The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-03-09
TOWARDS The PEACE THAI. SHALL LAST
ByGrahan Taylor in
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1T has mutilated the human spirit.
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eth all understanding.


1t has mutilated the human spirit
/ 1t has become thing which pass
eth all understanding.
Striking Hands.
| We have heard the call from over
seas of those who have appealed %
men and women of good will in all
nations to join with them in throw
ling off this tyranny upon life.
We must go further; we must throw
! a peace which shall be other than
a shadow of old wars and prelude
to new. We do more than plead with
| men to stay their hands from kill
ling. We hail living men. AS peace
lovers, we are charged with the sane
tity of human life; as democrats and
/ freemen we are charged with It's SOW
ereignty.
BY the eight million natives of the
warning states living among us With
out malice or assault one upon an
oaher. let us leave the occasions Of
| fighting no longer for idle war boards
to decide.
BY the blow our forebears struck
at barbarism when they took ven
geance out of private hands. let us
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| and deadly weapons from the gun
mongers and powder-makers who gain
lby 1t.
! BY those electric currents that
have cut the ground from under the
old service of diplomacy, and spread
/ the new intelligence, let us put the
ban upon intrigue and secret treat
! les.
| For we hold that not soldiers. nor
profit-makers, nor diplomats, but the
people who suffer and bear the brunt
of war, should determine whether
war must be; that with ample time
! for investigation and publicity of its
every cause and meaning, with re.
course to every avenue for mediation
and settlement abroad. war should
come only by the slow process of self
willing among men and women who
solmenly publish and declare it to
be last and sole resort.
With our treated borderland, 5000
miles In length without fort or
| trench from the Atlantic to the PACT
fic. which has helped weld rs for a
century OF unbroken peace with our
neiehhors to the north, we would
! spread faith not in entrenched
camps but in open boundaries.
With the pacts of our written con-
situations before us which bind our
own sovereign states in amity. we
are convinced that treaty-makinc
may be lifted to a new and inviolabls
estate, and lay the foundations for
that world organization which for all
time shall make for peace upon earth
and good will among men.
With our experience in lesser con-
! flicts in industrial life, which have
none the less embraced groups as
large as armies. have torn passions,
and rasped endurance to the utter
most, we can bear testimony that at
the end Of such strife as cleaves to
the heart of things, men are disposed
| to lay the framework of their rela-
lions in larger molds than those
which broke beneath them
| With out ninety million people
drawn from Alpine and Mediterran-
can. Danubean, Baltic and Slavic
stocks: with culture blended from
these different affluents, we hold
that progress lies in the predominance
of none: and that the civilization Df
each nation needs to be refreshed by
that cross-breeding with the genius
and type Of other human groups, that
blending which began on the coast
lands and islands of the Aaeean sea
where European civilization first
drew It's sources from the Euphrates
and the Nile
j With memories of the tyranny
which provoked our revolution, with
the travail still upon us by which we
in our turn have paid for the en-
slavement of a people, with the bit
terness only now assuaged which
reconstruction, we bear witness that
boundaries should be set where not
: force, but justice and consanguinity
! fall liberty and the Towering out of
native cultures should be secure.
}. With our fair challenge to the spi..-
1t Of the east and to the chivalry Of
the west in standing for the open
door in China when that emnire. new
turned republic, was threatened by
dismemberment, we call for the free
ing Of the ports of every ocean from
special privilege based on territorial
claims, throwing them open with
equal chance to all who by their al
ility and energy can serve new re-
gions to their mutual benefit.
With. the faith we have kept with
Cuba. the regard we have shown for
the integrity OF Mexico and our prep
arations for the independence of the
Philippine Islands, we urge the
framing of a common colonial policy
which shall put down the predatory
exploitation that has embroiled the
west and oppressed the east. and
shall stand for an opportunity fer
each latent and backward race to
build up according to its own genius.
BY our full century of ruthless
. waste of forest, ore, and fuel: by the
vision which has come to us il these
later days of conserving to the per
!, manent uses of the people, the water.
power and natural wealth of our pub.
lie domain, we propose the laying
dow ncf planetary policy of conser.
walton
BY that tedium and monotony of
; life and labor for vast companies of
l DeODle which when War drumr soupd