Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-10-12
PEACE IS FAR OFF.
Delegates of Boston Confer
 ence Tn New York.
MAYOR MCCLELLAN WELCOMES THEM
FavOrs Peace, but Calls Attention to Our Admiration For Arts of War as ExempIiRed by the
 JakNlnese

NEW YORK, Oct. 12.-A reception to the fifty delegates who have been attending the thirteenth international peace congeess 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 Straus presided at the recep- ton and introduced Mayor Mcclellan, E who said:
 3'I trust that it is unnecessary for me to assure you that I deeply appreciate meeting you. Because of the great cause you represent I am highly hon. ored that I should be permitted as mayor to welcome you to New York. Your movement has existee only for a comparatively short time. At it's in- ception there was disposition in cer- tain quarters to decry and even to sheer at it. A few years have come and gone. and there is not 8 man alive who does not admire your activity and respect your motives even if he does not agree with you.
 'We are in the habit of birding our selves upon our advanced civilization. We glory in the fact that we are so much better than our forefathers, yet at the dawn of the new century we stand breathIess with admiration for the advance in civilization made by an oriental power, not so much because she has progressed in the arts, in let ters 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. I take it, MT. Chairman, that you are not I realize that the impossible cannot be accom- plished. It may be that universal peace will never come except with the mill lennium; it may be that universal peace is only 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 I grant that arbitration can never accomplish. Arbitration could never have produced Cromwell or a Napoleon or Washington. Arbi- tration could never have satisfied the aspirations of Hungary Arbitration could never have freed the thirteen col onies or saved our glorious Union. There are some truths as vital and so sacred that they must be upheld even, with the lives of martyrs. There are some wrongs so foul that they can only be plotted out with the blood of heroes.
 T came here to sing the praises of peace, and the old Adam in me has cried out for war-but do not misun- derstand me. I believe that arbitra- ton can remove most of the prelimi- nary causes of war. and believe with all the earnestness that is within me that nations should exhaust every hon. orable effort and use every honorable means to adjust their differences be- fore appealing to the last red arbitra ment of the sword.
 T welcome you to New York on be- half of 100000 of self respecting, in telligent, peace loving and free Amer. jeans. I bid you godspeed upon the work you have undertaken, and hope for you Gods help in the cause you have at hear" "v