Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-11-13
HAS HIGH IDEALS
IN ENTERING WAR
DR.. Walsh Tells Moline Af.er.DIn.
ner Club America Went Into
Struggle with Clean Hands.

ner tIHb America went 1Htn
Struggle With Clean Hands.
America went into this war with /
clean hands. II ever a government IN I
all history has gone into war with +
clean hands we went into this strng- (
gle with clean hands II We face this
war with a great idea il is possible
the war will bring with it social JUS
tice, redistribution Of wealth and a
solution Of a number of other crying
problems said DR. j. ] Walsh OF
New York, amid much applause IN his
address last evening before the Moline
After Dinner club.
He said that it had heen possible TO
continue the war this long because OF
the vast accumulation of wealth ad-
ding. there was never so much capt.
tai in the history of the world. That
capital was made possible by the fact
that we deprived the laborer of his
wages by labor and time saving ma
chimes that meant great many peo-
pie labored long hours for indecent
wages in order that a few people
might live we'll"
DR.. Walsh asserted that in his opiu-
ion there will be no peace until wealth
has been conseripted and made the in
teresting prediction that the next gen
Grafton will refuse to pay war taxes.
Unless there is a redistribution of
wealth and a chance for all men to
/ live decent, comfortable lives. | be
: lieve a social revolution will result,
he said
! In discussing war and its relation
! TO human history he showed that 1t
! served to bring to humanity some Of
the coarser and what he termed much
needed fibre OF life He said il taught
self-denial and discipline. things the
race surely needs to know War. in
his opinion, must ayenge wrongs Of
the past.
I He said that the health Of the men
in the trenches, except for the wound
ed was better than If they were at
home and said there is less fatality in
/ the trenches than at home The war
is teaching. he said that we need to
come back to life in the open, simple
food, quiet living and sufficient exer-
else. Life in the trenches is the best
possible vocation" was the optimistic
way he put it.
The speaker ventured the assertion
that knowledge alone fails to make
men better and thai to place things in
the intellect without making him bet
ter is to put sword into the hands of
a mad man. War is showing. accord
ing to the lecturer, that war cannot
be stopped through the intellect
"Self-eontrol must be taught he
said Telling people about sex prob
lens will not solve them. The SUI
premest truth in history is this
Whenever man talks much about peace
. there is sure TO be war. We thought
t before this war, that there would be
2 no more war. We had had so many
. peace congresses, world fairs anC
: peace talks that we thought war i'm
possible. Train men into self denial
That is the only way to make then
better.
When war was declared a great
! many of us said that the world hat
: advanced too far to 90 to war ",
: were surprised that the world shoult
: risk its entire civilization. risk all it;
z progress by going 10 war We wer,
S astonished because we thought W,
Y knew SO much more than that For d
4 years before this war we had been pre-
Q pairing for war When any one ma
= ton prepares for war we have all 20
|. to prepare
>. In the first II years of the secont
e half of the eighteenth century Their
were seven wars There were sever
e wars Immediately after the grea
f philosophers of Europe had been talk
/. ing peace.
In the first IA years of this centur
we have had eight wars. That is so
! ing some for a people who were aston
d ished when the great war broke
{ There were many less wars In the mid
G die ages than in modern times Durin
s the last $50 years some nation i
V Europe has been at war every secon
3 year.
dt THE United States has been at wa
e one year in every five. 1t is time W
It thought about war in human history
Man has said about every war this /
going to be a brief war. During th
civil war every one said this war ca
If not last more than three months. Aft
q er the news of the last three week
+ does anyone think this war will b
& over in three years."
l. Two sins now cry to heaven fo
d vengeance: the oppression of the DOC
10 and the defrauding of the laborers OF
If OF wages Practically all the workme
al OF the nineteenth century were ne
N paid living wages. The employe
who makes money out of his workme
and does not pay them decent wac
is depressing the poor and defraudin
IN the laborer Of his wages.
Id The shame of the nineteenth &c,
y, fury is that we asked people to wor
IN such long hours for so little none
a One third of the people today are n,
L getting living wage. wage q
a which they can live decently. On,
ST fourth Of London is today living q
to the verge of poverty Henry Fol-
came near upsetting the British empil
when he proposed to pay Irish worl
men pound sterling day. Il is ne
lie maps true that five per cent OF Il
I'd people today own ninety per cent
s. the worlds wealth