Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-22
DINNER BY PEACE CONFEREES
NUMBER OF PUBLIC MEN AS
SPECIAL GUESTS,
Mr.. Luis Anderson, President Of
Conference, Expresses Gratitude
to United States and Mexico.

| to United States and Mexico.
| dinner at the New Willard Hotel last
| night at which the delegates to the Cen
! trail American peace conference were the
| hosts and a number of prominent public
men the guests was the concluding social
feature of the conference, the business
sessions of which ended Friday.
| The principal address was made by Mr..
Luis Anderson, president of the con-
| ference, who expressed the gratitude of
the Central American republics to the
| United States and to Mexico for making
| the conference a possibility.
| His address was IS follows:
Five nations in the center of America,
five millions of people struggling for
| their lives in the midst of horrible storms,
in sea of despair; wars and revolutions
arising like gigantic waves, weakening
their strength and threatening to annihi-
late them and end their existence for ever
| and ever. The shipwrecked ones were
| tired to death after fighting constantly
for near a century in hopeless battle
against terrible odds, and when almost
| ready to fall down exhausted rom the
| disordered elements a generous voice was
heard calling from a port of safety, to
directed the bows of their nearly lost
vessels. That voice came from the gall
liant lifesavers, Theodore Roosevelt and
Porfirio Diaz
Our heartfelt thanks to them.
Obey the Peace Summons.
when some of our sister republics. as
If under the spell of maledictions, were
destroying themselves in Grid intestinal
wars the genius of civilization, through
the executive chiefs of the United States
of America and Mexico. said Peace; have
peace! and all the republics came at once
to Washington to forget past troubles and
old wounds and to sign and sea. a treaty
which should guarantee for all time to
come the peace so necessary to develop
| their marvellous natural resources, for
/ their own good, for the sake of their
| honor and for the well-being of humanity.
This generous action, by which the
Presidents have truly interpreted, am
| sure, the sentiments of their people,
marks for the world the true solidarity
of the nations of the western hemisphere
| "a solidarity for peace, for progress and
| for civilization. This is to be demon
strated within short time, when the
nations of America will appear before
| the world as united family, tormidably
| strong in their ideas of justice and liberty.
THE peace conference of Washington,
which has just ended it's labors, will be
I
which the names of their eXcellencies
Elhu Root and Ignacio Mariscal will be
written in luminous characters not only
by US Central Americans for the benefits
derived from it, but by the whole Ameri-
can continent, which has been watching
for the past month the seven sisters of
| the north working together as if single
| body with a single soul.
Supreme Ideal Realized.
1.-The world at large will have also
cause to remember this conference, where
has been brought to a practical realiza-
ton the supreme ideal of right by the
establishment of an international court of
justice, representing the national con-
science of our countries, and which will
not only supersede brutal force and bar
barity with right and justice, but will
put aside the old diplomatic systems to
adopt the calm and straightforward pro-
ceedings of judicial action.
"A new era begins for the small Central
American republics, an era of peace.
thanks to which foreign capital will come
to our markets, rails will cross our soil in
all directions, new industries will come
forth, our sources of wealth will be multi
piled and from Guatemala to Panama
temples will be erected to all kinds of
knowledge, before which the new genera
tons trained for well being, for Justice
and for the love of their country will
sing hymns of glory to peace and to Pan
American confraternity, and where they
will also learn to love with true acknowl-
| edgment of gratitude the two great ma
lions who in difficult period of our his
! tory gave us their generous hands as a
| token of their friendship and of their SYM
| pathy.
I'VE are soon to return to our homes +;
| our hearts are full of gratitude for Wash
| ington that has extended to us fits hospi-
tally, for YOU, Mr.. Secretary of State
whose kind welcome we shall never for
get, and for you Mr.. Ambassador, whose
important cooperation, united to that of
Mr. Buchanan. has been of so much value
to the happy results CT our labors
May heaven continue dispensing it's
blessings. and the benefits of peace to
the United States of America and to
Mexico.'
Impromptu speeches of concentration
gates were made by Secretary Root Am
bassador Creel and a number of others
present.
List of the Guests.
The guests included Vice President Fair
banks. Speaker Cannon Secretary Root.
Secretary Garfield. Secretary Wilson,
Secretary Straus. Senator Cullom, Com
missioner Macfarland. Mr.. Bacon, Mr..
Wilson. Mr.. Carr. the secretary of the
bureau of American republics; Mr.
Carnegie. Mr.. Buchanan. the Mexican
| ambassador: Minister Godoy. Senior Don
Luis Kicoy. Senior Don Victoriano Saldo
Senior Don Julio w. BaZ. Senior Don
Eduardo de Bestegui. Mr.. w. T. S. Doyle,
Mr.. Anderson. president of the Central
American peace conference: the Costa
Rican minister. Senior DR.. Don Antonio
Batres Janregui. Senior Don Victor San
| chez Ocana. the -Guatemalan minister
Senior Dr. Don Policarpo Bonilla, Senior
Don E. Constantine Fiallos. the Hon.
duran minister. Senior Dr. Don Jose Mad
ris, the Nicaraguan minister. Senior DR..
Don Salvador Gallegos. Senior DR.. Don
Salvador Rodriguez the Salvadorean min
lister. Senior Don Salvador Gallegos, hijo,
Senior Don Nicolas VeloZ