Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1904-01-28
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UNIVERSAL PEACE.
World Not Yet Ready for
Disarmament.


well-kuOwn speakers at the nine
teenth annual dinner of the Hol-
land Society of New York, given
at the Waldorf. Astoria tonight.
William Jennings Bryan talked
of universal love and harmon. 1.-THE
Chinese Minister eulogized the
Car of Russia for inaugur,ting
the great movement for interna-
tional peace, and other orators
proclaimed against further slaugh-
ter by warning nations.
President Roosevelt, a member
of the society, sent a letter express
sive of his regret that he could not
be with his fellow Dutchmen."
Mr.. Bryan was the chief figure
at the principal table, and Mrs.
Bryan, with a group Of friends, Oc-
cupied the large box. Mr.. Bryan
said, in part:
Since my visit to the Neither
lands my thoughts have been
dwelling much upon the important
part that that little nation
seems destined to take in the
movement that has for its object
the substitution of reason for
force in the settlement of differ
ences between nations.
1t is fitting that the temple of
peace should stand upon ground
that was the scene of an
eighty-year conflict, and l am
glad that an Am erican citizen has
so generously provided for its con.
structiOu.
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 invi-
tation of the Emperor of Russia
convened at the Hague-the peace
conference to which our own count
try has given such effective supper.
did not announce a new discOv-
cry; it simply gave expression ia
a desire that was felt to a greater
or less extent, among the more
enlightened of every nation. 1t
revealed the fact that society is at
last approaching the point where
conscience will assert its suprem.
acy over the brute instinct.
There have been times when
bravery on the battle field was re.
garded as the highest form of vir.
tue, and there have been times
when intellectual force and indie.
pendence of thought have been
held all sufficient; but now such
characteristics are beginning to
be recognized as not the domi-
nant ones. We are finding that
neither the perfectly developed
body nor the splendidly trained
mind fills the measure of the mar
or the nation.
The evils which afflict the body
polite are not due to the eXtraOr-
binary development of the mate
rial sources of the world, but tC
the fact that the moral sense
has not always kept pace with in
dustrial expansion, but there is al
awakening at hand. In the Unit
ed States, in England, in France,
in Russia, everywhere, there is an
increasing group of those who are
looking up to a higher ideali who
insist that a physical combat be-
tween men is as powerIess as &
fight between wild animals to de,
termine the right or wrong of any
proposition. They fear that even
intellect, unless warned and vital,
lied by belief in the brotherhood
of man, may go far astray.
It is not the plutoeracy of wealth
or on the aristocracy Of learning
but on the democracy of the hear
that the hope of universal arbitra
ton aud permanent peace 4mus
rest. To-day an increasing mum
Der Of the people turnout thu