Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-07
TAFT, BRYCE AND JUSSERAND
MAKE ADDRESSES
THEME OF EACH SPEAKER is ONE
PERTAINING TO PEACE
President and Distinguished Repre-
sentatives of England and France
Are Shown Through Ruins
of Fort Ticonderoga
fBv Associated Press.l

~ dent Taft, of Ambassador
Jusserand of France, Ambassador
Bryce of Great Britain, of Sec
retarv of War Dickinson and of
Vice Admiral Uriu of Japan the cele-
bration Of the 3O0th anniversary of the
discovery of Lake Champlain, Whlch
had been confined during the laSt tWo
davs to the states of New York ana
Vermont today took on an lnterna-
tional scope and Worldwide interest.
Ambassadors Jusserand and Bryce
and President Taft all committed tnelr
respective countries to policies OF
neace. and in the shadow of the ola
fortress which had witnessed some OIL
the bloodiest battles in all history,
they expressed the hope that never
again would peace among the sItaS tad
nations of the world be interrupted
by war.
The president and the ambassadors
were shown through the historic RUNS
of "Old I'll" as the natives call Fort
Ticonderoga, which is now in course
of restoration. Some of the old can i
non were in place today and hundreds
of rusty relics were on view. some Oh
these were reminders of the days or
Indian conflicts, others were links OF
history leading back to the bloody
fights of Montcalm. Abercromble ana
Amherst, to the famous taking OF the
place by a band of eighty three Amer
lean colonists under Ethan Allen, ana
to naval battles that helped to make
famous the waters of the lake.
champIain Boat Reproduced
Below the fort on the placid waters
of the lake, and set among a hotllla
of modern naval vessels, of the smaller
classes. was a replica of the Don de
Dieu the little craft of Samuel Cham-
plain. discoverer of the lake.
The president was the guest tonight
at dinner of Walter Witherbee, on the
Iatter's houseboat, which is anchored
in the lake off this point.
Tomorrow the scene of the celebration
shifts to Plattsburg, where the presi-
dent again will make brief address,
and where Senator Root will deliver
an historical grafton.
Ambassador Jusserand in his speech
this afternoon was most felicitous IN
his expression of peace and good viii
toward America, toward Great Britain
and toward all the world.
Ambassador Bryce said: mot until
visited the old fort yonder did real
ize how many memories cluster about
its ruins But I cannot but believe that
its creator meant this beautiful spot
for something else than fighting, and
thrust it never will see fighting again"
President Taft, speaking next, also
took up the theme of peace.
Talks on Peace
"As I sat here listening to the inter
esting remarks of the ambassador from
France, and the ambassador from Eng
land, | could not but congratulate the
United States on the implied compli-
ment that those two countries had paid
to her by sending here as the personal
representatives Of their respective chief
executives men so distinguished in lit
erature in history, in craftsmanship
and in diplomacy.
"Champlain was a man whom all ma
tons honor, and his character brings
out in the strongest way those wonder
full qualities shown in the fifteenth, six
teenth and seventeenth centuries by
Spaniards. Englishmen, Frenchmen and
Portuguese, who braved the terrors of
the sea and carried the standard of
civilization into the farthest forests
and into the dangers of the most dis
tant tropics.
81 think it is well for us to go back
through the history of all nations in
order that our own heads, a little
swelled with modern progress, may be
diminished by the proper appreciation
of what was done by nations before us,
under conditions that seemed to limit
the possibility of human achievement.
EuIogizes MontcaIm and Wolfe
"There We're Montcalm and Wolfe,
two great Christians, back to whom you
trace the whole history of lower
Canada. 1t is true that Wolfe con-
quered Montcalm on the plains of Abra-
ham, but there is still in all the region
of lower Canada a population purely
French, a population industrious, God
fearing and loyal to the flag under
which they live.
"That fact is a compliment not only
to the far-seeing craftsmanship of the
English colonial governors but it is a
compliment to the present industrial
and domestic virtues of the French ma
tion.
This valley, in the 300 years since
it was discovered by Champlain, has
furnished almost as much of a battle
ground for the three nations and the
Indians, who were on all sides, as Bel
gium in Europe, and one does not have
to look far for the reason. Tht truth is
that it was the only passageway, and
here were fought the battles for 200
years which we now say are never to
recur again. / echo and emphasize the
statements of the ambassadors and re-
peat their prayer that never again may
this great valley be given a name i'll
history by reason of its being the seat
of bloody war"