The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1913-05-27
UNITED STATES PLEDGED
TO PEACE BY BRYAN
Secretary Of States Voices State
ments of Country at Notable
Gathering in Gotham.

ner In the grand ballroom of the Hotel
Astor here last week to hear the cause
of universal peace discussed by the
delegates who had been in attendance
upon the International Peace Confer.
enee which mad been in progress here,
Lord weardale expressed Great Bri-
tain's plea for the Adjustment of war,
while Secretary of State Bryan made
1t the occasion to spread to the world,
through those present, the ardent pro.
test of this country against war.
Joseph II. Choate was toast master,
having compliment to Secretary
BRYAN. before whose plate was set a
bottle of grape juice, while sparkling
wine was sei yei the others. He re-
ferred to the Conmoner as one who
had labored in the vineyard of peace
for a number of years. Secretary
BRYAN took the sally good .naturedly,
replying tina. both drew their bever-
age from the same source, Choate's be.
inc fermented while Bryan's had not
passed through that stage.
Toastc were responded to for King
George and the President of the Unit
ed States.
Representatives Of Japan were inter
ested listeners. Secretary Bryan said
Secretary Bryan Speaks.
az am glad to bring to this gather.
ing the greetings of our President, and
TO assure You that he is in most cordial
sympathy with the purpose thar has
brought us together. feel honored to
speak for our government and in its
behalf. What ! shall say to you will
be in harmony with that which has been
said. ] am believer in peace j am
proud to be connected with an admin
istration that is an advocate and an ex-
ponent of peace The President could
not live up to the expectations of this
Nation or to the demands of this time
il he were not whole.souled in his inter
est in this great cause
aWhat are the forces that are back
of the peace movement They are the
great forces Of the world. No one can
dispute il. And with increasing intelli.
gence people not only learn more ae'
curately the terrible cost of war, but
ms men rise in the scale of intelligence
they more and more insist that their
contests shall be upon an intellectual
plane and not upon the plane of the
brute. Therefore, as the world moves
forward in intelligence, it must move
towards peace But there is another
force, a force that is even greater. 1t
is the moral progress Of the world.
Advancing in Morals.
"The world is advancing in morals.
The moral standards of the world are
being lifted up, and the worlds con-
ception of brotherhood Is a conception
growing more definite and more clear
year after year. There is n greater
sense of kinship among men than there
ever was before. There is more altru-
ism on this earth than this earth has
previously known. Every year the
number of those increase who recognize
that they are linked by indissoluble
bands to all other people. And with
this understanding of the meaning Of
universal brotherhood peace makes
progress. ...
"The third great cause that makes
for peace is the spread of that concep-
tion of government that puts increasing
power in the hands of the people.
"There was time when kings felt
that it was their privilege to sacrifice
their subjects to secure dominion for
their families. Read the pages of his
tory and see on how many occasions
nations have been thrown together in
war, and the only reason for it was
the ambition of father to provide an
empire for a son. As the people take
government into their hands, as the
L. nj t,pn chair will
upon the government, that government
will more and more reflect the real well
fare of all the people, and the real wei
fare of all the people is advanced, not
by war, but by peace.
~There are certain influences in a
country that may profit by war; there
are some, they are few in number com
paratively, who grow rich as the peo-
pies burdens increase with the horrors
of war, but it is not true of the multi
tude; the multitude bears the burden
OF taxation, and the masses furnish
their sons to die on the battle line. We
have, therefore, three great forces,
forces at work throughout the world,
forces that work constantly, at work IT.
resistibly, and every one of those forces
makes for peace.
Forces Working for Peace.
ono nation shall go beyond us in its
advocacy of peace or in its work for
peace. II we allowed any nation TO
outstrip MS We would be guilty before
the world. If these three forces which
i have mentioned are forces working
in the interests of peace, then how can
any nation excel us as an exponent of
peace, as worker in the vineyard for
peaeef For here we have increasing
intelligence; here we have growing
sense of brotherhood, and here we have
a government growing more and more
popular year by year.
"'But there is aoother reason. This
Nation more than any othe- nation has
a population to which all other nations
have contributed. Our Nation is linked
by ties of blood 10 the other nations OF
the earth, and, therefore, we have at its
maximum the restraining influence oil
blood and kinship to keep us from en-
eaging in war with any other country
in the world. Not only that, but oui
isolation, our freedom from danger
things that would play on the passions
of the world, less TO people here thar
in any other country in the world, and
therefore it is easier for our people, moi
onl'' 20 believe in peace, but to give al
evid \of their faith and make that
faith Nest in works believe that
in the W, as in the individual ex
ample, Sost potent of influences
IN taN. sa l.