Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1936-03-05
Sen. Nye Charges Youths of
Nation Peri|ed By War Spirit

Aiiofo III a. ti( 20 w
man award for the most distinguished
American service performed in 1895,
dashed out at the war-hungry NUM-
tons trust which he said wa leopard
izing the peaceful future of America.
In his speech on Preparedness for
Peace" Sen. Nye attacked forces that
were seeking to nullify the contem-
plated neutrality act of congress.
Youth In Danger
"We stand today" he said, exposed
to hat whirlwind of fear and suspi-
cion of war preparation. We have, as
a nation, little to offer our young men
in the name of truth and justice other
than a uniform, a rifle, and sealed or
ders."
Declaring that there are few spec
tacles more appalling than the n OF
young men who are not aware today
that they are simply waiting their turn
to die, Sen. Nye called for an end TO
temporizing, and urged that Ameri-
cans demand the passage of a neutral
ity act that would protect them and
their children from future wars in
stigated by munitions makers.
within the past few months decis-
ions of overwhelming importance have
been made which will affect every
young man in the country whether he
is ON the farm or on the campus or on
the street or in a forestry camp" Nye
stated.
He mentioned particularly NUM-
tons makers who viewed the proposed
embargo on shipments, the proposal
that citizens should not be allowed to
travel on munitions ships during war,
and the proposed banning of foreign
loans, as a direct blow to their inter-
ests, and who have recommended that
nothing should be done at this time
about passing a neutrality act
ITO me-" Sen. Nye said, 1T seems
there ought to be almost unanimous
demand that, even though it be ne
cessary for congress TO remain In ses-
sion for months and months an effect
i've neutrality bill should be passed.
War Brings Ruin
"An intelligent and enlightened peo-
pie ought to be straining every ener-
gy for an avoidance of a repetition OF
experience which we know to be in
variably followed by debt, destruction
and heartbreak."
"A tremendous influence on behalf
of war is the profit to makers of ma
tional defense and national offense
machinery and supplies" Nye contin-
ued. Facts, now of official record,
clearly reveal that to gain this profit
men actually go forth, resorting to
bribery, appealing to prejudices and
using despicable practices with the re-
suit that nations are aroused to a pitch
that will demand larger and larger
preparation for war;"
War can be eliminated by creating
as lively a public interest in the prep
aration for peace as there is in the
cause Of preparing for war, by turning
the spotlight upon alleged effort to
reach understandings between nations
and by a reduction in so-called ma
tional defense burdens, Nye said.
People may laugh at these attempts
today to forestall an impending war
they may laugh at the constant reit-
Grafton Of the necessity for making the
decision of entering a war a national
concern, Nye declared, but what We
have failed to do in these days will
leave little to laugh at in the days
that are to come"
Here's Speech
The text of Sen. Nye's speech fol-
lows in full:
"In this hour when the Cardinal
Newman Foundation bestows upon me
an award much to be priced, / have
one natural regret. My small contri-
buttons of last year, which your trus-
tees so graciously term the most dis
tirguished American service per-
formed in 1895, were possible only
through the vigorous support of my
colleagues of the Senate Munition.
committee. My regret is that these
several senators are able to share only
indirectly in this honor to which they
are SO richly entitled.
II have also at this moment The
very real sadness which comes from
feeling that the honor is being be-
slowed for work which was intended
to be fundamental, intended to pro-
tect this country from the ravages O
war but which is now unfortunately
at this very minute, being swept aside
in the general whirlwind of fear ano
suspicion hat another war is almos
upon us and hat it is too late to thinl
or to plan or to prevent.
Our hopes as senators of the re.
public have been that we might see
and that the young men and womer
of this nation and their parents nigh
see clearly the way in which the worlt
fought a great wal and in which hui.
mainly lost the peace which shoulI
have followed that war. Our hope wa
hat we, as Americans, might hav'
learned a little from what we saw. w
might have learned not only the TRAN
Of events which led to u entry int
the war and to our refusal to JON
with our Allies in the peace final,
imposed upon the defeated nations
but also of the events of a post-wa
period, now coming to a close.
"That postwar period was it'll
more than a prolonged armistice ano
during that armistice, much was don,
to bring us to where we are today
We had hoped hat the knowledg
given to the world of the bidder
workings of some of the forces tearin,
down the walls of our city would hav'
helped free that world from SOM
small amount of misery and death Wis
tied upon every generation in tn
name of war and in the name of prep
aration against war. We had hopet
that knowledge would have taught tn
world to follow banners not inscribet
"Prepare for War" but to follow in.