The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-07-03
WHEN LOVE PREVAILS.
Mr.. Bryan's system for the Healing
OF International Enmitles.

To THE EpiTt OF THE SuN-Sir: MI.
Bryan proposes free love for nations.
All that n nation need do Is to show
love for another nation In order to in
duce re~ciprucatiun, aninIties among ma
tons really being as numerous As the
nations themselves, encouragement TO
love being the only missing element.
IL makes no difference to Mr.. Bryan
that England and Prussia fought against
France in 1915 and that England and
France are fighting against Germany
now. al wars being avoldable when
love prevails. Perhaps Napoleon should
have been allowed TO rule the world +.
perhaps william should now he al
lowed to rule 1t. II Is fortunate for
America that Mr.. Bryan's free love
theories are more easily overthrown
than were his free silver theories OF
twenty years ago. Almost any Ameri-
can can see that Mr.. Bryan might
give us peace only by submission, and
very few Americans want peace OBJ
tained In that way.
Pacihsts of the Bryan type call all
wars bad wars, although the results oil
some wars have been beneficial beyond
calculation. How could our own nation
have been founded without the Revolu-
ton? How could slavery have been
ended, the New South have been brought
to life and this country saved for its
present united greatness without the
civil war; Surely, too, history tells of
many wars which while bad On one
side were good on the other. Then how
differently Germans and Frenchmen look
back upon the war of lNt0'
| do not tird ''paCiiism" in the diCtion-
airy, but 1t must be- that cult which does
harm wherever II fiourishes and which
cannot flourish In any country where
possibly IT might do good. Lately IL
kept down military development In Eng
land where people were already toe
peacefully inclined, and 1t had no effect
In Germany where aggression was gen
orally taught. In this country to-day
paciNsm Is performing "A dlsserNlcc SINH
lar to the English disservice of the
ante-bellum period.
No people on earth are more incOn'
slstent than our own people. We oblig.
every President and every Congress tC
stand boldly for our rights among ma
tions and we permit no compromises
on the other hand We never insist upon
preparedness for wal, indeed We never
allow such expenditure as would insure
even our safety against attack. Presi'
dent Wilson himself illustrates this
| Americanism. lie would not consent Il
the army and navy investigation pro
posed by Congressman Gardner, but
persisted In using up the precious tim,
OF the last Congress with his pet shiI
purchase notion. Now u Presiden'
say exactly the right thing to Ger
many, and is applauded by every Ameri
can quite as II W. had been getting
ready to fight in case We should hav,
10 fight.
All of MS hope for a speedy ending o
this horrible war, and few OF us ar,
mindful of the new conditions whicl
may prevail when peace IL agreed upon
There may he new allgnments and new
combinations of nations and the treatiel
are not likely to mention the Unite,
States. Whatever security we shall hav
against attack W" shall ourselves hav
provided, but unless the present wa
shall last many years we may not b
ready to defend ourselves. We ar
making some enemies, and II will take
long time adequately to prepare fo
modern war. yet It seems hat we mus
continue the happy -go-lucky American
way. trusting in that Providence whic
the last generation Of Europeans I've
lieved took are OF fools and the Unite
States" ]. HOWARD CowrERTHwAir.
New YORK, June 30.