace.
81 am glad that WHINE we had an
opportunity and even were provoked
to engage in war, that we restrained
ourselves. | am glnt his nation il
laying the foundation of pcoce.
~ am glad that we stand linked to
twcnty-scvcn other nations, comprising
two thirds the population of the o.
tire globe, so that war with them is
almost impossible
"l am sanguine enough to believe
that it will not be long before we
have them all joined in such treaties.
| | look to the time when every nation
in Europe will trust to our disinter-
cstcd purpose. (
War Not Necessary TO n Nation.
zone of the dclusions that must be
dispersed is that war is necessary to
make u strong nation. Their care
other ways to add to nations tor
ritory than by conquest. Already we
have learned that il is more advan-
tagcous to expand the land by in
crensng its productivencss.
"You couldn't find one intelligent
man in this country who would be
| mil 10 OF, Ill
that he believes war is good.
"The one encouraging thing about
the present war is that you can't find
n man willing to take the RESPONSE
bility for it. You can't find n nation
who is willing to take the responsible
itq for it. They are all trying to shift
tho responsibility. No government
will admit that it desired war CT
caused war.
"Peace that is builded upon fear
rests upon the shifting sands. Love
is the only sure foundation for peace.
We will never have permanent peace
in the world until it is recognized you
can't put limitations on human prin-
ciples anl keep them there.
"Peace is but little ways beyond,
and we will yet understand the
brotherhood Of man. May God spread
the glory of peace"
1--WE must not be discouraged if this
greatest Of all wars broke out just
when we were most hopeful for the
|, substitution of reason for force in the
settlement of international disputes. 1t
may be that the world needed one
more awful object lesson to prove
conclusively the fallacy of the doc
trine that preparedness for war can
give assurance of peace. Continuous
, preparation for war presupposes the
, existence of an enemy who must be
2 hated until we can overcome him but
hatred begets hatrid, and revenge is
the heaviest load that man or nation
G can carry.
Source of Errors.
q "Most of the errors which man
: commits in international affairs arise
: from failure to understand the fun
damental truth that moral principles
Q are as binding upon nations as upon
J, individuals. A nation is but group
!, of individuals, and no group, however
Z numerous, can expunge one syllable
of the moral law. Though hand join
r in hand, they shall not go unpun-
: ished.' No nation is great enough to
= trample upon the smallest moral prin-
g ciple.
t "If war were moral necessity it
/ would be planned for, not dcplored.
i If it were recognized human need,
men would claim credit for it, not
deny responsibility, as they do today.
I, "The plane of existence will not be
e lowered, neither will the field Of en-
u deavor be narrowed when nation shall
n n cease to uplift the sword against ma