Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-02-27
R0OT GUEST OF
PEACE SOCIETY
Wwe Would Have Peace, Must
insist on Willingness Of Our
Country to Do Justice.
WARTS THE RESULT OF WRONG
Jcpt-cIect Taft Said lie Wanted
ri, saw That Tlihu Root should
he presidcnt-clcVt.

Nav york. Feb. 2G--The Peace So
go off New York brought together
.,,s the banquet table at tho Hotel
-. tonight a notable gathering Of
continent in national state and
.t. orairs. The dinner was In hoonr
'' s.,otor-elcct Elhu Root OF New
,.r Joseph II. Choate was toast
..t.r President-Clect Taft, Gov.
,r,sbes Ambassador Bryce, Baron
,-,goro Takahira, ambassador from
7.,on and Joaquin Nabuco, Brazilian
sr,bassador, were the speakers, and tho
nests numbered bout 500.
p.rsly has a more brilliant dinner
..ene been witnessed. The program
..rs contained miniature portraits or
,,-,siaent Roosevelt and the emperor
~ Iapan on India paper, together with
h-lsf expressions on peace from tho
porsons portrayed.
M Taft came in with former Judge
Alton B. Parker. and the guests arose
ond ave him an ovation.
Ar Choate was I'm his best humor He
,s6 been commanded. he said. "to lead
.to orcbegtra and draw an sorts of
,Isas7ut sounds from those who had
t,ep designated to speak. To tell AN
Me GOOD things Mr.. Root had done
would Keep the diners awake.
Mr. Root. he said. had done more for
.ts nalcc of the world than amy one
man JOB our history.
MIR. ROOTS sPEECH.
Nrr Root was then introduced, and a
r.mlrlable demonstration ensucd. He
smoke ON the causes that lead TO war
ID agree with MI Choato,' he said,
,tHat there is mo- Inconsistency between
ibe work of "a secretary Of war and the
work OF "a secretary Of peace. because
as long as sclhshncss and greed and "a
Willingness 90 do Injustice and brutality
continue bon this world, we must have
ue policeman and tho International
uaIiUDman. whose presence makes the
u-s of his club unnecessary, iS the
army and the navy.
I'D rests with the army and navy
iu make aggression and injustice uu-
uroftable and uuattraCtiVc. 10 rests
with YOU and with every woman with
out struggling Tor the right Of suffrage
u exercise the powers that God has
.raady placed I'm our hands. Of every
man ion the exercise of his duties. poe
HfieaI or social. morally Co move the
conceptions Of an honorable life away
form the old ideas of s7Vagcry toward
the now ideas of civilization. of hu
i0anitv I'm their progress gradually o.
The supreme idea of Christianity
HOW TO SECURE PEACE.
III We would have peace. It IS not
.rodgh 90 cry peace peace II is es-
srinl that we should promote and iu-
su upon the willingness Of our coun-
ny t1 do Justice 20 am countries Of the
world In the exercise OF the duties iu
which the ambassadors of Great Brit
u Brazil and Japan have played so
-rlt 70 part I'm the last few years On
Washington the great obstacle TO the
doing OF things which make for peace,
has not been the wish OF the diplomat
ST. not the policy Of the government
but 10 has been the lnconsiderate and
thouchtless unwillinEness OF the great
body Of the people OF tho respective
Countries 20 stand behind the man who
was willing for the sake OF peace and
Justice TO make fair concessions.
War comes today as the result either
of actual OF threatened wrong by one
country % another. or as the result Of
70 superstition by a country that another
intends 20 do 10 wrong. The least OF
these three causes of war is actual in
Justice
'Iu this country we are far from free
from being guilty OF all those great
causes OF war. The gentlemen who iu-
t-oluced into the legislatures OF Cali
mma, OF Montana and Nevada, the
legislation regarding the treatment of
the Japanese I'm those states, doubtless
bad no conception Of the fact what they