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OUR EDUCATORS
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AN ADDRESS DE LIVE RED. BEFORE THE PEACE
CONVENTION AT MYSTIC, CONNECTICUT,
AUGUST, 1895.
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ELLEN GOODELL SMITH, M. D.,
PANsy PARK, Dwight, Mass.
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THE WORD FOR THE HOUR
Dr. Ellen Goodel Smith of Dwight, Mass has given to these
closing years of the nineteenth century the matured thought of a
noble life and the inspiration that has come to her for the good of
humanity. The way to peace, the joy of peace and the saving
power of peace, are all practically treated, and the home, the
school, the forum, the cabinet, the legislature, the pulpit ought not
to be without this publication. Everyone interested in the peace
cause and this new infusion of interest in the peace movement of
our day, now culminating into an actuality, should own and cir-
culate it by the thousands. I regard it as one of the most valu:
able contributions that have come to the peace work, and knowing
the purity of its source can recommend it for general circulation
and approve of it for universal adoption. With congratulations
and with gratitude that we can have this messenger of peace, I
am cordially in sympathy thy friend.
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OUR EDUCATORS
for \llar Or peace—ulbićb?
AN ADDRESS DELIVERED BEFORE THE PEACE
CONVENTION AT MYSTIC, CONNECTICUT,
AUGUST, 1895.
BY
ELLEN GOODELL SMITH, M. D.,
PANsy PARK, Dwight, MAss.
Published by Request. Price io cents.
AMHERST, MASS.:
press of Carpenter & Thorehouse.
1896.


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It is evident that our present education has developed ideas which
have filled the world with inharmonious conditions, and progressive
thinkers recognize the necessity of developing a higher education that
will produce qualities of mind and heart whose fruits will be harmony
and peace. Of primary importance in the achievement of this most
desirable result is the salvation of the bodies of the race, and not
until this is accomplished will the salvation of the soul be assured,
and peace possible on this earth.
In the Old World, we find the people permeated with the war idea;
and the passion to subdue and subjugate has become a giant instrength
and proportions. The war spirit which dominates, and the military
rule under which the Old World lives, necessitate the creation of
armies and navies, from what material 2 Not from imperfect speci-
mens of youth taken from the depths of degradation and ignorance,
and for whom education and discipline would be the most humane
and economical method of making them and the world better, but
from the most nearly perfect mental and physical specimens; from
the good and the noble, the pride of homes, the flower of the nations.
These are the youth who are educated to stand as targets upon the
battle-fields and be scientifically murdered. These are they whose
life-blood saturates the soil of the Old World. Millions of dollars
are spent annually in educating these youths and supporting military
institutions that are always prepared for deadly work.
To think vile and wicked thoughts, to plot and plan deeds of dark-
ness, is to fill our minds with evil and cause our hands to commit the
deeds we educate our brains to perform. To prepare for war, and
illustrate it with the display of dress, parade and drill is to invite it.
We cry peace, peace, but there will be no peace so long as warlike
nations continue to make the elaborate and gigantic preparations for
war that are now being pushed with an enthusiasm and energy unknown
in past history. Our ancestors who set sail from the Old World for
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They brought the military spirit with them, and before leaving the
Mayflower formed a military company whose commander was Captain
Miles Standish. The soldiers each had a coat of mail, a sword and
a match-lock musket. Thus with the Bible in one hand and the
murderous musket in the other, the settlement of colonies began.
They prepared for war by building forts and mounting cannon, their
subsequent history proving that the educators they planted on freedom's
soil produced legitimate fruits. Mark the contrast with the spirit that
moved the soul of William Penn—the grand herald of Peace, as he
extended the hand with the heart of love and called the children of
the forest his brothers; assuring them, in the memorable treaty under
the elm that he met them “on the broad pathway of good faith and
good will,” and they declared they would “live in love with William
Penn as long as the moon and the sun shall endure." Faithfully
each kept his word, and no Quaker blood was shed by Indian hand in
the land of William Penn.
