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DOVE SlIRMOUNTS
THE HEAD OF MARS
international Peace Congress
Meets and Is Welcomed by
John Hay

Meets and Is Welcomed by
John Hay
BOSTON, Mass, Oct. s.-Secretary
of State John Hay, representing the
United States. spoke the word of well
come this afternoon to the delegates
Of the international peace congress.
who assembled here for the first form
al meeting OF the thirteenth annual
convention. President G. r. Hays, of
the Massa ehusetts senate, spoke the
greeting of the commonwealth of Mas
| saenusetts. and Mayor Patrick A Col
Inns that OF Boston. The meeting was
held in fremont temple. Just before
o'clock Edwin D. Mead, chairman OF
the committee of organization of the
peace congress. appeared on the stair
leading to the platform. eecorting Sec
rotary John Hay. The audience brake
into applause A chorus of women in
the choir gallery sang, and Mr.. Mead
said:
But the highest victory of a great pow
er Is that OF seif-reStraint and it viii be
; this ecumenical council if it taught us
all that material knowledge of each 9TH
er which should modify prejudices, re-
strain ascerbity of thought and express
sion and tend in some degree to hasten
that blessed time
when light shall spread and man be like
man
Through all the seasons of the golden
year.
Words Of the Secretary of State
Secretary Hay said in his address:
But fixed as our tradition is, clear as is
our purpose in the direction of peace, no
country is permanently immune to war
so long as the desire and the practice of
peace are not universal. To acknowledge
the existence of an evil is not to support
or approve it; but the facts must be faced.
Human history is one long desolate story
of bleodshed. All the arts unite in the
apparent conspiracy to give precedence to
the glory of arms.
We have all recently read that wonder
full sermon on war by Count Tolstoy. in
which spirit of marvellous lucidity and
fire, absolutely detached from geograph-
ical or political conditions SPEAKS the
Word as it has been given him TO speak
it, and as no other living man could have
done. AS you read. with an aching heart
his terrible arraignment of war, feeling
that as man you are partly responsible
for all human atrocities, you wait with
impatience for the remedy he shall pro-
pose. and you find it is-religion. Yes.
l.
nobody would do wrong-nothing is plain
er. 1t is a counsel of perfection, satisfac-
tory to prophets and saints. to be reach
ed in Gods good time. But you are here
to consult together to see whether the
generation now alive may not do some
thing 10 hasten the coming of the accept
able day, the appearance on earth of the
beatific vision. If we cannot at once
make peace and good will the universal
rule and practice of nations, what can we
do to approximate this condition? What
m taxa which
lead US at least A little distance toward
the wished-for goal?
have not come to advise you; l have
no such ambitious pretensions. l do not
even aspire to take part in your deiib-
erationS But l am authorized to ASSURE
YOU that the American government ex-
tends to you a cordial and sympathetic
welcome, and shares to the utmost the
spirit and purpose in which you have met
The president, so long as he remains in
power. has no thought of departing from
the traditions bequeathed us by the great
soldiers and statesmen of our early his
tory. which have been strictly followed
during the last seven years. We shall
continue to advocate and to carry into
effect, as far as practicable. the princi-
pie of the arbitration of such questions
as may not be settled through diplomatic
negotiations
Gnhappfy we cannot foresee in the i'm
mediate future the cessa ton. of wars
labor constantly for the mitigation of the
horrors of war. especially to do what we
can to lessen the Sufferings of those who
have no part in the struggle. This has
been one of the most warmly cherished
wishes of the last two administrations.
The task you have set yourselves, the
purpose to which you are devoted. have
won the praise of earth and the blessing
of heaven since the morning of time. The
noblest of all the beafitudes is the con-
secration promised the peacemalers- Even
II in our time we may not win the wreath
of olive: even if We may net hear the
golden clamor of the trumpets celebrat-
ing the reign of universal and enduring
peace. it IS something to have desired 1t.
to have worked for it in the measure of
our forces And if you now reap no Wis
IDLE guerdon of your 1abors the peace OF
God that passes understanding VIII be
your all-sufficient rewards
Collins Offers a Paraphrase
Mayor Collins said that no word of
his was necessary. to welcome peace
delegates TO Boston. for Boston was the
home of peace. He said if he were to
paraphrase text to suit the occasion,
it would be this:
Blessed are the peacemakers, for
they shall see God; damned be the
warmakers, for they shall see the
devil
Right Rev. John Percival, D. D.,
bishop of Hereford, was the first to
make response. He said that the Eu-
ropean nations looked to the United
States to lead in the movement for
peace; that the presence of Senator
Hay in itself gave a new character to
the gathering. The bishop expressed
the opinion that change was coming
in peace affairs of the world. He
thought that the worlds thanks were
due to the emperor of Russia for his
reseript, by which he had brought the
questions of peace and disarmament
within the range of politics or prac-
teal discussion at any rate.
Mr.. Lund. of the Norwegian parlia-
ment, presented the greetings of his
country. The meeting was closed by
all present Joining in a hymn written
especially for the occasion. The next
session will be held tomorrow morning.
Germany Had 1t in Mind
LONDON, Oct. Sir Thomas Bar
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