Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-07-16
HE was at as facing death, and this

He was at 28 facing death, and this
is what he said, speaking his mind
before he went back to the trenches:
That never for those three months and
half had he shot his gun In a way
that could possibly hit another man
that nothing in the world would
make him kill another man.
HE declared his brother was an Of
flcer who, he knew, never shoots In
way that will kill. And, he said, i
know hundreds Of young men who are
the same
AT one hospital in Germany I learn
ed Of five young Germans who had
/ been cured and were ready. to be sent
back to the trenches who had commit
ted suicide because they were afraid
they would be put into a position
where they would have to kill someone
| else.
I'VE also heard similar stories in
France"
Miss Adams declared one Of the
leading men in Europe had declared
that IL the war could have been post
poned for ten years 1t would have
been impossible because Of the tre-
mendous revolt against war in the
schools and universities.
II have no plan," said Miss Addams,
"and have never dreamed Of advising
the president. But 1t seems to me thGt
IL a set Of people could be gotten to-
gether who have had international ex-
perience to make propositions to the
warning nations foy the end Of the war
ON humane grounds am sure ne
gotiations would be received favor
ably.
when we spoke to the people we
were told that the people did not want
the war, that the government was
making it. We did not reach the mill
tary, but we heard from people who
said some Of the military were sick Of
this war.
I'm practically all Of the foreign
offices the men said again in very
similar phrases that nation at war
cannot make negotiations, cannot even
express a willingness to receive ne
gotiations. because the enemy construes
II as an acknowledgment Of weak
ness. But, 1t was agreed, II some other
power presents propositions, II neutral
peoples will make propositions, one
after another, until something is found
upon which negotiations may be begun
there is not one Of the warning nations
that would not be glad to receive such
service"
Miss Addams declared that she and
her panions who were delegated
as committee by The Hague con-
gress of women to sound the nations
as to the prospect for peace never
talked peace.
1.-THE word is intolerable to them"
she said. I'VE simply asked what
could be done to substitute some form
Of civic negotiation in place Of contin-
uing to fight out the issue on a mill
tary basis"
Blames Older Men for War.
Everywhere Miss Addams and her
companions, she said, heard the war
was an old mans war-that the young
men who were doing the fighting did
not want the war.
Somewhere in church or state,
somewhere in high places Of society,
the elderly and middle-aged people
had established in their own minds that
this was a righteous war and must be
fought; and as the young men put 1t
in certain countries. these elder men
were bounding the young fellows on to
do the fighting.
That is terrible indictment. / ad-
nit cannot substantiate it. I submit
1t as an impression.
when peace comes" said Miss
Adams, 1T must come through the
people within the warning countries
getting in touch with each other, which
they cannot now do under the strict
military censorship"