Connecticut western news., 1907-04-18
"B|C STICK" IS
 BOLDLY REBUKED Carnegie Hall Crowded With Advocates of World Peace. PRESIDENT SENDS LETTER Advises Delegates Not to Press
 Disarmament Project.
 CARNEGIE OUTLINES HIS PLAN.
PRESIDENT SENDS LETTER
CARNEGIE OUTLINES HIS PLAN.

IAkNEQlE VUILlNES nlS ELAN. lronmaster Advocates tho Formation of an International Police System, Never For Aggression, but Always For Protection to the Tranquility of the Civilized dWorId-secretaryo of State Eihu Root and Governor Hughes Make Stirring Addresses - Immense Audience Gives Empire State Execu- tive Hearty Greeting-Tremendous Enthusiasm at Third Days Session.
 New York, April IT. Tremendous enthusiasm attended the opening of the third days session of the peace congress in Carnegie hall.
 Long before the meeting began the vast hall, which had been beautifully decorated, was crowded. Every avail able bit of space on the platform was occupied. Great crowds of men and women stood outside the building un- able to enter
 Mir. Carnegie, the little father of the
 
 peace congress, came on the stage promptly yesterday at the hour set for the opening of the congress at the head of tiny procession made up of Mayor Mcclellan, representing the city; Gov ernor Hughes, the state, and Secretary of State Elihu Root, the national gov ernment. These three made speeches, and the national government was fur ther represented by long letter from President Roosevelt.
 Hughes Heartily Cheered.
 A striking feature of the congress was the tremendous reception given Governor Hughes when he arose to speak. Though there had been much hearty applause for the others, it was brief, but when the governor stood up there was not only hand clapping, but cheers, which lasted for one minute and thirty seconds.
 It would have gone on much longer had not MT. Carnegie jumped up and. waving his arms excitedly, cried out:
 Have mercy! Have mercy on the governorr' Following Mayor McClel- lan's welcome the secretary read let ter from President Roosevelt, in which the latter said among other things:
 Harm and not good would result if the most advanced nations, those in which most freedom for the individual is com bined with most efficiency in securing orderly justice as between individuals, should by agreement disarm and place themselves at the mercy of other peoples less advanced, of other peoples still in the stage of military barbarian or mili- An ythi tr ho no t,1ro 0f general disarmament would do harm and not good if 1t left the civilized and peace loving peoples, those with the highest standards of municipal and international obligation and duty, unable to check the other peoples who have no such stand ards, who acknowledge no such obliga- tions. Finally 1t behooves all of us to re- member, and especially those of us who either make listen to speeches, that there are few more mischievous things than the custom of uttering applaud ing sentiments which represent mere ora tory and which are not and cannot be and have not been translated from words into deeds. An impassioned oration abou' peace which included an inpassioned de- mand for something which the man who makes the demand either knows or ought to know cannot as a matter of fact be done represents not gain but loss for the cause of peace, for even the noblest cause is marred by advocacy which is either insincere or foolish.
 For General Arbitration Treaty.
 More important than reducing the ex- pense of the implements of war is the question of reducing the possible causes of war, which can most effectually be done by substituting other methods thar war for the settlement of disputes. O those other methods the most importan which is now attainable Is arbitration l do not believe that in the world as | actually is it is possible for any natior to agree to arbitrate all difficulties whicf may arise between itself and other na tions, but I do believe that there can b, at this time very large increase in tht classes of cases which 1t is agreed shal be arbitrated and that provision can b. made for greater facility and certaint. of arbitration. l hope to see adopted general arbitration treaty among the ma lions, and I hope to The Hague cour greatly increased in power and perma nency and the judges in particular mad permanent and given adequate salaries so as to make it increasingly probab that in each case that may come befor them they will decide between the ma tions, great or small, exactly as judg within our own limits decides between the individuals, great or small, who com before him. Doubtless many other mat ters will be taken up at The Hague, bu it seems to me that this of general ar bitration treaty Is perhaps the most i'm pOrtanI.
 Secretary Roots Speech.
 Secretary Roots address, like MI Roosevelt's letter, pledged the govern ment of the United States to the caus of international peace, while warnin; the world not to expect too much iron the second Hague conference. He sai, in part:
 Arbitrations and mediations treatie s md conventions, peace resolutions, decla rations of principle, speeches and writ ings, are as naught unless they truly rep resent and find a response in the heart and minds of the multitude of the me who make up the nations of the eartf whose desires and impulses determine tn issues of peace and war. The end towar which this assemblage strives-the peac of the werlA-will be attained just as rap Idly as the millions of the earth's people