Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-04-10
LEE lAUDEO BY GRANT
South and North United at A.
pomattox, He Says.
ENDURING AMITY BEGUN
Progress Of Peace Discussed by Sec
rotary Dickinson.
PREDICTS END OF ALL WARS
Share In Promoting Prin-
ciple Of Arbitration In Settling
International Disputes.
ENDURING AMITY BEGUN
PREDICTS END OF ALL WARS

CHICAGO, April 10.-An impressive in
cident occurred at the Appomattox day
banquet Of the Hamilton Club late last
night. when Gen. Frederick D. Grant
arose and called for a standing silent
toast to Grant and Lee
There was begun at Appomattox," said
Gen. Grant, 1.-The period Of good under
standing between the north and the south.
l am glad to realize the contamination of
the wish OF my dear father. expressed for
a final time in the last few hours OF his
life. that there would be ever an enduring
peace between the north and the SOUTH"
Dickinson on Progress Of Peace.
Secretary Of War Dickinson, responding
to the toast, 1.-THE Progress of Peace"
called attention to the fact that mankind
was always hoping for the fulfillment of
the prophecy that strong nations shall
beat their swords into plowshares, and
their spears into pruning hooks; nation
shall not lift up sword against nation,
neither shall they learn war any more"
He said that the time was not far dis
tant, but there has been such develop
ment and strengthening Of the forces that
make for peace that its advocates are
boldly aggressive, knowing that they have
the potentiality that comes from the
lightened age"
The present status in the progress OF
peace. he said, is the product of CEN
turtles. International arbitration. which
entered upon new era about 1875 he
said. has SO progressed in our time that
no one can doubt that it is the most
powerful force now working upon the
nations for the temporal happiness OF
mankind.
international arbitration as we know
n ho nf
the last hundred years than was the fed
eral Constitution of 1889 product OF
that era. 1t is the flower of our time"
Growth Of Principle Of Arbitration.
Secretary Dickinson cited various steps
in the progress OF arbitration.
THE formation of our federal Consti-
tuition" he said. creating for the first
time court with full and final power
ereign states. was the greatest step ever
cedure for appeal to arms"
National Honor" Questions.
Taking up the declaration that had
been made that certain questions cannot
be settled by arbitration, he said:
Although 1t has often been said that
questions of national honor cannot be
submitted to arbitration. experience has
shown that the term national honor is
variable and in some degree shadowy,
and that many questions which. under
a former code. would have been cata-
logued under national honor which have
been submitted and settled in this way.
even though at the outset. as was said
by Lord Russell in regard to the Alaba-
ma claims. such submission was
thought to be incompatible with national
dignity"
Mr.. Dickinson discussed the great work
and the outcome of the first Hague con-
ference. which he said was by far the
most notable event In the history of the
world. which was attended by all gov
ernments having diplomatic representa-
tives in st. Petersburg. The pope. while
omitted from the conference. expressed his
sympathy with the movement in a letter
to the Queen of the Netherlands
Twenty-six nations participated. repre-
sented by 100 members. The first con-
vention was "for the peaceful adjustment
of international differences" The sigma
tory powers to the conventions agreed to
use their best efforts to insure the pa
cific settlement Of International differ
ences.
"All the powers represented at the con-
ference" he said, signed it. They gov
ern nine-tenths Of the world" represent
ing a population of 1.4OO. 100000, out of
the total of LEGO. 100000 of the earth's in