The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-04-15
BISHOP POTTER
PRESIDING OFFICER
Catholic Archbishop and a Dis
tinguished Rabbi the Principal
speakers-carnegie Occupies
Box, But Took No Part in
Service = Stead Makes
Very Strange Speech.

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NliW YORK, April liza choral SER
Vice. Il fitting PRELUDE to the first Ma
tiohal Arbitration and Peace Congre IS
%nseh Is 10 be opened to- morrow, was
hold at Carnegie Hall Tonight The
public had been invited and responded
so generously that II was necessary to
call upon the police reserves to hold
the thousands that had blocked the
nearby streets. Probably 5000 per-
Sons found sadinittanca. while Thousands
were unable 10 get within the hal.
Andrew Carnegie Was to have pre-
sided, but was delayed In returning
from pittsburg and contented Himself
@ith q place in a box. Bishop henry
G. Potter presided
Around the back and sides or the
stage on which were the speakers and
the 200 members of the Oratorlo So
ci.ty, was draped n great white cur
tain on which were golden stars. Along
u were grouped American banners.
flags and cmblems with the words,
Peace for all nations In electric
bulps.
After selections By the Oratorio So
ciety. the great audience rose and
sang tile hymn God Of Orr Fathers.
IT had been expected that a peace
message from President Roosevelt
would be read tonight but nc mention
OF the message was inudc.
Archbishop John NJ. Farley. who was
to have been one OF tie speakers, was
detained In Washington, and lis pre-
pared address Was read by Mgr. j. Al.
j. Lavellc. OF st. Patricks Cathedral.
The Holy See for Peace.
s..ciibish0p Farles' said that he was
not prepared 70 say that war could
ever be removed from society. but that
mi u f.p fa E7,tif IpaS ffp
horrcrs and lessen It's frequency. Eff
forts for universal peace, he declared
would accomplish only Imperfect re-
suits until tic nnFhi power ana ar-
thority of organized religion were
openly recognized lie spoke of what
he called - Famous Tribunal of
Peace--"Tho Holy Sec mt Rome and
See were admitted 10 The Hague. Amer
team Catholics would look with more
intarest for the abolition Of war
Tiie archbishop said no horror. moral
or material, was lacking to war. and
added:
Its heneits II any, are Indirect and
uncertain; lis evils are Immediate, in
cvitable ana unversai-vitlaton OF human
character, waste of life and arrest of
American progress: injustice 10 the help
less and innocent: popular and perrnn-
nent logacies OF hate. and all the nerczst
snd most ruincus passions of human
breast Its genuine symbol Is the storm
that blots out in Il brief space the har-
vest, the home even life itself. leaving
behind it desoation. despair and deati1.''
Rabbi Hirsch's Speech.
Rabbi Emil G. lIirsch. Of Sinai Congre-
cation, Chicnec. speaking on "The Advent
OF the Plow." said:
-'I3y n costly and circultous route the
sword has been turned into piowshare.
even as 1t Is now. II it Is true that every
war was in the last analysis, inspired by
fear OF hunger and not by dynastic am
hilton or national antipathics, then the
larger the number Of plows the less the
need OF war.
.:Intcnsify tho productive methods
which coax from earth the blessings
stored therein and hunger's dominion
corresponlirgly shrinks None need
starve if all work together to prevent
fa1llines capricious and ubiquitous IN
trusioli."
Bishop Potter spoke briefly
LET us thank God" he said. "for
Tire Hague Congress, and that an
American has built the buildings, in
which 1t is to meet, and may Il hasten
the trlumRhYof universal peace"
The audience frequently vigorously
apflaulcd tho speaker.
During the day there were several
peace gatherings and many olcrgymen
made the theme Tie topic OF their
morning sermons.
To-,norrOw at 8 o'clock the first de-
,iberative session OF tho peace con.
gress proper win be held
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