The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1914-12-10
MILITARY SYSTEM RESPONSIBLE
FOR Big WAR, SAYS 4. G. BRYANT
SECRETARY OF WORLDS PEACE
CONFERENCE SPEAKS
Delivered Powerful Talk on Question
OF European War Before Sig Au-
oienee Last Night.

oienee last Night.
Military system and military ef
ncfency, coupled with the base III
that they are fighting on the defensive
IL the cause OF the present European
Arma&eddon- No single nation Is re
sponsible for the condition Where no
loaded. somebody explodes. Th1sl,
did Hon Albert G. Bryant. secretar,
and national organizer of the worlds
peace conference. speak before tbs
Mems Liberal club at the First Uni
tartan church last night.
Mr.. Bryant came here to NIL an en-
gasement made by David Starr Jor
dan. former president of the LELAND
stanford university. who Is consid
cred the greatest authority on Peace
that the modern world has produced
Mr.. Jordan had been scheduled te
speak at Pittsburgh before the Uni
date was selected for Wheeling after
his original itinerary was made up
Tickets had been sold for the lecture
last night. but money for the same
was refunded at the door.
Although scheduled to take n pas
sive part In the evenings meeting
Mr.. Bryant spoke at length. and with
great deal of interest. on the pres
ent conditions in Europe. His address
was instructive from different stand
points. II was a clear depletion OF a
master mind that is giving its life &c
the study of International peace.
man OF big stature and a nasal infiec
tion. he held his audience well in hand
during the course of his lecture. The
church auditorium was fairly well
| filled but not really up to the expecta
1 ion OF the club.
Wheeling In Itinerary.
The speaker was met at the Penn
4 ID. IL L. ~
Attorney o. NJ. Wilkerson. Later he
was taken TO the church and present
ed by Rev. Howard Pease. He ex
| planned the reason why Mr.. Jordan
was not present, but promised the PEG
| pie that in the eastern trip next year
Wheeling would be placed on the regu
lar itinerary OF the great lecturer.
In the course of his address he said
| that there never was such message
for people to study as the present;
that now Is the time TO give steady
consistent thought to the question oil
peace. In speaking of the cause oil
| the war in Europe. he affirmed the
fact that there is not single man bie
4 enough and bold enough to step for
ward and claim the honor of beine
the perpetrator of the present struggle
$50 different" he said. from the
times of Alexander. Caesar and Napo
leon. Then men were glad to have Il
known that they caused the wars and
accomplished the achievements.
Napoleon caused the bodies of -four
million men TO be piled in the
! trenches. and yet he never failed &c
have IL known that he was the cause
Bismarck. the grand old brute. never
denied. Many preferable causes have
been given for the war. Servia die
not cause IL: poor little helpless Ser
via. at the bottom of the heap. Rus
= d nf a uraF Fame
| not cause the war: England did mo-
cause the war; Germany cannot BE-
blamed for setting this whole world In
/ motion. No, no one man or nation II
the cause. Austria was not respon
sible. She was merely a weak link IN
the chain. and when she slipped all Of
the nations slipped.
Belgium 10 Clean.
Belgium is said to have been this
cause. II there Is a nation involved In
this wholesale massacre who entered
Il with clean hands. IL Is Belgium
The worst war in history. the Creates
war OF modern times Is on to-day. an6
no man is big enough to take thu
blame for starting IL. Alexander wa
not built that way. he was no
ashamed.
Men have been fooled into the war
Not a man at the front who does no
believe he IL fighting TO defend hi
country. Let them find out that the,
are fighting on the offensive and ther'
would be no war. Each man is hight
ing on the defensive and for the pro
lection and basis OF civilization o
his country. This false philosophy
has been taught them.
THE Kaiser needed vast war ap-
propriations. just the same as Huerts
needed his government centralized
He saw. as did the Mexican chief
that the people must see the need oi
such an army before they would con
sent to the appropriation. The kais-
or was not the only one in this fix
others were the same. | mention hin
because he Is often quoted as tbs
blame for the war. The people mao
nothing TO say about the war. Ar
lultimatum was delivered.
The speaker then defined an ulti
matum as a document handed dowr
one. asking that nation TO decide ovei
night whether IL would be swallowed
whole. or masticated. F1etoherizec
as IL were.
In speaking OF the cost of the war
he said Il was not TO be reckoned n
dollars and cents That every Bel
gian mother, who bid farewell TO bel
husband. will never bring another
child into the world Every girl, who
bid farewell TO her sweetheart. will
never be n mother. He averred that
II had been talked OF to indemnify
the Belgian nation. How in God.
name. how. are you going TO indem'
Nifty the wives. the mothers, the
IFweethearts. whose very life has beer
taken from them"
lie said that the cost OF the wal
In unborn pOsterity. could not Dr go
timated lie spoke Of the weaklinr
men in London who are left al home
Of the weakllng men Of France who
are left behind and then asked the
question. With the fathers from the
slums. and the mothers from IN,
slums. how can you expect q BRITISH
I Yeoman2"
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