The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-01-22
SPEAK AT ANNUAL DINNER OF
 HOLLAND SOCIETY.
Chinese Minister Loudly chesred-Dis- ousses ssrhe Friendly Relations of the Dutch win Other Nations-Bryan Dlsooursss on "reaee"-Ths Looking Up to a Higher Ideal.

| Bryan, Dr. George c. Lorimer, Sir Chen
 tung Lian Cheng. and James M. Beck also spoke.
 President Theodore M. Banta propos-
 ed a toast to the president. which was drunk standing.
 John W. Vrooman read the following letter from President Roosevelt, who is one of he oldest members of the socie- ty:
 .I wish I could be present at the din- ner of the Holland society. Naturally l take a 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 am not with you fellow Dutchmen' of New York on this occasion, I am,
 Faithfully yours
 Theodore Roosevelt" 1 When Sir Chentung Lian Cheng rose to respond to the toast "The Friendly Relations of the Dutch With Other Nations" he was loudly cheered. He said in part:
 T have always though the respect for ancestors is a peculiar trait of Chinese character. But who would expect such a sentiment to prevail to any extent in country like America. This is land for self-made men, who as a rule, re- gard ancestry as a matter of secondary consideration. Still less would one ex- pect to find in bustling and hustling New York a body of men who have time enough to give a passing thought to of the Dutch in the cause of political freedom and religious toleration, in commerce, in science and in art, have been various and splendid. Indeed, any nation might be proud of such long succession of great soldiers, statesmen, natural philosophers and painters as the Dutch have given the world. "It is an encouraging sign of the times that the importance of commerce to the life and growth of the nation is being more and more appreciated every day. Tn So far as commerce stimulates the praoduction of wealth 1t makes for general peace and discountenance of war.
 "Fortunately for the present day and generation, the world has advanced so far in enlightenment and civilization as to- have other means of settling inter- national disputes than a resort to arms. At the same time the nations of l the earth have been drawn closer to- gether. War at the present day not only involves the parties strictly con- cerned but also affects the interests of other nations. The extension of com merce has brought about ali this. The czar of Russia only gave concrete ex- pression to what all mankind felt some years ago when he issued a general call for a peace congress. Consequently he lmet with ready response from every government This is long step to- wards the ultimate abolition of war. Now that there is a high court of jus tice at The Hague which offers to ev- cry nation a way out of every difficulty with another, without sacrifice of dig nity or honor, it is to be hoped that beween nations will be only a painful memory of the barbarous past" MT. Bryan spoke on Peace" He said:
 Since my visit to the Netherlands my thoughts have been dwelling much upon the important part that that lit- tie nation seems destined to take in the movement that has for it's object the substitution of reason for force in the settlement of differences between na- tions.
 ic Ia nf Peace should stand upon the ground
 that was the scene of an eighty-years' l conflict, and I am glad that an Ameri- can citizen has so generously provided l for it's construction. We must not ex- pect 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, convened at The Hague-tile peace conference to which our own country has given such effec- | tive support-did not announce a new discovery; it simply gave expression to | a desire that was felt, to a greater or | less extent, among the more enlighten-
 ed of every nation, It revealed tue actf | that. society is at last approaching the | punt WACiC SOhoSAClACC WILL rto5ClI ltS supremacy over the brute instinct There have been times when bravery upon the battlefield was considered the | highest form of virtue, and there have been times when intellectual force and l independence of thought have been considered all sufficient; but now heart characteristics are beginning to be rec l ognized as the dominant ones. We are
 finding that neither the perfectly de- | veloped body nor the splendidly trained
 mind fills the measure of the man or of l the nation.
 .'The evils which afflict the body poli- 1 tic are not due to the extraordinary de- velopment of the material resources of the world, but to the fact that the mor- al sense has not always kept pace with industrial expansion. But there is an awakening at hand. In the United l States, in England, in France. in Rus- sia, everywhere, there is an increasing
 group of those who are looking up to a higher ideal, who insist that a physical combat between men is as powerless as a fight between wild animals to de- termine the right or wrong of any prop osition. They fear that even intellect, unless warmed and vitalized by a be-