In reviewing the history of the race, the questions arise, why has
the world never been in a condition of peace, and why is it not yet
ready for the principle of arbitration? Centuries of warfare across
the ocean had saturated the earth with the flesh and blood of millions
of men and animals slain. Upon this soil the people moved and
lived; their food was grown upon the death-laden earth, and they con-
sumed it. The streams of water became polluted. The vapors
rising from the earth, and mingling with the air of heaven, were
poisoned with the anguish of the dead and dying millions, and the
weeping and sorrowing despair of those who mourned their slain.
The people unconsciously breathed the war spirit, ate it and drank
it, and entailed it upon succeeding generations. No longer marvel
that every ship touching the unknown shores of this continent came
prepared for war, or that upon historic Plymouth Rock was planted a
colony possessing warlike tendencies; that wars and rumors of wars
have cursed our fair land, and that our national history has been a
history of war. Let it create no further surprise that every vessel
that now deposits the population of other countries upon our shores,
imports also the war demon that often assumes a hydra-headed shape
and strikes terror to the nation.
What legacy has our warlike people bequeathed to future genera-
tions? The same that the mother country bestowed upon those who
settled the New World. The people of this country have lived upon
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fostered by a war spirit and military training which are the result of
the most unpardonable ignorance, depraved appetite and deficiency of
will in the right direction. It would be easy to suppose that the ter-
rible loss of life, the labor, the privation and suffering consequent on
war would have been sufficient in three or four hundred years to have
shut out the possibility of future warfare. But the military spirit was
still alive; dissatisfactions continued, wrongs were perpetrated, rights
were trampled upon and our boasted “land of the free " was not
free : our “home of the brave " was a nation of moral cowards who
had not the courage to liberate an oppressed people. We had been
living a falsehood, and when the first gun was fired on Fort Sumter,
its thunders thrilled the world and almost paralyzed our own country
But she was speedily aroused to action, and two contending Christian
armies, each praying to God for victory, ranged themselves against
each other and the legal murder of our innocents began. Animal and
human lives that we could not restore fell like sheaves of wheat before
the reaper, amid the booming of cannon and smoke of battle. Our
earth was again saturated with the blood of hosts of stalwart men in
their prime, of youth in the glory of vigorous manhood; to say nothing
of the mental crucifixion of those who gave birth to the slain, and of
the war spirit developing in embryo. Could all this have been averted?
If we had so far progressed that arbitration could have settled the
difficulties, yes; never, with the existing inborn tendencies to warfare.
The country old and new is dotted over with churches, schools and
colleges, that raise their expensive piles of brick and granite, their
elegant and costly domes pointing heavenward. We gaze with par-
donable pride upon these educational works of art, and call ourselves
the most enlightened, civilized and Christian nation upon the globe.
Yet in 1865, but thirty years ago, closed the most expensive and
brutal war that had ever disgraced this nation. Scarcely had the
echoes of victory died away when our beloved Lincoln fell, and thus
in assassination culminated the agony that fratricidal war entailed
upon this sadly depopulated, demoralized and almost bankrupt nation.
And this the outcome of false education in the most enlightened, civ-
ilized and Christian nation upon the globe May we have the grace
of wisdom to save ourselves from being participants in another such
manifestation of civilization.
We have not yet outgrown the Old Testament war idea and its
train of evils follow us. We have been born and educated under
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Now let us have the dispensation of an illuminated and illuminating
humanity, that shall give us redeemed bodies for enlightened soul
habitations; that the men and women yet to appear may people the
earth with physical bodies which shall be perfect instruments for the
expression of the Divine life. Saint Paul says, “ Know ye not that
your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you?" and again,
* If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy, for
the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are." Again, “I beseech
you therefore brethren that you present your bodies a living sacrifice,
holy and acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service." In
the Buddhist Scriptures, we find this, “ Causing destruction to living
beings, killing and mutilating, stealing and lying, fraud and deception,
these are what defile a man." Also, “If thou see anything to be
killed, thy soul shall be moved with pity and compassion.” We also
read that “from the day of the Lord Buddha, six hundred years
before the Christian era to this day, the attitude of His sons even
when in power, toward the various believers' and unbelievers'
about them has been tolerant; they have never been everything to
everybody, nor despotic; and as they have always cherished good-
will to unbelievers, and discouraged and withstood cruelty, persecu-
tion and war, they have been the Great Peace Society of the
World.”
