The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1921-10-12

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Win President Harding at tiis 6fsnF
81 tie open grave III Arlington, there
fore the PhiladeIp hia Public Ledger
lind. thinks it fitting ceremony
with which to begin the mighty work
/ Of banishing war from the earth
The triple plan for Armistice day
/ is big with possibilities the Boston
Globe lind. believes; since declara-
tons Of war have almost always been
the fruit Of the industry Of small
groups Of special interests working
under cover, it is reasonable to sup-
pose that when declaration against
war is made convincingly it will come
from great multitudes Of common peo-
pie working in the open, = and the
Armistice day program gives unusual
opportunity for demonstration by
the "muItitudes." It has been "whis-
pered, the Elmira Star Gazette lind.
reports, athat America is apathetic"
about the ornaments conference, but
in it's opinion nothing could be fur
Their from the truth" and nothing will
refute the suspicion, like general
Armistice day observance. Ameri-
can sentiment, declares the Labor
World of Duluth, is against war; it
is for the limitation and reduction of
ornaments" The vital thing, as the
paper sees it, is to crystalize that SEN
timent by means Of great demonstra-
tions everywhere so that the delegates
to the conference may know" the real
attitude Of the American people. just
what form this display could assume
the Joplin, Mo-, Globe DEM admits
is "a question" but it contends that
something should be done so that the
newspapers Of the country and of
other countries could carry in their
press reports the following morning
such news items as would indicate
Americas almost unanimous hope for
practical disarmament something
that would impress the world
There is no reason" the Omaha
World Herald (Ind.) declares, "why
American citizens should be ashamed
or afraid to express, on Armistice day
or any other day, their utter devotion
to the great cause of peace and dis
armament" and since there is no
government left in the world, our own
or any other, so strong and secure in
its tenure that it dares defy public
opinion" the present occasion is
particularly suspicious one for that
public opinion to express itself in
"such show of popular sentiment in
favor of reduction of ornaments that |
it will deeply impress Americas re-
tional conference" and in "such a |
countrywide demonstration that it
will impress the people of other lands
and carry to them. the message that
the American people are united in sup
port of the movement to lift from the
bowed backs of the world large part
of the heavy burden of military and
naval taxation that weighs them
down." I
Even so passive a demonstration as
the universal two minutes of silent
prayer" which the president requests
would, the Rocky Mountain News, |
Denver, lind implicitly believes,
"work psychological MARVEL" be-
cause sthe turning of the thought of
many millions into single channel at
one time = y . would have tremend-
Gus influence upon the people them
selves; and to many this might be the
greatest miracle of all. .
While the Baltimore Sun Gnd. !
Dem.) comedies that if the proposed
and ceremonies "can
impress our own and foreign delegates I,
to the conference with the strength of
public sentiment in this country" they
may have "far more than sentiment
al value" it nevertheless sounds a
warning. The conference for the linn
itation of ornaments, it says, lis es-
sentially practical proposition which
will not be affected by sentimentality,
though it can be influenced by clear,
hard headed pubic sentiment" The
Holy Alliance, the Sun recalls, began
in the name of God and high heaven,
and it adds that chad the Paris confer !,
ence been keyed to lower note we
might have suffered less afterward
from painful establishment"