The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-05
But Banquet Men Are Making
Most Money Now.
President viii Investigate Be-
fore Attending Next Time.
ALASKA RICH NOW
Increase in Gold Production Is
Large Holland, Says.
Engineers Prediction OF South
Africa Comes True.

New York. Jan. 5.-Although the peace
dinner-wh ich was widely heralded and
hich President Taft was persuaded to
attend-was q closing incident of the
year JUS ended which was not entire
" satisfactory yet there was one fea-
1ure of this banquet which has been
overlooked. Much criticism has been
heard for the management and the sus-
piciOn has prevailed that the affair, III
the beginning, was not entirely free
from commercial purposes. although in
the end any faint of that kind was
eliminated.
This BANQUET and it's accessory fea
tures have demonstrated that the peace
movement IN a way has become widely
popular This feeling is not confined
TO the United States. 1t prevails in
though the disposition seems at pres
ent TO be somewhat sentimental rather
than economic or profound.
Tt is the widespread popularizing Of
the idea of world peace which undoubt-
eddy led in the first instance to the
planning of a great peace dinner held
in the closing hours Of 1911 and dlgni-
fed and emphasized by the presence of
President Taft and that of Andrew Car
negie. whose benefactions are now max
ing it possible to organize q. peace move
ment upon a scientific, businesslike
basis It was presumed that the very
popularity Of the peace idea would
cause many persons, citizens of New
York and of nearby states, gladly to
accept the opportunity to be present
at a banquet given in the interest of
world peace, even though called upon to
pay SO for d banquet ticket
This Peace Not Lasting.
1t was observed. however, that a
number Of the men who have been adj
VocateS of arbitration and who have
been agitating in favor of the estab-
lishment of the peace principles were
not present at the banquet. These arc
the citizens who began to agitate in
favor of this policy at 4 time when the
world was disposed to be cynical about
it. Many of them have encountered
hostile and severe criticism. All have
felt that the comprising. by and by, of
the adoption of the policy of arbitra
ton by the leading nations of the earth
hysteric or mOmentary excitement like
that which sometimes characterizes pO-
litical campaigns.
For this reason many of those who
have been identified from the first with
the policy of arbitration between ma
tons and with the es6a blishment of the
principle Of peace stayed away from
the dinner. They recognized that the
likely. unless checked or guarded
against. in the long run to impair this
movement 1t is sure, they think. to
lead to the organization of various
bodies which profess a desire to share
in the campaign for world arbitration,
but whose fundamental purpose. after |
all. IS commercial
Mfr. Carnegie's Endowment.
The magnitude OF the endowment |
provided by Mr. Carnegie and the fact /
that the trustees of the fund are now /
engaged in systematic and business !
like utilization of that fund are tempt /
ing the organization OF various So
cieties whose voice may be for peace
and arbitration, but whose eyes are
upon tho purse.
This disposition il not confined to
the field of arbitration or world peace.
There are two or three organiza tions
in t1ia city. ostensibly OF an educa-
tional or scientific character which
wise men have declined to associate
themselves with They have learned
that it has become a fine art of high
finance in small way to organize
banquets purporting to be given solely
for the purpose OF furthering some
educational or statesmanliIze object.
but whose purpose at the beginning