The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-10-13
INTERNATIONAL
PEACE CONGRESS
IS IN SESSION
STRONG AND STIRRING ADDRESS
ON NORTH AMERICAS INTER
NATIONAL EXPERIMENT" BY DR..
JAMES A. MACDONALD.

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the Court of the Universe on the expo
sition grounds in San Francisco.
DIR. James a. Macdonald editor Of
the Daily Globe of Toronto, Canada,
who was one of the principal speakers
today discussesd "North Americas In
ternational Experiment" He said:
"As compared with European his
tory, North America is but of yester-
day and yet North America presents
an international experiment without
parallel elsewhere in all the world;
an international achievement that
gives war-stricken Europe of today
chance and hope for better to-
morrow
He reviewed the experiments in de-
mocracy in Canada, the United States
and Mexico, and particularly the re-
markable achievement of Canada in
coming up from colonial dependence to
| national self-government, not by revo-
luton, but peaceful evoution-leadin
the way to national freedom and self
government for Australia and New
Zealand and South Africa.
But he continued, "the greatest
| thing North America has done, the
thing which puts into visible and con
crete form the spirit and purpose of
this international congress, is the joint
achievement of these two nations the
United States and Canada. From the
Atlantic to the Pacific, and from the
Pacific across to the Arctic, there
stretches an international boundary
line Of 1000 miles, where territory
touches territory, where sovereignty
meets sovereignty, where nation sa-
lutes nation, but for a hundred years
the international waters of those Great
Lakes have been unfretted by any ship
of war, those rolling prairies have
been unmarked by any hostile fort,
those majestic mountains have never
echoed to the roar of any alien gun.
-Four thousand miles! For one hun
dred years! Tell me, you men from
other continents, where in all the
world is there a match for this that |
North America has done? Where is |
there a civilization so un-dishonored?
Where is there a boundary so free?
Where is there a history so worthy |
of record? Let Europe answer.
Europe! From whom we inherited |
our civilization, whose. two thousand |
years is our background, whose
achievements were our inspiration,
Europe, whose Christianity is in our
creeds, whose culture is in our col
leges, whose hearts blood is in our
veins! Europe bristling with guns
from the Hebrides to the Dardaneles,
at every boundary with death
wound none can sianch-O Europe!
how often would America have come
TO you with the gospel of international
goodwill teaching you the secret of
peace, proving to you
the power of international disarma
ment, and helping to gather your shat
tered nationalities into a United States
Of Europe How often! But ye would
not. Now, no matter who among you
is to blame, We, too, must suffer in
your agony. The national peace of
-his American republic is threatened
by your madness. The best red blood
Of the Canadian dominion is being
soaked into your battle fields because
)f the blood-guiltiness Of your sin.
But when this worldstorm of Eur
)pe is past, when this red rain has en-
'iched the roots of Europe's next YER .
lure, the United States and Canada
heir common democracy made strong
r. by their common experiences, shall
.ome again into the council chamber
If the nations, and, with the released
lemocracies of the warning peoples of
europe, shall speak the doors of the
.utocrats and the despots and the war
ords and all that damnng system of
nilitarism that has cursed Europe for
wo thousand years.
Before this world-war is over these
wo free democracies of North Ameri-
a shall have paid the price of war;
t may be they shall have paid it in
ull, and it may be the United States
5 well as Canada shall have paid in
Hood. And then, not the United States
nd Canada alone, but all the demo
ratio nations the world over, shall
ave something to say to the war
ords. And they will insist that the
world is too small for war lords or for
var; that in the world neighborhood
# civilized nations, there shall be no
onger any room for the wild beasts
# Europes war jungle and that the
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