Arizona republican., 1904-01-22
Its Anniversary Observed
 Last Night
MADE A PEACE STANCE
The Principal Speaker nr. Bryan, Who Sees in the Trend of the Times a Substitution of Arbitrament for the Sword of Conflict.

New York, Jan. 21.-More than 400 members and guests of the Holland Society of New York tonight attended the annual dinner at the Waldorf-As- toria.
 The toasts included Peace" by wm. J. Bryan; Holland, our Ally in the Revolution" Rev. Geo. C. Lorimer: Friendly Relations of the Dutch with Other Nations" Sir Chen Tung Liang Cheng; Our Hero Ancestors" James M. Beck.
 President Roosevelt sent the follow ing letter:
 T wish I could be present at the din ner of the Holland society. Naturally l take particular interest in it; but it simply is not possible for me to make another engagement of any kind this winter.
 With hearty good wishes and ex- pressing my regret that I am not with you Fellow Dutchmen' of New York on this occasion"
 MT. Bryan said:
 Since my visit to the Netherlands. my thoughts have been dwelling much upon the important part that little na tiOn seems destined to take in the movement which has for its object the substitution of reason fer force in the settlement of differences betwen na- tions. It is fitting that the temple of peace should stand upon the ground that was the scene of an eight years conflict and I am glad that an Ameri- can citizen has so generously provided for its construction.
 We must not expect all armies to be disbanded at once or look for the immediate settlement of all questions by arbitration. The peace conference which, by invitation of the emperor Of Russia, cOnvenes at The Hague. the peace conference to which our own country has given such effective sup port, did not announce a new discov- cry; it simply gave expression to a desire that was felt, to a greater CT less extent among the more enlight ened nations. It revealed the fact that society is at last approaching the point where conscience will assert its supremacy over brute instinct, when bravery on the battlefield was regard ed as the highest form of virtue. There has been times when intellectual forces
  been all sufficient but now other char acteristics are beginning to be recOg nized as the dominant ones. We are finding that neither the perfectly de- veloped body nor the well trained mind fills the measure of the man or the nation.
 The evils which affiict the body polite, are not due to extraordinary developments of the national forces of the world, but to the fact that the moral sense has not always kept pace with industrial expansion. But there is an awakening at hand. In the United States, in England. in France, in Russia, everywhere there is an in- creasing group of those who are look ing up to higher ideals, who insist that a physical combat between men is as powerless as a fight between wild ami mals to determine the right or wrong of any proposition. They fear that even intellect, unless warmed and vitalized by a belief in the brother hood of man, may go far astray.
 Ut is not the plutocracy of wealth or the aristocracy of learning, but on the democracy of the heart that the hope of universal arbitration and per manent peace must rest. Today an in- creasing number of people throughout the world, standing on the heights, are learning that God is not in the iron clads or in the armies, but in the still small voice of justice that issues from at The Hague"