Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1914-07-02
WE FEED WORLD,
|. It CAN'T AFFORD
TO ROW WITH COOK
DR.. Green So Said in "The
Burden Of the Nations
at the Chautauqua
WITHOUT AMERICA
WORLD WOULD HUNGER
The Nations Stomachs If Not
Their Minds Demand and
Compel Peace With Us.

That Oregon farmers, along with the
other growers of grain in the United
states, hold the peace of this nation in
their hands and are a more mighty
force ,-an glittering rows of bayonets
or clanking battalions of cavalry or
thousands of embrazured cannon; that
no nation, however pugnaciOus, vail at
tack its source of food supply or allow
another nation to war on its bread
basket, were some of the startling
statements hurled at the audience at
the chautauqua last night by DIR. Il. Fl.
Green, who spoke on "The Burden of
the Nations.
DR.. Green argued for world peace
| from an utterly unaSsailable and i'm
pregnable position and sent home to
the minds of the audience many sharp
and singing facts gathered in his ira
vels in foreign lands He was making
war on war and pictured in all its hor-
ror the devastation that attenus an
armed conflict between nations. He IS
polished speaker and held his audi
ence with the power of master.
Cant Quarrel With Landlady.
1t is because England imports from
the United States 10 per cent OF ITS
food stuffs that makes fier friend
of America; it is because the United
States sends to Germany 19 per cent
of the food stuff the empire imports
that will hold off that war-ridden eoun-
try from attacking US; it is because
Japan is exhausted and staggering un-
der a mighty debt brought on by the
war with Russia that she cannot force
a fight" why" said the speaker,
"Japan could not get enough money
to send a fleet across the Pacific with
coal enough in its bunkers and ammu-
milton enough in its hold to reach the
shores of the United States and fire
one broadside and then steam back
again" e,
America, with its nine-hundred-mil-
ion-bushel crop of wheat this year,
which is a hundred thousand bushels
more than three-fifths of the entire
world output, holds the balance of pow
, er by right of being the bread basket
of the world, upon the fullness Of whief
the nations depend for life and exist
ence. 1t is then a foolish assumption
to think, said the speaker, that it il
necessary to burden ourselves with
great standing army and monster
: fleet.
"The nations of the world" declar
ed DR.. Green, flinging out bristlint
array of facts that showed the terrible
toll of war, "are paying 65 per cen
q of their entire income in making prep
, !, arations for war. IN the world sine
i history began to be written l5 bll
lion men have died on the battle fielC
or as. the result of war. Also, sine
4 : the dawn of the Christian era 19l'
q wears ago. there have scarcely been on
' billion minutes, when goes to shoV
that war takes toll of men at the rat
, of Is each minute. And for all tn
/ vast amount of blood spilled and tn
l treasure lost, the world has little t
4 show for it as a result.
War Only Relic of Barbarism.
"War has never settled anything
and never will. 1t is generally starte
J. as the result of individual quarrels be
3 tween rulers. After the nations hav
l fought until they are exhausted, 81
d men will gather about table in
neutral territory and sette the mattel
:. Why should it not have been better
0 have the six men sit down at the Il
0 BILE before the war beganl
d. Famine no longer stalks up an
down the world at WILL pestilence hi
Z. been conquered and suffering has bee
! eliminated, but war is the only rel
o. barbarism that still remains to brin
ID reproach on civilization.
DR.. Green, to illustrate how war TAXI
Z. the flower of manhood and sends
/ forth with beat of throbbing drum
z and flying colors 10 meet death on Il
rd battle field and rot in an unknow
grave while the weak and the unf
are left at home to be the fathers
the next generation, told the story
u; Ragussa, a hltle province in the Ba
=, kans. He told how the men had wruI
u; living from the bleak and rugg'
mountains, how they had planted Il
olive tree and the grape vine, and ni
nu developed into sturdy specimens
u manhood. He said that before the Bt
T. ! kan war in that province there we
I25.O00 such men, but that when q
- conflict was over only $4,000 men we
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