Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-12
SCHtEY ON PEACE"
Noted Admiral Talks at Tome Insti-
tute Commencement

PORT DEPOSIT, Md, June 12.-The COM
mencement Of the Jacob Tome Institute was
held Monday in the assembly hall of the
institute. Admiral Schley was the orator,
and said. in part:
lone subject, however, l will venture to
speak about as one whose life profession
has been the profession Of arms. That pro-
fesson is one of the oldest in history.
honorable and useful alike to the state.
AS a member of that profession l could not
be expected to have much sympathy with
those who misrepresent the value OF Its
work, or who decry the usefulness of Its
duties. In these days we hear 30 much OF
peace congresses and the convention at
The Hague, and much Is hoped for from
those assembled there.
In behalf of those of my cloth, l would
say that 1t has been my privilege to meet
and know some of the great soldiers and
sailors of my time in most of the coun-
tries of the world 1t Is only just to them
and universally humane They were in no
sense fond of war, because the study of
their life has better equipped them to wage
it, but when brought face to face with the
fact that their nation was unable to find
common ground upon which to stand in ad
justing differences with another they were
ready to step into the breach with all that
might mean Of sacrifice for home and coun-
try.
mo one appreciates more than 1 do the
motives Of peace societies or the credit
due them for the good they would do, but
l can assure you that the day Is distant
when the lion and the lamb can lie down
together and when they get up the lamb
can be certain that he is not in the north
west corner of the lion. 1t is hardly too
much to say that the of thousand
years of peace Is almost too far off to hope
that any one OF us here present may ever
| hope to see its beginning, but in the mean
| time might 1t not be well that we should
constitute ourselves living force for the
| protection of law and order against those
| other forces within the state which are de-
structive to its peace and quiet.
Il welcome such conferences as that at
| The Hague All men who look upon war
| as a calamity will rejoice to know that
| there Is a spirit of willingness prevalent
| among nations to limit the scope of war,
| or to eliminate from it's code some of the
causes which now lead to it and to substi-
| tute for these the method of arbitration.
| If no other good results from such confer
| ences than to strike from its code a few of
| the causes which now lead to that mis-
| fortune, the effect will be to lessen Its pos
| sbilities and to make resort to 1t more and
| more rare.
II know Of no nation today, however
under the present disposition of human ma
| ture, which can afford to discard her de-
| fenses while there Is much class rest
| lessness under restraint class Impotence
| of authority see In every country
| around U.S. No, no, my friends, 1t is a, far
| cry to the day when liberty will be able to
| hold footing without the protection of arms
| them in her defense
II am among those who believe that when
| the kingdoms of this world shall become
| vertically the kingdoms of Christ on earth,
| then. and only then, Will war disappear
and the rumors of war cease among men,"