Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 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 MAJ Would
Be Last Object Lesson of the Hor-
rors of Strife-BuilA up Rather
Than Dest.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 S.
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 a 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 APP
peals to arms.
I'm 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 wal had wrought in
every department of human activity.
l Revenge a Heavy Load.
, I'VE must not be discouraged If
} this the greatest of all wars, broke
out just when we were most hopeful
1 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
4 the doctrine that preparedness for war
. can give assurance of peace. This
s assumption is built upon the theory
a that peace rests upon fear, whereas
q all history proves the contrary. Con
~tinuous preparation for war presup'
q poses the existence of an enemy who
! must be hated until he can be over
q come; but hatred begets hatred and
revenge is the heaviest load mankind
d 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 a:
binding upon nations as upon indivld
V uals. A nation is but a group of indl
IA viduals, and no group, however numer
N GUS, can expunge n syllable Of thu
u moral law.
~ zone of the encouragements to b.
"a drawn from the present European cor
~ flict is to be found in the fact tina
governments involved vie with eacI
d other in refusing to admit that the,
~ begun it. We have taken a long ste
~ in advance when no civilized natiol
IL will either admit a desire for war 9
confess an intention to i~naugurate it.
In conclusion, the secretary said.
"Man has spent a considerable par
of of his time in the work of destruction
IA, In the day that is dawning he can d.
vote all his time to production
There is as much inspiration in a M
BILE life as in a heroic death"
st Oscar Straus for Mediation.
Oscar Straus expressed hope ths
nd mediation would eventually settle tn
of European struggle.