Two hundred and fifty years ago in our glorious New England, men
and women were publicly chastized, and even murdered, because of
religious and so-called superstitious beliefs. Freedom of thought and
speech were silenced, and slaves were bought and sold. The people
came here to escape persecution, but the spirit of intolerance and
oppression toward others and liberty for themseves, was a portion of
their inheritance; and they were true to their nature.
We cannot intelligently remedy a wrong until we ascertain the real
moving spirit that causes its manifestation. It is easy to lay bare
existing conditions, and summon the “powers that be " to suppress
them; but so long as we encourage the ignoring of causes, and search
everywhere but in the right place for them, just so long must we
remain in the bondage of sin. The war spirit was never so thoroughly
and persistently educated into a people as it has been in our land since
1865. It is fostered by improper feeding of adulterated, poisoned
foods and drinks; by furnishing our infants with military toys and
teaching them infantile war tactics; by delighting them with pictures
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carry a revolver is the height of their ambition. We teach them to fish,
hunt and trap game, and what has given such an impetus to cruelty as
these teachings? What but these have given us the alarming growth
of exciting and blood-curdling literature, filled with impossible heroes,
that ruins the moral health of our youth. Every Fourth of July has
of late been more redolent than ever with powder and shot, musket
and military; the roar of cannon, and patriotic orations recounting
deeds of daring, courage and slaughter, deifying the actors in scenes
of blood and carnage; while the great national reminder of our Inde-
pendence is closed with a blaze of pyrotechnics at a cost sufficient to
clothe and feed every naked and starving child within sound of the
thundering cannon, and in sight of the brilliant and expensive explo-
sives that end only in smoke. Is there not a more peaceful way of
educating our youth to honor that day?
Millions are invested in warships, each one more deadly than the
last–possibly humanely so. Standing armies are everywhere. Arse-
nals have multiplied, growing more and more imposing in their out-
lines and structure, filled with deadly weapons and brilliant armor that
now and then adorn the stalwart form of nature's would-be noblemen.
To visit these strongholds of power and observe the weapons of
destruction, one might well ask, are we preparing to slaughter the
entire world? Is there no power but this to reach a nation's heart?
The Grand Army of the Republic, the Sons of Veterans, the
militia, the training camps, the naval and military colleges and schools,
with thousands of youthful cadets who already march on our streets
with all the importance of veterans, our Decoration Day, our holidays
in remembrance of some deed of war, military event or hero, our
glittering military encampments, attracting thousands of citizens to
their brilliant annual parades, these and many others are the pro-
moters of, and educators in the idea of warfare. From the close of
our civil contest until now, we have taught the glories of war, its
honors, its emoluments; we have laid the bodies of the dead soldiers
to rest amid military honors and warlike display. In story and song,
the press has lent its aid that the “fires of patriotism,” which they
interpret to mean fighting on the battle-field, might not be extinguished.
It is well to mark the last resting-places of the men who lived and
were murdered in times of rebellion. It is just and humane to care
for the invalid, the crippled and homeless that war has made. But if
we desire Peace to reign and the tumult of war to be forever stilled,
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and ignore the spiritual power that shall dominate the wrong and make
these debasing butcheries unnecessary? The youthful brain has
revelled in the hero-worship of the fighting-men of the century, and
we, the people, have made gods of war heroes, worshipping them and
their gruesome deeds that we persist in surrounding with a halo of
glory. Are there none but these to honor and glorify and revere for
their grand and heroic achievements? Then it is quite time that we
gave our attention to producing heroes that will better illustrate the
true, humane civilization of an enlightened humanity.
The influence of these teachings, and illustrations of the war spirit
upon the generations born during the civil war and since then, who
can better understand and comprehend than we who are now on the
down-hill side of life, living in the midst of, and contending with this
warlike element in all its varied branches, never so intricate and
demoralizing as at the present time 2 These prolific causes have
roused and fanned into flame the military spirit that has culminated
in Sunday-school military brigades, which are turning our churches
into educators of cruelty and murder, in spite of the doctrines of
Christ that are supposed to be the foundation of modern Christian
religion. They have also developed a dangerous, yea, almost despotic
power that proposes to educate every boy in military prowess and turn
every school-house and grounds into military barracks and camps, and
thus create for this nation the most gigantic and powerful army the
world has ever seen.
