Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-05-12
IMPOSING
Ceremonies
Laying Corner Stone for In.
terDatiOnal Union Amer.
ican Republics
Addresses Made by Many
NOtables and Greetings
Of Il Republics

Washington, ~. VI, May ll.-UQQer
the splendid auspices Of patronage
and beautiful spring weather, the
cornerstone was laid today of the
proposed home for the international
Union of American Republics, or, as
Secretary Root called it, "a temple
dedicated to international friends"
Three thousand persons, including
representatives of political, official
and social life in Washington, were
interested spectators Of the ceremony.
The decorations were in keeping
with the occasion. The flags and
colors of twenty-one American re-
publics fioated in the breeze over the
grand stands, while the coats of
arms of these countries were dis
played at many places about the
stands. Over the speakers portion
of the presidents stand were the
colors of the United States and
Brazil, the latter in honor of Am
bassador Nabuco.
On the presidents stand there
| were seated the cabinet, supreme
court, diplomatic corps and mem
| bers of the senate and house. John
Barrett, director Of the bureau, in
PRODUCED Secretary Root as presid-
| ing officer. Cardinal Gibbons made
] the invocation. There were addresses
! by the president, Secretary Root, An
| drew Carnegie, Brazilian Ambassa-
| dor Nabuco and the reading of cabled
messages of congratulation from
! the presidents of the Latin-American
republics. Bishop Cranston pro.
nounced the benediction.
i S MOS nnfinnd fhorn EoH hoon mr.
4 response to the invitation to con.
tribute to the symposium from either
President Castro of Venezuela OF
the president Of Paraguay. There
was no public explanation of Presi.
dent Castro's failure to send dis
patch, while Paraguay is not repre-
scented in the governing board OF the
1 bureau.
In the presidents speech he sale
among other things:
81 am glad to hear you applaud the
fleet. I believe in peace and arbitra
| ton and also believe in keeping ir
trim so that it will be temptation Il
4 nobody to wrong us. This is an inter
.llude. In that admirable speech Of
Secretary Root, to which you have
just listened, there was one sentence
] ] wish we could see engraved on the
building: Matters in dispute be
tween nations are nothing; the spiri
! which deals with them Is everything.
! Whatever disputes we have witt
another nation, hope our people
will always approach them with al
honest desire to come to peaceabl,
settlement. And moreover, I hop,
our people will remember not onl.
4 the sentence have just quoted, bu
the one that went before: There ar,
i no international controversies s,
serious that they could not be set
i tied peaceably If both parties desir
settlements, while there are few
causes of dispute SO trifling that the.
cannot be made the occasion of wa
d IL either party really desires war
we build up the American fleet as w
ought to build 1t up, the other part,
| will not really desire war M
advocacy of peace is both SINGER,
and rational, and therefore ! be
lieve in doing all we can to secur
i 1t. both by doing no wrong ourselve
and by keeping in such state OF pre-
paredness that we shall not b
wronged by others.