The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-09-25
Believes There Must Be
Some Ratio Between Fault
of Civilian Action and Pun
ishment.
PLEADS FOR PEACE
Tells Yearly Meeting Great
Britain Had Little RealiZa-
ton of Germany's Great
Military Strength.

Brilliant addresses by William Gull
Zen Dennis of Washington, formerly
of the state department, and William
Dudley Foulke of this city, who has
just returned from Europe, character
tzed yesterday afternoons session of
the Indiana yearly meeting at the
time the report of the peace committee
was made.
Details Of the report were given in
yesterdays issue, although the former
are not numerous, as the propaganda
of the committee is rather in the in
culcation OF the principles of peace
rather than in any work that could be
grouped under statistical head.
That the present war was the result
of competition of fear" between the
various great European nations, and
that extensive ornaments are a
detriment to international conflict had
proved a failure, was the theme upon
which Mr. Dennis played in his ad-
dress concerning the basic causes or
the present slaughter.
Causes Of War.
THAT which takes away the Occa-
eion for war; was the manner in
nominated the avoidance of conflict
in the future.
Enormous catastrophes like this, "
said the speaker, s"can only be con-
sidered in their relation to thousands
of years of history. The fall of the
Roman empire was regarded as blow
to civilization but, in historical per-
spective, we now see that it was des-
tined to perish as process of evolu-
tion toward the establishment of more
stable human conditions.
"The same situation may be true in
regard to this war. While war was
once the only normal solution of set
ting disputes, it is now regarded as
so abnormal that the whole world is
appalled, by wars existence. But even
out of a catastrophe like this we can
draw comfort, for it presages the dawn
OF new state of society in which war
will be inconceivable."
War an Opportunity.
Mr.. Dennis then proceeded to anal
we the causes of the conflict, from
the assassination of the Austrian heir
to the throne and his consort, down
through the various diplomatic pro-
nouncements to the final international
imbroglio.
II, the speaker stated, the army and
navy of the vanquished nation or ma
tions were to be neutralized or en-
tirely put out of commission as a
result of the war, then the same should
be meted out to the victor. That the
nations of the earth must in the end
be organized on basis OF the hu-
manities rather than on false and
selfdestroying patriotism, was the con-
clusion of Mr.. Dennis.
Fouike Takes Platform.
William Dudley Foulke followed Mr..
Dennis with tribute to the admirable
statement" Of his predecessor, and say
Ing that his remarks were to have been
of much the same character, but that
he would not follow that trend on ac-
count Of the comprehensive way in
which the subject had been treated by
Mr.. Dennis.
Necessity is always the tyrant's
plea" said Mr. Foulke in referring to
the violation of the neutrality Of those
nations which had been dragged into
the conflict without being party to
the quarrel. especially referring to
the wanton destruction of life and
property in Belgium to the great Ii
brary in Louvain and the cathedral in
Rheims.
"There must be some ratio between
MIR. Foulke in referring to the above
depredations.
That England had little realization
of the nature of Germany's prepara-
tions for war, Mr.. Foulke stated he
found to be the case when he went to
England from Germany, where he had
seen five million troops mobiliZed
England had sent 100000 men to
the continent and thought she had
done great things" exclaimed the
speaker.
Mr.. Foulke ended with the reading
of a poem, the last verse of which is
presented elsewhere, in which he re-
corded his Impressions when in Maui
helm. Germany, at the time the great
conflict commenced
On account Of the fact that this
poem is to appear in the Atlantic
Monthly, Mr.. Foulke could furnish the
Palladium with but the last verse;