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Address all communications to THE COMMONER, Lincoln, Nob, "PEACE ON EARTH" Tho following report of the peace banquet in Chicago is given in the Chicago Tribune of April 30th: America and Europe tho United States and France by their respective spokesmen for the occasion clasped hands over a worldwide peace program In whjch wars should be known only as tho relics of a disappearing barbarism. Prospects of strife with Mexico and Japan were ridiculed and "jingoes" wero scored. Build ing of new battleships was deprecated as pas sion inflaming. Tho occasion was a dinner by tho Chicago Peace Society in the gold room of the Congress hotel and the chief guests and speakers were Baron d'Estournelles de Constant and Col. Wil liam Jennings Bryan to whom George E. Roberts, banker and former director of tho mint, extended a greeting as the society's first presi dent. Three hundred diners gathered to acclaim the cause and honor the guests, especial courtesies being accorded Baron de Constant because of his prominence in a sister republic, he being a senator of France, a member of tho first and second Hague conferences, and a sitting member of the arbitration court of The Hague. The toaBtmaster was Leroy. A. Goddard, now head of the organization. Jenkln Lloyd Jones offered tho invocation. Kl Both the baron and Mr. Bryan avoided re marks that could be construed as political, al though previous to the banquet the Nebraskan, thrice nominee of the democratic party for president, expressed himself optimistically re garding the outlook for the democrats. He de clined to discuss candidates for president, but said th,at when the time is ripe he will give his views frankly regarding tho qualifications of those who may bo in the race. Among those at tho speakers table were Al fred L. Baker, Miss Sophronisba Breckinridge, rMiss Jane Addams, Mrs. L. A. Goddard, Cyrus H. McCormick, Mrs. Ella Flagg Young, Richard C. Hall, Charles Henrotin, Mrs. W. E. Wilmarth and Bishop Samuel Fallows. When Baron de Constant arose to speak, two carnations lay before him on tho table, one red and one white. While he spoke his hand in voluntarily clasped ono of tho flowers. He raised it to a level with his face and smiled. He had chosen the white carnation, the symbol of peace and left tho blood tod flower on tho table. The audience cheered again and again. "I take this as a good omen" for tho best speech I ever made in my life on peace," he said Tho baron held tho white flower in his hand throughout his address and often raised it to his lips. It was his standard, symbolical of tho The Commoner. causo for which ho is contending, and he kept it as a symbol in his plea for peace. "I havo nearly accomplished now my long campaign around your great country," said Baron do Constant, "and now I havo como back to Chicago, whero I delivered my first address ten years ago my maiden speech, indeed in Amerfca. "I will never forget that. I was the guest of your Union League Club. You gave me my first encouragement. I said at that time that our mutual ancestors had discovered -nd created your country and together obtained your liberty. But this is not enough. We cannot bo satisfied by enjoying their legacy we have to do some thing more. We want to found peaco for the generations to come. "Peace is nothing of a dream now. It is a practical organization. Everybody understands that. American public opinion has been unani mous in supporting your government in its efforts to organize arbitration. All your public statesmen are strongly in favor of it my friend Mr. William Jennings Bryan, as well as my friend Col. Roosevelt. We all admire what President Taft has done in that way. Look at the speeches delivered recently by the leaders . of the British parliament in London to sup port his proposition. "Arbitration now is tho necessary coronation of modern progress. War is not only waste of blood and money, but paralysis of national work. War will at once stop all progress and cut your future in its roc ,s. It is true chiefly of young countries having to faco universal competition. You will be handicapped by nations who have no military expenditures and who can give all their force to productive work. "I know what skeptical people object; they say that you may bo attacked; yesterday it was by Mexico. I went there and found it was a bubble. Then, they said it would bo by Japan. I went to California, to the states which are supposed to feel the danger. I found nothing but strong and unanimous encouragement to protest against this nonsense. "These wars are indeed dreams, no sensible man can believe in them. We won't allow tho governments of the future to declare wars which coifld havo been averted, as could have been nearly all the wars of the past as well in America as in Europe. "We know now that most of these past wars have been useless. Victory is not all glory and profit. The victor himelf has to pay for it; it leaves behind it suspicion, rancor, hatred; it obliges all nations to spend their treasures of time, of money, of young men for preparing a war which nobody wants; it obliges them to starve 'education, labor, agriculture, commerce, life indeed for nothing. "This ruinous and continual negative activity arises everywhere today, a general revolt. It is a direct appeal to revolution, and that is why I said so often: Militarism is the father of socialism. "Nobody would ever speak of war if the people