Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-17

things on earth than war,
feace the tine-worn method OF set
Making. thing International and even
Interstate disputes. 1t marks
| an epoch Of progress that two great hostile
armies In Manchuria, ready and anxious
! for battle. could be made to sheathe their
swords and dispense. Mr.. Roosevelt alone
| believed that peace was possible: the world
was critical and cynical. He achieved the
| impossible, and the honor and glory of the
achievement are his.
It Is pertinent to the peace concluded at
Portsmouth to set before the readers OF
| The Star very interesting polemic be-
| tween such celebrities as M. Ferdinand
| Brunetiere. NJ. Frederic Passy and Senator
| Baron d. Estourne1les de Constant. familiar
| names on both sides Of the Atlantic.
| Senator d'Estournelles has recently WIS.,
| tied America In the interest and propa-
ganda Of the society founded by him, the
| Committee for Defense Of National Inter
ests and International Cancellation.
He recently addressed the program of his
! society to M. Brunetiere. the editor of the
Revue des Deux Mondes. with this letter:
my Dear Director-The program here
| with will cut short, we hope, the fantasies
| of critics who declare that in ameliorating
| the exterior relations OF France and en-
| riching her we impoyerish her! wish 10
ScUu SUu PRESUMABLY eiiS pi oSAoAi, oShAiAiS
! you to publish or recommend it to the many
readers of the Revue des Deux Mondes.
We will be particularly obliged"
*
The writer has received a copy Of the
program. which declares that Its object
| Is to develop national pros
French ner,tv NV means of good In
Program. ternational relations and
that its mode of action will
| be: Education of public opinion; develop
| ment of the principle Of arbitrament; recti-
| fication of false news, an international re-
view publications, lectures. congress. ex-
positions, study Of foreign languages,
| travel, exchange of international visits be-
tween parliaments, merchants. students.
scientific associa lions, artists workmen,
| professionals; scientific missions: exchange
| Of students professors, workmen, artists,
specialists: schools of exposition; employ
| ment of competent young men IN foreign
countries, etc.
are NM Berthelot, senator member of the
Academy; Leon Bourgeois, deputy member
| OF the court at Hague. The councii 10
composed in part Of NM. Levasseur OF the
| Institute; Adolphe Carnot of the Institute;
Baron de CourceI Of the Institute; George s
| Coulon, vice president Of the council OF
| state; Jules Claretie of the Academy Abbe
Lemire. deputy: J. H. Poincare OF 1n e,, IN
|
| Admiral Reveillere, Sully-Prudhomme OF
| the Academy: Charles Richet OF the Acad-
| envy of Medicine, Pastor Charles wagner.
| A. Weiss, professor at law, Faculty OF
| Paris. etc.
| For the United States: Mr.. Andrew Car
| negie; Mr.. Seth Low, New York; President
| Nicholas NJ. Butler. Columbia University.
| and representatives OF other countries
! NJ Brunetiere is critic and professor by
profession and member Of the Academy.
| He is loyalist and dogmatic disciplin-
| arian, fond Of discussion and dialectic.
| NJ Passy is political economist and pro-
| fessor liberal republican, one Of the foun-
| ders@of the International peace league, and
| former deputy. In the chamber OF depu-
| ties he submitted a resolution proposing
| that the French government take the tn1ti-
| alive of a general disarmament and have
recourse to international arbitration.
| Senator Baron d. Estourneles Is better
! known to the American public than the
| foregoing by reason of his visit to America
| and his connection with his society. He
| represented France at the congress OF The
Hague in 1889 with NJ. Leon Bourgeois.
| NJ Brunetiere commences his article with
! the following mention Of the senator: THE
readers of the Revue know
| Severe assuredly Senator Baron d.
| Criticism. Estournelles de Constant.
formerly deputy. minister
| plenipotentiary member OF The Hague
| court of arbitration, and. besides. the most
| gallant man in society, but one Of the least
| just in spirit whom l have ever met. In
| deed, / know but one other who Is less just.
! NJ. Louis Havet of the Academy of Inscrip-
| lions, or my other confrere of the Acad-
| envy of Moral Sciences. the venerable NJ.
| Frederic Passy. Add to these Prof. Charles
| Richet with the Englishrnan, Sir Thomas
Barclay, and they form these five what we
| may term the etat-mator of pacifism.
| "Pacifism is a barbarism which in two
words stands for love of peace. or. more
| frankly, fear of war. In the eyes of paci-
| 1stes, war-all kinds of war, except interior
| war, war of classes. civil war. for the hor-
| rors of which they are filled with inexplica-
| bic indulgence-is only a form of savagery,
| or, as we may say, deplorable survival of
Inc remote past of our race. something
| analogous to anthrophagy, for example.
| Such, at least, is their opinion, and think
| it anthropologically false; but before show
| ing the falsity l would like to know, not
| by what right the pacifistes profess it-since
without doubt one has always the right OF
nonsense-but by what right they consider
| those who do not profess with them as
| pure imbeciles or simple rascals?"
The writer regrets that space will not per-
| nit him to follow the brilliant dialectian in
| his dissection. but we may only mention
| his conclusion:
at is a bad work" he adds, (which our
pacifistes accomplish with the best inten-
| lions in the world, We do not doubt, but
| in such case with a regrettable and a re-
| doubtable conscience. For that which sig
nifies to the country and to humanity is,
| that, holding many things higher than life,
| we may prefer them to peace. Peace is
: good, but other things also are good"
| Now comes the venerable M. Passy, who
writes NJ. Brunetere as follows: Sir
| learn. little late q am. al
| M. Passy's most. no longer of this world.
Reply. that you have done me the un-
| expected honor, to and
| some Of my friends. to give us your atten-
ton in nearly twenty pages of the impor-
| tant Revue you control. . We are
wrong, perhaps. to complain. 1t Is not the
| privilege of every one to awaken publicly,
| to his detriment or profit the attention of
| such a man as NJ. Brunetiere, member Of
| the Academy of France and director of the
| Revue des Deux Mondes. When believe
| in the good OF cause we fear hostility less
| than indifference.
ut is, you declare, the reading of a cir
| cular of the committee of defense Of ma
| tional interests and international concilia-