Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-12-04
PREPARE FOR PEACE
DURING THE WAR;
Was the Gist of Lincoln Writ s
Climax in Speech Delivered
Last Evening. ,....
TOLD TALE OF HORRORS
OF EUROPEAN CONFLICT
Holds Some Utopian Ideas Of a
United States Of the World
as Peace Power.

as Peace Power.
Lincoln Writ, an old-time DakOtan,
before a good sized audience, gave an
imprisoned plea for America and
Americans to stay out of the great
war. Professor Root of the city
schools, in few happily chosen words
introduced DR.. Writ, who with. a
brief predatory speech, launched into
the theme, "The War in Europe"
Pictures to Remember.
Beginning his narration at April
first, DR.. Writ carried his audience
with him, through the fear and tor
ture of those who were on board the
other great great liners when the
sinking of the Lusitania was reported,
led them through the patriotic scenes
in Rome when the nation entered the
war on the side OF the entente allies,
thence through the maZes Of the his
tory connected with the loss Of Triest,
Trentin0 and Dalmatia, to Italy ana
the longing to take them back and
onward through the awfully devastat-
ed fields of France and Belgium, with
word pictures that will fill the hearts
and minds of his auditors with the
bitter, horrible, soul-killing terrors of
the modern war now waged by mad
dened Europe.
The Outcome.
He pictured the awfulness of the
situation, the utter hopelessness of
the people and the unhappy condi-
tons wherein the makers of the war
are riding in their upholstered and
cushioned machines, while the fight.
ers of the war are mere cattle, order.
ed to fight the enemy or be murdered
by their own comrades for not going
blindly into the face of the devastat-
ing fire y0f death, belching from the
foemen's guns, A broken, poverty.
stricken continent will be the out.
come Of the war and the next genera.
ton, the second and third and down
for four or. five generations the races
will be the progeny of the weak, the
wounded and the imbecile because the
finest, the best the noblest Of the race
are being shot down at the rate Of
10000 every day of the week. each
ofzthe yeaf.- Only tax-burd race
will exist after the peace treaties are
signed and the cannon's roar has been
silenced.
Civilization in Balance.
rr,h;oh koc &n1xnvr q
thousand years to erect its temple.
has been swept away in night. The
monuments have been torn down.
The entire fabric Of European civili-
cation has been torn to shreds and
the people today are suffering the
rabies Of madness and atrociOusness.
One man is arrayed against another.
Nations are crumbling % dust The
pride and the strength of the homes
are being swept away. The rules of
warfare, the chivalry of the strong
has been melted down into the quin.
tessence of barbarism and the wonder.
full minds Of science are turning to
inventing new methods of murder,
new machinery Of death to slay and
to lay low neighbors Of a year ago.
These and other pictures of the hor.
rors of the war were held up to the
view of those gathered at the Presby.
terrain church and then as the climax
the strongest and most vital plea OF
all was made-a plea for the people
of the United States to remain neu.
trail and stay out of the war.
America to Lead World.
When the war is over in Europe
all the nations involved will want a
leader. That leader must and will be
the United States of America. The
doors of this nation will be besieged
by the nations of Europe for light and
guidance in the reconstruction that
must take place. Then when this has
been accomplished, Mr.. Writ suggest.
ed that there be established great
world court to decide international
questions and maintain peace through.
out the world, or "A United States of
the World to use the speakers
words.
Utopian Plans.
In his closing remarks, Mr.. Writ
builded an Utopian empire or repub'
lie out of the possibilities of the
future. His dream is for universal
peace and in that peace the whole
world must take part. He said thert
would no longer be "Brittania Rules
the Waves" but rather all nations
would ride at peace upon the seven
seas.
Tribute to "oId Glory"
When 1 set foot on board steam.
ship bound for the United States"
said the speaker, "and two search.
lights played aloft on the shimmering
folds, the stars and stripes Of Old
Glory, then and only then did I feel
a measure Of safety for the first time
since leaving New York for the war.
stricken countries. And to think that
of all the flags on the seas The Amer
lean Flag was the only one that dared
hold up its head and faunt its folds
to the air, while all other flags hid
and skufked in darkness,
was immensely satisfactory and gave
us all a feeling of security and peace
anywhere else in the world
Opposes Preparedness.
With figures the fact was demon.
strated that the great nations of Eur.
ope with their great armies could not
attack this country and gain any foot.
Ing whatsoever, and now that the ma
tons who ever stood chance Of any
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