Evening star., 1909-07-07
HIS VOICE FOR PEACE
Taft AppIauds Sentiments of
Ambassadors.
ADDRESS AT TICONDEROGA
Reviews the Battles Fought Along
Shores of Lake Champlain.
PRESIDENTS AUTO IN DANGER
skids on Slippery Roadway Coming
Down Hill to Grandstand.
Walks in a Shower.
PRESIDENTS AUTO IN DANGE]

TICONDEROGA. N. Y. July 7.-Presi-
dent Taft In his speech here last night at
the Champlain celebration took up the
theme of peace. He was preceded by
Ambassadors Jusserand of France and
Bryce of England. both of whom also
spoke of peace.
| Ambassador Bryce declared that al
| though he was surrounded by martial
scenes and men of arms. he himself was
man of peace.
Not until I visited the old fort yonder
today" said Mr.. Bryce, did I realize
how many memories. cluster around its
ruins. but 1 cannot but believe its creator
meant this beautiful spot for something
else than fighting, and I trust that it
never will see fighting again.
Ambassador Bryce declared that the
English and the French in the fighting
about Ticonderoga found each other
| worthy foes And while he admired them,
he said. for their courage in the cause
they went forth to fight for, he hoped
| they would never. never do it again.
Compliment to Ambassadors.
President Taft said:
"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 her as the personal
| representatives of their respective chief
executives men so distinguished in
| literature. in history, In craftsmanship
and in diplomacy.
Another thing that came to me as 1
sat here and looked at that embattled
hill was that the state of New York
and the state of Vermont were most
fortunate in being able to find a place
| upon which three nations could cele-
brate the past with entire consistency
and with great joy, because, exercising
proper discrimination. they can find
deeds Of valor and success for each ma
tion on every spot about this lake.
"Champlain was man whom all ma
tfons can honor He is not man with
respect to whose history you have to
pass over something in silence. All his
life could bear the closest examination.
| and he brings out in the strongest way
those wonderful qualities shown in the
fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth
centuries by Spaniards, Eng1ishmen.
Frenchmen and Portuguese who braved
those dreadful terrors of the sea, cir
cumnavigated the globe in little cookie
shells and carried the standard of the
then civilization into the farthest for
ests and into the dangers Of the most
distant tropics.
Perils Of Old Navigators.
'I am a good sailor. don't mind the
waves Of the sea, but I should think that
those that did mind them would not be-
| lieve the stories Of Magellan, of Cham
| plain, of Cortez, OF those who came over
| in craft that seem no larger than skiffs
today.
II think 1t Is we'll for us to go back
through the history of all nations. in or
der that our own heads, little swelled
| with modern progress, may be diminished
| a bit in the proper appreciation Of what
was done by nations before us under
conditions that seemed to limit the possi-
/ bility of human achievement. but limita-
tions that were overcome by the bravery,
! the courage and the religious faith of
nations that preceded us in developing
| the world.
There were Montcalm and Wolfe, two
| great Christians. back to whom you trace
the whole history of lower Canada. 1t is
true Wolfe conquered Montcalm on the
plains OF Abraham. but there is still in
| all the region of lower Canada a popula
| ton purely French, population indus
] trious. God-fearing and loyal to the flag
| under whose government they live. That
fact is compliment, not only to the far
seeing craftsmanship of the English CO.
lonial statesman who framed the govern
ment under which they live, but it is a
| compliment to the present industrial do
mestic virtues OF the French nation.
Many Ways Of Conquering.
For sixteen years it was my good for
| tune to go to Murray bay in Canada for
the summer. There is limitation, how
ever, upon the presidential Office that now
| prevents it. While there learned some
things. and one was that while the Muir
| ray Highlanders and other soldiers of
| England conquered on the plains of Abra-
ham, quite a number OF those soldiers
went down the ST. Lawrence and were
induced to settle on the French seigneur-
les WHICH lie some eighty miles below
| Quebec. There were Backburns and
Warrens and MacNeils and Frazers and
| Nairns and all the Sctoch names that
bring back the memory of the Murray
Highlanders. And what did they do? They
had the good sense to marry French
women. And what happened? That coun-
try is full Of Blackburns and .Fraziers
and MacNeils and Warrens and Nairns
| word of English.
There are other ways OF conquering
people than merely by guns.
This valley in which we are. in the
800 years since it was discovered by
Champlain. has furnished almost as
much of battle-ground for the three
nations and the Indians, -Xho were on all
sides, as Belgium in Europe. and one
If you will read the account given by
| Benedict Arnold Of his attempt to reach
Quebec through Maine. you will under
stand why everybody else that went that
way went by Lake Champlain. The truth
is it was the only passageway. and as
| the st. Lawrence, on the one hand, Of
| fered great place for settlement, and
the Hudson on the other. and all the
Atlantic coast, in order to reach the
two this was the passageway, and here
were fought the battles. continued for
200 years, and as we now say, never to
recur again. They did not occur in the
civil war. I believe, except a little ad-
venture by some rash representatives of
the Confederacy. VINO tried to break a
bank in ST. Adams: but with that ex-
ception, we have to go back to the war
of 1912 for the use of this as battle
ground.
Became Valley Of Peace.
II echo and emphasize the statements
OF the two ambassadors and repeat their
prayer that never again may this great
valley be given a name in history by
reason of its being the seat Of bloody
war"
Gov Hughes of New York and Gov
Prouty Of Vermont made addresses, and
/ Vice Admiral J1riu was introduced as