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CORNER STONE LAID
President Officiates at Peace
Temple Exercises
CARNEGIE's GREAT GIFT

Building TO BE the Tome OF bureau
of American Republics and to Be
Made the Centre of Campaign of
Education.
Washington, May IL. - President
Roosevelt laid the cornerstone OF the
first international temple OF peace,
friendship and commerce yet to be
erected-the tangible evidence OF the
desire of the twenty -one American re-
publics that war shall be no more in
the western world.
Fitting the historical import ance of
the event the exercises were male I'M
pressive by the participation OF the
heads of each of these republics. Fol
lowing addresses by President Roose-
welt, Secretary Root, Ambassador Ma
buco, of Brazil and Andrew Carnegie,
cabled sentiment expressing the
hearty approval of each president was
read. Cardinal Gibbons and Bishop
Cranston pronounced an Invocation
and benediction OF the work done. and
the United States marine band played
The new building is to be the joint
property of all the republics. Three
quarters of a million dollars towards
the construction of the building is the
contribution of Mr.. Carnegie. wh:l"
each of the republics has addel an az
preparation to the fund.
The building is to be the homc Of
the international bureau maintained by
the American republics AMI is to b 8,
made the centre of cons inuHuS am
paign Of education, wnera oae clul1rI
maS obtain accurate and uptH-''att
information of every other. \ l.br r.
on all subjects American is t. BE- de
velopcd. and propagan.s maintained
intended to bring all American govern
ments nearer together.
P-as.dtl, Roosevelt spoke in part as
follows:
This is me morable ocC sion for
all the people OF the western hami
sphere The building. the corn"r-ston
of which we lay. enph sizes b. its eN-
istence the growing sense OF iidarlty
OF interest AMI n:pirati ton among ali
the people % The new void.
AT the OF set on bafalt rf ! Of u
| wish to th:Ek Mr.. CarA"sie or his
generous at? q I - a.. In ito
of the n. " WORT l. AMI therefore pre-
eminer i!y fitting a COM. 3 fro N II
who his 50 s.nc,Iely striren LII Iii =
cause OF peace among n@ti n. +"
while We have yet a long path tt tread
before we can ~pcak with a.!r &c!
tainty of the day When wars sAal
cease from the earth. We OF this wG5t.
ern hemisphere. by movements such a
that svmboliZed by this buildin.. have
taken great strides toward s,curin,
permanent peace among ourselves.
I'm the next place. as pre- i7ent
this republic, l greet the reprls nta
tives of all our sister republics to the
south of us. In sense you are our
elder sisters and we the younger PEG
pie, for you represent more ancient
civilization on this continent than we
do.
For centuries our several civiliZa
lions grew each in its own way, bu:
each sundered from the others. Now
we are growing together.
In the century that has passed the
development of North America has. on
the whole, proceeded faster than the
development of South America; but in
the century that has now opened | be
lieve that no other part of the world
will see such extraordinary develop
ment in wealth, in population. in all
that makes for progress. as will be
seen from the northern boundary of
Mexico through all Central and South
America; | can assure you that the
people of this nation look with the
most profound satisfaction upon the
great growth that has already taken
place in the countries which you rep
bility and in the material well being
which can only come when there is po-
litical stability.
Our battle fleet has just finished its
trip around South America, and l wish
to thank the rulers and the people O.
South America and Mexico for the
generous and courteous hospitality
WHICH mas De0u SuOWu IulS Meet On
every possible occasion throughout the
trip. Great applause.)
81 am glad to hear you applau the
fleet. I believe in peace and arbitra-
ton, and | also believe in keeping in
such trim that it shall be a temptat.G n
to nobody to wrong us. This Is an in
terlude. In that admirable speech o:
Secretary Root to which you have just
listened there was one sentence l wish
we could see engraved in this build
ing:
1.-The matters in dispute between
nations are nothing: the spirit which
deals with them is everything What
ever disputes we have with another
nation l hope our people will always
approach them with the honest desire
to come to a peaceable settlement If
we build up the American fleet as we
ought to build it up, the other party
will not really desire war Ny advo-
cacy of peace is both sincere and ra-
tional; and therefore believe in doing
all we can to SEA ure it,