The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-10-06
PEACE LEADERS SPEAK
Secretary Bryan and Oscar S.
Strauss Predict Mediation
Will Finally Succeed; War
the Burden of All, Says Sec
rotary; Clergymen Plead for
Applied Christianity
{By the Associated Press

tBy the Associated PreSs.)
New York, Oct 4-Hope that the
European war will be the last object
lesson of the horrors of strife and
that after it the efforts of man Will
be devoted to production rather than
was expressed today by
Secretary of State Bryan and Oscar
S. Straus, former Secretary of Com
merce and Labor, at a special peace
day service at Carnegie Hall. The
meeting was n Of many held in this
city in accordance with President Will
sons recent proclamation designating
today as a day Of prayer for peace.
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 afterwards to discuss
ways and mea for preventing future
appeals to arms.
Burden of War on All.
Our interests are SO entwined with
the interests Of other lands that no
nation can live or die unto itself
alone. If we had no higher reason
for encouraging conditions conducive
to peace, we should find ample jus
LITIGATION in the fact that the burdens
Of wal no longer are borne entirely
by it's direct participants.
I'VE must not be discouraged il
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. It may be that the world need
ed n more awful object lesson to
prove ~conclusively the fallacy of the
doctrine that preparedness for war
can give assurance Of peace.
All Deny Responsibility.
"One encouragement to be drawn
from the present European conflict is
found in the fact that the govern
mentS involved vie with each other in
refusing to admit they began it. We
have taken a long step in advance
when no civilized nation either will
admit a desire for war or confess an
intention to inaugurate it,"
Referring to the peace policy Of
the United States toward Mexico, and
the acceptance Of the mediation Of
fered by Argentina, Brazil and Chile.
Secretary Bryan said:
president Wilson not only secured
a peaceful solution Of a situation that
threatened war, but he gave a strong
impetus to the cause Of Cancellation
1t will be easier than before to pre-
serve peace in the Western HemiS-
phere, and more difficult to excite
war"
NeOlatlOn StrauS' Hope.
Oscar Straus expressed hope that
3 mediation eventually would settle the
European struggle.
"A month ago." he said, Secretary
Bryan, under the direction of the
, President, encouraged by q statement
by an ambassador of one of the pow
ers, communicated informally witt
the other powers as to whether they
, were ready to accept tn Presidents
1 tender Of good Offices. While the time
is not yet ripe for the definite discus
sion OF the subject we may be JUST
t fed in hoping that these ~communica-
lions already have had the good result
' of lifting the latch on the door o
incubation, SO that, without the initia
, I've of either side, at the first op
p~ortunity that door readily may b,
thrown Open."
Mr.. Straus referred to treatie!
Whlch Secretary Bryan recently ha:
concluded with different nations, pro
: Vldlng for investigation of disagree
ments between nations for a perioC
OF twelve months before wan may b.
, declared, and aid
Il regard these treaties as q mos
important step for securing the peace
e OF the world for the future. L be
neve that IL those treaties had beer
: IN existence when Austria gave it
= ultlmatum to Servia this war Nigh
: nave been averted."
Christianity the Guard.
: cardinal Farley, at ST. Patrick
) Salneoral' said that if Europe ha'
needed Pope Plus X the war neve
would have started.
J Al the Cathedral of ST. John tn
DIVINE, Bishop Tavid Fl. Greer as
serted that although all method
$ heretofore tried have failed to insur
universal peace, the Drinc;nias lai,
down by Christ yet have to be al
pieo 10 diplomacy and politics. Tn
present war. he said. should teach tn
q lesson that huge do no