The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-04-15

ed. He spoke of what he called "A famous tribunal of peace"-the holy see at Rome, referred to it's services in the arbitrament of conflicts in the past and expressed his belief that if the holy see were admitted to The Hague, Amer ican Catholics would look with more in- terest on the efforts for the abolition of war.
 The archbishop said no horrer, moral or material was lacking to war. and added:
 Its benefits, if any, are indirect and uncertain; it's evils are immediate, in- evitable and niversal-vitiation of hu- man character, waste of life and gain, arrest human progress, injustice to the helpless and innocent, popular and per manent legacies of hate. and all the fiercest and most ruinous passions of the human breast. Its genuine symbol is the storm that blots out in a brief space the harvest the home. even life itself, leaving behind it's desolation, despair and death.
 "So true is this that at all times men have imagined perfect happiness to be some state O. universal peace, a golden age long past or to dawn. Could we abolish war in the twentieth century we should hand down to posterity an earth made perfect as dwelling place for man.
 We owe debt of gratitude, there fore, to all who devote themselves to this Christ-like purpose. It is the duty of every citizen to respond to their gen. erous appeal, and to contribute what is in him to the accomplishment of their aim. It is an appeal that uplifts and 1 ennobles all human nature, and tends 1 to reveal in man spiritual heights and /. depths that get obseured in those brut- al conflicts from which he emerges all ways more shattered in his spiritual than in his physical life
 We must all admit that even If we cannot totally abolish war, much can be done, and is being done, to mitigate it's horrors. The people of the world should be grateful to all who have in any way contributed. as individuals, rulers or associations, to improve the conditions of warfare, f. e., to strip it fits barbarian character, and em- phasize the dignity and rights of man, even on the field of battle.
 T am not prepared to say that we shall ever entirely remove Che dread scourge from society. but I believe il can be notably diminished in frequency and mitigated in it's conduct. If miti- gation of the brutalities of war Is to continue, and is one day to cease among men, it will be through tsse in fiuence of two great moral forces, edu- cation and religion"
 Bishop Potter said:
 q am sure I express the minds of everybody in this hall when I say that Rabbi Hirsch in his address has struck the keynote that should prevail in a meeting of this kind.
 T had the pleasure, if can describe it that way, in listening to a divine to. day of my own communication, who spoke on the spirit of war and declared that our meeting was characterized by sentimentallsm. I hope it is not that
 I hope that the time has not come
 when nations will no longer learn the art of war.
 Have you realized what men have done in mechanics for adding to tho
 horrors of war? Father Lavele wa! just telling of an invention that is de
 signed to kill 250.OO0 men in ffteer
 minutes. Do you realize what tha
 means? I had two brothers in the lat 2 civil war. so that I do not underratt war.
 War makes unproducers. It ha 7 made one million non-producers in Ger many God forbid that we should driv } the cruiser and tn } battleship from tn horizon but they cannot accomplish tn : arbitration that brought peace to Chill and Argentine involving SOOOO acres o : land.
 Let us thank God for the Hagu congress, and that an American ha : built the building in which it is f meet and may it hasten the triumph o universal peace"