Norwich bulletin., 1917-03-01
LEoisLATURE HEARD
 ADDRESS ON PEACE
President Lowell of Harvard Spoke
 Before Assembly.

On Wednesday the senate joined with the house in the he. nall of the house of Harvard on Peace. Permanent Peace, After the Termination of War. Governor Ho1comb presided and intro ducing the speaker said that this war must be over some time and that peace would prevail and that President Low ell would speak on that peace that must eventually come. He told of the evolutionary times. and of the wars and pear-wars that followed soon after Washington's farewell address and since then down to the present time. The country was drawn into a light with England by the policy of isola- tion. He referred to the work of the holy alliance and the following of the so called Monroe doctrine, instead of isolation the mantle of the United States was thrown all over the world. He quoted from succeeding early pres idents counting cordial friendship of Great Britain in order to maintain our own principles. Jefferson was willing to depart from isolation, and when we took up the Monroe doctrine we adopted isolation and adopted the relationship of the two spheres. Then it took months to cross the ocean. We went into war with Spain and without deliberate intent, but we annexed the Sandwich Islands, the Philippines, and we have become a Pacific and Asiatic power; there was no alternative. We
 
 was not isolation, and the open door policy w1e for the benefit of China Suppose We should go back to isola- ton, give up the Monroe doctrine and give up the Philippines England used to boast of isolation, but it did not keep her out of war. There was real isolation before Perry opened Japan. If commercial relations are to prevail, Tn case of war, there can be no iSOla- ton. Shall we allow our shops and people to sail away never to come back? It is the duty of the country to protect it's people whoever they may go If this protection is not given, the neutral is not expected to protect itself, the belligerents become bolder, and the eventual result must be war. No war since Napoleon has affected shipping so much as the present war, and it is liable to be even worse. Since the Civil war the wooden ships disap- peared before the English iron ships. Isolation must break down before any war. He told of the wars of the earlier centuries and now war means whole nations at war, when every able bodied man is called out to colors. It means a mobilization of whole coun- try, and such thing never prevailed in the ancient days.
 When war comes now there is fero- ciouS war. No man dare express Duh- lie opinion against war nowadays in belligerent countries. The present war cannot be stopped until some end can be achieved.
 He favored the United States join ing an allegiance with all countries after the war in order to insure per manent peace, when an organization to that effect is perfected. ana he be- lieyed this could be done in accordanc with the plan of the League to Enforce Peace, and he read the dec aration of the organiza tion. He would force the nations to arbitrate, and if Austria could have been so forced there would haX aXyc hcn I0Y1IJ .11 not determine peace or war, for there is no time to form public opinion, for countries were at war before public opinion could be formed and to ex- press opinion during war would be termed as treason Every country be- Heved war is forced upon it, under the Impression that the other country was to make war and that the lime had come for war. If there were delay in starting war, more consideration. there might not be war France had no desire to go to war, but had treaty with Russia, and England's honor de- manded protection to Belgium. Pro- lessor Lowell said that if the United states went into the league the coun- try might go to war, but the chances are removed. as no nation would want to be the first to enter war as the other nations would be against war; no agreement in the league which could direct to war, but that in the event of one country entering war the other countries would be against that country. unless the offending country nrst went to the official tribunal and stated it's grievance. We cannot iso- late. but must join league to prevent war. The world is graphically nearer than ever, by modern methods of travel. It is a duty to bind all countries to stand tofether and pre- vent war in the future.
 Professor Lowell was given a rising vote of thanks.