Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-12
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
RIGHTEOUS PEACE
h Editor of the Tclcgvobh:

To tn Editor of the Telegraph:
The principles of a righteous peace
is the only peace that the world
Graves for. The peace at any price
is and always has been fraud and
a delusion. A compromised peace is
always liable to fail and at some fu-
ture time and invariably with in
creased fury will be interrupted.
Louis Kossuth, the immortal Hun
garian patriot, during his triumphant
and memorable tour in the United
States in 1S4S, delivered some of
the mightiest addresses in favor of
the rights of humanity that ever
We're made. During his American
tour he visited Harrisburg and trav-
eled on a canal boat up the Juniata
river to Hollidaysburg and on to
Pittsburgh. Hence, a quotation from
his address delivered, if | am not
mistaken, in the Plymouth Church
in Brooklyn. 1t was his views of
whose aim he did not question. lie
said:
But 1 am told there are men of
peace who say, after all, it is very
true-very fine, if you please--but
they will have peace at any price.
Now, / say, there are many things
in the world which depend upon true
definition-and it is not true that
they are men of peace who speak
so--they are men who would con-
serve, at any price, the present con-
dition of things: Is that present
condition peace? Is the scaffold
peace e?-the scaffold, on which, in
Lombardy, the blood of 3,742 pa
triots was spilled during three short
years. Is that peace? Are the pris-
ons of Austria, filled with patriots,
peace?
"Or is the blind murmur OF dis
content from all the nations peace?
believe the Lord has not created
the world to be in such peaceful
condition. 1 believe He has not Gre
ated it to be the prison to humanity,
or to be the dominion of the Aus
trian jailer. No: the present condi-
ton of the world is not peace. 1t
is condition of oppression on the
| European continent, and because
there is this condition of oppres-
sion there cannot be peace; for, so
long as men and nations are OPP
pressed and discontented, there can
not be peace-there can be tran
quillity; but it will be the danger
Gus tranquility of the volcano, boil
ing up constantly, and at the slight
est opportunity by breaking out
again and again, and sweeping away
all the artificial props of tranquility.
Freedom is the condition of peace,
and, therefore, I will not say that
those who profess to be men OF
peace, and will not help the OPP
pressed to obtain their liberty, are
really so. Let them tell truly that
they are not men of peace, but only
desire to conserve the oppression OF
nations. With me and with my
principles is peace, because ! was al
ways a faithful servant of the prin-
ciples of liberty. and only on the
principles of liberty can nations be
contented, and only with the con-
tentment of nations can there be
peace on the earth. With me and
with my principles there is peace
lasting peace-consistent peace; with
the tyrants of the world there is OPP
preston, struggles and war"
If the Hungarian patriot kossuth
were alive at the present hour un-
doubtedly he would view conditions
as they were in his thrilling times,
only a thousand fold more aggravat-
ing and enormous.
He would hurl his thunder bolts
of opposition against any peace at
any price.
REV. C. D. RISHEL.
South Enola. Pa.