The Prescott daily news., 1914-10-31
PRESIDENT AND PEACE

.. uon. Champ Clark Speaker or
 O' +he House of Representatives.,
 0's 's.ons-who knows ?-when Pres
 feiu wilson has finished his course as asnt n;af Magistrate of this mighty Re- .,SIic s1Isi and when historians .Sans come to to Pa9,,r' rn his place in the pantheon Of aSss" tbpv will pass over the great i'ns' ,+ic measures of his administra- av.' '.n such as tariff revision, currency a.i, '.ai,atiOn, and so forth, and declare ss h;s successful efforts to keep the wsad m'. States out of war constitute si, y,' dearest title to the gratitude 0f his country. .,, ,d ,., M which has become a clasic, and s Ai.b every boy and girl should com sa .,;4 to memory as a literary exercise, Thomas Tn, Jefferson stated our ideal re- ,.;ons with foreign nations in these
 ..as "Peace. commerce, and hon. ,.t ~ friendship with all nations; en- t, t,reling alliances with none'-words sty spoken, and therefore Hike ap:: M ,.. Of gold in pictures of silver"
 That is the sum and substance of All, international creed, to which we ,,,o adhered the shadow of turning.
 , wiser or nober creed no nation
 gu had.
 k latest exposition is found in the
 ,w luminous, emphatic, opportune
 ntraitv message of President Wood
 nv Wilson-a proclamation which all soOd and sensible citizens, of whatever prsuasion. political or religious, up- hold and applaud.
 Americans are a peace loving peo DIe We believe in John Milton's fine | saving: "Peace hath her victories no less renowned than war" President Wilson expressed with great delicacy and felicity the sentiments of all true Americans when he rendered his kind / y offices to the beligerent powers in order to stop the titanic struggle across the sea. Fortunate in his coign of vantage, happy in the confidence of powerful people, let us hope that he will succeed in the philanthropic en- deayors, and that upon him will rest the blessing vouchsafed to the peace makers in the Sermon on the Mount. When boy back in the hill country fkentucky, l attended an election for the first time and saw four men shot during the day. One man fired six bullets at another man, missing his intended victim, wounded an innocent Dystander in the leg. In this astound- Ing Old World conflict America is the severely injured innocent bystander, ana from a natural desire not to be allred any more, as well as from mo- NeS Of Friendship and humanity, we MSn to see a speedy end of hostilities. inc hrst reason why we desire peace uans-Atlantlc countries is that we
 @al akin to somebody over there,
 @MWf hearts go out to our kindred
 4aer sore distress. This applies to all whether our ancestors came "H 5OO years ago, as mine did. or at sA'eF time. It applies with peculiar l'fCe to our l0,000,000 citizens who were born in the countries now in bat tie array.
 AnO'ner reason why we want peace
 "a' the war has disturbed almost ,sy business in which any of our sS sssp't are engaged, entailing sorrow ,anerng and want on millions of 1n''icanS who had no hand whatso- s" n precipitating the awful situa- 0ao started it no man seems to r'S }" hat it is about appears equal ,p. z oOscure. In his celebrated poem. ''''S'ln' Southey caused old Cas- N