The Washington herald., 1908-04-05
Venerable Chaplain of the Senate Was Eighty-six
Years Old on Friday.

tack than ever before; the adoption OF the
Drago doctrine by the last Hague confer
enee, relieving us SO largely of our fan
cied responsibilities touching South Amer.
lea, and many other things have com
bined 70 lessen our dangers, and there
fore we are without excuse in not lead
Ing the world in a Policy of steady and
rapid reduction of armaments TO talh
Of actually increasing the number of oul
battle ships is, as in the case Of any na-
tion which does il. faithlessnesS to tht
first principle of the action at The Hague
which was so big with hope for mankind
This is Dr. Hales simple. manly, and
strong philosophy. and he breaches il
with all his might every day of every
week
It chances that It Is IN Washington
where he now IS, that many of his most
eloquent and impressive words In behalf
of the peace cause have been spoken.
remember his presence on two successive
days IN January, 1904. at the convention
of the friends of international arbira-
tion. under the presidency of Hon John
W. Foster 20 promote treaties with Great
/ Britain and other nations, and the meet
ing 70 start the organization for the in
ternational peace congress which was tC
meet in the United States the next au-
tumn. The convention was memorable
for the resolution, reported by Judge
Gray and unanimously adopted by those
2U0 leaders of cur international thought
urging that in the proposed treaties every
dispute whatever. without reservation
should be referred 20 arbitration. At its
public mass meeting in the afternoon al
the Lafayette Square Theater our grand
old man made the most ringing speech
thar was made AT the meeting in the
interest OF the peace congress, tie next
day. his presence stood for what has been
most prophetic in the movement, as that
of Andrew Carnegie who sat near him
stood conspieuously for the condemnation
now being pronounced upon the war sys-
TEN by the worlds great men of business
and affairs.
Dr. Hale is the Motor of the peace
cause in America. and his prominence ia
the work to-day prompts reflections upor
his long and useful service for ihe cause
I think, in the first place. though ii was
far from the first service. Of his part il
the series Of meetings held IN Boston in
the spring of 1893 devoted TO the subject
of THE Organization Of the World The
meetings were for the express purpose o.
arousing American interest in the theT
approaching peace conference at The
Hague. They were arranged by the Mas
sachusetts Good Citizenship Society. witt
which Dr. Hale himself has so long beer
Identified which thus well declared inter
national duty to be prime factor in al
good citizenship to-day. The various sides
of the argument FOR war against war
We're presented on successive Monday
Moons by some OF the leading men anC
women In America. At the opening meet
( ing Dr. Hale spoke on "A Permanent In
I ternational Tribunal" Most impreSsiv.
was this first of the Boston meetings. 4
/ thousand men and women gathered a
/ that noon hour. ChOriey's solemn hymn
/ Give TO Us Peace in Our Time. o Lord.
was sung. and Dr. Hale gave his stirrinl
/ address. II was especially fitting an'
| noteworthy that lie should have beer
| present at this first meeting and been It.
! chief speaker. He had been for year
the prominent prophet in America of tn
| high cause in whose behalf The Hagu
conference was called, and in the critica
months preceding the assembling of TN
! conference he spoke oftener and viii
] greater force ia the interests Of the caus
/ than any other man in America hat
/ almost said than-all other men. He mad
q long tour among the large towns of th'
/ Middle States, speaking every night Will