Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1915-08-06

to his resignation from the presi
lie said was that they differed in
lad talked the situation over like
'lutely no misunderstanding, no i'll
fourths of all the people of the
world"
First showing that, in his opinion
there had been no real cause for the
present worldwide war, and that nc
one in America wants war here
Bryan attacked those advocating
greater military preparedness by say
ing:
"And now we come to the doctrine
being preached in the United States
and the most important one we have
to consider. 1t is preparedness for
war. There are some who say that to
have peace we must get ready for
war. That theory was exploded
when, after generations of prepare
! ton, the nations most prepared
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! be in the war if we were as prepared
as they. First, we can't have pre-
paredness for war unless we have q
man in Office who believes in it, and
the men who believe in that theory
believe in the duelist code of honor,
that we must avenge in blood any in
suit"
If any nation wants the United
States to enter into a war. Mr.. Bryan
, said the reply should be: mo, we
have 100 millions of people to take
care Of and priceless ideals to pre-
serve for the world"
Refers to Lusitania.
Referring, a few minutes later, to
the Lusitania affair, the former secre-
tary Of state said:
Shall we send 100000 of our
young manhood to death because 100
of our people went into danger zone
that they should have stayed out Of?
Did they have a right to go there?
Yes, but there are times when rights
must be subordinated to duties, and
it was their duty to stay at home
rather than risk involving their coun-
try in war. Remember, If we enter
this war we can't be stingy with
blood, because we will be in a crowd
that is prodigal in blood"
Other features of his Tacoma adj
dress we're:
To-day we are carrying on diplo-
matte controversy with two Of the
leading nations at war and we don't
agree with either as to the law to be
applied. One is the use of subma-
rines by Germany and the other the
interruption of commerce by Great
Britain. Both nations and acts in
terfere with our rights, but neither
nation is doing as it is doing because
of unfriendliness to us or because OF
a wish to hurt us. Both are doing 1t
for the same reason as two men fight
ing on the streets-they are too busy
irving to kill each other to pay any
attention to the bystander who gets
the stray bullets they shoot.
God forbid that we make anybody
fight us who don't want war with the
United States"
This will be known as causeless
war, said Bryan. He declared 1t had
had no cause in race hatred, was not
a religious war, not family war and
not a war Of greed. In cablegrams
PASSED between this country and the
warning nations at the start OF the
war each foreign ruler had replied IN
substance, he said: "You can search
me. It's not my fault. I didn't want
war. The other fellow started It,"
No Ruler Dares Shoulder Blame.
Progress has been made even in
this" said Mr.. Bryan. mot one
ruler dares admit he did cause the
war. All say that peace is desirable
hut thew differ as to the methods OF
obtaining it,
The real cause, the Nebraskan said.
was the outgrowth Of the false ph'los-
orhv that might makes right.
"This is no longer preached as 1t used
TO be-" he said. at is just practiced
when something desired is to be Sc
cured." The code of the individual
he asserted, should be that OF the
nations, land when we repudtate the
codes Of morals Of the individuals as
with the nations. there is no otner
code to substitute for It,"
In stating his objections to pre-
Daredness for war, Bryan said:
1--WE can't make the people bear the
burdens Of preparing for war without
convincing them there is going to be
war and stirring belligerent feelings.
The five billion dollars that would De