The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-10-07
OF
 WAR DETAILED BY
 REP. L. w. WILSON
Remarkable Speech Before Mems Club of NeWtOwn AscribeS New Reasons Why Peace Must Come.
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 The Mems club held their October meeting last night at the residence of Charles F. Beardsley. Main street The literary treat was at the hands of Hon. Lynn w. Wilson of Bridgeport, whose subject was the European war. It was presented to his audience rom every aspect by this trained journalist and enl1vened by his ready descrfp- ton of the movements of the war masses, the topography of the lands involved, or to be involved in the titanic struggle, the probabilities of it's termination, and the ultimate re- suits on nations. peoples and c1v1ilza- ton in general when the death strug- gle shall have ended. Also it's present and future influence upon our own nations was told and forecasted in a way that impressed his hearers as no amount of newspaper reading could have done. The speaker received the thanks of the club at the conclusion of his address which follows in part:
 s'We shall never reach the truth about the European conflict if we persist in regarding it as the fault of some special nation. or particular individual. You. may remember that when our forefathers came to this soil they found ii. occupied by war
 
 best hunting and the best fishing, and each at war with it's neighbor.
 ''This condition of tribal warfare was once common to Europe. and in those tiny countries for Germany England and France are tiny as to area though not as to human souls, there were some centuries back many warning clans. who fought each oth- CT, until in one place, or in another, unity was established by some n1ili- tary group powerful enough to whip many clans into one people.
 Thus it happened that these na- tions on European soil, through countless generations have had the vidence of experience that their neighbor would eat them up if they did not establish line against him.
 Hence by one process and another arose these great modern armaments, sand armies which are nations in arms.
 Now it is an attribute of the hu- man mind that when it has some thing new, 1t wants to try the thing it has and In Europe all those mil lions of men, trained to talk and think and act war. have been waiting for a chance to try the new things, the seige guns, the howitzers, the Aeroplanes, submarines, dreadnoughts and all the terrible machinery of death.
 There was a condition in which
 
 cards, which might stand so long as every man walked softly, but which was sure to collapse at the first awk- ward step.
 Thus you will perceive the Euro pean conflict has grown out of no single nations fault, and out of no Individuals fault, but out of ancient fesls that have survived among men here as well as there.
 How could it be possible that men who have been in fear of their neigh bers for countless generations, who have been armed against their neigh bors for centuries, should not from time to time kill each other, ostensi- ply for such shallow reasons as the assassination of a prince, but actually for the deep seated causes which I have enumerated.
 And now, as ever, the fears and the incnnations of nations are fore ed by classes within each who de- sire by war to extend their trade Precisely the same motive that pre- vailed among the American Indians for modern trade is to the traders precisely what fish and game were to the savages.
 l. Our country" continued the speak Ter, .'does well to be pleased because partly by the agency of it's great president, who is a. teacher of men and not a leader of soldiers is not involved in conflict. But some of this satisfaction in certain sources takes too snug san aspect of self satisfac- tion a .tIt is but recently many among us were determined to have war in Mex ico, and for the purpose of protecting certain dollars there. which have not recently been prospering. That was | the same old reason, fish and game, raising it's voice for the slaughter of American youth and the s1aying of a friendly people. This voice of trade eager to make it's personal dollars productive had even the audacity to refer to our president as a cowar d and no true American because he l would not make their dividends fer tile with the blood of the nations Iiyoung men,
 Concluded Representative Wilson '-It seems to me that the end of war will never come by the multiplication of death dealing devices. The more of them, the more the desire to use 1 them.
 There must be a sounder applfca- ton of the doctrine Of Christian brotherhood. and the true laws of trade must be understood.
 l The prime mistake of these mighty hucksters anxious for war is that they regard trade as limited thing. ir which their own part must be less ii some other nations is more
 The concept is utterly false. Trade 1 is unlimited until the last person 1T 1 the world capable of labor has beer l put to work upon the last ounce o1 raw material which can be worked I into a useful commodity.
 Trade increases as wealth increas es, and wealth is a product of skillfu I labor applied to land and raw ma l terials. Not in three generations O. men can Europeans recover in trade the cost of the war in imm ediate loss l of trade, and not in a thousand year l can they recuperate for the indirec 1 losses of the catastrophe, those tha 1 occur when millions of virile men ar, l destroyed, and the powers oP mankind 1 turned to slaughter.