The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-02-27
ELlHU RUOT SCATHiNGLY CRITl.
ClZES FATHERS OF PEACE
DISTURBING BILLS.
MAKES NOTABLE SPEECH
Former Secretary of State Is Guest
Of Honor at Brilliant Banquet Given
in New York by the Peace Society
of That City-Taft and Many Other
NotabIes Are Present.

| New York, Feb. 26.-The Peace So
ciety of New York brought together
around the banquet table at the Hotel
Astor tonight notable gathering of
men prominent in national, state and
city affairs. The dinner was in honor
of Senator elect Elihu Root of New
| York. Joseph II. Choate was the toast
| master.
Hughes, Ambassador Bryce, Baron
Kogoro Takahira, ambassador from
Japan, and Joaquin Nabuco, Brazil
ian ambassador We're the speakers and
the guests numbered about S00
| Rarely has a more brilliant dinner
scene been witnessed, The program
| card contained miniature portraits of
| the speakers and President Roosevelt
| and the emperor of Japan on India
paper, together with brief expressions
on peace from the persons portrayed.
| Mr.. Taft came in with former Judge
Alton B. Parker and the guests arose
and gave him an ovation.
| Mr.. Choate was in his best humor
| He had been commissioned ne said,
TO lead the orchestra aid draw all
sort of pleasant sounds from those
who had been designated to speak. To
| tell all the good things Mr.. Root had
done would keep the diners, week"
Mr. Root" he said, has done more
| for the peace of the world, than any
| other man in our history"
Root Speaks.
| Mr. Root was then introduced and a
| remarkable demonstration ensued. 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
| of secretary of peace, because, as
| long as selfishness and greed and a
Willingness to do injustice and brutal
| ity continue in this world, we must
have the policemen and the interna-
tional policemen.
1T rests with the army and navy
to make aggression and injustice un-
profitable and unattractive. 1t rests
with you and with every woman
without struggling for the right of
suffrage, to exercise the powers that
God has already placed in our hands,
of every man in the exercise of his
duties, political and social, morally to
move the conceptions of an honorable
life away from the old ideas of saw.
agery toward the new ideas of civli-
zation, of humanity in their progress
gradually to the supreme idea of Chris
tanity.
Must Do Something.
IF we are to 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 those
duties in which the ambassadors of
Great Britain, Brazil and Japan have
played so great part in the last few
years in Washington, the great OBJ
stacle to the doing of things which |
make for peace, has not been the wish |
Of the diplomatist, nor the policy of |
the government, but it has been the |
inconsiderate and thoughtless unwil- |
lingness of the great body Of the peo-
pie of the respective countries to 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 or threatened wrong
by one country to another, or as the |
result of a suppostion by a country |
that another intends to do it wrong |
The least of these three causes of |
war is actual injustice.
Not GuiItIess.
In this country we are far from |
free from being guilty of all those |
great causes of war. The gentlemen |
who introduced into the legislatures of |
California, of Montana and Nevada the
legislation regarding the treatment of |
the Japanese in those states doubtless
had no conception Of what they were !
doing to that great nation of gentle
men, soldiers, scholars, scientists and
statesmen, a nation worthy of chal-
longing and receiving the respect, the
honor and tho homage of mankind
Thank heaven, the wiser heads and the
sounder hearts, instructed and en-
lightened upon the true nature of the
proceeding, prevailed and overcame the
inconsiderate and thoughtless
But few days ago a member of
the house of representatives, with no
other apparent purpose than to make
himself prominent, charged upon the
chief magistrate of Panama a fraud
ulent conspiracy, with regard to
contract under negotiation by that
country regarding the forests of Pan
anna. All Panama was instantly alive
with just indignation. This insult was
felt all the more keenly. because we,
with our 90,O00,OOO people and our
great navy and army, presented an
overwhelming and irresistible force
with little republic whose sover-
eighty we are bound. trebly bound in
honor to maintain and respect.
A Disgrace.
"These are the things that make for
war and if you would make for peace,
you will froWn on them, condemn
them, until it is understood and felt
that an insult to a friendly foreign
power is a disgrace to the insulter
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