New Britain herald., 1916-10-03
Says Permanent Peace Can Never Be Expected Under
 Such Conditions
QUOTES WILSON AND HUGHES
 FOR STAND ON ARBITRATION

Suppress Germany Commercial Ex- pansion Would Seriously Interfere With Purpose of Those Who Wish to Put l1nd to All Warfare.
 Birmingham, Oct. 3.-Viscount 1 Bryce of Dechmont, the former am- bassador at Washington, addressing the Congregational union today de- cried the spirit of hate against the Germans and the talk of a lasting | trade war. In conclusion he advocat- ed league to restrain aggression and compel arbitration.
 If there is to be a recurrence of | wars, becoming more terrible with the unceasing advance of science," he said, i've may well despair of the future"
 Lord Bryce recalled that Premier Asquith, Lord Grey and MT. Balfour had expressed energetcally and sin cerely the need of such machinery and said that several groups of thinkers were working out the plans.
 
 preserving peace," continued Lord 1 Bryce, "would be impossible without the cooperation of the neutral states, and especially the greatest of all the neutral states. We have been wait ! ing and watching to see whether America would, in view of the inn mense interests at stake, depart from 1 her old policy of complete isolation and bear her part in the efforts for i securing a permanent alliance for peace. An influential league for that purpose already has been formed there, and now two momentous events l have happened, on which I dwell be- cause they have been little noticed | here
 President Wilson's Stand.
 "President Wilson delivered four months ago a powerful and luminous speech, in which he announced that the United States could not stand aloof from a movement in which the highest interests of manhood were concerned and that he felt sure the people of the United States were pre- pared to join in any feasible scheme for the prevention of future wars.
 1.-TWO months ago MT. Charles Hughes, in accepting the nomination
  the republican party, declared with no less force and no less sincerity that he was convinced the time had come for America to unite with Flu | rOpean countries in a well-conSidered scheme for applying methods of ar | bitration and COnciliatiOn to secur- | ing general and permanent peace in the world.
 Thus the heads of the two great American parties, distinguished mon and the official opponents of Amer jean opinion, have promised the CO., operation of their nation in this sub ject-one of great difficulty, no doubt, but also of supreme importance.
 "Our people and the statesmen who lead our people could have no greater encouragement to address them" selves, when the times comes, to this enterprise, which they have already pronounced to be necessary l ask your help to bring the matter before the people and to show them how much we and every nation has to gain by removing the terror and the dan ger of war, which so long has hung like a black cloud over Europe. The churches could do no more truly Christian work.
  in vain. Let us preach for and try to put into practice some scheme for reducing and, if possible, at last for ending this oldest and most terrible scourge of mankind'
 Must Fight to Victory.
 Lord Bryce said the country was virtually unanimous in holding that the war must be prosecuted to victory so complete as to open the prospect of an enduring peace, and added:
 "On the terms of that treaty the | people will insist and ought to insist on expressing their opinion, and tho churches must do their part in help ing to form it,
 He declared that the preCepts Of i Christianity coincide with those of po- litCal wisdom and that the churches should work for national unity aud good feeling between the classes.
 "Let us avoid let us repress the
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