The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1915-06-19
LAST SECTION
Of STATEMENT
The Great Nations Can Never
Be Exterminated lie
Says.
LET WARNING NATIONS JOIN
Proposes Universal Extension
of His Investigation Commits
sion Peace Treaty Plan and
Urges 1t.

WASHINGTON, June 1S--Former
Secretary Bryan in the third and con
cluding section of his statement on
"the causeless war;" issued today,
suggests mediation as "the way out"
AS preventive of war, Mr. Bryan
proposes universal extension of his
investigation commission peace treaty
plan.
"Meditaion," the statement says,
sis the means provided by interna-
tional agreement through which the
belligerent nations can be brought
into conference; time for investiga-
tion of all disputes is the means by
which future wars can be averted,
and the cultivation of international
friendship is in the means by which
In celebrating his program for the
restoration of peace Mr. Bryan urges:
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peace crystalize sentiment in favor
of peace into coercive force and Of
fer mediation jointly or severally;
that the warning nations join in
treaty to provide for Investigation
Ey u permanent international commits
sion Of every dispute that may arise,
no matter what it's character or ma
ture," and that worldwide educa-
tional movement to cultivate a spirit
OF brotherhood among the nations be
undertaken as the final task OF the
advocates of peace
Great nations cannot be cXtermi-
mated" says Mr.. Bryan Predictions
made at the beginning of the war
have not been fulfilled The British
did not destroy the German fleet in
month, Germany did not take Paris
in two months and the Russian army
did not eat Christmas dinner in Ber-
lin. But even If determination were
possible, 1t would be a crime against
civilization which no nation or group
of nations could afford to commit.
when can peace be restored? Any
time now, if the participants are real
ly weary of this war and ready for it
to end. II any nation Is not ready,
let its ruler state in clear, distinct
and definite terms the conditions
upon which it is willing to agree to
peace; then II an agreement is not
reached, blame for continuance of the
war will be upon those who made
unusual demands"
In proposing mediation the former
secretary pointed out that The
Hague conference expressly declares
an offer of mediation shall not be
considered an unfriendly act, and
adds:
"The duty of offering mediation
may seem to rest primarily upon the
| United States, the largest of the neu-
trails, and almost intimately bound by
ties Of blood to all the belligerents.
The United States did make an offer
Immediately after the war began, but
why not again and again until our
offer or some other offer is accepted?
But our action or failure to act
need not deter any other neutral ma
tion from acting. This is not time
to stand on ceremony. If any country.
for any reason-no matter what the
reason may bcis in a better position
than we to tender its good offices, it
should not delay moment"
! To assure permanent peace, Mr..
Bryan urges that his plan of investi-
cation treaties be adopted by the
warning nations.
"A treaty such as those which now
protect the peace of the United
States" he says, would give a years
time for investigation and report, and
who doubts that years time would
be sufficient to reach an amicable So
luton of almost every difficulty. Does
anyone suppose that the present war
would have been begun if a years
time had been taken to investigate
the dispute between Austria and Ser
via?"