A thousand years hence, or less, the people of earth will look upon
our shafts of granite, and terrible arsenals, the torn and battered flags
and war equipments, battle ships, and war histories and tales of
Libby and Andersonville; our traffic in slaves; and Sunday-school
church brigades, with feelings akin to our own as we look backward
upon the relics of the dark and middle ages. Indeed, are we not
living them over in many directions? Who are the clergy that have
assumed the right to train our sons in the arts of warfare? What
sort of men are they who tell us youth must be bribed with glittering
bait to induce them to come within the folds of the church—very
much like baiting a fish, only we kill the fish and the boys are taught
to kill each other 2 What sort of men are the political and military
heads and leaders of the people that assume the right to declare that
every school boy shall be made a fighter? Who gave birth to these
men? Under what conditions and amid what surroundings were their
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become the mother of a Napoleon, by life upon the battle-field and
amid the scenes of warfare, then there is no reason why the mothers
of our country should not have produced warriors who now tell us it
has become necessary for the sons of every mother to be instructed
in the art of killing. If Mrs. Pomeroy could produce a son who is a
murderous terror, because his father was a butcher, and she made
herself familiar with and revelled in the scenes of the slaughter-house,
then why may not other mothers through some murderous influences
have produced even clergymen who incline to sanguinary warfare 2
Is there not fight enough born into every boy without resorting to com-
pulsory measures to increase it? Have the mothers of the dark
days from 1861 to 1865 forgotten the sacrifice P Are the women
who were in their infancy and youth at that time, so warlike at heart
that they will by quiet concession to such innovations aid the deadly
work? Nature has created us the mothers of the race; shall we
bear this natural burden only to grow sons for their fathers to educate
in fighting each other 2 No, a thousand times no. Let us appeal
with voice and pen to the justice, love and all the higher qualities of
these men, against this uncalled for and unnatural disposition of our
household jewels.
If military drill is good for boys, why not for girls? But you say
they are not strong enough to fight, to bear arms upon the battle-
field. Then indeed we have not strength sufficient to bear children
in arms for you to instruct in the art of murder . If boys must learn to
fight, and girls cannot, then to be consistent let us ask military oppor-
tunity for our girls, and educate them to deeds of bravery in the
face of blood and carnage ; prepare them to bind up the shattered
bones of their mutilated brothers and to care for the sick, the dying
and the dead. Nothing could be more consistent than such educa-
tion, that they be not deficient in the science of practical work when
barbarous necessities demand women as attendants upon the inhuman
fatalities of war. No logic can effectually assail, no argument over-
throw these points in view of the fact that thousands of men perish
for lack of care upon the field, in camp and hospital. To-day the
fighting element becomes furious upon slight provocation, and is only
held in check by force, often of the most brutal character. Let the
education in warfare become general and continue year after year,
and we shall people the earth with the most warlike race that was
ever grown.
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this sort of teaching and drilling, the sight of suggestive rifles, swords
and uniforms. As workers for peace we want no talk of war tactics
and sham battles in our homes, to cast their influence over the
precious lives of those whose birthright should be health, beauty,
longevity and a grandeur and nobility of soul as yet bestowed upon
but a minority of the race. We call this the humane era. Statis-
tics tell us that there are two millions Christian Endeavorers; one
million Epworth Leaguers; hundreds of thousands of the King's
Daughters, and Women's Christian Temperance Unions; which,
added to the one or two million members of the American Humane
Education Societies or Bands of Mercy, whose mottoes are “Peace
on Earth, Kindness, Justice and Mercy to every living thing,” ought
to be a great power to help on a grand age. How can the leaders of
these various organizations reconcile their humane work with the
teachings of human warfare P Here is this immense Christian and
humane element in active operation. The larger portion of these
millions are citizens, in the innocence of childhood and the bloom of
youth. They are going in the right direction so far as they are
taught. How easy to turn the tide toward peace or war ! But what
will become of this humane element that we are so faithfully educating
if military instruction is introduced?
