Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-05-27

avoid the deadly nightshade.
Each free institution costs society
hundred battlefields. Formerly no
Geed, nor charter was valid without
the kings seal. Now there is no
institution that is not stamped with
the blood Of some patriot or martyr.
All social advancement is a history
of endurance and martyrdonl, and
often without recognition. Thus
civilization grows rich through age on
age Of suffering and sacrifice. Re-
view tie years of the worlds history
and can you find any years crowded
more full Of costly Unselfish sacrI~
flee as the years from 81 to '652
Some gave their most precious gifO
- their own life.
Three hundred thousand men
The brave and good and true,
In tangled wood and mountain glen
On battle plain, in prison pen
Lie dead for me and you.
Three hundred thousand OF the
brave
Have made our ransomed soil their
grave
For me and you."
"The Civil war was a refining fire
which burned the dross from our
rational life and welded US togethe.'
into uEicn, forever one and 1nsep-
arabic. To-Day, north and south,
east and west are united under one
flag, inspired by love for one coun-
Try arG engaged ir developing the
almost bOundleSS resources of our
great lard Before the Civil war
We we're an obscure, almost a her,
nit nation. scarcely q second class
power. Today we acknowledge no
superior, are known and respected
in every land and on every sea, con-
suited n tine council and courts OF
all the world.
$50 magnificent, so world wide has
become our dominion, that tie Gold
en- Gate no longer marks our west
ern border, but even it has become
1000 miles east OF the center of ollr
territorial jurisdiction
Veterans, how much OF this prom
inence and power is attributable to
the valor of your dead comrades
and to those who are halting almost
at life's last bivouac, OF which you
form part, we shall leave for his
tory to decide.
"Since the Civil war time history
has made tremendous changes for
cur country and the world. All OF
this is more or less present to your
minds. We all are familiar with
the events of the World war and the
changes it wrought, especially in
Europe Perhaps in no one thing
has there been greater change in
the last sc years than in the method
of warfare-the implements of war
fare Sherman Of the Civil war said
War is He'll How then shall we
describe some Of the methods used
in the last war, and even more SO,
where shall we find terms to prop
erly indict the. next war should there
be another?
To fight with the gigantic para
phernalia Of modern science; to
n AXE war in our intimately inter
related and delicately balanced mod
ern world, where our most lndis-
pensable means of existence already
have become international, to fight
not with armies as of old, but with
entire populations massed against
entire populations so that bombs
rain irdiscriminate destruction on
whole cities and blockades mean in
starvation TO millions
OF families; to make war now, when
ar average five hours OF fighting,
as in the last war, burns up the en-
doWmen5 of great university; to
fight, knowing that agreements or
no agreements to limit the weapons
of war, demoniac forces like gas
and bacteria are certain to be used
that is he'll raised to the nth de-
gree. The gravest and biggest prob,
lem that faces the modern world, in
my Judgment. is to find some other
method OF settling our international
disputes than that of war The hor-
ror of another war should drive the
nations OF the earth to exhaust every
OF finding a method OF
living together in peace With the
BLESSING Of q merciful GOD, there
have beer in the past apparently
noble benefits accruing from certain
wars. But there is the question
such results could not have
keen had without SO great cost.
I am Of the conviction
that war is essentially wrong. That
it is the most colossal and rulnous
social sin that afflictS mankind; it
is utterly and mremediably un-
Christian, I plead the patriotism