Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 80, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1915 — “THE HELL OF WAR” [ARTICLE]

“THE HELL OF WAR”

Is Topic of Barnhart’s Address— Plea for Disarmament Made Washington, January 10.— Representative Heriry A. Barnhart, of Indiana, addressed a large mass.meeting at the Y. M. C. A. this afternoon on “The HeTl of War.” He made a strenuous plea for disarmament, saying in part: “We may claim justification for so-called military preparedness on the grounds of self-defense, but others look upon it as threatening offense, and just as long as the peoples of the earth arm and drill and cheer preparation for war, so long will peac% and safety and prosperity and happiness of mankind be jeopardized by the hazard of impulsive destruction of the shot and and hell of war.”