Were this immense body resting upon the solid granite of truth, no
amount of compulsory military education could overthrow its peaceful
tendencies; but as it stands upon a sandy foundation, the result would
prove disastrous. How canthese humane teachers reconcile extreme
kindness to every living thing, and after the fashion of savages decorate
their homes with the clothing, and themselves with the stolen wardrobes
of murdered animals and birds they have pledged themselves to hu-
manely treat and protect! Again, how can they consistently teach and
practice gentleness and loving care to all sentient life, and then
Judas-like betray myriads of animals into the hands of murderers,
with whom they would not associate, but to whom they gladly pay
the “thirty pieces of silver" because they are too refined and sensi-
tive to do this deadly work themselves. How can they consistently
invite these millions of youth to partake of the deliberately murdered
and dissected bodies of the pets and friends so tenderly cared for.
This is a huge pile of sand upon which these humane and Christian
structures rest, countenancing a method of deception and cheating
practised upon our animal friends and companions on the most gigan-
tic scale; and tolerated, compelled to exist, not from necessity, but

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because this Christian and humane world demands it. It is a
relic of a barbarous age, handed down to us until education has made
it so much a habit that we take no thought concerning it. But it is
one of the most vital questions of the hour, and upon its solution
depends peace or war, and the adjustment of a thousand other things
that agitate the world of thought in this progressive era. Will not
these powerful organizations speak the word that shall spare the lives
of millions of beautiful songsters that are earning their own living,
and of the animals that are becoming extinct, and thus educate this
brutalizing fashion out of sight 2
This brings us to a branch of the subject that is neglected by the
masses, but is at present commanding the attention of some of the
wisest and best, who are greatly disturbed while they but dimly see
the way through the oncoming years. It is the effect of food upon
the character of a people, and its influence in the creation of those
diseases recognized as crime in the individual, or in an aggregation of
individuals designated as a mob, but glorified as honor and heroism
when the individual wears a uniform and the mob has been drilled
in the tactics of war. Let us examine this question and see what it
has done for us. History informs us that the eating of flesh demanded
seasonings to make it palatable. Seasonings demand drinks to quiet
the war of elements that we create in the human system. Water
not being strong enough, it has been poisoned with various substances
to satisfy an artificial appetite. The wonderful chemistry of old-
fashioned Mother Nature has been set aside, and consequently our
food has been robbed of its life-giving elements, poisoned with an
excess of spices and seasonings, accentuated with dead flesh, putrid
blood and animal fats, made intoxicating with pungent extracts and
alcoholic fire-brands, and washed down with hot, stimulating drinks,
rendered more necessary by the excessive use of tobacco, opium and
other poisons that are so industriously consumed by our people.
When we build upon such inflammable material, we produce the
greatest factor that leads to strikes, anarchy, immorality, intemper-
ance, war and cruelty of every kind.
This method of living and education has caused the race to wander
into a huge medical maelstrom, where diseases have multiplied and
remedies ever been on the increase, until the medical profession,
losing sight of causes, seek only for cures; and this has made the
anguish-producing and heathenish trade of the vivisector possible and
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demand it, by prohibiting the gospel of reason and common-sense and
depending upon the doctors to contrive some method to save us from
the effects of our own acts. As vivisection has been called “the
worst thing in the world,” may not the murder of helpless, defenseless
animals for human food be fitly designated its twin-brother P This is
the result of a false education that has caused us to thwart the designs
of nature by our treatment of the animal race; and this one act of
ours has necessitated an army of doctors and cattle inspectors to
make warfare upon the diseases that stupidity, appetite and barbarity
have entailed upon them. The flesh of the scavengers of earth and
sea is poisonous; the artificial process of housing, caring for and
fattening animals for market is disease-producing, causing sick-
ness and untimely death in the human family. The brewer distils
alcohol for the thirsty multitude. The farmer has constructed brew-
eries and feeds his cows with a steaming mass of fermented, alcoholic
ensilage that gives us impure milk. The housewife and the baker
ferment our bread after the same fashion,-and do we not get
alcoholic bread that the milling process has first deprived of its best
elements? This necessitates an army of thousands of dentists and
chemists to furnish us with artificially manufactured bone, brain and
muscle. These are bodily results. But the effect upon the mental
and moral nature of the race, who can estimate P And it is this
result which we, as members of the Peace Association, are bound to
consider. We should be consistent in our own lives, that our efforts
and teachings may have greater weight in the councils of the unre-
generate promoters of war. The greatest moral, humane and economic
as well as health questions are herein involved. To sacrifice the
deadly flesh-pots of this modern Egypt and simplify our present modes
of table life, is not so difficult a step after all, while the compensation
almost exceeds the belief without the experience, Vegetarians are
numbered by the thousands in this and European countries. They are
intelligent and alive to all reforms. Their health and powers of
endurence surpass that of flesh eaters. Epidemics, contagions and
deadly microbes have no terrors for them; rarely can one insane
be found among them; not an inebriate disgraces their name, for they
have been reformed from principle; tobacco, opium and their kindred
are unwelcome guests, and a patient search would, doubtless, fail to
discover a criminal in their ranks. Should our hospitals, prisons and
jails, homes for the young who go astray, saloons and social hells
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victims, and as they all believe in peace, the criminal calendar would
become rusty with age, cruelty would be a thing of the past and armies.
