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lUk: GR1MMK8T JEST I.N ALL
HISTORY
David Starr Jordan in the Sau
Francisco Star of Jan. 9th:
Ir. a recent number of a popular
magazine a well-kuowu writer uses*
tkeso words:
• Towering over the Carnegie Plei
^Utters the Peace Palace, history's
grimmest jest .mil the worlds great
est monument to failure."
Let us loo's at thg facts:
Those people who havg struggled
to prevent this war and who have
worked for the supremacy of law
aud decency over intrigue and greed
in International affairs have found
.3 Holland for the last twenty years
a hospitable reception. Holland lies
outside the currents of militarism
aud of rival exploitations, which in
a a accelerating degree have tnreat
t !u d to ruin Europe. The courtesy
of the capital city of Holland has
found place for the meeting of those
conferences and tribunals devoted
to the extension of security and
law. The friends of peace have
Uso met in other capitals, notabl>
in Brussels, Berne and Stockholm,
but of all available cities The
Hague has been usually the most
convenient.
Ia recognition of these needs, Mr.
('aruegio gave to the government of
Holland something over a million
do!:ars, to be used for the erection
e£ lialls adequate for the varied
purposes of international activity
i'he people of Holland have put up
a building in the Dutch style of red
■nd white brick, and they have sur
rounded it by a beautiful garden.
Ihe building does not "glitter."
uor is it ia any sense a "palace,"
though its Dutch name, "Vreden
palast," translates itself as "peace
palace."
No oue expected that hall of meet
itig would of itself bring peace to
a careless, greedy world which
srcut half its earrings on the culti
vation of bate. It was simply a
meeting place for those who be
ue\ed in the future rule of sanity
aud who served a cause that must
ultimately triumph, a cause which
must outlast armies and navies and
kings and empires. Not to believe
Mat civilization tan be made law
abiding would be to despair of hu
luan destiny.
Just now we cannot meet in these
hails, for the law-breakers of Eu
rope have brought chaos in all in
ternational relations. It is under
stood that one of the faihtful, Pro
fessor Ludwig Quidde, of Munich,
finds his place there, and when
the channels of travel are opened
we shall find a thousand men ready
tor the war against war to where
there was one in the careless
and cynical days before 1914.
Shall we fever need these halls
again? Is the riot of murder and
robbery for which no man nor
nation dare stand sponsor the last
word in history? Is all human
achievement to go the way of Ma
lines and Louvain and Rheims? Is
there no power higher than the
a -ir.ed state? Is there no public
opinion, no voice of God, above the
voice of the howitzer? Is the crush
cf rival military efficiency the end
of our Cbristain civilisation?
We do not believe this. We have
faith in man and therefore, in the
God within him. We have been head
ing straight toward war, gathering
our weapons In the sacred name of
peace. We shall fill the hails
again when the pirates are swept
from the lanes of traffic. There are
A hundred, maybe a thousand, who
see war today for what it is, where
there was one a year ago.
When we have burled our dead
and fed the starving millions that
war has robbed, we shall come to
The Hague again, and this hall of
sand we shall need and find all
over the world.
What, then, ifl the grimmest jest
the costliest failure In all history.
n9 name is Military Efficiency. It
is the search far peace through
Hate. It is the armed peace, the
use of barbarism as a defense
against barbarism. Europe has
spent ten millions of dollars a day
to hire men and to buy guns to
defeud itself against itself. Armies
and navies have their destined
purpose, and this purpose is not
security nor peace. To be prepared
for war is to get it. Military Effi
c'ency may bring victory. It never
brought peace. The race for arma
ment became the race for the abyss,
and its end is the ruin of Europe.
Exhaustion, pestilence, death, the
weirdest imagination could conjure
up nothing worse than what is hap
pening today.
"To safeguard peace we must pre
pare for war." This is the waCch
ward of the grimmest jest, the cost
liest failure in history. i
I Since the writer began this note,
barely an hour ago, the war has al- '
ready in that short time cost, more
i than the Peace Palace at The '
i Hague. Every day of war costs
J forty times Mr. Carnegie's gift. 1
| Every six hours of daylight Europe '
spends in destruction as much as i
!1 t'v world has ever paid to bring
• on the peace of security and mutual ;
I trust. And the greatest part of the i
i few millions given to this work has
| been American money. All that 1
j the continent of Europe has spent
j for a century in abating hatred and
, suspicion would not keep the war
going for an hour.
Every week this war must cost us
of America, noncombatants, under
, the flag where hatred dies away, th
, tost of a peace palace. The war
! paralyzes our enterprise, while on |
the other hand it forces on us the ,
duty of feeding the nations crush
cd under the war-god's heel.
Indemnity! There is not coin .
j enough in the world to make good ,
j the sufferings of Belgium and Ser- ,
via and Poland, torn by the rival- (
i ries of her three flags.
It is for us to bind up the
wounds, to soften the hatred, to .
hold charity toward all and malice ,
1 toward none. (
But the one terrible lesson we •
must never forget: War breeds ,
war, and there is nothing so costly |
as impe:sonal hate. "The world's |
grimmest jest, the costliest failure
in history," is the use of military
efficiency as insurance for peace.
I In these days there are many men
ia all the nations of Europe who i
wish that there could arise a Pope
ia Christendom with a voice strong
enough to call a "Truce of God"
for this Christmas season that "the
waning star of Bethlehem" might
be seen again through the smoke of
conflict.
In Uouot.
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when your sentence if over?" cheer
fully asked a wniuan of a convict iii
prison.
"I dunno, nia'aui: I dnnuo." gloom
Uy answered the man.
"You don't know"' asked the worn
an. amazed. "Why not'*"
"I'm in for life."
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