Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1915-09-23
VefeT an Makes Plea
For Peace AfEoTfaQe
Fair On Thursday
Rev. Jenkin Lloyd Jones
Discusses the Euro
pean War.

Few. Jenkin Lloyd Jones of Chicago,
well known in Baraboo, spoke at Por-
tage on Thursday evening. According
to the Portage Democrat he said in
part:
1t is futile to try to determine which
nation is to blame for the European
war. 1t matters not which one finally
lit the match and dropped it into the
gunpowder. The fact remains that for
many years every nation had been ad-
ding to the contents of the gunpowder
barrel, had been piling up arms and
munitions and battleships and war
preparations of all kinds and there
could be no other result than the one
which has come.
Numerous stories were told of the
struggle now going on across the wa
ter illustrative of the humanity, the
brother-love which still remains and
manifests itself irresistably among the
men in the trenches. One night when
the English and German lines were en-
camped near each other, some Welsh
men in the English lines sang an old
Welsh song. Immediately there came
from the German line applause and a
demand for more. Another song was
sung and then came the voice of the
German sergeant saying if they would
sing one more song, his men would not
fire another shot until morning.
Another night, said DR.. Jones
when the Austrian and Russian lines
were in trenches near each other, an
officer from the Russian lines
came into the Austrian trenches bear
ing a flag of truce, small keg of beer
and pouch of tobacco. He said their
lines were without food and their men
were almost starving, and asked if
their friends, the enemy, would give
them aid. Although their own supplies
were low a contribution was instantly
taken among the men and pieces of
bread, small cuts of bacon, and other
eatables were cheerfully and gladly CIV
en- by the men to their brothers whom
by chance of war had arrayed against
them.
so daily in the trenches the spirit
of love and of brotherhood crops up,
and the spirit of hate is not rampant
among men. These things are all omens
of brighter day when men will refuse
even at the command of kings or en-
perors to shoot their brother men,"
Mr.. Jones spoke of his own expert
ence at &c ttysburg, and elsewhere DUR
ing his service as an artilleryman in the
civil war, and of the spirit of human
sympathy which now supersedes the
hatred of that struggle. He made
powerful plea for internationalism
as opposed to nationalism, saying that
the boundaries of any one nation are too
narrow for ones love and allegiance,
and quoting the splendid line carved up
on the granite bench given by Goodwin
Smith to Cornell University: Beyond
All Nations Is Humanity"
Mr.. Jones is himself an incarnation
of the spirit of love and friendliness to
all. and inevitably inspires all who
come in contact wi tn him with the
same feeling. In conversation after
the evening meeting, MIR, Jones spoke
of what pride is often taken in the fact
that Jeff Davis was once within the
confines of Fl. Winnebago, then asked
how many who boast of this fact know
the exact location of the places which
have had John Muir within their walls
He then contrasted the influence and
benefcient service to humanity of this
man and of peace and forests and with
that of the man of war.