The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-18

~~~~~~~~~-~~~~~-~-~-> to express his feelings of appreciation for the honor of your invitation to him, and he regrets exceedingly that on account of his official duties (congress now being in session. he cannot be present at this magnificent banquet
 He has asked me to convey to you his sympathy for the good work which you are doing in behalf of the most noble ideal which humanity can pursue.
 Peace by arbitration is the great con- quest that civilization has to make, and every effort, every motive, every study, every investigation and every conference on these lines is step forward to ac- complsh the great ideal, and should be received with cheers by all rulers, as it means the labor to perfection of the scientific structure of peace tribunals, and as it is the seed which is being de- posited in the heart of the human family, whose growth and fruit the coming gem erations will enjoy.
 For what has already been accomp- lished allow me, MT. Chairman. to con- graduate you in the name of President Diaz and through you the members of the National Arbitration and Peace Con gress."
 At the conclusion of his address, Am bassador Creel proposed, through MT. Carnegie. toast to the President of the United States. It was drunk standing and amid cheers.
 James Bryce.
 In introducing Ambassador James Bryce of Great Britain, MT. Carnegie said:
 He is a man before whom 1t is useless for us to try to hide our faults, or to ex- pose our many virtues. He knows them all"
 Mr. Bryce said: n
 This Is the fourth day on which able speakers, including some of the most em- nent men from both sides of the ocean, have been demonstrating the folly and wiclxedness of war, and the blessings 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 sym pathy The weight of argument has been great, members of the congress have abundantly shown to one another's satis- faction war is not only irrational, immor- al, unphilosophical and unchristian, but also unprofitable. Besides being bad in other ways 1t is also bad business. If there was time to go through the history of the last two centuries 1t 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.
 Only One War Necessary.
 "I,ooking back for the last sixty years I can think of only one war that could be called necessary. that is to say in all the other cases either the object was not worth fighting for. or the desired re- suit might have been better obtained without fighting. But what we have now in this congress to do with, is to con sider how we can best work for prevent ing wars in the future. Let us assure ourselves how it is that wars begin. We have all seen the phenomena. Some dif- ferences arise between two nations. Each nation has what it thinks good cause but each nation thinks only of it's own case and takes little trouble to under stand the case of the other side.
 ''The newspapers throw themselves into the fray. They embitter feeling not only by denouncing the other side, but by dwelling only on their own case and en- tirely neglecting to state the case of the other nation. Every angry or spiteful thing that is said by the newspapers of the country is repeated. Everything that tends to mitigate passion Is omitted In this respect there is not pin to choose between the newspapers of all countries. The value of the object at stake is ex- aggerated and each nation is told that it's honor is involved in fighting for its own views. Thus the bulk of the people are lashed into fury. The governments think that the peoples want to fight and thus war is declared.
 Is Fault With Newspapers?
 Now, who is to blame for this? Is it  w.a