and navies cease to be. Shall we who stand in this great wave of
reform declare that we are too cowardly and helpless in will to cast
aside injurious habits? Then let our unbounded sympathies extend
to the inebriate and the criminal, for they are weak as ourselves.
In our zeal for abolishing existing conditions, we forget the deeper
causes that make it necessary for us to combat them; but so long as
evil in any form exists, we must bear in mind that it is a demand
which will be supplied. Close the door upon it in one direction and
it opens in another. It is easier to prevent crime than to contend
with it; easier to prevent poverty and its attendant ills than to spend
our lives in trying to mitigate the suffering produced by it. Better to
produce children that will become all we are contending for in the
various reforms that consume our time and talents, waste our money
and destroy our peace. In the agricultural, horticultural and animal
world the greatest possible care is exercised in preparing the soil and
in planting or sowing only seed that has been perfected according to
the most intelligent methods extant. Time, money and talent unre-
stricted are expended in these directions, that the finest results may
be obtained. We demand the best in these departments, and the
supply is equal to the demand. Like produces like. The vegetable,
the fruit, the flower, the animal are like what they feed upon, and the
conditions surrounding them. “Ye are of more value than many
sparrows," said Christ. But how is it we fail to manifest our full value 2
I have endeavored to make clear to you that the body is largely grown
upon poisoned food and injurious substances, of which the blood is
made that feeds every part of the human frame. This being true,
then from such imperfect, impoverished soil is gathered the composi-
tion of that most subtile and delicate creative element that stands at
the threshold of embryotic life. The majority of the race are begotten
in sensuality and submission, with seldom any previous care or thought
and with no properly prepared soil, physical, mental, moral, spiritual
or social. Thus the seed of human life is diseased, poisoned at its
fountain head, grown in the hot-beds of sensual luxury, or nourished in
ignorance, poverty and degradation of the lowest type. Consequently
we have born into existence thousands upon thousands every year of
unwelcome, irresponsible guests, who, if life is spared them, finally
become the Nation's wards. Is this an enlightened humanity that
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We have disobeyed the spiritual law and order, and the opening
buds of human life burst into independent existence, the most helpless
of all creatures, yet destined to unlimited wisdom and power for good
or for evil. Now what shall we do? Continue to propagate existing
evils that fill our asylums, homes, hospitals and prisons all over the
land; or shall we purify and perfect the soil that the seed from which
it is grown be sound in every part? When we teach our sons and
daughters that there is but one code of morals, notwithstanding the
world has made two, and thus permitted men to lead a double and
respectable life, while woman has borne the curse because she wears
the glorious crown of motherhood, when our sons reverence women
and respect their individuality, and our daughters demand purity for
purity, and both feel the sacredness and holiness of creative power;
then may we expect the highest and best, for they will be begotten of
wisdom and love –the attributes of proper generation. No future
warriors or murderers will curse our land. The welcome immortals
will be the white blossoms of purified lives that will bear the fruits of
a true humanity. This is no chimerical vision, but a common-sense
view of the root of this all-absorbing subject. These vital questions
should be expounded in our churches, lecture bureaus, taught in
advanced schools and colleges and discussed at every fireside, But
only a feeble wail goes out now and then from pulpit, press or plat-
form; even the home is silent – why? Because of unpopularity, and
of caste and position to be preserved. We grope in blindness and pay
for it all, Hard times, poverty, worthy causes languishing for lack of
means; the world not yet ready for arbitration; and we in our ignorance
contributing to the general warfare of the world. Let us not only
pray but work, that our eyes be opened wide enough to discover and
apply the “ounce of prevention," and cease making such heroic sac-
rifice to pay for the “pound of cure." Never was the harvest so ripe,
the reapers so numerous, as at the present time. In some way
attention should be called to these questions, that the children already
approaching future citizenship be wisely prepared to administer the
affairs of state and nation, Our national salvation and safety, or
disaster and ruin, rest with the children of the present and the future.
