Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1915-03-11
PEACE AND
THE WAY
Judge James O'Neill Dis
cusses Disarmament
Before Club
MEN MUST CHANGE
BEFORE WAR CEASES
This Can Be Brought Abou
Through the Growth of
Common Language
and Ideas.

AL Cne regular meeting OF the Fort
nightly Literary club on Friday eve~,
uing, Judge James O'Neill of Neilsville
gave the address, taking for his subject,
"Peace and the Way" Judge O'Neil
has made deep study of the peace
question, the world conflict now raging
and gave the members of the club and
visitors many new ideas DR.. David
Starr Jordon, the great world peace adj
vocate and Judge O'Neill were class
mates and naturally both should urge
similar ideas for the good and advances
ment of the race.
The speaker mentioned that nineteen
centuries ago where some of the great
est suffering is found, the first Christ
ian church in Europe came into exis-
tence-in Macedonia. All the crowned
heads of Europe are members of some
church and paused to ask, HAS Christ
ianity proven failure?"He did not an
swer this question but discussed at
length, what has war accomplished
and what may we expect as it's re
sults?"
AS DR.. Jordon says: "The peace of
force demands that each and all shall be
fully armed Before it is the vision of
universal discord, heid in check by fear.
The peace of law looks forward to uni
versal order. 1t has no need of force
save as it may arise in the joint efforts
of policing civilization.
How to Reach the Peace of Law
The speaker said that if this world is
going to be a place fit to live in, mill
tarism must cease. Armies and navies
will exist for some time to come but the
world should hope for something better.
Judge O'Neill would make the world
better through the influences of re-
ligion, universal beliefin a Supreme
Being; by the cultivation Of music, what
Shakespeare calls the concord of sweet
sounds; by the study of astronomy,
that we may know the scope of the uni
verse; and by other uplifting spiritual
and educational lines to give man a
greater understanding.
He regretted that there was diff
erence in language and believed that it
was responsible for many misunder-
standings. He deeply regretted that
two great nations like Germany and
England could not understand each OF
her and settle their disputes in some
other way besides resorting to the
sword. He spoke of China, that great
/ Empire that has come down through
the centuries without engaging in one
bloody conflict after another. He was
not in favor of this nation building up
a great army and navy at the cost of
the millions of people who reside under
the stars and stripes.
rIen can do much.
The way of peace! Of course we
must have an army and navy. But by
electing such men az Woodrow Wilson
to head the nation and sending such
amb assadors to the courts of the world
as Andrew D. White, O John Hay.
Jose Choate, Elihu Root,
Henry Van Dyke and Paul Reinsch we
will accomplish more than we could by
the biggest fleets and the greatest ar
mics which America could command.
| (Applause.)
How Peace Will Come.
1t seems plain that permanent peace
will never come by the bayonet or shot
and SHE'LL 1t will come Iwhen the in.
fuence of simple and pure religion,
the enlightment of the masses and the
cultivation of mems moral nature shall
have purified the hearts and quickened
the consciences of man and they shall
appreciate but one God as our father
and that all men are brothers. ZAP
Iplause.)