Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-10-12
PEACE is FAR OFF.
l-r4. n htryIFT
Delegates of Boston Confer.
ence In New York.
MAYOR MCCLELLAN WELCOMES THEM
Tavors Peace, but Calls Attention to
Our Admiration For Arts of War
as ExcmpIifed by the
Japanese.

NEW YORK, Oct. ia reception
TO the fifty delegates who have been
attending the thirteenth international
peace congress in Boston and who have
arrived here was rendered at the Hotel
Astor by the New York board of trade.
Mayor Mcclellan was present at the
reception and welcomed the delegates
to the city.
Oscar Stratus presided at the recep-
ton and introduced Mayor Mcclellan,
who said:
II trust that it is unnecessary for me
to assure you that l deeply appreciate
meeting you. Because of the great
cause you represent l am highly hon
ored that l should be permitted as
mayor TO welcome you to New York.
Your movement has existed only for a
comparatively short time. At its in
ception there was a disposition in GER
tain quarters to decry and even to
sheer at it. A few years have come
and gone, and there is not a man alive
who does not admire your activity and
respect your motives even if he does
not agree with you.
1--WE are in the habit of priding our
selves upon our advanced civilization.
We glory in the fact that we are 50
much better than our forefathers, yet
ut the dawn of the new century we
stand breathless with admiration for
the advance in civilization made by an
oriental power, not so much because
she has progressed in the arts, in let
tiers and in the humanities, but be-
cause she is killing her tens of thou
sands of human beings in accordance
with the most modern. the most ap-
proved and the most scientific methods.
II am not an idealist. l take it, Mr..
| Chairman. that you are not. l realize
that the impossible cannot be accom-
plished. 1t may be that universal peace
| will never come except with the mil
lennium; it may be that universal
peace is only a dream and an ideal, but
| even so it is an ideal that all nations
| should strive for; it is an ideal that
should influence all men. There are
! some things l grant that arbitration
can never accomplish. Arbitration
cOiild never have produced a Cromwell
or Il Napoleon or a Washington. Arbi-
| tration Gould never have satisfied the
aspirations of a Hungary. Arbitration
could never have freed the thirteen col
onies or saved Our glorious Union
There are some truths as vital and sc
satcred that they must be upheld ever
with the lives of martyrs. There arc
some wrongs so foul that they can
Only be blotted out with the blood of
hefoes.
al came here to sing the praises OF
peace. and the old Adam in me has
cried out for war-but do not misrn-
derstand me. / believe that arbitra'
ton can remove most of the prelimi
nary causes of war. and l believe will
all the earnestness hat is within ms
that nations should exhaust every hon
orable effort and use every honorable
means to adjust til !erences be
fore appealing to the red arbitra
ment Of the sword.
81 welcome you to New York on be
.half OF 100000 of self respecting, in
telligent, peace loving and free Amer
leans. l bid You godspeed upon thu
work you have undertaken, and hope
for you Gods help in the cause yot
have at heart"