Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-10-04


OF the International Peace Congress
in Boston yesterday, Secretary OF
State, John Hay delivered the fol-
lowing address:
esteem II a great honor and
privilege TO be allowed to extend 10
you the welcome OF the government
and the people OF tho United States
Of America on this memorable and
suspicious occasion. No time could
be more fitting for this gathering Of
Z parliament Of peace than to-day,
when at the other end OF the world
the thunder OF a destructive and san
culinary war Is deafening the nations.
while here we are preparing 70 set
tie the question OF q vast tansfer OF
power by an appeal to reason and
orderly procedure, under the sanction
OF a law implicitly accepted by
eighty millions Of people. No place
could be more suitable than this
high.hearted city, which has been for
nearly three hundred years the
birthplace and the home Of every
idea OF progress and enlightenment
which has germinated in the western
world, To bid you welcome to the
home or vane. Of Winthrop. and Of
Adams, OF Claiming and Emerson,
Ia to give you the freedom OF no mean
city. To make you p~artakers OF a spi-
ritual Inheritance without which,
with all u opaienee, We should BE-
poor indeed. II Ii true that this
great commonwealth has sought,
with the sword. peace under liberty.
We confess that many wars have
left their traces In the pages Of Its
history and Its literature: art has
adorned thu public places Of this
stately town with the statues If IT.
heroic D hut the dominant note
Of I'll highest culture. lts most per.
sissent spirit. has been thar rights
eausnsss which eSalteth u nation,
that obedience 20 The inner light
which lends along TIM paths ~ peace
And the policy ~ the nation AT
large. which owes 10 much Of lis
civic spirit 10 the founders of New
England. has been III The main d 20.
iicy On peace. During the hundred
and twenty years Of our independent
cxistenae We have had but Three
wars with The outside world though
we have had a most griavous and
d%oiorous struggle with our " PEG.
pie, We have had. | think, a greater
relative immunity from war than any
Of our neighhors. All our greatest
men have been earnest advocates al
peace. The very men who founded
our liberties with the mailed hand
detested and abhorred war as the
most futile and ferocious OF human
follies. Franklin and jefferson re-
peatedly denounced 1.-THE n with
MI the energy Of his rhetoric. the
other with the lambent fire Of his
wit. But not our philosophers alone
-on fighting men have seen at Gloss
quarters how hideous liz the face Of
war Washington said. My firsl
wish Is to see this plague 10 mankind
0anished from the earth" aud agar
he said. We have experienced
enough Of It's evils In this country I,
know that ii should not he wantonl,
or unnecessarily entered upon.
There is no discordanf note in IN,
utgerances Of our most eminent sol
diers on this subject. The mos
famous utteranee of General Gran
the one which Will l!nger longcs
In the memories Of men~was m,
prayer OF the warsweary heart, lie
us have peace sherman roaches
the acme of his marvellous gift o
epigIam when he said. War is he'll
And Abraham ~lincoln. after the fouI
terrible years In which he had direct
q our vast armies and navles, utter
cd on the threshold of eternity IN,
forsent and touching aspiration tina
"the mighty soourge Of war Nigh
speedily pass away,
There has been no solution y cen
iinuity In the sentiments of our Pres
.de, t. IN this subject w 10 this tay