Jasper County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 80, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1914 — BRYAN IN PRAYER [ARTICLE]

BRYAN IN PRAYER

Hopes This Country Will Not Bo Forced to War With Mexico. Lincoln, Neb., January 4.—-In speaking today on a semi-religious subject, William Jennings Bryan, Secretary of State, stopepd in the middle of a discussion foreign to the Mexican situation and exclaimed: "The peace movement—God speed it in its passage around the world. I pray God that He may help me to make it unnecessary that this government shall go to war with Mexico. I do not want men to die before guns for their country; I want them to live for their country.” Other than this one declaration the Secretary of State did not touch on government affairs. Mr. Bryan leaves here tomorrow tor Topeka, Kan., where he speaks tomorrow night. Tuesday he will address the chamber of commerce of Lincoln on the subject “The New Era.”