The Sentinel=record., 1911-12-31


 or that we don't And We have got 10 mean business when We go into arbitration, The playing Of heads ! I win and tails you lose, will make no progress in Christian civiiza- ton ii is not possible That we should win in every case
 In the beginning tie president spoke in favor of the treaties with Great Britain and France. much on the Ines he has made familiar and only toward the close of his speec h branched into the replies to criticisms and charges of inconsistency. At one point in this portica of his speech he hecame emphatic
 "Pm not taking anything back ne said The president declared that if ever anything should be submitted to arbitration il was the questions of personal honor. Then he stopped and said:
 Perhaps 1 have gone too far in my enthusiasnt.' but che audience would not have 1t that way, and when he asked pointedly rAre we to step bacli?a he got an emphatic "NOlr for response
 The president was loudly eheered as he concluded.
 Among those at the table with the president included the speakers of the evening. Andrew Carnegie, Occar s. Strauss, former ambassador to Turkey; former United States Sen ator Charles A. Towne and Henry Clews, with Governor-elect Earl Brew CT of Mississippi Bishop David II Greer of the Protestant Episcopal 1 Church: Raoul Dana Durand, chair man of the Inter rParliamentary group, Canadian Parliament; United States Senator O'Gormsn. of New York.
 John Temple Graves, the toast master. opened the speech-making.
 sgThere was never banquet swad died in stormier gossip than has passed into sterner cc1sumatiun,' he said "The peace banquet of 1911 presents pn this magnificent acco- sion the declaration of all it's motives and the yildication of every method that had brought it into life. {"
 MT. Graves reviewed the movement for Uaivcrsel Peace, which he said. Trevolves at last around our conn try' and paid warm tribute to Pres ident Taft, declaring that the staten. est steps that have been taken for peace i'll human history have been taken by the twenty-seventh presi- dent of the United States. In giv- 'ag way to the guest of the evening he said:
 T present to you William Howard Taft, the great peace president of the republics life {"
 The mention by Mir. Graves in his remarks of two great wise treaties with France and England
 waiting the laggard sesaates vote early made t evident that specific endorsement of these conventions. which had aroused 80 much discussion in arranging tAe din ner. was no to be neglected and this was further stown by the spec. hes which followed
 Andrew Carnegie's ccntr.seton t the laudation of peace and the srbi- tration treaties desifled to rromoi them was largely in tho form or a sheaf of letters received from Gov ernors Dix. of New York; Baldwin. of Connecticut; Foss. of Massacnu- setts; Wilson, of New Persey; liar mon, Ohio, and Speaker Champ Clark of the House; United States Judge George Gray of Delaware. w. J.. Brysn, Alton B. Parker and Mayor Gaynor of New York All endorsed the plan of arbitration in genzral and most of them the principe of arbitration to include all matters that may come into dispute between na- tions.
 Oscar S. Strauss, former ambas- ] sadar to Tnrkav declared that a nnn. mentous question was pcnling, "a question upon which the solution of our notional honor depends
 Former Senator Charles A Towne urged against the hypothesis that vaz was 2 necessary evil.
 "The object of this gathering is not. as understand it, he said, "to advance any particular method of peaee propasanda or orgsaization. It aims to innenee and encourage opin ion in this country to demand the cessation of war as soon as may be ' l- - 7f