The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-16
ROAD To DURABLE
PEACE OUTLINED
DIR. NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER,
PRESIDENT OF COLUMBIA,
SPEAKS At ST. LOUIS.
WHY ALLIES UNITE IN WAR
Great Conflict Is One Between Ideas.
One Seeking TO Dominate the World
by Brute Force, the Other Seeking to
elevate Liberty for All Peoples.

dress here today before the st. Louis
Chamber Of Commerce, the title Of the
address being The Road to Durable
Peace" Doctor Butler spoke IN part
as follows:
The war which now involves the
whole world is, ON the part of the allies,
avowedIy a war not for conquest. for
revenge, or for economic advantage
but war 20 restore the rule of law ana
to establish durable peace. No other
war has ever been fought for "a like mo.
tive. This explains the tact that it has
been entered upon by the several allied
peoples not with shouting. with excite.
ment, or with wild demonstration. bu,
with restraint, with firm conviction
and with stern resolve The aim Of the
war is TO stop war SO far as this is
humanity possible.
'lt in the past war has seemed to bt
q biological necessity an essential part
of the struggle for existence. If is only
because the world mad not risen to In,
plane Of substituting moral co.opcra.
1 ton for physical competition A ma
| tcriaAstic world, bent only on profits
and on accumulation. is likely always
to he world that plans and invites
| war on the other hand, a world that
! is built on foundation Of moral and
spiritual insight and conyic-io will be
a world from which war is excluded by
every means that man can devise
Must Grasp Underlying Causes.
I'm order 10 tread the road 90 a dur
able peace We must grasp mot only 'hC
/ exact facts as they relate To the urigir
ami prosecution OF the war on the part
of the central empires but also tho
/ underlying causes which Cunsplred tc
! bring the war about
"Fo say that the war sprang from
| the desire of Austria.IIungary 10 op
/ press Serbia, or from the conflicting am
/ bitions of Russia ana Germany ir
| southeastern Europe. or from CONNER
/ cial rivalry between Germany auC
/ Great Britain, is simply to dnlude one
self with superficial appearances. 1t is
a case Of camouilage The cause Of tn,
war and the reason }hat the war wa
inevitable (is we can now seci is ID con
ilict Of ideals in the life of the world
1t is clear now that the old notion of .
world-domindtng power was not dead
This was the notion which sen
Alexander the Great and his army int,
Asia. This was the notion which bull
up the legions and inspired the policy
of ancient Rome This was the MOTTO,
which took possession of the mind %
Charlcmagne This was the notion
which harnessed t. its service the dy
mamie energy and the military geniu
of Napoleon Bonapartc This Notion wa.
not as men generally thought in 1914
dead and gone and matter for tn
historian alone. 1t was first smmborn.
and then taking active form in thu
minds of the German empire. witt
them Il was based upon n philo.1nhy o
history and of life which made the Ger
man people like the Hebrews Of old
the chosen partners Of God himself II
the subjection and civilization of th
world.
Developed Life and Death Struggle.
when this notion took possession o
so powerful, so activc.mindcd ana 81
highly disciplined people as the Ger
mans it became only question Of tim
when it must find itself in a life an,
death struggle with the opposing prir
ciple. This is the dominating fac
which stands out above and beyond al
particular explanations Of the origin q
the war. The war is at bottom nna
struggle between the principle OF worr
domination and the principle Of a grou
of friendly cooperating nations. al
equal in sovereignty and i'm dignity il
the eye Of the worlds law. nowcvc
varied they may be IN resources and f
power.
That with which we are at wal
therefore, is not people or a race, bu
an idea. We should nave had to be a
war with that idea no matter what pee
pie or what race had acted as it's agent,
If this idea Of world-dominatlon Ia
been adopted by Italy, and II Italy ha
attacked the world in its interest, W
should be at war with Italy. II thi
idea Of world.dominalion had bee
adopted by Japan, and If Japan mad a
tackled the world IN its interest W
should be at war with Japan. If thi
idea Of worj-domination had bee
adopted by Russia, and if Russia ma
attacked the world in its interest, W
should be at war with Russia But a
a matter Of fact this idea was adopte
by Germany, and it was Germany whic
attacked the world in its interest; theg,
fore we are at war with Germany.
Lust in Three Forms
"Thc road to durable peace begins q
the point where thi stalse notion c
world-domination is given up once 70
all. Commercial INTERPRETATION, tinar
cial control and military dominance ar
the three forms in which the lust 70
worldpower manifests itself. \ fire.
world made up of independent, liberty
loving nations must combine to pr,
vent any one Of these. The liberty
loving nations have almost with unan
nifty now combined in this war for tina
very purpose
"A false idea Is not really conquere
until it is ovcrthrown in the minds {
those who have entertained il. Wha
we must reach, therefore, is the mint
the conscience. and the heart Of the Ce
man people. We must by military d,
feat compel them to leave off loollin
for new worlds to conqucrer, and tur
their thought inward to prepare tn
way for those same IDEAS OF cooper;
ton between nations, of the sacrednes
Of treaty. obligations, Of the rights {
small nations, of the duties of grea
powers toward submerged natlonalite
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