Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1909-02-27
PEACE SOCIETY
BANQUET
TO ROOT
DISTINGUISHED MEN
GUESTS AT GATHERING
President Elect Among Those
Who Pay Tribute to Former
State Secretary'S Services to
Nation and Humanity

INV MUfDtuk u p''h '''"" 't
New York, Feb. 2G.-Fne Peace
society of New York brought together
round the banquet table at the Hotel
Astor tonight a notable gathering of
men prominent in national, state and
city affairs. The dinner was in honor
Of Senator-elect Eliiu Root, Of New
York. Joseph II. Choate was toast
master. Prcsident-clect Taft, Cover
nor Hughes. Ambassador Bryce, Par
on Kogoro Takahira, ambassador
from Japan. and joaquin Nabuco'
Brazllian ambassador. were the
sneakers and the guests numbered
about 500.
Rarely has a more brilliant dinner
scene been Witnessed. The program
card contained miniature portraits OF
the speakers. President Roosevelt and
the emperor of Japan on India paper,
together With brief expressions on
peace from the persons portrayed.
Mr.. Tart came in with former Judge
Alton b. Parker and the guests arose
and gave him an ovation.
Mr.. Choato was in his best huntor.
He had been commissioned he said,
Ito lead the orchestra and draw all
sorts Of pleasant sounds from those
who he'd been designated to speak.
TO tell All The good things MI. Root
had done would keep the dinors n
week"
Mr.. Root, he said, had done more
for the peace Of the world than any
other man in our history.
Mr.. Root was then introduced and
.-..l..Il .1ap,nrrt ~ ti1a" lnNip1
He spoke on the causes that lead to
war.
Il agree with Mr.. Choate,' he said,
that there is no Inconsistency between
the work of a secretary Of war and
the work OF n SECRETARY of peace, be-
cause so long as selfishness and greed
and n willingness to do injustice ana
brutality continue in this world we
must have the policeman and the m
te%rnational policeman whose presence
makes the use OF his club Unnecessary
/. the army and navy
1T rests with the army and navy
TO make aggression neutrality-suspicious. n
profitable and unattractive. 1t rests
with You n me, with every woman
without struggling for the light OF
suffrage to exercise the powers that
God has already placed in our hands
of every man in the exercise OF ms
duties, political or social, to morally
move n conceptions of an honorable
life away from the old ideas of say.
agery toward the new ideas OF civil
i2ation of humanity in their progress
gradually to the suoromc Idea OF
Ch%ristianityQ.
IF we would have peace 1t Is not
enough to cry peace. peace. 1t IS
essential that we should promote and
insist upon the willingness Of our
country to do justice to All countries
OF the earth. In the exercise OF their
duties in which the ambassadors Of
Great Britain, Japan and Germany
have played so great a part III the last
few wears the great obstacle in the
doing things which make for peace
has been not the wish of the diplo'
matist. not the policy of the govern
ment, but it has been the inconslder-
ate and thoughtless unwilllngness OF
the great body of the people OF the
respective countries to stand behlno
the man who was willing for the sake
of peace and justice to make fair con-
cessions. .
WAR comes today as the result OF
either actual or Threatened wrong by
one country to another. or as the re-
suit of a supposition by a country That
another intends to do it wrong the
least of these three causes of war IS
actual injustice.
oTn this country we are far from
free from being guilty of all those
great causes of war. The gentlemen
who introduced into the legislatures