Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-03-04
PEACE MEN MAKE
WAR ON LIMOGES
ELIHu ROOT URGES PUNISHMENT
OF INsULTERs OF FRIENDLY
FOREIGN POWERS.
TAFT ATTENDS THE BANQUET
choate, Brice, Hughes, Takahira and
Nabuco Plead for World Friend
ship-Rap California
Legislators.

New York.-Around the banquet
table at the Hotel Astor sat these
men of peace Friday night: Elihu
Root, sen%ator-elect and guest of hon.
or; William Howard Taft, president.
elect; Joseph H. Choate, the toastmas-
ter and recently ambassador to Great
Britain; James Bryce, the British am
bassador to the United States; Gov.
Charles E. Hughes, Baron Kogoro of
Japan, and Joaquin Nabuco, the Bra
lillian ambassador.
These were the men at the speak.
ers' table. There were some 500 other
men of peace at the other table. At
least they must have been before the
dinner was over for there was wal
talk of only one kind and that was
wal on the jingoes.
Root Wars Upon Wal A~eitators.
In this connection Elihu Root said:
81 agree with Mr.. Choate that there
is no inconsistency between the work
of a secretary of war and a secretary
Of peace, because so long as selfish
less and greed and willingness to do
injustice and brutality continues in
this world, we must have the police
man, and the international policeman
whose presence makes the use of his
club unnecessary is the army and
navy.
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.
"War comes today as the result
either of actual or threatened wrong
by n country to another, or as the
result of a suspicion by one country
that another intends to do it wrong.
The least of these three causes of
war is actual injustice.
Raps California Legislators.
I'm this country of ours we are. far
from free of being guilty of all these
diseases of war. The gentlemen who
introduced into the legislature of Cal,
~ifornia, of oMntana and Nevada, the
legislation regarding the treatment of
the Japanese in those state doubtless
had 40 conception of the fact that
they were doing to that great nation
of gentlemen, of soldiers, of scholars,
of scientists, of statesmen-a nation
worthy Of c%hallengig and receiving
the respect, the honor and homage of
m~ankind-an injury by an insult that
would bring on private wa in any pri.
vate relation in our own country.
Thank heaven, the wiser heads and
the sounder hearts, instructed and en-
lightened upon the true nature of the
proceedings, prevailed and overcame
the inconsiderate and thoughtless.
But a few days ago a member OF
the house Of representatives, with no
other apparent purpose than to make
himself prominent by an attack upon
the chief magistrate of the little re-
public of Panama a fraudulent con.
spiracy with regard to a contract I'M
der negotiation by the government of
that country regarding the forests of
Panama. All Panama was instantly
alive with just indignation.
These are the things that make
for war, and if you would make for
peace you will frown on them, con-
denim them, ostracise and punish by
all social penalties the men who are
guilty of them, until it is understood
and felt that an insult to a friendly
foreign power Is a disgrace to the in
suffer, upon a level with the crimes
that we d%enounce and for which we
infiict disgraceful punishment by
law"