The Washington herald., 1915-11-21
A|NY-PRICE PEACE
BETTER THAN War
d. jordan Says Europe Could
Have Afforded to
Stay Oct.
FOR HAGUE MEDIATION
Lecturer W.uld Msie Deslarias Str!se
as Difficult as Getting Married
Hits Anslocracy.
FOR HAGUE MEDIATION

70 keen the United States cut ri war,
To stop the killing In Euro7e II ~ha.erey
Way we can, to provide THAI tSis sort Of
.hirg viii not -happeE a-ain-.hsse warc
the three main pu=pN.seG outlined by Dr.
David Starr Jordan. former fess;d ana
charcpllor Of Leans Stanford Cniscrsity
IN an ecdrsss before The UNIVERSITY Club
last NIGHT
DR. Jcr5a, favored an international ar
hssratiep committee to settle national dis
j,rtes. dncl tribunsl to which nations
might came without humiilaticn ana lay
their eaSes. He Eaid there wos no peace
at AIRY PRICE question involved. and ask
ed II Europe corld not have afforded TO
pay say price 70 Keep out The prescs:
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Or. Jordan 5isputed tic argument thar
The present war vas fhe result OF com
me-cial competition. He said that tina
greatest fnancieTs in England and Ge--
many knew that var meant financial ruin.
ard they ma5s vigorous efforts 10 avoid
il. He Sid the war WAS due to the aris-
tocats who saw II Was Necessary to have
war 10 hold their places tn the nobility.
They could not have war with themselves,
SO they had it with another country.
40 matter vhet the cause. you viii
fin6 Europe S0.0e9 poorer for the death
of every young man killed who had. no
part in il. after the smoke blows away
said the speaker. The devastating effects
Of war are not confined to ahy nation OF
nations. whafeTkr Injuries one, injuries
aik Germany says that the war was due
To England's envy of German sea trade.
Did you ever see an EHslishman envy
anybody? $780,, 49, r-.. --. -
Three Main Purposes. -
Il haze three main purposes. First,
TO keep the United States out OF war.
to!have this country remain law-abiding.
for lie Iau ard
to- stop this killing whatever way We
eau. There is no way until Germany
VIII Withdraw her troops from France
and Belgium. Third, TO provide that this
sort Of thing will not happen again All
the world is interested in preventing its
recurrence and the United States should
take big part in it.
when we get letter from Germany,
and let me add ! am not anti-German
or .anti-anybody. II is presumably writ
ter by one party and blue penciIled by
another and sent to the Kaiser. Some
times the extreme group get the most
say. and then We get curt notes The
Kaiser does not belong to the extreme
group. ana 50 our messages from Ger
many have been getting more reasonable.
Should We, then. make war because of
any kind Of a letter we might receive? 4
1I have a letter from Germany which
says Germany is as badly of as Bel
GUM; the only difference is that Bel
GUM for a time has lost the liberty
which Germany never had.
What Sherman said of war is not
true of the Balkans. There. it has
reached the third degree of hell already.
I rode through 800 miles of burned towns
and villages. and how the Balkan war
can be stopped is a problem The con-
ditions are worse than they ever were
ALI of the schools are either hospitals
or morgues
Continuous Mediation.
I believe in the establishment OF a
commission OF continuous mediation TO
meet at The Hague and stay there till
the war is over. ThSy would serve for
the Interchange of opinions. 1t would be
a great thing to have a body of men who
are nonpartisan and there To stop the
killing. II they stopped il for but day
1t woVld save the lives of 5000 young
mea.'
DR. Jordan said when he was in Bull
saria he found the queens more intelli-
gen than the kings. The King OF Greece
he described as looking like freshman
dropped at the md of the year" and an
other OF the roy. house, he remarked,
If he was fish he would throw him
back.
Lord Bryce, one Of the Sanest men in i
England, and one of the ablest ministers
to this country he said has decided
that two things are needed. One is the
dropping Of armament and the other is
making II harder to declare war. He
would make II that the Kaiser, when
he wants war. could not Just press but
;on and get II. Make it has had to de-
~Shse wa as TO get mated.
The cause of the war was simply
an attempt to delay democracy. and
overthroE-+the nobility. The army was
The right arm, the state. church the I
left arm with which to save IL. Half
Of Germany is opposed to the imperial
government. 1t was said that when |
the Kaiser's officers came TO him and
made him believe that other nations
lad invaded Germany. he signed the
declaration OF war and threw the pen
across the room. declaring that they
would regret il all.
This war has cost more than all
The farming lands in the country, four
times as much as all the gold and
silver known to exist on this planet.
No one will win. Could Europe not
nave afforded to pay any price to keep
out Of it?
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