Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-21
END OF PEACE CONFERENCE
SECRETARY ROOT CONGRATU-
LATES DELEGATES ON WORK.
President Anderson and Ambassador
Creel Speak Of the Splendid
Results Achieved

Felicitous speeches by Secretary Root
President Luis Anderson and Ambas-
sador Creel of Mexico marked the close
yesterday afternoon of the Central Ameri-
can peace conference, which has been in
session here for over a month. and has
agreed to and signed eight distinct con-
ventions. President Anderson and AM
bassador Creel preceded Secretary Root in
the speechmaking. in which they referred
to the work of the conference and the
splendid results achieved. Replying to
these remarks Secretary Root spoke as fol-
lows:
Secretary Roots Congratulations.
II beg. gentlemen, to accept my hearty
and sincere congratulations. The people
of Central America, withdrawn to Il great
distance from the scene of your labors
may not know, but | wish that my voice
might reach each one of them to tell
them that during the month that has
passed their loyal representatives have
been doing for them in sincerity and
in the d discharge of patriotic duty serv-
ice which stands upon the highest level of
the achievement OF the most advanced
modern civilization. You have each one
of you been faithful to the protection of
the interests Of your several countries;
patience and a willingness to meet with
open mind the opinions and wishes of
your fellow countryman; you have pur-
sued the true method by which law,
order. peace and Justice are substituted
for the unrestraned dominion of the
strong over the weak. and you have
cached conclusions which l believe are
wise and are well adapted to advance the
progress of each and all of the Central
American republics toward that much to
he. lion the future of
one great strong and happy Central
American republic.
MAY the poor huSbandman who cult
Yates the fields of your five republics,
may the miner who is wearing out his
weary life in the hard labors of your
mines. may the mothers who are caring
for the infant children that are to make
the peoples of Central America in the
future, may the millions whose prosperity
and happiness you have sought to ad-
vance here may the unborn generations
of the future in your beloved countries
have reason to look back to this day with
blessings upon the self-devotion and the
self-restraint with which you have en-
daavored to serve their interests and to
secure their prosperity and peace. With
this hope the entire body of my country
mon viii join; and. with the expression
of this hope. / declare the peace con-
ference of the republics of Central Amer
lea, convened in the city of Washington
in this year. 1897, to be now adjourned. y
President Anderson's Address.
President Anderson, in his speech, made
the following significant remarks, deliv-
cred in Spanish:
1T cannot be said now as it was said
before, that all our treaties had been
written in water, as we intend to show
the world and particularly the govern
ment o. the United States of America and
the united Mexico states, that our pur-
pose is steadfast. that our good faith has
been pledged. and that our names have
been written on documents which are the
foundation of a new era of peace. hap
piness and plenty of the Central American
republics.
''AU differences. all obstacles all bar
rers to our happiness and prosperity have
been wiped out and the new Central
American brotherhood established upon a
sound foundation"
Ambassador Creel declared that the
peace conference marked in the world
history two events of great Importance.
AS far as the republics of Central Amer
lea were concerned it was the happy be-
ginning of new era, and as far as the