Then let us secure more perfect and healthful bodies for these chil-
dren, that they may escape the errors of a false education and
its disastrous results, Ere long, if not already, the humanely
educated children will discover our inconsistencies, and we shall stand
convicted by the wise lips of childish innocence. “Thou shalt not

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kill." Thou shalt not eat of the slain, Engrave these words in letters
of gold, and hang them upon your walls in place of the cruel hunt and
the slaughtered game that now disfigure your homes. Upon humane
and moral grounds, if upon no other, close the door to all dead flesh,
and at your tables begin a war of extermination that shall banish
poisons, and close the abattoir; turn butchers' shops into cleanly
rooms where the foods of nature will be dispensed at so moderate a
cost that the poorest child need no longer be fed from the garbage
piles in the streets, and you, O charitable and economical Humanity,
will not be under the necessity of supplying fuel to the flame in the
blood of these little ones and their parents, by feeding them upon the
refuse of the butcher's shop. If this were done, your children would
be easily saved. Instead of graduating criminals from the streets, we
should graduate respectable men and women from homes of their
own—whom your children will have no occasion to contend with, as
you now contend with their parents. Possibly, our enlightened
national government would be wise enough to contribute its millions
for constructive rather than destructive education.
So long as we doctor and patch up the effects, we are like moths
that play with flame. We sacrifice our bodies, defile our garments,
and the flame moves defiantly on, increasing in intensity because of
the inborn power that resists opposition and tyranny.
As the grandest of all organizations, let us no longer hesitate at the
open door, and leave this work to future generations; but step out
into the glorious light of truth, and appropriate the higher spiritual
teachings that lead the way to triumphant and universal peace.

THE PEACEMAKER
- AND -
COURT OF A RBITERATION.
“Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good-will toward men.”
Remove the cause and abolish the customs of war.
Live the conditions and promulgate the principles of peace.
EDITED AND PUBLISHED Monthly. By A commit TEE or THE
-º-UNIVERSAL PEACE UNION,+=#-
(Organized May 16th, 1866. Incorporated April 9th, 1888.)
5oo CHESTNUT St., PHILADELPHIA.
Terms—Single copy, iocts. yearly subscription, $1 in advance.
Committee.
Alfred H. Love (A. H. L.), Editor. Henry S. Clubb, Managing Editor (C)
Belva A. Lockwood (B. A. L.), Washington, D.C., and Mary
Frost Ormsby (M. F. O.), contributing Editors.
The UNIversal PEACE UNIox, of which the PEACEMAKER
is organ has entered upon its thirtieth year of useful activity in
the promotion of peace and arbitration, during which time
arbitration has become an important factor in settling the dis-
putes between nations, and not a few arbitrations and reconcili-
ations have been brought about by its direct and indirect influ-
ence and effort. The Union therefore appeals confidently to
the public for the liberal support of the PEACEMAKER in order
to increase its influence in promoting the cause of Universal
Peace by arbitration and reconciliation.
The º: object of effort now is the establishment of a per-
manent Court of Arbitration for the settlement of all inter-
national difficulties.
All communications to be addressed:
PEACEMAKER, 500 CHESTNUT ST, PHILADELPHIA, PA,

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- AND -
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