The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-06-17
j. 5. SHOULD SET AN
EXAMPLE TO WORLD
Bryan Says America Is In Duty
Bound 70 Exercise Patience and
Restraint.
|PUNCENTTY DESCRIBES
AWFUL HORRORS OF WAR

AWFUL HORRORS OF WAX
Neutrals Have New Domestic Prob
lens Forced On Them and Their
Old Problems Are Made More
Difficult
Washington. June 1s.--william J.
of statements in which he discusses
what he is pleased TO call The
Causeless War" This communication
deals with the horrors OF war and
hardly invites controversy. The
statement TO be issued tomorrow
morning will recite the situation or
causes that brought on the conflict.
and the third paper, TO be put out
Friday morning, will suggest a way
out OF the difficulty.
Mr. Bryan will leave Washington
for Miami. Fla, soon. but will be
hack in Washington within q week or
ten days.
The Bryan home is thronged with
callers daily Many men and women
prominent in official and social life
OF the capital are among the callers.
Text OF His Statement.
Mr.. Bryan's statement is IS fol-
lows:
at shall tomorrow discuss the origin
of the war and the reasons which led
the nations Of Europe to march. AZ
IL blindfoided. into the bloody conflict
which now rests like pail over the
fairest parts OF the old world: today
let US consider the war as II Is and
the injury i, is doing to the neutral
nations.
The war Is without precedent In
the populations represented. In the
number of combatants in the field, In
daily expenditures. in the effective
ness of the implements employed. in
the lists OF dead and wounded, In the
widespread suffering caused, and In
the intensity of the hatreds aroused.
mo class or condition Is exempt
from the burdens which this war i'm
poses; the rich bear excessive tax
alton and the poor are soreiy OPP
pressed: the resources of today are
devoured and the products of tomor-
row are mortgaged. No age is i'm
munes The first draft was upon the
strong and vigorous. but the govern
ments are already calling for those
above and below the ordinary enlist
ment zone.
War Is Felt by All.
THE wars affections are visited
upon women aS wen DIS upOn
upon wives who await in vain a hus-
bands return, and upon mothers who
must surrender up the sons whose
support is the NATURAL reliance of de-
clining years. Even children are It's
Observation-Disclosures innocent of wrong
and incapable of doing harm. BY
wars dread decree babes come into
the world fatheriess at their birth.
whlIea taee bodies OF their sires are
burned like worthless stubble In the
fields over which the grim reaper
has passed.
THE most extreme illustrations col.
iected from history to prove the ioath-
someness Of war, are overshadcwed
by new indictments written daily;
the most distressing pictures drawn
by the imagination are surpassed by
the realities of this indescribable con-
test.
surely we behold the pestiierce
that waiketh in darkness and the de-
struction that wasteth at MONDAY
Interest In United States.
Neutral nations cannot look on
with indifference--the ties that bind
| them together are too strong. the re.
| iationship too intimate. This Is es'
pecially true OF the United States. W.
/ have q composite population-every
nation OF Europe having contributed
Iliberally to our citizenship.
These. our countrymen, themseive.
| born abroad or Immediately descend
| ed from foreign-born ancestors. can,
not but take lively interest in the
conduct as well as in the results o.
| the war. and a still larger circle
shares the concern OF those directly
either side but the sorrow expressed
In his home finds an echo at soms
lffreside In the United States.
| "Rut aside from sentimental CON
| alterations neutral nations suffer Sc
irious disturbance because OF the war
DueIists. when dueling was in fashion
were careful to select a place where
| they could settle their personal DIFF
Iferences without harm to unoffend.
| ing bystanders, but warning nations
cannot, no matter how earnestly they
trv. avoid injury to neutrals. As thu
nauseous orders of a slaughter house
carried on the breeze, pollute the all
| In every direction, so the evil In
ffiuences emanating from these Wide
extended, battiefieids tafnt the RtmoD,
phere Of the whole political world
| war il on International nuisanee. .4s s-s
Nearly every neutral nation md!
new domestic problems thrust upor
it and old problems made more dim
cult.
War Issues Enter Politics.
sNo American citizen can note with
out deep concern the manner In which
war questions lave -intruded them
selves into our politics --overshadow
ing economic issues and stimuiatint
agitation In favor Of enlarged APP
preparations for military and nava
purposes
Business is deransed and expensive
readjustments made necessary. whils
!seaaafnersA Hithe Snreign nations IL ,se1i
ouslyss interrupted uctuAtionA u IL