The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-04-26
DEDICATION OF BUREAU
 OF AMERICAN REPUBLICS Notable Ceremonies Today Magnificent Temple Where Peace Shall be the Eternal Preach ment is Gift of Andrew
 Carnegie.

Carnegie.
 Washington, April 26.-Twenty-one American republics took possession to- day of the new $75o,ooo building which Andrew Carnegie erected for them overlooking Potomac Park President Taft was there and with the donor, planted a peace tree in the patio or courtyard as a memento of the auspic- ious event and there was a distin- guished, crowd of diplomats and other notables. John Barrett. director. pre- sided.
 Cardinal Gibbons delivered the in vocation and addresses were delivered by President, Taft, Secretary of State Knox, former Secretary E1ihut Root, bassador, Francesca de Ia Barra4 the latter on behalf of the Latin-American diplomatic corps. This evening the governing board of the Bureau of American Republics will give a. recep- ton to Mr. and Mrs Andrew Carne- gfe.
 outlay of 1,00o, 900. the greater portion of which was supplied by MT. Carne- gie. It is a beautiful structure of white marble of a combined classical and Spanish type. One of it's attrac- tive features is the patio, filled with tropical plants and flowers from the
 Upon the walls of the building are the escutcheons in colors of the Amer ican Republics with names of their heroes of war and peace. Andrew Carnegie calls it "a temple of peace, commerce and friendship. and Sena- tor Root once referred to it. as "a cap ftol in the capital of the United States of all the American nations
 The The ceremony ceremony vas a. general Dios- all the republics were represented but that did not interfere with the speeches. Nicaragua. for example. was unrepre- a6 Inc A7~on ina Qo1i iTyi3 Chilean and Eeuadorian repr esentatives were not excessively cordial. But of republics made no difference.
 Secretary of State Knox sounded the note of the exercises. He said:
 +io oEe@n5 lre 1ar+ III nose pnan aa ceptionally favored. The reason of it's marvellous fertility of development is 9. century ago when the colonfsts of Spanish America established free com murities, from the Rio GTande to Cape Horn, following their northern brethen of the United States, and the peoples of that vast domain, from being de pendents of common motherland, be- came fellow workers in the building up of a. scheme of kindred sovereign ties. As historical eras are computed those sovereigntieS are yet young. It is as happy coincidence that at this very time they are cOInmenn1orating the independence they won a hundred years ago.
 5LAuQTSWts SaTneS1O, III HIS SAdOA0S practically extended an invitation to Canada to join the brotherhood
 ffNor would we exclude from friend ly cooperation', he said tour growing neighbor of the North. who enjoys like ourselves government of, and for. and by the people, should she in the course of time decide with the cordial aI- prova1 Of her iHustrious parentland. to. enter the brotherhoods thus extending it over the entire continent. an area nearly four tonnes as large as Europe. Surely such a spectacle would soon lead the whole civilized world to follow.
 Upon such an occasion as this our services Of Secretary Blaine, who stands forth pre-eninent, presiding as he did over the first conference of the Republics held in Washington. which conference he had called into being. We rejoice that upon these walls permanent tribute to his memory is
 ssI wish to congratulate the twenty Latin nations south of us upon their education and intellectual progress, their vast resources and growing prominence and international influence. Their expanding trade and commerce gre emarka.bles The International at nsa forming a great work in keeping the peoples of the world advised of these matters. I confess that the figures surprise me. These twenty republics have already TO millions of people, and their foreign trade. which has sdou- bled in the last ten years, amounts to
 
 of dollars Trade between OUT eoun- try and these has also doubled in that time and reaches six hundred millions Of dollars. If the Bureau continues keeping the world advised of the pro gress of Pan-American commerce and Pan-American railways and continues to report such amazing progress and resources. it may soon be questioned this twentieth century is after all to be Canada's century. It may be captured not by the northern but by the southern part of our Continent. 1 My recent visit to the West and the nation, winner of the 19t1le century, is still in the race and is not to be re- garded as a negligible quantity in the struggle for record progress in the l twentieth. In any case. we of the middle portion will heartily congratu- late our advancing sister nations, north or south.
 HThe crime of war is fnherent-it 1 gives victory not to the nation that is right, but to that which is strong.
 With the words of Washington, the l My first wish is to see the plague of war. banished from the earth I now join in sdedicating this home of the American Republics to 1 the highest of all it's missions, the abo- lition of the crime of killing man by 1 man as a means of settling interna- l tional disputes.''
 Ambassador De Ia Barra explained l the Pan American idea. He said in ] part:
 When we mean by an-Americanfsm that community of sentiment. of ideas 1 and aspirations among the American |