Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-04-18

with the cross of the Legion of Honor of France in appreciation of his work for peace and his gift of the palace at The Hague The decoration was be- slowed by the president of France through Baron d'Estournelles de Con- stant amid great applause and cheer ing.
 De Constant tied around the neck of Andrew Carnegie the bright scarlet silk ribbon from which depended the grand cross of the Legion of Honor, at the same time declaring that Mir. Carne- gie was now "a citizen of the world"
 In introducing Ambassador James Bryce of Great Britain Mir. Carnegie declared: "He is a man before whom it is useless for us to try to hide our faults or to expose our many virtues. He knows them all But we also know much of him. and we are glad to well come him tonight"
 Mir. Bryce was not able to proceed for some moments because of the ap- plause.
 Mir. Bryce said:
 This is the fourth day on which able speakers, including some of the most eminent men from both sides of the ocean. have been demonstrating the folly and wickedness of war and the blessedness of peace. What is there left for us who speak now to add to what has been so we'll said on that topic? The weight of authority is great. Your president, who. like my sovereign. King Edward, has shown that he is true lover of peace has sent you message of cordial sympa- thy. The weight of argument has been great Members of the congress have abundantly shown to one another sat isfaction that war is not only irration- al, immoral. unphilosophical and un- Christian. but is also unprofitable. Be sides being bad in other ways it is also bad business. If there was time to go through the history of the last two centuries it would be easy to show that whatever may be said for war in the abstract nearly every war within that period has done far more harm than good.
 But what we have now in this con gress got to do is to consider how we can best work for preventing wars in the future.
 "Every one admits the enormous diff ficulty of bringing about general Him. itation of armaments. It maynot be pos sible to secure that limitation at once, but it is an object of such supreme i'm portance. especially to the countries which find the burden of taxation a grievous one, that it ought to be seri- ously discussed and ought to he kept before the minds of all the great peo- ples as a problem which has got to be solved sooner or later To pass it by does not make 1t easier. for while the difficulties do not diminish the arma- ments go on increasing. We must hope that an earnest effort will be made at The Hague conference to consider this question and to bring it at least one stage nearer to solution.
 "The second practical step that may be taken is to make general arbitra- ton treaties and to enlarge their scope by including as many causes of inter national difference as can possibly ''" referred to arbitration or where the matter is not a strictly legal one can l be made the subject of mediation and conciliation.
 Lastly. though it is true that such a congress as this. meeting in time of ' peace. cannot be relied upon to avert some fresh outbreak of passion. it Is none the less true that it may do some thing to form opinion fin the masses of a nation and to bring home to every citizen the sense of his own responsi- bility for the removal of this oldest evil of humanity. The older an evil Is and the more ingrained il Is the longer it must take to remove. The spirit of Christianity Is in the modern world more bent on dealing with the actua' evils that afiiict the world than perhaps it ever was before. and every gathering such as this does something to help its beneficent action and to summon the masses of the people 10 listen to its voice.
 Professor Kuno Francke of Harvard university spoke for the university and in a measure for Germany.
 Following Professor Francke. William Jennings Bryan wss introduced He was received with much applause. When in the early part of his address he offered as c substitute for the his toric words Liberty or death the cry of Liberty and life he sounded a chord that induced among his audience prolonged applause. This sentiment was the nucleus of his address The cost Of human fife Mir. Bryan wanted counted and estimated
 Let us measure the value of those that war has not taken. and then we can obtain soule estimate of the value of those Ewes that gre gone
 War. Mir Bryan believed. was en- tirely unnecessary Has Cod he asked go made us that ue shall de generate if we do not have a blood let ting onrs Iu avhile-
 And he ansxsref the question. T prefer to believe that wsr is sn evil