The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-06-20
PEACE LECTURE
BY ". ]. BRYAN
Argument Consists Mostly of
Attacks on Taft and Roose-
welt Plans Of
Future
HE HAS ONLY SCHEME
Resigned Secretary Of State Says
His Way Is the Only One Which
the World Should
Adopt
HE HAS ONLY SCHEME

1 UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.
| NEW YORK, June 19.-Former Sec
rotary Of State Bryan tonight launch
4 ed his speaking campaign TO crystal
lie sentiment behind the president
| for peaceful solution Of difficulties
that may arise with European bellig-
J erents.
| His first public address since he
left the cabinet was made at meet
ling at Carnegie hall under the aus
pices Of organized labor. He swung
the bludgeon heavily upon Colonel
Roosevelt and supporters OF the In.
creased army and navy movement and
| lightly chastised former President
Taft.
"Mr. Roosevelt might be excluded
from the list of the nations advisers
of all matters relating to peace or
war on the ground that he is so anx-
ious to get into any contest that In
wolves blood.letting that he cannot be
trusted to deal with any phase OF the
subject" said Bryan.
rs this the face that launched a
thousand ships?' asks a poet, the
quSSSlOu USiuS AuSpliCu ny LIE Lux
famed beauty OF Helen OF Troy. Can
it be possible that our pugnacious ex-
4 president is fired by the ambition to
so fill the sea with fighting craft as
to suggest to those who look upon the
portraits which will present his like
ness to succeeding generations the
same question, Is this the face that
launched thousand ships?
Former President Taft's devotion
to the cause of peace" the former sec
rotary of state said, need not be ques-
toned. But be expresses !, serious
| doubts as to the ACCESSIBILITY Of fol-
lowing the precepts laid down by the
league to enforce peace
| III the purpose of Mr.. Roosevelt's
organization il to make preparation
| for war pleasant, Mr.. Taft's organi-
cation may be regarded as furnishing
a plausible pretext for the prepare
ton which Mr.. Roosevelt advises"
4 said the speaker. "The Taft plan
gives an excuse for supporting the
Roosevelt plan.
.The great mass OF our people,
! said Bryan, prefer the use OF reason
/ to the use of force in the settlement
1 Of international differences. The voice
OF this peace loving mass is not al
| ways heard; it is sometimes drowned
in the noisy clamor of that portion OF
| the press which represents the spe-
cial interests. IL
"Of all the advocates of peace, none
has deeper interest in its preserva-
ton than the laboring man. He not
only has no pecuniary interest In the
war, but he recognizes that war is
hurtful to him. no matter from what
standpoint 1t is viewed. It deranges
business and that is apt to subject
the laboring man to idleness; it in
creases taxes and the poor man pays
more than his share of the taxes.
Then, too. he may be called upon to
offer himself as defender in arms:
in fact the aboring men are most
likely to respond to the first call.
4 ut is natural. therefore, that a
peace movement should begin with
the laboring men. 1t is natural. also,
that labor should favor the govern
! ment ownership and operation OF the
manufacturing plants upon which the
nation must rely for its weapons of
defense and for the ammunition re-
uuired. This form would not only
/ contribute to the governments re-
sponsibility, but rid the country OF
men of sordid Influence which sail
under a false flag and suppress In
ferior patriotism, breaches the gospel
LOT preparedness for war because 1t
sees in this policy. prospect OF secur-
ing rich government contracts
Bryan dwelt at length upon activi-
ties OF the organization "for national
security" in which group he designat-
ed Colonel Roosevelt as the most
potential factor II the general poll.
ciee Of this organization were carried
out, he said. the world would witness
A. race to see what nation could MT
ont the greatest navy and army.
"When Mr.. Roosevelt's plan is com.
Melted IT, God forbid. it ever should
he. the United States will be vast
arrnory with skull and cross bones
above the door, said Bryan, "and the
designing architect Of that system VIII
20 in and out in uniform, with proud
consciousness that our nation no
longer contains mollicoddles or weak.
lings."
In the plan of the ague to enforce
peace" and Taft's suggestion Tor an
International police force. the former
nremier saw danger for the Monroe
doctrine and danger in the contract
ing of European alliances. To agree
TO assist in policing the world, ne
said. the United States would have to
take from congress the right to de-
clare war
Bryan concluded with an appeal for
support of the principle of arbitration
ar all international difficulties
Got Big Ovation.
NEW YORK, June 19.-Wiliam
Jennings Bryan and peace received
one of the greatest ovations ever &C
corded any man or cause In New
work when the former secretary OF