The Cairo bulletin., 1904-10-04
SECRETARY HAY OFFERS
AID OF UNITED STATES
In Address Before Conference Last Night
do Standing Armies Lead to
Peace?-=Germany Fay0rs
the Plan.

! AID aMnin he caid we have eX-
perencod enough Of its evils in this
country to know that it should not be
wantoniy or unnecessarily entered up
on There is no discordant noe in
The utterancos of our most eminent
/ soldiers on this subject The most
famous uttorance of General Grant
The one which will linger longest in
/ the memories Of men--was the prayer
of his war-weary hear, Let us have
peace" Sherman reached the acme
OF his marvellous silt of epigram when
he said, WAR Is hell" And Abraham
Lincoln, after the four terrible years
| in which he had directed our vast
armies ana navies, uttered on the
threshold Of eternity the fervent and
touching aspiration that the mighty
seourge of war might speedily pass
away"
There has been no solution Of con.
tinuity in the sentiments of our presi-
dents on this subject up to this day.
Mckinley deplored with every impulse
OF his honest and Kindly heart the
advent of the war which he had hoped
mightna come in his day and gladly
| hailed the earliest moment for max
! ing peace; and President Roosevelt
| has the Same tireloss energy in the
work of concord that he displayed
when he sought peace and ensued ii
on the field Of battle. No presidents
in cur history have been so faithful
and so efficient as the last two in
| he cause OF arbitration and of every
peaceful settlement Of differences. /
mention them together because the!r
work has been harmonious ald con
sistent We hailed with joy the gen
| Crous initiative of the Russian EN-
! peror. and sem TO the conference nj
! The Hague the best men we had in
our civic and military life. When The
| Hague court lay apparently wrecked
at the beginning OF its voyage. threat
ened with death before il had fairly
1 begun to live, it was the American
government which gave il the breath
of life by inviting the Republic of
Mexico to share our ,0peal 20 its ju
risdiction: and the second case
brought before it was al the instance
of Mr.. Roosevelt, who declined in its
favor the high honor of arbtratinG
an affair of worldwide importance.
| beg you to believe. /. is not by
way of boasting that ! recall these
incidents TO your minds; il is rather
as a profession of faith in a cause
which the present administration has
deeply at hear that ! ask You TO re-
member in the deliberations upon
which you are entering. the course to
which the American government is
pledged and whichit has steadily pur-
sued for the last seven years. Ii Isl
true that in those years we have had
o hundred days of war-but they put
an end forever to bloodshed which
rad lasted a generation. We landed
a few platOOns Of marines on the 18th
mus last year: but that ac. closed
without shot a sanguinary success
sion Of trivial wars We marched a
little army to Peking; but it was
to save not only he beleaguered lega-
lions. but a great i-.periled civiliza-
tion. BY mingled gentleness and en-
ergy. to which most Of the world be-
yond our borders has done justice. we
have given 20 the Philippines. if not
peace. at ieas. nearer approach TO
it than they have had within the mem
CRY Of men.
II our example il worth anything to
the world. we have given it in the
vital matter Of disarmament. We have
brought away from the Far East So
001 soldiers whose work vas done. I
ana have sent them back to the fields
Of peaceful activity. We have re-
Irced our army 10 its minimum Of
10000 men. in fact. We may say we
have no army. but in place Of one q |
nucleus for drill and discipline. We
have three fOurths of one soldier FOR /
every thousand Of the population /
proportion which il adopted ~ other |
powers would al once eliminate wars
and rum0rs Of vars from the daily |
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