Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1907-04-15
SAYS JAP-RUSS WAR COULD HAVE
BEEN AVOIDED.
ALGECIRAS AFFAIR NOTED
War Has Ceased to Be Glorious Soiu-
ton for international Conflicts-Ef-
forts Must Be Bent In This oi-
rection-Leave to Diplomacy Its
Role.

New York, April 12:-Baron d Els
tounelles de Constant, French mem
Der of the Hague conference and a
foremost figure in the French senate,
characterized the Carnegie Institute
as an g act of faith in the future of
our civilization" Speaking then N
words of praise for the optimism OF
the new world and of the spirit OF
goodwill which prevails here he
paused to speak approvingly of the
present movement for peace. He
said:
The Russo-Japanese war was an
example among many others, of wars
that could have been avoided but
which break out in spite of everything,
because the general education of pub
lie opinion is still too imperfect. We
have however, to thank American i'll
itiative that this war was terminated.
The Algeciras affair also confirmed
the instability of the legion of armed
peace
"Formerly-and not so long ago
diplomatic conferences assembled
after a war to repair it's disasters; is
it not a step towards progress that
they now meet beforehand in order 10
prevent these disasters?. War has
ceased to be a glorious solution for il
ternational conflicts, it is in fact moth
ing more than a barbarous and peril
Gus means of solution. Far from dis
appearing, economic conflicts will in
crease and we must prepare ourselves
for them. But a government that
would allow these rivalries to degener-
ate into national hatred and race
hatred, and which would carry war
into the territory of rival, would pro-
woke against itself an unexpected
force of hostility Willingly Or unwill-
ingly arbitration is bound to be the
modern solution in the majority OF
conflicts, and the development Of arbi-
tration will have as corollary the
limitation of ornaments. But soon ar
bitration will not suffice Cancellation
will be the duty of tomorrow.
1T is in this direction that you must
bend your efforts This is what you
will teach in your excellent institute.
Leave to diplomacy its role which IS
becoming all the more useful as the
contact of the nations become more
intimate, and help diplomacy in this
role, by instructing opinion concern
ing it, The international education
which We seek can only be eff1caciOus.
If we have as starting point ma
tional education. What good is it -
endeavor to better the morals of our
time if we neglect the morals of our
country?
"And here you see why we have
come so far and from so many differ
Ient countries in order to take part in
this grand manifestation of individual
and national initiative to which you
did us the honor to invite us, and
from which we are able to draw
world-lesson. To elevate the moral
intellectual, and material plane of
people is to at the same time serve
that people and all other peoples in
giving them all an example line OF
conduct. To build and endow Il
brary, a museum a hospital or an in
stitute, on one spot of the globe viii
invite emulation from thousands Of
other points To contribute to the
general education, is to prepare for
Cancellation, progress, and peace for
the whole world.
Such is the work which we honor
today. Antiquity believed its duty