The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-12-16
DOVES FEATHERS
ARE RUFFLEO
TWO SPEAKERS AT PEACE MEET.
ING STRIKE plscoRoANT NOTES
IN THEIR ADDRESS.
ADDRESS
ANDREW CARNEGIE HAPPY THAT
HE HAS BEEN ABLE TO CON.
TlNuE SOMETHING TOWARD
THe WORLDS PEACE.
IRONMASTER'S ADDRESS

WASHINGTON. December L.
Fear that remarks of some of the
foreign ambassadors and ministers
who are to aodress the American AS
sociation for the Judicial settlement OF
International Disputes tonight, may !
swell the volume Of the Earring note
which has been sounded hy two speak
ers, caused those Interested In the
world wide peace movement much
anxiety TODAY.
The several hundred delegates who
have been contentedly listening te
ultra pacific remarks, were aroused In
no small degree by the thinly veiied
charge Of Justice Riddell of the king
court bench Of the high court of Jus
tice for Ontario that the United
States had broken the Bush iiagot
treaty prohibiting the armament OF
cruisers on the great lakes.
DIR. Benjamin lde Wheeler presi-
dent of the University. OF California.
declared that tho only certain means
OF obtaining universal peace was To
prepare for war. Hts statement was
the more striking IN that 1t followed
many arguments, advanced by other
speakers, for the disarming OF all na-
tions. Andrew Carnegie, who has inst
given ten million dollars for peace.
greatly deprecated the situation and
was busy with missionary work" to-
day. planning 10 avoid further rutiiing
Of the doves feathers.
Carnegie Cuts Address short.
Cutting short the long address he
had planned to deliver on Tho Moral
Issue of War" when he found him
self unable to stand the intense heat
| OF the room. Andrew Carnegie, donor
, Of Sie,ooa,0h0 to promote the cause
| OF international peace, concluded the
first session of the American Society
! for the judicial Settlement Of Inter
national Disputes at tho Willard hotel
! last night by speaking Tor few min
| utes on War. The Crime OF Countries
| Against Their God
/ 1t is doubtful whether the more
/ elaborate remarks he had planned
! to deliver would have created n pro-
/ founder impression upon the hearers
/ than did the few simple words that
! he spoke. Ills address came after two
/ former secretaries OF state, one Judge
/ and an ambassador HAD exhausted he
1 technical possibilities OF the subject
+ after the causes for war. tho results
| Of war, the inctticieneies of interna-
/ tional law, and the Inconsistencies OF
nations had been delVed into unspair~
! ineif
When the ironmaster stepped upon
/ the rostruu whore senator Eiihu
/ Root, Ambassador Barra former Ser.
rotary of State Foster ana Justice
Riddell. Of Canada had been speak
! Ing, a great Silence Tell upon the lis
| tencrs. Maybe the word had gone
about that Carnegie's address woula
be short. At any rate. when he com
menccd his bricf address. not n sound
! from the mblage disturbed tho
! short, torse sentences with which his
address opened
1t isn't the war. but the danger ot
war, said he, that makes trouble
Nations by preparing for war spend
! millions and 10 the purpose that man
| shall kill his fellowman who was
created in the image OF God. It isn't
the war, but the possibility of war.
that We must fear.
! Tho moral Issue of slavery was
= what resulted In its abolition, and the
same issue ia war viii mark its end
AZ man becomes civilized he awakeus
to himself. He has the divine abiaty
| to ascend; ascend to imitless heights
TIC ceases 10 KIN, 10 torture and TO de.
stroy.
1T pleases me greatly that / have
placed within tho reach of all some
money that may be contributary to
tho great work of peace. With the
aid OF the brilliant statesmen and the
craftsmen of the law l hope that this
money may do good.
should Arouse the Masses.
| we must arouse the masses to
better understanding OF what war is
The demagogue knows too well that
by arousing mems passions he gets
votes for enormous expenditures in the
name OF the so-called honor of the
nation War is the vehicle of the
scurvy politician.
The people should know this too.
They should realize the truth of the
horror by which nations are taught
that they shall kill.
Il can only hope that the fund
have given will receive your CO.
operation: and the cooperation of
every one. And hope that by recog-
nizing the use Of tins fund men will
know the truth of war-~that they will
learn that war Is n crime OF nations
against their God
Presiding Mt the meeting in place
of Secretary Of State Knox, was James
II. Scott, president OF the society At
tending were representatives from al
mort every European nation, senators
and members Of congress. and other
men and women from many different
walks % life To the number OF nearly
SOC. The red room was filled to Its
/ capacity with many late-comors stand
| ing by the doors when. shortly before
sac O'Clock Cardinal Gibbons pro-
nounced the Invocation
The two addresses that seemed of
deepest import were those OF ex-secre-
tary OF State Elihu Root. premier pro-
moter NJ International peace. and Jus
| tice w. II. Riddell. Of the kings
! bench division, high court OF Justice,
OF Ontario, Canada. The former as
sailed war az brutal, wastefu and
stupid" and. by dissecting the main
causes into three groups, pointed the
manner by which International peace
might be attained. The latter urged
the continuance of peace between the
/ United States and Canada-~and point
4 "a out how the United States. In the
name Of peace. was violating IA treaty
+ prohibiting the maintenance by either
| country of armed vessels on the great
lakes.
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