Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-06-20
A MASTERLY ADDRESS.
secretary Hay Pleads for Peace Re-
tween the Nations.


Buffalo, n. Y, June 1.-THE pres
ence of men of national prominc ace
and the sports in the stadium at .ract-
ed thousands to the Pan-American
exposition yesterday.
Secretary of State Hay was the
guest of honor at a dinner given lac:
evening byt directors of the eXposi-
tion to the National Editorial associ.
alton. One thousand covers e-o
laid in the dining room in Statler'E
hotel. Secretary Hay spoke as fol-
lows:
Last night looked from my win
dow at this marvellous creation, and
to-day as l. have walked through the
courts and the palaces of this incom-
parable exposition, the words of the
prophet have been constantly IN my
mind, Your old men shall dream
dreams; your young men shall see
Visions This idea of the brother
hood of the nations of the western
world is not a growth of yesterday.
1t was heralded when the country
was young by Henry Clay; it was
cherished by Seward and Evarts, by
Douglas and by Blaine.
Twelve years ago we held the first
reunion of the American republics.
Much was said and done. destined to
be memorable in our history, opening
and blazing the way along the path
of peace and fraternal relations. We
have made steady progress; we have
grown day by day to a better UNDER
standing until now we are looking to
our coming conference in the City of
Mexico, in which we have the right
TO hope that with larger experiences
and profounder study of the great
problems before Us, results still more
important will be reached.
There have been statesmen and
soldiers who have cherished the fancy
in past years of vast American
army recruited from every country
between the Arctic and Antarctic seas
which shall bind us together in one
immense military power that might
overawe the older civilizations. But
this conception belongs to the past,
to an order of things that has gone
! hope, forever. How far more in
spring is the thought of the results
we see here now; how much more in
keeping with the better times in
whose light we live, and the still more
ward is the result we see to-day of
the armies of labor and intelligence
in every country of this new world,
all working with one mind and one
will. not to attain an unhappy pre-
eminence in the art of destruction.
but TO advance in liberal emulation
in the arts which tend to make men
happier and better, to make this long
harassCd and tormented earth
brighter andrm blessed abode.
God forbid that there should be
in all this the slightest hint of vain
glory, still less of menace to the rest
of the world. On the contrary. we
cannot but think that this friendly
challenge we send out to al peoples
convoking them also to join in this
hrotherly emulation in which the
prizes are after all merely the right
to further peaceful progress in good
work-will be to the benefit and
wide heaven. Every great achieve
ment in art, in science. in commerce,
communicates to the universal human
spirit a salutary shock which in ever
widening circles spreads to regions
the most remote and obscure; TO
break at last in lingering ripples on
the ultimate shores of space and
time. Out of a good source evil can
not flow; out of the light darkness
cannot be born. The benign infiu-
en.es tnat shall emanate from this
great festival of peace shall not be
bounded by oceans nor by conti-
nentS,'