New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-13
PEACE PRAYERS
ASKED OF PEOPLE
Senator Burton, in Public Mes.
sage, Urges National
Responsibility.
Iron TIL Tribune Bureau.

Washington, Sept. l2.--Senator Bur
ton, o. Ohio, one Of the foremost ad-
vocatcs Of international peace in this
country, and president of the Ameri-
can Peace Society, to-day made pubii-
message to the American people
urging them to do all in their power
to bring about world peace. 1t is, in
part, as follows:
The frightful consequences of the
resent European conflict are likely to
- eyond the widest conjecture
Many thousands Of lives are being sac
riAee daily, and will continue to be
urt'l this terrible conflict is stopped.
he causes OF the war are not hard
- understand nor difficult to explain.
I'" maintenance Of enormous military
i'. naval ornaments by the nations OF
Europe. costing not less than $4,000
0'u.noO annually. and "A compulsory
military service, have inevitably slim
u.ated a warlike spirit. 1t mas been
alleged that this vast expenditure was
ior defence, that il was for the main
tenance of peace, but the present war
Is an IrrefutabIe answer to this argu-
mcnt.Ha
1.-The burdens and miseries of the
war will fall, not so much upon the
severe gns of the nations engaged in
it, rs upon the millions of men who
are fighting in the ranks, upon the
widows and orphans in the homes
w'uch are made deSolate, and upon the
generations yet unborn.
I'm the midst of this distressing
calamity, the peace-loving people of
America have no small responsibility.
Thu President of the United States has
Just asked that the fourth day of Octo-
Der be spent in prayer and supplica
toE for speedy termination of this
biOCdshed and woe. Minister'S might
well deliver sermons calling attention
10 the utter follics and irreparable
losses of war. not only on October 4,
bur next Sunday and on every pos
,.he occasion.
A similar responsibility rests upon
lecturers and upon the press. The
ya~ioua peace societies should, with
renewed vgOr, bend their energies
toward creating universal sentiment
iJr international right reason. Such
efforts, eXerted BY a people Of q great
ration whose neutrality and good faith
arr hllAOubiths NdlltiON 'dll " nave a
salutary effect. The time must in
evitsbly come when the peoples of the
world will demand that the cOntroyer-
aics between nations shall be settled
by some form of judicial procedure
similar to that now used in the set
lloment of controversies between indi-
vlduals.
The opportunity of the American
uroplc seems at hand. The cumulative
disasters following in the wake of the
armies the futility of military theo-
rics, the senselessness of it all, are
So apparent that the constructive up
builders of civilization may well be-
llcvc that they are soon to receive
new hearing before the bar ofAhuman-
ity. Let us of America, remembering
all that is best and noblest in our
traditions, do everything in our power
tc carry forward the banner OF the
new international righteousness. We
repeat, our responsibility and our OPP
pOrtunity are at hand.
Therefore, we urge upon peace-loV-
ing people the country over the I'M
portance of Immediately discussing
among themselves this terrible situa-
ton, and of uniting in prayer and sup,
plication to-day and tomorrow, ana
Of continuing their efforts on each
succeeding day until world peace Is
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