The Washington times., 1904-10-03
HAY ADDRESSES
PEACE CONGRESS
Says Time Tor the Gather
ing Is Fitting.
PLACE IS ALSO APPROPRIATE
Secretary Of State Lauds Many Great
Men Who Have Been Champions
of a Policy Of Peace.

BOSTON Oct S.-To secure interna-
tional Justice. the abolition of wars. and
The ConseCra sion or the nations of the
earth 10 peace Is the purpose of the
Thirteenth International Peace Congress
which was called to order in fremont
Temple by Edwin ID. Mead, chairman of
the executive committee, at O'Clock
his afternoon.
The decorat lions Of the auditorium are
in harmony with the purpose Of the con-
EreSS. on the organ front is the word
Peace In letters of gold ON "a green
groundwork. surrounded by laurel
wreath and supported by a glory of
white hags. The choir and gallery are
dressed in festoors OF laurel amid which
I'm letters OF white are the names of
Burritr. Sumner. Claiming, Kant, Gro
uus. Penn. Worcester, Golden, Ladd,
Bailou. Block. and Richards, all heroes
ar peace ia the nineteenth century.
DELEGATES from nine foreign countries
and nearly. every State in the Union
We're present, the total of some six nun
cred makins one Of the most distinguish
ed assemblages ever gathered in Boston.
Address OF Secretary Hay.
The feature of today's session was
the address of Secretary Of State John
HAY. who welcomed the delegates on be
half Of the United States He said.
esteem IL q great honor and priv
1legc 10 be allowed TO extend TO YOU
the welcome of tue Government and the
people of the United States of Amer
lea on this memorable and suspicious
occasion.
No time could be more fitting for this
gathering ca a parliament Of peace than
today. when at the other end of the
world the thunder Of a destructive and
Sanguinary war is deafening the ma
lions, while here we are preparing to
settle the question Of a vast transfer
OF power by an appeal to reason and
orderly procedure, under the sanction
o. law implicitly accepted by eighty
millions of people.
Intellectual Hub.
No place could be more suitable than
THIS hign-hearted city, which has been
Tor nearly three hundred years the
birthplace and the home of every idea
OF progress and enlightenment which
has terminated in the Western world.
To bid you welcome TO the home OF
Nane, of Winthrop. and OF Adams. Of
Claiming and Emerson. is 10 give YOU
the freedom OF no mean city 10 make
you partakers of spiritual inner
itance without which, with all our opu-
lence We should be poor indeed.
III IS true that this great Common
wealth 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 the public places Of
this stately town with the statues of
ITS heroic sons. But the dominant note
or us highest culture, its most persist
enl spirit, has been that Righteousness
which eEaiteth nation, that obedience
10 the inner light which leads along.
the paths OF peace.
Policy Of Peace.
And the policy OF the nation an LARGE
winch owes so much of its civic spirfr
10 the founders of New England has
ueen IN the msiu "a policy of peace
During the hundred and twenty wears
ar our independent existence we have
had but three wars with the outside
world. though we have had most
grleVous and doIOrous struggle with or.r
own people.
We have had ] think, "a greater raI,-
tive immunity from war than any ~
our ueiELD0rs. Ali our ere1rasr r7-r-
nave been earnest advocates OF raare
IHr very men VINO founded our hin
etttes with tle mailed hand deresraG
rii4 aDalITeu war as the most frtiIF
ana leroclOGs of human f8IIfas F~r.ar.l-
lln and jefferson repeatedly denoTrra-
1.-THE one with all the energy gf I'D
rhetoric. The other with The lambert f-rs
OF his wit