Arizona republican., 1915-01-04
SHALL NATIONS SILL hAIE2

Washington Gladden. in a Sermon at Col,ml,us O.,
 After the war is ended and the statesmen gather to count the cost grave man with blanched cheeks and furrowed brow standing uI among them and speaking after this manner:
 The hour is critical. Let conceal 1t from ourselves. We the parting of he waya Whlther one path leads know. We have followed it's bloody trail for centuries and the end in plain sight It leads to national ruin. The people were taxed before the in building up the armaments until the eXactions brought blood: the burden must be doubled Will they carry it? I do not know
 But if these nations keep in the path they have been travelling the burden will have to be in definitely increased. Not of them will dare to stop with it's present armament; each must have more ships more guns, more fortresses. sol diers. War is the horse-leech that keers crying Give! Give Do you think that these patient null utudes are going to endure this? I tell you they will not There will be labor strikes. insurrections revolutions; your bonds will be dshonored your thrones will totter, your governments will go down in wreck and ruin.
 such is the road which you have been trav- cling. and such is the end thereof. What is the good of it all? What shall it profit nation if it gain the whole world and lose itself? Rome got the whole world and what became of Rome? You think you have made gains of this war but what are they worth compared with your losses? Are they any compensation for the misery you have ificted. for the havoc have wrought for the desolaton you have made for the dulins of the finer instincts of your people, for the mill stone you have hanged upon the neck of nation? Look behind you Look ahead Do you dare go on?
 T tell you soemnly that the time has come for the earth to rid itself of this madness We at the parting of the ways The path of peace lies before It is only escape doom. What is the first step in the way of safety It is the simple recognition of truth that tions not natural enemies: that they natural friends. It is to trampe under feet the spawn of hell the doctrine which interna tonal relations have so long been grounded-that it is a persistent struggle for possession, power and sovereignty which primarily governs the relations of nation compatible with advantage. That doctrine will keep another. It is the essence Of all falseFood it is the substance of atheism: it is blasphemy against the holy spirit of humanity
 The nations enemies. What quarrel have the people of France. of Germany of Austria. of England Russia. with another? They learning to work together for the common welfare. They exchanging their products sharing their traditions, mingling their lives. We have enticed them into this by making them believe that the other nations were conspiring against them. to press and enslave them. It was lie. and many of them know it now; will know it before long, We coming to understand that peoples ought be friends; that their worst enemies those who set them fighting each other. Woe to the in high places, if found standing under that gathering of the peoples wrath
 We have got to clear minds of this long insanity and confess the truth that God has made of blood all the nations of the earth to live together brothers to study the things that make for peace, propose the ways of peace. O form the compacts that shall insure peace.