Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1914-10-09
PEACE DAY SERVICE
GREAT CROWDS GATHER AT CAR
NEGIE HALL. NEW YORK, TO
OFFER UP PRAYERS.
SEC'Y BRYAN CHIEF SPEAKER
Said He Hoped That Ills War Wou'o
Be Last Object Lesson of the Hor-
rors of Strife-Bui'I up Rather
Than Des''oy

New York. Oct. Slope that the
European war will be the last object
lesson of the horrors of strife and
that after it all the efforts of man will
be devoted to production rather than
destruction was expressed Sunday by
Secretary of State Bryan and Oscar 5.
Straus, former secretary of commerce
and labor, at the special peace day SER
vice held at Carnegie hall. The large
hall was filled and hundreds of people
were turned away.
To-day when number of nations,
all our friends, have been drawn into
the vortex of war;" said Secretary
Bryan, ''our first duty is to use such
Influence as we may have to hasten
the return of peace. There will be
ample time afterward to discuss ways
and means of preventing future ap-
peals to arms.
'In 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 reason for encouraging
conditions conducive to peace. we
should find ample justification in the
| fact that the burdens of war are no
longer borne by those who are direct
participants in it. Today every neu-
trail nation finds itself greatly EN-.
barrassed by the disturbance which
| the European war had wrought in
every department of human activity.
Revenge a Heavy Load.
| 1--WE must not be discouraged If
this the greatest Of all wars, broke
out just when we were most hopeful
of the substitution of reason for force
in the settlement of international dis
putes. 1t may be that the world
needed one more awful object lesson
to prove conclusively the fallacy of
the doctrine that preparedness for war
can give assurance of peace. This
assumption is built upon the theory
that peace rests upon fear, whereas
all history proves the contrary. Con-
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 and
revenge is the heaviest load mankind
can carry.
Most of the errors which man COM
| mits in international affairs arise from
failure to understand the fundamental
truth that moral principles are as
binding upon nations as upon individ-
uals. A nation is but group of indi-
viduals, and no group, however numer-
GUS, can expunge one syllable of the
moral law.
Zone of the encouragements to be
drawn from the present European con-
| flict is to be found in the fact that
governments involved vie with each
other in refusing to admit that they
begun it. We have taken a long step
in advance when no civilized nation
will either admit a desire for war or
confess an intention to inaugurate it."
In conclusion, the secretary said.
MAN has spent a considerable part
of his time in the work of destruction.
In the day that is dawning he can de-
vote all his time to production.
There is as much inspiration in a no.
Bile life as in heroic death"
Oscar Straus for Mediation.
Oscar Straus expressed hope that
mediation would eventually settle the
European struggle