The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1911-05-04
PEACE CONGRESS
IS IN SESSION
The Unpopularity Of War Is the
Theme Of Many Notable
Addresses.
CARNEGIE PRAISES TAFT
Declares that the President Has Laid
the Axe al The Root Of War.
An Address by DR..
lhwing
Associated Press Special.

/
Baltimore, MAY 4-President
Taft as the leader "who has laid tne
axe to the root of international war;
was eulogized by Andrew Carnegie
/ in an address before the Third Ma
tional Peace congress here yesterday
afternoon.
Il rise with diffidence," said Mr.
Carnegie, to address the members
of the various peace societies here
assembled in the presence of the
great peace compelling ruler--the
bearer of the message from on high,
who, through his trumpet with one
blast has blown down the strong
hold of international war which lay
in the fallacy that nations could not
submit to arbitration questions af-
fecting their honor or vital interests
without losing their sovereignty.
which only meant, however, their
fancied dignity; the tr tn being
that the nation which could not sub
init any and every question was al
ready bereft of sovereignty, which
means power to do what it pleases.
! When nation agrees to settle all
/ disputes, she possesses her sover-
/ eighty.
To President Taft's appeal to the
1 world. In which both his heart aud
head went forth for one great ma
ton to join his country in proving
their sovereignty by agreeing to sub
NIT all disputes to peaceful settle
ment, behold there came such res
ponse across the sea from the other
branch of our English speaking
I race. as had never been made to any
| appeal before. The leaders of parties
| in Britain sunk the partisan in the
| patriot, touched by the president
appeal. The nation was unanimous;
all parties fused into one. Today the
representatives of the two lands are
! forming the treaty. and here Britain
knows nothing of party, for all par
F.! ties cooperate, sublime spectacle,
proving that party Issues fade in the
presence of the high moral issue
which leads nations to peace. What
of our own statesmen, leaders of
/ party? Are they to emulate their
compeers of Britain? My prediction
/ is that they will, and that our rcpub-
lie will prove to the world that poll
tics with us are only skin deep, and
that our statesmen rise above party.
When a great moral world wide vic
tory is within our grasp, | am not
without some basis for the faith
that is in me.
in 1853 there flashed upon the
mind of Franklin the idea of the fed
GRAFTON of the states. This WAS 10 be
under the monarchy In this meas
ure of Franklin's we have the germ
which blossomed into the unrivaled
/ American constitution.
Franklin guarded and developed
this germ until it blossomed, and
now il astonishes the world, keeping
At states, comprising the wcaltaiest
nation the world has ever seen, in
peaceful harmonious relations ever
growing closer. Gentlemen, in an in
cpired moment our leader saw the
great light How, when where, we
know not. Probably he knew not
how but surely the Angel of the
Lord appeared and entrusted to him
the divine mission
y occupy a strange position
1 Britain is my Motherland, the Re
public my Wifeland. love them
both as mother and as wife. and to
see my native and adopted lands
hand in hand leading the world to
peace would add new charm to
my life | cannot imagine to what
extremes | might go, even to muir
merfhe' Now let the servant depart
in peace, for he has seen the Glory
of the Lord. "
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