would know more of arbitration. They don't know what The Hague organization is, how The Hague court has already settled several big cases like the Dogger-Bank and tho Casablanca conflicts. We have to teach them, to explain them. "Public opinion Is waiting for this new educa tion of our times. They have to understand exactly what a treaty of arbitration means u JSSFZ ST Sal? recenty n London that it would be bad to make treaties for an opinion not prepared to execute them. He is right He wants, as wo do, arbitration with no deception he wants, as we do, a good education of the people who have not only to wish arbitration treaties but to submit to these treaties The signature of a treaty is a great thin- its execution is still better. g' W "Look at the admirable execution for nearlv a century of your treaty with Great Britain con cerning tho disarmament of the Canadian fron tier! It is not the letter only, it is the sririt ! uY ?ations which have faithfully exe cuted it that wo admire. "What we have to do now is to finish our work of education; it is to prepare the people all over tho world for BelMiwipllne? f?r the free acceptation of reason and justice for thl settlement of their quarrels." Q i",1 m Hlad to Participate in this bannuet said Col. Bryan, "and join you in doinc : honor to tho distinguished citizen of Francel-Bn?n d'Estournelles de Constant. He is the Bon of a nation whose history has been interwoven with our own and whose friendship haT come tdionarydaysaS Cher,8hed hritaBe f rom rZ VOLUME 11, NUMBER 18 'Wo. are indebted to another great French man for a conception which we are now working out. It was De Lesseps, who first undertook tho uniting of tho oceans at Panama. "A gigantic vision is soon to be realized through the efforts 6t our country. When wo congratulate ourselves that we are about to complete what the groat Frenchman began we must not forget the credit due to the mind that was able to demonstrate the possibility of bring ing the Pacific and Atlantic oceans together. "Our guest, Baron de Constant, is one of tho pioneers in an engineering scheme that sur passes in scope, in importance and in difficulty the dreams of De Lesseps -the union of na tions in the bonds of peace, which is a grander conception than the marriage of tho oceans. "The Chagres river has been the great terror of those who have investigated, the route across the isthmus, but this stream, even when its rag ing current is at its flood, is tame in compari son with the angry passions of the human heart that hurry nations into war. "Only one excuse can be made for. war that man has not yet brought the brutal instincts under control of the reason and the heart. "To despair of peace would be to despair of progress among men. Some have hoped to bring peace by an increase of armament, that the world might be frightened away from war or driven into peace by the weight of military burdens. "We are glad to welcome any encouragement that may come from this source, but it ought not to require the exhaustion of nation to con vince us that ruin of all concerned is the logi cal end of rivalry in the building of battleships. "I am a believer in an entirely different theory. I fear the encouragement of the mili tary spirit. I fear the building )f battleships will inflame- the paasion for war rather than frighten us into peace. "I believe that the road to peace lies rather in the culture of the spirit of peace and friend ship. Love begets love. I have more faith in tho po.wer of good example than in the terror excited by thlrteen-inch guns." Resolutions approving the action of tho federated churches in their stand for the arbi tration treaty between England and America were introduced by Bishop Samuel' Fallows and unanimously passed. SENATOR O'GORMAN A dinner was recently given Senator O'Gor man of. New York. Senator Stone of Missouri, who could not be present, wrote this letter: The democrats of the country are especially gratified that the democratic New York senator is so heartily in sympathy with the best thought of his party and is so able to uphold his con victions." Senator O'Gorman, in addressing the ban queters, said: "My election to represent New York in -the United States senate came to mo unsought. The acceptance of the high honor carried with it important responslbllites which I shall endeavor to discharge to the b'est of my capacity and energy. "Today the people of the United States are looking hopefully to the democratic party for redress against economical and political condi tions which weigh heavily upon them and which cannot be successfully defended. There is a growing and widespread public sentiment that tne American consumer must be relieved from SEJ 553 unnecessary tribute. New Jersey, JSn ,0niS' New York and other states havo united in the general protest." ; Is. Plain that New York made no mistake W exchanged Chauncey M. Depew for James A. O'Gorman. 0 00-00t0(g GOOD SENTIMENT FOR DEMOCRATS, TOO wJl odoJ!L Roosevelt, at Spokane, Wash.: "There are in this country, in my party a number of men who call themselves republicans who really are not republicans in the American sense at w ny man who puts Property rights ff humw righte, any a wo ob jects to genuine popular rule, any man who refuses justice because justice will nS?r? Yith the Property of some great special interest, any ouch man, I don't care how much he calls himself a re Americans n real kinshlp wlttl 0000 . Q 'fa If ' v uwwuwwmiil
